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Jesus of Nazareth, Whose Messianic Message Captivated Thousands, Dies at About 33

Jesus of Nazareth, Whose Messianic Message Captivated Thousands, Dies at About 33 Sam Roberts, an obituary writer for The New York Times, imagines how, given the facts available then, his predecessors might have reported the aftermath of an execution in the Middle East one Friday two millennia ago. March 25, 2016 at 06:14PM

How Metals Helped Drive the Origin of Life on Earth

How Metals Helped Drive the Origin of Life on Earth A collection of metal atoms called the “metallome” helped drive evolution. March 25, 2016 at 12:29AM

The Dunk Of The Year Just Happened In The NBA D-League While DJ Stephens may play in the NBA's Development League, we can assure you that this dunk is fully developed. March 25, 2016 at 12:27PM

Word of the day is swear on a stack of Bibles : (idiomatic) To make a promise or give an assurance with great conviction. Holy Saturday falls on this day in 2016.

swear on a stack of Bibles , n : (idiomatic) To make a promise or give an assurance with great conviction. Holy Saturday falls on this day in 2016.

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The Dunk Of The Year Just Happened In The NBA D-League

The Article of the day for March 26, 2016 is Winnipeg . Winnipeg is the capital and largest city of the Canadian province of Manitoba. The name comes from Western Cree words for muddy or brackish water, referring to Lake Winnipeg, which is just north of the city along the Red River. The region was a trading centre for aboriginal peoples long before the arrival of Europeans. French traders built the first fort on the site in 1738. A settlement was later founded by the Selkirk settlers of the Red River Colony in 1812, the nucleus of which was incorporated as the City of Winnipeg in 1873. The census of 2011 lists Winnipeg as the seventh most populous municipality in Canada. Known as the "Gateway to the West", it is a transportation hub with a diversified economy. Its annual festivals include the Festival du Voyageur, the Winnipeg Folk Festival, the Jazz Winnipeg Festival, the Winnipeg Fringe Theatre Festival, and Folklorama. Winnipeg was the first Canadian host of the Pan Ameri...

In Newly Created Life-Form, a Major Mystery

Picture of the day on March 26, 2016: Kungur Ice Cave, Perm Krai, Russia.

In Newly Created Life-Form, a Major Mystery Scientists have created a synthetic organism that possesses only the genes it needs to survive. But they have no idea what roughly a third of those genes do.

Kungur Ice Cave, Perm Krai, Russia..

In Newly Created Life-Form, a Major Mystery

In Newly Created Life-Form, a Major Mystery Scientists have created a synthetic organism that possesses only the genes it needs to survive. But they have no idea what roughly a third of those genes do. March 25, 2016 at 02:32PM

The Food Industrial Complex American farmers receive billions of dollars from Uncle Sam every year. So why is the "food lobby" synonymous with unhealthy food? March 25, 2016 at 03:29PM

The Food Industrial Complex

The O.C. is coming to Hulu in April

The O.C. is coming to Hulu in April And because there’s no such thing as too much Ben McKenzie, Southland — the police drama McKenzie filmed after his time as Ryan Atwood — is also joining Hulu’s library.

Inside the Online Community Where People Are Mean to Breakfast Foods

Inside the Online Community Where People Are Mean to Breakfast Foods The Fry Up Police is an insanely popular community of people dedicated to vociferously slating people's attempts at a cooked breakfast. This is far from some weird internet subculture.

How well online dating works, according to someone who has been studying it for years "There are a lot of theories out there about how online dating is bad for us... and mostly they're pretty unfounded."

How well online dating works, according to someone who has been studying it for years

Sex Seems Like a Waste-So Why Do So Many Creatures Need It to Reproduce?

Sex Seems Like a Waste-So Why Do So Many Creatures Need It to Reproduce? Did sexual reproduction evolve to keep up with mitochondrial mutation? March 25, 2016 at 02:58AM

Turning Live Surveillance Feeds Into Unsettling Works of Art

The names that break computer systems

Turning Live Surveillance Feeds Into Unsettling Works of Art This demonstration of surveillance-turned-art, titled “Jaywalking,” presents the sort of uncomfortably easy privacy invasion that artist Dries Depoorter has made his trademark.

The names that break computer systems The world’s people are incredibly diverse — and so are their names. But in an age of computers and databases, having an unusual moniker can sometimes lead to headaches. What happens if your name breaks the system?

Slaughter at the bridge About 3,200 years ago, two armies clashed at a river crossing near the Baltic Sea. The epic confrontation can't be found in any history books because it was only discovered in bones 20 years ago. March 25, 2016 at 02:58AM

Slaughter at the bridge

Humans Turned A Chatbot Racist And Other Facts Welcome to What We Learned This Week, a digest of the most curiously important facts from the past few days. This week: Twitter ruins yet another thing, the engineers of terrorism and lighting thousands of matches all at once.

Humans Turned A Chatbot Racist And Other Facts

Would you pay for journalism if you could get your money back on clickbait? Blendle, a Dutch news aggregator, thinks it has the solution for publishers.

Would you pay for journalism if you could get your money back on clickbait?