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This Gigantic New Burgess Shale Creature Looks Like a Floppy-Eared Hound
Popular Mechanics via Yahoo Finance· 2 years agoThe 500-million-year-old Burgess Shale is home to a newly-identified species. Balhuticaris voltae is...
Famous birthdays for Sept. 10: Randy Johnson, Jose Feliciano
United Press International via Yahoo News· 8 months agoNational Baseball Hall of Fame member Randy Johnson waves to the crowd in Cooperstown, N.Y., on July...
The Outdated Tests Far Too Many Schools Still Use to Judge a Kid’s Ability
Slate via Yahoo News· 2 months agoThis story about intelligence testing in schools was produced by the Hechinger Report, a nonprofit,...
Column One: Why this UCLA professor is studying female animals to gain insights into women's health
LA Times via Yahoo News· 2 years agoDr. Barbara Natterson-Horowitz, seen at the Los Angeles Zoo, is a UCLA cardiologist and researcher...
Column: The Hitler beetle, the Trump moth and the raging debate over offensive species names
LA Times via Yahoo Finance· 8 months agoThe Neopalpa donaldtrumpi moth has blond scales on its head and small genitals. (Vazrick Nazari /...
Daniel Dennett, fiery atheist philosopher who saw human brains as ‘programmes’ – obituary
The Telegraph via Yahoo News· 3 weeks agoDaniel Dennett, the American philosopher, who has died aged 82, was, with Richard Dawkins, a leading...
5 Interesting Facts You Didn’t Know About Christopher Columbus
Parade via Yahoo News· 2 years agoIn 1972, Richard Nixon declared Columbus Day a time to “celebrate the memorable achievements of the...
The Nazis adored it; the Japanese commercialised it – why we’re trapped in the cult of cute
The Telegraph via Yahoo News· 4 months agoIn the fable The Wolf and the Dog, La Fontaine depicted the former as wild and free, the latter as...
Epstein befriended a slew of scientists. New records contain ‘orgy’ allegation against one
Miami Herald via Yahoo News· 4 months agoJeffrey Epstein had over the years cultivated personal relationships with a galaxy of the world’s...
Comparing black people to monkeys has a long, dark simian history
The Conversation via Yahoo News· 1 year agoThe climax of popular simianisation was the hugely successful classic of Hollywood’s horror factory,...