Can Dogs Smell Emotion?
January 25, 2018
Dogs’ noses are wondrous things. Their acute sense of smell enables them to be trained to detect bombs and drugs, and find earthquake survivors. But it also makes them fine-tuned to human emotions, strengthening the bond between dog and owner and h...
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Has Anyone Lived in the Eiffel Tower?
January 23, 2018
In 2016, a vacation rental company transformed a first-floor conference room in the Eiffel Tower into a luxury two-bedroom apartment, and four lucky contest winners got to call the tower home for a night. But there once was a man who could live there...
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Origin of Nachos
December 12, 2017
Readers sometimes ask if we’ll ever run out of things to write about. No way. Origins are a good example: as we recently discovered, even lowly snack foods can have fascinating (and delicious) origins.
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Did Van Gogh Cut Off His Own Ear?
November 9, 2017
Self-Portrait with Bandaged Ear (1889) is one of Vincent van Gogh’s most recognizable paintings The bandaged right side of his face has fascinated art historians for decades—some believe he only sliced the earlobe, while others wonder if the woun...
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High Anxiety
October 24, 2017
We’ve all had those moments—when something completely unexpected scares the c**p out of us. It gives us something to laugh about…later.
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