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Sometimes we humans get ahead of ourselves. We embark on grand engineering experiments without really understanding what the ...

Project Blue Beam is a long-standing conspiracy theory that claims a global apocalypse could be artificially staged.

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At the end of the first season, the levels for each of our main characters were slightly skewed, or at least not where you'd ...

From sourdough starters to sewing machines, stressed-out professionals are ditching their devices for the analog activities ...

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