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Misguided Nostalgia for Our Paleo Past

The Kobal Collection, Hammer Raquel Welch in One Million Years B.C. (1966) The first thing you have to do to study 4,000-year-old DNA is take off your clothes. I am standing with Oddný Ósk…
PUBLISHED: Feb. 18, 2013
LENGTH: 16 minutes (4001 words)

Argentina's 'Philatelic Annexation' of the Falklands

Peter J. Beck explores how Argentina's claim to the Falkland Islands has involved diplomacy carried on by cartographic and philatelic means for 150 years. One hundred and fifty years ago, in January…
PUBLISHED: Feb. 1, 1983
LENGTH: 1 minutes (294 words)

Samuel Morse's Reversal of Fortune

In November 1829, a 38-year-old American artist, Samuel F. B. Morse, set sail on a 3,000-mile, 26-day voyage from New York, bound for Paris. He intended to realize the ambition recorded on his…
LENGTH: 17 minutes (4438 words)

mental_floss Blog » Sex & Death in the Afternoon

by Lisa Rosen Come with us now, on a long and twisty journey; a search for tomorrow and a look back on the days of our lives. Romance! Love! Agony! Adultery! Angry aliens! The American…
AUTHOR:the mag
LENGTH: 17 minutes (4313 words)
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