How Handwriting Analysis Works
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Did Archimedes build a death ray?
During the siege of Syracuse in 214 BCE, the city-state's resident genius, Archimedes, built a...
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Can NASA predict natural disasters?
The US has developed some great equipment for peering into deep space that can also be used to...
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Back in the mid-1980s a new and extremely potent drug hit the scene: crack cocaine. In short...
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Chuck and Josh have covered just about every aspect of death except dying itself. Here, they...
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Can you die of a broken heart?
In the early 1990s, Japanese researchers found a strange anomaly in their study subjects, five...
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The annals of history hold a special place for people who have carried out treachery and betrayed...
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That laziest of backyard games, horseshoes, is also a very ancient one, developed by people...
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Yes, your brain may have just flash-dried from boredom at the thought of learning about maps, but...
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Entire TV shows are dedicated to them and Americans love to watch a live one, but police chases...
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Gesundheit! How Allergies Work
About 30-40 percent of humans suffer from some sort of allergy. The big joke, though, is that...
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After WWII, the government of South Africa turned inward to focus its attention on domination of...
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What would happen if the world stopped spinning?
Over 400 million years, the day has grown two hours longer thanks to Earth's slowing axial...
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As is usual for SYSK, Josh and Chuck go over some, but not all, of the entries in this list of...
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The earliest depiction of a condom is found in a 15,000-year-old cave painting. Ever since humans...
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A 2012 report showed that the U.S. may be energy-independent in just a few years, but not too...
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How close are we to holographic environments?
Star Trek was famous for its holodeck, a completely immersive holographic environment that could...
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What will happen when we reach the Singularity?
Futurists have unnervingly predicted an impending moment in human history: the Singularity, when...
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Yakuza: From Samurai to Slot Machines
The Yakuza trace their lineage back to the 18th century samurai, left masterless following...
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Exoskeletons: How’s it coming?
Since the 1960s, the Pentagon has called for a suit that can make a soldier jump higher, run...
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