Peruse at your leisure.
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An Academic Journal About Leisure Exists, and It’s Amazing
An Academic Journal About Leisure Exists, and It’s Amazing
Peruse at your leisure.
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Space Photos of the Week: A Galaxy That’s a Bit Outta Whack
Space photos of the week, September 30–August 5.
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A Life in Games: The Playful Genius of John Conway
This adaptation from the biography Genius at Play shows how serious advances such as the surreal numbers can spring out of fun and games.
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The Physics of How That Star Wars BB-8 Toy Works
Sphero has a toy version of the BB-8 droid from Star Wars VII. How does it work? Magnets?
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Where to Find Out What’s Inside Anything
What goes into the dozens of products you use every day? Here are the places that can tell you.
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Absurd Creature of the Week: The Curious Case of the Elusive, Slimy Nautilus
It's called the crusty nautilus. Not because it’s brittle or irritable or anything, it’s just encrusted with a layer of slime.
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Medical Testing Is So Hot Right Now. This Startup Wants In
Silicon Valley is adapting to a new class of medical startups. The story of how Cofactor Genomics is adapting right back.
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Mutant Plants Suck Toxic TNT (Yes, That TNT) Out of Soil
A newly found gene is the key to breeding plants that can get harmful TNT contamination out of the ground.
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SETI’s Top Astrobiologist Has a Plan to Find Life on Mars
Nathalie Cabrol just took the reins of the Carl Sagan Center at the extraterrestrial search organization. And she has some big ideas about where it's going.
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