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By Loz Blain – Designed for symmetry to keep the parts list down, the Citroen Ami’s right and left doors are the same part. Thus, they open in opposite directions. Copyright maison-vignaux @ Continental Productions. – A truly unique little car is coming to …
By Amanda Sedlak-Hevener – Who was Victoria Woodhull? You might not know her name, but once you hear her story, you’ll never forget her. She was the first woman to run for President of the United States, and as a third-party candidate, no …
After a month of record-breaking temperatures, a kind of snow algae that turns ruby-hued in warm temperatures thrives. So-called ‘watermelon snow’ sounds better than it looks and tastes; do not eat the pink snow. (Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine) By Lily …
An 1801 poll list from Somerset County, New Jersey, held by the New Jersey State Archives in Trenton. At least 46 of the 343 voters on the list appear to be women. Michelle Gustafson for The New York Times. By Jennifer Schuessler …
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia – Map showing the source languages of state names – The fifty U.S. states, the District of Columbia, the five inhabited U.S. territories, and the U.S. Minor Outlying Islands have taken their names from a wide variety of …
It’s changing the definition of what an animal can be. By Scottie Andrew, CNN – These are the spores of a game-changing parasite called Henneguya salminicola. It’s the first animal found that doesn’t breathe oxygen. – You’d think all animals would need oxygen …
By Ben Coxworth – To turn this into even stronger concrete … just add lignin? mettus/Depositphotos. – Production of the cement used in concrete is a huge source of CO2 emissions, so the more that we can recycle existing concrete, the better. That’s where …
By Anthony Wood – The road, part of which is seen from above in this image, may have been created as two great ancient powers prepared to square off against one another. Traci Ardren/University of Miami. – Archaeologists have used laser technology to map …
By David Szondy – The Svalbard Global Seed Vault. Crop Trust. – The Svalbard Global Seed Vault has received a major a new deposit of seeds from several hundred plant species. In a formal ceremony on February 25, 2020, hosted by the Norwegian Prime …
How can you tell the news from the noise? pathdoc/Shutterstock.com – By Elizabeth Stoycheff, Associate Professor of Communication, Wayne State University – You might have fallen for someone’s attempt to disinform you about current events. But it’s not your fault. Even the most …
