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EXTRA, EXTRA, READ ALL ABOUT IT

You know, that health-promoting nectar of Mediterranean age-defying prowess, lubricant of pasta, the only thing that makes your kale salad palatable? Yeah, that stuff is almost certainly not what you think it is.
SURPRISINGLY TASTY

Pixar movies are known for throwing in subtle jokes that will appeal to the adults watching with their kids, so Seth Rogen and co. decided to make that subtext the text of their screenplay for "Sausage Party," a raunchy, F-bomb laden, R-rated animated flick about sentient food items. But is it any good?
WHAT WE LEARNED THIS WEEK

Welcome To What We Learned This Week, a digest of the most curiously important facts from the past few days. This week, the fatal cost of flawed design, the impossible task of assembling Ikea furniture while high and the aliens possibly trying to shut down a star.
AGE OF THE MACHINES

Happy birthday, you old rascal, you. Thirty-five years ago today you came into world with a compact design and a $1,565 price tag, at time when IBM’s entry-level “microcomputer” run $90,000 and looked more like a washer and dryer set.
WHO'S AFRAID OF ISOTOPES?

Among the sane, nuclear weapons are unthinkably dangerous without hesitation or ambiguity. That message of cataclysm is so straightforward that it also shaped how people think about their key byproduct — radiation.
PROBABLY SAID SORRY AFTERWARDS

During last night's 200 meter individual medley, CBC announcer Elliotte Friedman thought Lochte was Phelps and Phelps was Lochte for the entire duration of the race. Even when the graphics say otherwise, Friedman is convinced that "Phelps might not even make the podium."
HYPOTHETICALLY SPEAKING

The string theory wars among physicists have highlighted just how much science needs philosophy — and not just the amature version.