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18 Google Chrome Extensions That Make the Internet a Better Place
Earlier this week, we asked you to share with us that one, special Chrome extension that you just can't bear to live without. As it turns out, for most of you, that one is actually more like eight. So...
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The 5 Most Impressive Infrastructure Projects of the Year
Each year, the American Society of Civil Engineers gives out an award to celebrate the sheer size and complexity and awesomeness of infrastructure projects built by Americans. From an Antarctic...
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The Extraordinary Evolution of Scissors
Since the ancient Egyptians who supposedly invented them, scissors have been a constant in human civilization. After knives, they're likely the most common household object the average person owns....
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18 High-Tech Warships From the Future That Rule the Seas Today
War. War never changes. Mankind has fought naval battles for thousands of years. And in the 21st century, the navy is still the most important branch of any maritime nation's combat forces. But...
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11 of the Most Embarrassing Government Websites
Just yesterday, the White House launched the US Digital Service , a new initiative with the express purpose of saving federal websites from imminent disaster/themselves. And after a brief audit of the...
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6 Cool New Objects From One of Modern Design's Oldest Powerhouses
Alessi can't stop, won't stop producing homewares at a seriously rapid clip. The Italian brand has been around since 1921; over the years, its exclusive focus on metal goods has expanded to include...
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7 Crazy Bikes That Almost Changed Cycling Forever
The history of cycling includes many innovations that failed to achieve popular or commercial success. The reasons for failure are many and various. But sometimes, even the wackiest-looking designs...
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9 Failed Designs That Would Have Changed Times Square Forever
Times Square is one big, incredible machine that has the sweet caress of capitalism to thank for its success as much as it does careful city planning. However, when the area was famously filthy in...
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10 Incredibly Dangerous Banned Toys
They say that it's all fun and games until somebody loses an eye. Technically, the same applies to skull fractures, poisoning, and third-degree burns. Throughout history, toy makers have designed some...
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8 of the World's Coolest Skyscrapers Rendered Like 1980s Futurist Art
An increasing number of skyscrapers that line our horizons these days resemble the future we were promised: twisting pillars of glass and steel that stretch up into the clouds. When you glaze those...
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Every Ikea Catalog Cover Since 1951
It's that time of year: If you're one of the hundreds of millions people on Ikea's mailing list, you probably recently received a thick square of super-thin paper filled with (mostly rendered )...
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11 Reasons Email Is the Worst
Email is one of those things that's just a part of your life, period. Most of us know someone who has closed their Facebook account or refused to join in the first place in a little foot-stomping...
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12 Sinister Movie Posters From the Golden Age of Film Noir
"She was part-good before—SHE'S ALL BAD NOW!" "From the moment they met it was Murder!" "Blood-red kisses! White-hot thrills!" No other style of cinema mastered sensational taglines better than film...
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The Dark, Glamorous World of One of NYC's Real-Life Mad Men
New York in the years after World War II was a city more prosperous and more modern than anything the world had seen—and it spawned a whole culture unto itself, distributed in newspapers, magazines,...
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15 Old Gadgets That Live On In Our Hearts
All types of different gadgets enter and leave our lives. Some stay for years and are cherished well past their prime. Others we lose, whether sold off in our youthful ignorance or lost in some other...
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4 Enormous Projects That Could Save Coastal Cities In Our Flooded Future
The tides are rising . The only question that remains is how—and whether—we prepare our cities for it. As you might expect, the cities taking the most decisive action are the ones that have been hit...
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The Best-Designed Bathrooms in America
The public restroom is not a place worth celebrating, generally speaking. It is a place of absolute necessity, awkward small talk, and worst case scenarios come true. Cintas, a company that...
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15 Rare Images From NASA's First Decades of Space Exploration
The idea of floating in orbit, protected from the void by mere inches of material, is one we've grown pretty blasé about over the years. But it's a terrifying, marvelous, sublime thing—and a new...
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The Evolution of Flying Ships
The invention of hydrofoils was one of the most revolutionary developments in the history of marine engineering. Hydrofoils are vessels that use wing-like foils below the hull in order to reach...
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10 Strange Projects In Development At NASA
NASA is pursuing future cosmic exploration with some rather unexpected whimsy. Occasionally fantastical but always backed by concrete science, here are 10 of the most awesomely strange projects NASA's...
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