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May 12, 2025

Study Reveals That Humans Have Only Seen 0.001% of Our Deep Seafloor

The ocean covers about 70% of the Earth’s surface, and yet a new study reveals just how little we know about the largest livable space on our planet. Published on May 7 in the journal Science Advances, the report found that humans have seen less than 0.001% of our deep seafloor—an area roughly equivalent to that of Rhode Island.

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Funny

May 12, 2025

What Is Gurning? Discover the Unusual British Face-Pulling Contest That Goes Back Centuries

Most of us grew up being told not to pull silly faces, but in one quirky corner of the UK,...

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Painting

May 12, 2025

New Exhibition Explores the Timeless and Perplexing Tradition of “Trompe l’Oeil”

Much like a puzzle, an illusion demands patience.

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Street Art

May 12, 2025

Afghanistan’s First Female Street Artist Gets First Solo Exhibition in the UK

In Tehran, where Shamsia Hassani was born to Afghan refugees in 1988, restrictive policies denied her access to a formal arts education due to her immigrant status. It wasn’t until Hassani and her family returned to their native Afghanistan in 2005 that she could fully pursue that passion, earning degrees in the visual arts from Kabul University.

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Aerial Photography

May 12, 2025

Aerial Photographer Captures Fascinating Stories Behind Cars and the People Who Drive Them [Interview]

Aerial landscape photography puts distance between the photographer and their subject, literally and figuratively.

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Animals

May 12, 2025

Museum Staff Build Disabled Turtle a Custom Mobility Aid Made of LEGO Parts

All animals—big and small—deserve to live their best life.

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Funny

May 11, 2025

Dutch Police Playfully “Detain” a Pet Parakeet as an Accomplice in a Robbery

Fighting crime is no joke, but Dutch police in the city of Utrecht had a laugh when they detained a bird back in September 2019. The pet parakeet was at the scene of a crime when the police arrested a person suspected of shoplifting, making the bird an accomplice in featheral crime. “This bird sat on the shoulder of a thief we arrested for shoplifting,” reported the police on Instagram.

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Wedding

May 11, 2025

Bride Honors Dad’s Sacrifices by Arriving at Her Wedding in His Work Truck

Many people are keenly aware of the hard work their parents put in to provide for them.

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Dance

May 11, 2025

Site-Specific Performance Explores Sacred Spaces Through Rice, Dance, and Sweeping

The task of an artist is to transform even the most ordinary material, phenomenon, or object into something laden with...

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Archeology

May 10, 2025

New Studies Paw at the Prevailing Theory of How Cats Became Domesticated

Calling a house cat domesticated could be seen as a stretch. With their famously aloof demeanor and unpredictable moods, cats have never quite surrendered their wild streak. Our feline friends are notoriously temperamental and may tolerate us, at best, but they are nonetheless important figures in the homes of many families around the world. Cats are equally mysterious and charming in their own right.

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