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The colour blue is elusive in nature. Here's why
The Weather Network via Yahoo News· 1 year agoWhen you take the sky and the ocean out of the equation, blue is surprisingly rare in nature. Less than one in ten plants have blue flowers, and it isn't...
How the Cabbage Patch Kids craze of 1983 helped create Black Friday as we know it
Yahoo Entertainment via AOL· 5 months agoCabbage Patch Kids drew serious shoppers at Christmas 1983. (Andy Hosie/Daily Mirror/Mirrorpix/Getty...
How every NFL team got its name
Niners Wire via Yahoo Sports· 10 months agoI’m going to start this journey with a confession that has nothing to do with football. I did not know that Edgar Allan Poe was American. To all of my...
What is PWM display flicker, how to deal with it
Android Central via Yahoo Finance· 8 months agoLots of modern phones use pulse width modulation, or PWM, to manage brightness. But what is PWM, why is it harmful, and what can you do about it? We give...
This Gorgeous New Cruise Ship Will Take You to France, Greece, and Italy — and It's Got a...
Travel+Leisure via Yahoo News· 11 months agoOceania Cruises’ first new ship in more than a decade just started sailing in the Mediterranean Sea,...
My Dumb Little Brain Is Completely And Totally Blown After Seeing All These Absolutely Fascinating...
BuzzFeed via Yahoo News· 5 months ago1.This is a wax sculpture of Thomas Wedders, the man whose 7.5-inch nose was apparently the largest...
Tommy Dorfman and Memphy Take Over
Elle via AOL· 1 month agoTommy Dorfman and Memphy Take OverGrayson Vaughan On Tommy Dorfman, left: Blazer, shirt, jeans, shoes, all her own. On Memphy, right: Shirt, pants, tie,...
With cars and kaiju, artists Umar Rashid and Frieda Toranzo Jaeger subvert American myth
LA Times via Yahoo News· 1 year agoIn 1816, Kentucky-born portraitist William Edward West created a print depicting the battlefield death of British Maj. Gen. Edward Michael Pakenham at the Battle of New Orleans. At the time, ...
The best ereaders for 2024
Engadget· 7 months agoWe tested ereaders from Kobo, Amazon, Boox and more to see which one is the best overall, along with a budget pick and the best one with page-turn...
Monday Study Club keeps going after 107 years
The Daily World, Aberdeen, Wash. via Yahoo News· 3 months agoJan. 9—Mary Lou Gregory has been part of the Monday Study Club since 1995 and she loves being part of it. Gregory, formerly a school librarian, loves to learn. She especially loves to learn ...
