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THEY WOULDN'T SHOW THE CAPTURED UFO

7 diggs Ars Technica
In an unsuspecting building at Johnson Space Center, curators watch over meteorites from Mars and the asteroid belt, cosmic dust, samples of the solar wind, comet particles, and, of course, hundreds of kilograms of Moon rocks.
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DIGG DIALOG

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Scott Breitenstein has been called an “Internet terrorist." He is the owner of ComplaintsBureau.com, a site that hosts user-submitted grievances of all types and, until recently, revenge porn. Watch Breitenstein question his website's morality in the first episode of Fusion's "Real Future" and come talk to him today at 3pm EST.
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THE STATE OF THE STATE OF THE UNION

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​Last night, President Barack Obama gave his final State of the Union address. He was optimistic about the nation's future, angry with the current Republican presidential hopefuls and admitted personal failings of his own. Here's what to read.
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HE HAS A GOOD SENSE OF SELF

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@Selfie, a 19-year-old named Hunter, swooped in on the perfect name for the platform, in 2013 — the very year Oxford Dictionary named “selfie” its Word of the Year. He posts only features front-facing photos of himself.
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A PLANT WITH DEEP ROOTS

8 diggs atlasobscura.com
You may know the plant from "Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets" as the one with the anthropomorphic stalk that emits a lethal shriek when you uproot it. But the mandrake has a centuries-old history as one of the most important and powerful plants in witchcraft, sorcery, and herbal medicine.
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3 diggs citylab.com
The Florida city’s blanket prohibition on tattoo parlors in its downtown area lasted from 1966 to 2007; local lore has it that the ban came at request of the U.S. Navy, which didn’t want its sailors making regrettable decisions while enjoying their time on land.
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PRAY TELL

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Prayer occurs in many faiths. It stays recognisable despite its varied forms. It must be good for something – but what?
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EXCITED TO DEATH

17 diggs Nature
Implicated in everything from traumatic brain injury to learning ability, boredom has become extremely interesting to scientists.
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