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50 Things Turning 50 This Year

Here are some people, places, events, and things turning the big 5-0 in 2013.... READ ON

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What Becomes of Bad Guys' Bodies?

It took more than two weeks after Boston Marathon bomber Tamerlan Tsarnaev was killed to find a grave for his body.... READ ON

Brain Game

House Tunes?

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History

The Klout Score of 1903: A Statistical Study of Eminent Men

How do you measure influence? What is notability? It might seem that before the social ranking site Klout came along to assign people numbers by cold, numerical, social media calculation, the only way to rank people's importance was by hunch and opinion. But long before Klout there was psychologist James McKeen Cattell and his 1903 paper "A Statistical Study of Eminent Men."... READ ON

5 Questions: Undercover Boss

Morning Cup of Links

A Mother's Love

Late Movies

Guess The Theme 100

The Week

8 Drivers Who Blindly Followed their GPS into Disaster

Take note: The machine does not always know where it's going... READ ON

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Trailer Thursday: Peeples, Aftershock and Gatsby, Old Sport!

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DID YOU KNOW? Marlon Brando hated memorizing lines so much that he posted cue cards everywhere to help him get through scenes. He even asked for lines to be written on an actress's posterior. (That request was denied.)