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15 Gene Hackman Quotes for His 85th Birthday

List

15 Gene Hackman Quotes for His 85th Birthday

Friday Happy Hour

What Now-Defunct Technology Did You Enthusiastically Embrace?

Friday Happy Hour

What Now-Defunct Technology Did You Enthusiastically Embrace?

Missing Links

Behind the Scenes with Penn & Teller

Missing Links

Behind the Scenes with Penn & Teller

Videos

See This Adorable Baby Acquire Sign Language Through Rhythm And Rhyme

Videos

See This Adorable Baby Acquire Sign Language Through Rhythm And Rhyme

Animals

10 Handy Facts About Deinocheirus

Animals

10 Handy Facts About Deinocheirus

Sports

21 Super Facts About the Seattle Seahawks

Sports

21 Super Facts About the Seattle Seahawks

Sports

21 Super Facts About the New England Patriots

Sports

21 Super Facts About the New England Patriots

Videos

Watch People Fly a Brain-Controlled Helicopter

Videos

Watch People Fly a Brain-Controlled Helicopter

Miss Cellania

The Weird Week in Review

Miss Cellania

The Weird Week in Review

Comics

Interview: Scott McCloud On The Sculptor and Balancing Art and Life

Comics

Interview: Scott McCloud On The Sculptor and Balancing Art and Life

Quizzes

Name the Largest U.S. Cities by Timezone: Pacific

Quizzes

Name the Largest U.S. Cities by Timezone: Pacific

Pod City

Reply All, Fugitive Waves, and More of the Week’s Best Podcasts

Pod City

Reply All, Fugitive Waves, and More of the Week’s Best Podcasts

Movies

12 Facts About 101 Dalmatians

Movies

12 Facts About 101 Dalmatians

Contest!

Win a Shakespearean Star Wars Triology of Books

Contest!

Win a Shakespearean Star Wars Triology of Books

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15 Things You Probably Didn’t Know About Vegas Vacation

Sean Hutchinson
27 Actors Who Got Their Starts on Miami Vice
Why Some Civil War Soldiers Glowed in the Dark
19 Photos of Ronald Reagan With Various Celebrities
13 Sesame Street Muppets That Make a Difference

Morning Cup of Links: Lord of the Rings Trivia

Miss Cellania
27 Actors Who Got Their Starts on Miami Vice
Why Some Civil War Soldiers Glowed in the Dark
19 Photos of Ronald Reagan With Various Celebrities
13 Sesame Street Muppets That Make a Difference

Clico: The Story of Franz Taaibosch

Miss Cellania
27 Actors Who Got Their Starts on Miami Vice
Why Some Civil War Soldiers Glowed in the Dark
19 Photos of Ronald Reagan With Various Celebrities
13 Sesame Street Muppets That Make a Difference

Minecraft + "Game of Thrones" = WesterosCraft

Chris Higgins

Winter is coming...to Minecraft.

27 Actors Who Got Their Starts on Miami Vice
Why Some Civil War Soldiers Glowed in the Dark
19 Photos of Ronald Reagan With Various Celebrities
13 Sesame Street Muppets That Make a Difference

Weekend Links: Rallying for Dwarf Planets

Roma Panganiban
27 Actors Who Got Their Starts on Miami Vice
Why Some Civil War Soldiers Glowed in the Dark
19 Photos of Ronald Reagan With Various Celebrities
13 Sesame Street Muppets That Make a Difference

Explaining the Magic Yellow First-Down Line

Ethan Trex

If you attend a Super Bowl party on Sunday, you’ll probably hear at least one casual football viewer ask, “How do they get that yellow first-down line on the field?” While “magic” is a fine answer in

27 Actors Who Got Their Starts on Miami Vice
Why Some Civil War Soldiers Glowed in the Dark
19 Photos of Ronald Reagan With Various Celebrities
13 Sesame Street Muppets That Make a Difference

Profiles in Scourges: Pablo Escobar

Erik Sass

In the 1980s, Pablo Escobar's Medellin Cartel was spending $2,500 a month on rubber bands just to hold all their cash.

27 Actors Who Got Their Starts on Miami Vice
Why Some Civil War Soldiers Glowed in the Dark
19 Photos of Ronald Reagan With Various Celebrities
13 Sesame Street Muppets That Make a Difference

What's the Correct Pronunciation of February?

Arika Okrent

In the United States, the most common pronunciation is feb-yoo-air-ee.

27 Actors Who Got Their Starts on Miami Vice
Why Some Civil War Soldiers Glowed in the Dark
19 Photos of Ronald Reagan With Various Celebrities
13 Sesame Street Muppets That Make a Difference

4 Real Life Dinos Used to Make Jurassic World's Hybrid

Mark Mancini
27 Actors Who Got Their Starts on Miami Vice
Why Some Civil War Soldiers Glowed in the Dark
19 Photos of Ronald Reagan With Various Celebrities
13 Sesame Street Muppets That Make a Difference

Fall of the South: Congress Passes Thirteenth Amendment

Erik Sass

For the next few months, we'll be covering the end of the Civil War, exactly 150 years later. This is the first installment of this series.

27 Actors Who Got Their Starts on Miami Vice
Why Some Civil War Soldiers Glowed in the Dark
19 Photos of Ronald Reagan With Various Celebrities
13 Sesame Street Muppets That Make a Difference

Grace Hopper, The Queen of Code

Chris Higgins
27 Actors Who Got Their Starts on Miami Vice
Why Some Civil War Soldiers Glowed in the Dark
19 Photos of Ronald Reagan With Various Celebrities
13 Sesame Street Muppets That Make a Difference

Weekend Links: Cooking—For Men!

Roma Panganiban
27 Actors Who Got Their Starts on Miami Vice
Why Some Civil War Soldiers Glowed in the Dark
19 Photos of Ronald Reagan With Various Celebrities
13 Sesame Street Muppets That Make a Difference

Watch People Fly a Brain-Controlled Helicopter

Alvin Ward

Use your head.

27 Actors Who Got Their Starts on Miami Vice
Why Some Civil War Soldiers Glowed in the Dark
19 Photos of Ronald Reagan With Various Celebrities
13 Sesame Street Muppets That Make a Difference

7 Things You Didn’t Know About Canadian Whisky

Clair McLafferty
27 Actors Who Got Their Starts on Miami Vice
Why Some Civil War Soldiers Glowed in the Dark
19 Photos of Ronald Reagan With Various Celebrities
13 Sesame Street Muppets That Make a Difference

17 Things You Can Watch Instead of the Super Bowl

Stacy Conradt

Even though 111.5 million viewers tuned in to watch the Super Bowl last year, not everyone is interested in the super-hyped spectacle.

27 Actors Who Got Their Starts on Miami Vice
Why Some Civil War Soldiers Glowed in the Dark
19 Photos of Ronald Reagan With Various Celebrities
13 Sesame Street Muppets That Make a Difference

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