Insects are worming their way into food all over the country. From cricket bars to “grasswhoppers” to tacos with worms inside, the latest trend in eating has worked its way onto the menus of some of...
We’ve all seen a full moon looming large shortly after it rises, when it’s still hugging the horizon. Scientists say that large moon is an illusion, a trick your brain is playing. It’s called the...
Jupiter's moon Europa sports a chilly version of plate tectonics. The icy shell that encases the moon has sections that slide beneath each other in a similar way to Earth's continents and ocean...
YouTube achieved peak troll this week when PewDiePie, video gamer star of the video-sharing community's most popular channel ever, disabled comments, cutting off onsite communication with his...
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The first to be singled out for systematic murder by the Nazis were the mentally ill and intellectually disabled. By the end of World War II, an estimated 300,000 of them had been gassed or starved,...
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As the world becomes more connected, language diversity is plummeting at an unprecedented rate. Forty percent of the world’s 7000 languages at risk of disappearing,  according to estimates by the...
Act 1 Scene 1 A room in Windsor castle in the apartments of the Queen. The place is lit up. Numerous people come and go on every side: some walk and talk together: some remain seated etc. CHORUS I OF...
HELEN Lo! These are the fair virgin streams of Nile, the river that waters Egypt's tilth, fed by pure melting snow instead of rain from heaven. Proteus during his life-time was king of this land,...

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AGAMEMNON Old man, come hither and stand before my dwelling. ATTENDANT I come; what new schemes now, king Agamemnon? AGAMEMNON Thou shalt hear. ATTENDANT I am all eagerness. 'Tis little enough sleep...
JOCASTA O sun-god, who cleavest thy way along the starry sky, mounted on golden-studded car, rolling on thy path of flame behind fleet coursers, how curst the beam thou didst shed on Thebes, the day...