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The Way The Wind Blows

Whatever its more practical uses might be, this moving map of wind patterns across the country is a calming and somehow poetic visualization of the very air around us.

Meet the Awesome Artisan Behind this Nerd Herder Wallet

Mostly Terrible Advice for Daughters From Dads of Yore

When fathers of generations past wrote their daughters, the advice was often horrifying.

Trailer Thursday: Superman, Bling and the Apocalypse

5 Real-Life Battles Superman Fought (And Won)

Check out these five ways the Big Blue Boy Scout actually made a difference outside of the comics pages.

11 Fun Facts about Airstream Trailers

In the late 1920s, Airstream’s founder Wallace (Wally) Merle Byam created a travel trailer in his backyard to satisfy his wife’s refusal to camp without her kitchen and her dislike of sleeping on the ground.

11 Vintage Celebrity PSAs

They don't make PSAs like they used to.

John Oliver's First Night Hosting The Daily Show

20 Awesomely Titled Trade Magazines

Every industry has a trade magazine, so the members of its world can follow the latest developments. To an outsider, however, these magazines offer a tantalizing (or baffling) glimpse at the obscure corners of human endeavor.

The Helicopter Controlled Entirely by the Human Brain

Engineers hope the technology might ultimately help paralyzed people live more independently.

Seattle's Willy Wonka-like Food Forest

18 Radically Successful People Who Lived With Their Parents

These people managed to launch successful careers, products, and companies while living with mom and dad.

Trailer Thursday: Interns, Purging and the Rapture

31 Bizarre Medical Conditions That Sound Made Up

Here's one for the hypochondriacs!

5 Ways the KGB Kept Tabs on Hotel Guests

Though the KGB denied having a presence at the Sokos Viru Hotel in Tallinn, Estonia, they actually closely monitored the activity of guests and employees. Here's how.

The Faces Behind 9 Recognizable Names

These are names you’ve been wearing, eating, drinking and avoiding your whole life. Here are the faces and stories attached to them.

5 Fail-Safe Rituals for Protecting Your Newborn

To ensure a happy and prosperous future for a newborn, parents will do the darnedest things.

6 Dictionary Mysteries You Can Help Solve

Maybe you can help! Here are six appeals from the OED.

30 Bits of Wisdom for the Class of 2013

These commencement speakers said things a little differently this graduation season.

10 Little-Known Names of Famous Video Game Characters

11 Mots Merveilleux Recently Added to the French Dictionary

The list of new additions reliably provokes indignant complaints about the decline of standards and ruination of the language, but detractors need not worry. The list actually shows how French remains robust, alive, and in step with the times.

Trailer Thursday: After Earth, Now You See Me, Kings of Summer, The East

6 Feats of Aerial Photography Before the Airplane

The first aerial photographers didn’t wait for the invention of the airplane. There were other ways of getting a camera up in the air, with or without a human operator.

29 Answers to the Question "What is a Human Being?"

Why do we exist? What is our essential nature? Humans have pondered these questions for a long time, and we still haven't figured it out. But we do have a few theories.

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