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After a rough August, we're taking a much needed break. In the meantime here is a word game we made. • By Alan Bellows • 04 September 2023
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The tangled history of humanity’s search for the solar system’s uncharted planets.
When the U.S. Army came for their land in 1877, the Nez Perce tribe complied. But tensions boiled over, and Chief Joseph led as they ran for their lives.
In 1970s Bali, a sudden rice crisis prompted an unexpectedly far-reaching scientific discovery
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Just outside Butte, Montana lies a pit of greenish poison a mile and a half wide and over a third of a mile deep.
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Victorian scientists struggle to reach and understand the vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly cold universe at Absolute Zero.
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In 1924 a bankrupt businessman in Portugal launched an audacious international scheme to become one of the wealthiest men in the world.