Cultures Are Weird: Strange Customs From Around the World
If you’ve been raised in the typical western household, some of the customs from around the world must seem pretty strange. Here’s a list of the most off-the-wall, bizarre “traditions” that people…
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Abdel Maguid Mahmoud, Egypt Prosecutor, Keeps Job, Defies Mohammed Morsi
Egyptian Prosecutor General Abdel-Meguid Mahmoud speaks to hundreds of supporters, judges, lawyers and media, not shown, in a downtown courthouse defying a presidential decision to remove him from his post, saying…
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Marya Rosales, 1000-Pound Woman Charged With Murder, Discusses Her Trial On TLC’s ‘Half-Ton Killer?’ (EXCLUSIVE VIDEO)
When Sergio Valdez saw his 1000-pound client, Marya Rosales, in bed for the first time, he almost mistook some of her folds of fat for pillows. “We’ve all…
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ESO Shows ‘Witch’s Broom’ Shape In Pencil Nebula
Image Credit: ESO [ Watch the Video: Zooming in on the Pencil Nebula ] It seems a little early to already start decorating for Halloween, but the European Space Observatory has decided that it’s…
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Scientists Put Dates On Mars Climate Change For First Time
Image Credit: Photos.com Researchers from the Niels Bohr Institute have dated climate history for Mars for the first time. The ice caps on Mars’ poles are miles thick, composed of ice and dust and contain…
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Kickstarter Project To Show 360 Degree View Of Earth
Image Credit: NASA Earth Observatory Sitting in a plane doesn’t quite give you the full perspective of what this planet looks like while traveling from above, but one Kickstarter project…
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Hydrogen Atoms Can Help Astronomers See Into Our Galactic Past
Image Credit: pixelparticle / Shutterstock If the eyes are the windows to your soul, the stars are the windows to our galactic past because they can unveil the history of our…
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Fountain Of Youth Found, But Not Where You Would Expect
Image Caption: This image from the Wide Field Imager attached to the MPG/ESO 2.2-metre telescope at ESO’s La Silla Observatory shows the spectacular globular star cluster Messier 4. This great ball of…
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Weather Satellite Set To Blast Into Space
Image Caption: MetOp sat. Credit: ESA/Eumetsat Later this month, Europe’s newest meteorology satellite, MetOp-B, will blast into space from Baikonur Cosmodrome. For mission control teams at ESA, liftoff marks the start of 72…
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Scientific Phase Of NASA’s GRAIL Moon Mission Begins
Image Caption: Artist concept of GRAIL mission. Grail will fly twin spacecraft in tandem orbits around the moon to measure its gravity field in unprecedented detail. The data collection…
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