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Imagine renovating your house — knocking down a wall in your basement to make a little more room — and finding, behind it, a hidden passage leading down into…
Value, when it comes to food, is a remarkably slippery thing. What one century treats as a delicacy fit for kings, another dismisses as cheap and common — and sometimes…
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Walk into any grocery store today and you'll find pineapples piled up cheaply in the produce section, an ordinary and affordable fruit that most people don't think twice about.…
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Lake Nyos sits in a volcanic crater in the highlands of northwestern Cameroon, a deep, still body of water that, for generations, the local people knew simply as a…
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There is a book in the National Library of Sweden that is unlike any other on Earth. It is called the Codex Gigas — Latin for "giant book" —…
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It sounds like folklore: a family, living in an isolated Appalachian hollow, whose skin was blue. Not a faint bluish tinge, but a genuine, striking blue — blue faces,…