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Avatar: The Last Airbender live-action is inexplicably getting a second season
If you ever wanted to experience a vibrant, intriguing fantasy world stripped of all its color and personality, Netflix’s live-action version of Avatar…
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Grant St. Clair
This baby Goodfellow’s tree kangaroo “came out slaying!”
There’s a brand new baby at Chester Zoo, and it might just be the cutest baby animal I’ve ever seen!
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Jennifer Sandlin
Broccoli sprouts are seriously nutritious, and you can easily grow them at home!
I recently learned that broccoli sprouts are among the most nutritious foods you can eat.
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Jennifer Sandlin
From viruses to ecosystems: explore life’s incredible size range
Size of Life is an educational website that displays the relative sizes of everything from DNA to entire ecosystems through detailed, hand-drawn…
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Popkin
Peppermint-stick insect: the mint-spraying rainforest bug
The peppermint-stick insect (Megacrania batesii) lurks deep in Australia’s rainforests and Papua New Guinea.
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Popkin
Meet the tongue-eating isopod, the parasite that literally becomes your tongue (if you’re a fish)
Want to learn about a truly horrifying parasite?
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Popkin
Fairytale mushrooms cause “lilliputian hallucinations” of tiny people
A popular wild mushroom sold in markets and restaurants in Yunnan, China, causes hallucinations of “little people” when undercooked.
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Gail P Sherman
Cyberpunk 2077’s five-year journey from disaster to must-play RPG
I can check the news, tally dates, and count my playtime hours, but it’s still hard to believe it’s been five years since Cyberpunk 2077 launched—one of…
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Grant St. Clair
He can’t keep getting away with it: Skyrim queued up for yet another rerelease
I want to get off Todd Howard’s wild ride, please.
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Grant St. Clair
Boing Boing, December 10, 2025
Florida man teleports into stolen BMW, reishi mushrooms sprout like alien antlers, and Canada gets schizophrenic about human rights
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Boing Boing
Storied WWII-era pistols now in hands of Ukrainian armed forces
Long-storied versions of John Moses Browning, the legendary American firearm designer’s iconic final creation, the Browning Hi-Power, have been sighted…
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Jason Weisberger
This frog eats murder hornets for breakfast
The murder hornet, also known by the less fun names Asian giant hornet, northern giant hornet, and Japanese giant hornet, is the largest hornet in the…
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Gail P Sherman
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