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What Can We Learn From Back-To-Back Monster Hurricanes Helene And Milton?
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Sabrina Imbler
October 17, 2024
Science
Let’s Go See What’s Swimming Around On Europa
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Barry Petchesky
October 15, 2024
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Science
It’s Totally Cool That I Didn’t Get To See The Northern Lights. Seriously! I Promise!!
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Rachelle Hampton
October 11, 2024
MLB
Tropicana Field Shredded By Hurricane Milton
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Barry Petchesky
October 10, 2024
Animals
Bear Wins Fat Bear Week By Defeating Bear That Killed Her Cub
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Barry Petchesky
October 9, 2024
Science
What Is The Human Composting Industry Trying To Grow?
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Nicholas Russell
September 13, 2024
Science
Neither Elon Musk Nor Anybody Else Will Ever Colonize Mars
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Albert Burneko
September 11, 2024
Science
No Need To Worry About Eerie, Mysterious “Pulsing” Noise Coming From Janky Boeing Starliner, NASA Insists
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Barry Petchesky
September 3, 2024
Science
Boeing Starliner Astronauts Electively Spending Five More Months In Space To Hitch Ride In Different Vehicle Due To Preference For Not Dying
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Albert Burneko
August 26, 2024
Science
Extremely Heavy And Incredibly Far; Or, The Saga Of The Strangest Rock At Stonehenge
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Sabrina Imbler
August 22, 2024
Science
Point/Counterpoint: Monkeys Typing Shakespeare
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Kathryn Xu
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Barry Petchesky
August 8, 2024
This Is So Stupid
Do Not Say The Boeing Starliner Astronauts Are Stranded In Space, Which They Cannot Presently Return From Due To Problems With Their Spacecraft
203
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Albert Burneko
August 1, 2024
Science
Don’t Bury Me At Biscuit Basin
101
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Barry Petchesky
July 24, 2024
Wings Week
You Motherfuckers Forgot About Dayton
385
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Amy Schneider
July 19, 2024
Science
NASA Must Put Me On The Simulated Mars Mission, To Test The Astronauts’ Patience
100
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Barry Petchesky
July 7, 2024
Science
What If We’re Stuck Down Here?
205
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Barry Petchesky
June 18, 2024
Science
Bill Anders First Saw The Earth
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Barry Petchesky
June 9, 2024
Science
Can We Exhume Gender From The Long-Dead?
77
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Sabrina Imbler
May 9, 2024
Science
Suddenly Every Deodorant Company Wants To Get In My Pants
232
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Drew Magary
April 30, 2024
Science
The Closer We Look The Smaller We Get
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Barry Petchesky
April 30, 2024
Sports Highlight Of The Day
The Sports Highlight Of The Day Is The First Honeybee Ever To Pull A String
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Barry Petchesky
April 7, 2024
This Is So Stupid
Defector Status Report: East Coast Earthquake
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Defector Staff
April 5, 2024
NFL
What Time Will Football Start On The Moon?
116
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Ray Ratto
April 3, 2024
Science
Fusion Researchers Set New Record For Ignoring My Wish To Be Consumed By The Heat Of Seven Suns
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Chris Thompson
April 3, 2024
Science
Solar Eclipses: No Longer Scary, Still Astonishingly Cool
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Paola Rosa-Aquino
April 1, 2024
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