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Today, America is known as the country of note when it comes to consumer choice. Americans have an absolutely incredible amount of products available at their fingertips every moment and infrastructure in place to quickly get a lot of things they cannot find locally. However, there are some drawbacks to this convenience as well. To
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Insects are everywhere. They are the most diverse group of creatures on the planet, with over 900,000 species identified and named. This represents around 80% of all the animal species that have been discovered. In terms of sheer numbers and mass, insects are overwhelmingly the dominant lifeforms on Earth. It is thought that insects evolved
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Method acting has been in vogue since Marlon Brando first mumbled his way through Stanley Kowalski’s lines in Elia Kazan’s 1951 adaptation of A Streetcar Named Desire. But while many of the greats have tried their hand at truly becoming their characters, some actors have taken it to new extremes. A select few have taken
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Happiness, heartburn, and even heart disease can all be effects of pizza, but when the anthropologist Agehananda Bharati first mentioned “the pizza effect” in 1970, he did not mean anything caused by eating it. The iconic Italian food’s history was an example of a pattern he had observed where something unimportant in one culture becomes
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Everyone is afraid of something, and many fears and phobias are common among pretty much all human beings. In fact, if you aren’t at least a little freaked out by things like heights, spiders, snakes, or public speaking, people may actually think that you are rather strange. However, sometimes, due to cultural differences, phobias develop
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We tend to think of inventors as brainy people in white lab coats, mixing small vials of colorful liquid together, and in a puff of smoke, something is invented. Or the engineers laboring away, wrench in hand, as their spouses stand by idly while they waste away in their worthy pursuit of improving the combustion
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When you hear the word animal, what comes to mind? Perhaps the word causes you to think of marine life, such as the whales, dolphins, and seals that call the oceans home. Maybe it brings to mind the jaguars, sloths, and toucans that reside in the Amazon rainforest. Or perhaps it makes you think of
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