Dr. Evil Returns

Last night, Mike Myers made his return to SNL as Dr. Evil to take on—what else?—North Korea and the Sony hack.

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A recipe for ancient Egyptian bread, recreated using instructions interpreted from hieroglyphics and tomb paintings, still makes a surprisingly tasty meal today.

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Catch up on the many on-screen deaths—some tragic tearjerkers, some frankly well-deserved—of 2014's biggest TV shows in one place. Spoilers ahead, of course.

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Life as one of Radio City Music Hall's famed Rockettes involves plenty of hard work and fake eyelashes behind the scenes, and yet the job really does seem as fun as it looks.

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At the end of a year in which scientists solved some old mysteries and uncovered plenty of new ones, don't miss this roundup of the most exciting discoveries about dinosaurs, robots, stem cells, and outer space.

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There's one thing, at least, that drones are unambiguously good for: incredible aerial videos of everywhere from Mongolia to Chernobyl, without anyone's feet having to leave the ground.

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Holiday light displays across the world are bright enough to be seen from space.

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Cover your eyes: this year's Bad Sex in Fiction Award has named its incredibly cringeworthy winning passage.

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Bill Gates would like to remind us that for five-year-olds, AIDS sufferers, and the human race in general, there was plenty of good news this year.