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  • Mary Ward: The Scientist Remembered as the First Car Fatality—Before Cars Really Existed
    August 22, 2026

    Mary Ward: The Scientist Remembered as the First Car Fatality—Before Cars Really Existed

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  • Earth Has More Trees Than the Milky Way Has Stars, Which Sounds Fake But Isn’t
    July 8, 2026

    Earth Has More Trees Than the Milky Way Has Stars, Which Sounds Fake But Isn’t

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  • Flat Earth Theory: Why Does it Persist All Around the World? (See What We Did There?)
    November 5, 2024

    Flat Earth Theory: Why Does it Persist All Around the World? (See What We Did There?)

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  • Fun Fact: The Moon is Smaller than Australia
    October 16, 2024

    Fun Fact: The Moon is Smaller than Australia

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  • Meet the Man Who Proposed the First Mission to the Moon… in 1638!
    October 22, 2019

    Meet the Man Who Proposed the First Mission to the Moon… in 1638!

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  • Outer Space: Closer Than You Might Think
    May 24, 2019

    Outer Space: Closer Than You Might Think

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  • A One Billion Year Lap
    April 8, 2019

    A One Billion Year Lap

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  • The Diet of the Stars
    April 9, 2018

    The Diet of the Stars

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  • Forget About Dog Years — What About Planetary Years?
    June 21, 2017

    Forget About Dog Years — What About Planetary Years?

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  • Forget the Chicken and the Egg — What About the Universe and the Stars?
    April 1, 2017

    Forget the Chicken and the Egg — What About the Universe and the Stars?

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  • Was Tycho a Psycho? Weird Facts About Tycho Brahe, One of History’s Greatest Astronomers
    January 5, 2017

    Was Tycho a Psycho? Weird Facts About Tycho Brahe, One of History’s Greatest Astronomers

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  • Feeling Old? Tell People Your Age in Galactic Years
    February 27, 2015

    Feeling Old? Tell People Your Age in Galactic Years

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  • December 8, 2014

    “State of the Art” From a 21st Century Vantage Point

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  • Singular Facts About Singularities
    November 30, 2014

    Singular Facts About Singularities

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  • Man in the Moon? Maybe… But Two-Legged Beavers?
    November 12, 2014

    Man in the Moon? Maybe… But Two-Legged Beavers?

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