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Each week we round up our favorite posts and recipes from our friends at The Kitchn.This week, the Kitchn zaps potato coins in the microwave to make crispy, easy potato chips. Also on the Kitchn, mini peanut butter Rice Krispie treats, Iron Chef-themed dinner parties, cakes for autumn birthdays, and scallops with tomatillo (Read More)
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There are 50 murders a day in South Africa, the host country of the 2010 football World Cup. And Brazil, host of both the 2014 World Cup and the 2016 Olympics, also suffers from extreme violence. With a view to the high-profile events, the two countries are now attempting to crack down on rampant crime -- and are using ruth (Read More)
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LiveScience.com - Antarctica's icy lakes are home to a surprisingly diverse community of viruses, including some that were previously unidentified. (Read More)
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In what has to be the best found image of the day, Kottke came across this photo of Carrie Fisher and her stunt double napping during the Tatooine shoot in Return of the Jedi. Enjoy!. (Read More)
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Editor's note: The original online version of this story was previously posted. Magnets are remarkable exemplars of fairness--every north pole is invariably accompanied by a counterbalancing south pole. Split a magnet in two, and the result is a pair of magnets, each with its own north and south. For decades researchers (Read More)
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A Texas teacher faces losing her job for refusing to have her fingerprints entered into a database. She claims a First Amendment violation of the right of religion, as fingerprinting amounts to the "Mark of the Beast.". (Read More)
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The Chalk River nuclear reactor in Ontario doesn’t sell a watt of electricity. Never has. But when it sprang a leak and shut down this spring, it threw a multibillion-dollar industry into crisis. Before it broke, the reactor produced nearly two thirds of the U.S. supply of molybdenum-99, or Mo-99, the isotope behind 16 mill (Read More)
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[Photograph: The Paupered Chef]Serious Eats contributors Nick Kindelsperger and Blake Royer explain how they made hard cider on the cheap over at The Paupered Chef. They made four batches using two kinds of apple cider and yeast, and found that Whole Foods' apple cider was great for making easy, cheap hard cider: "It's chea (Read More)
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The Italian Special from Faicco's Pork Store. "It's like a sunset made of sandwich meats" —EZ. [Photo: Robyn Lee]It's National Sandwich Day! So designated because November 3 marks the birthday of John Montagu, the 4th Earl of Sandwich, who popularized everyone's favorite lunch so long ago. Looking to celebrate? We've rounde (Read More)
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From their very first days, newborns' cries already bear the mark of the language their parents speak, reveals a new study. The findings suggest that infants begin picking up elements of what will be their first language in the womb, and certainly long before their first babble or coo. (Read More)
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