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Benedict Cumberbatch and Martin Freeman in "Sherlock" (BBC)

Why we're addicted to mystery

Lucie Smoker

Fran Berkman - The Daily Dot
(<a href=' http://www.shutterstock.com/gallery-287881p1.html '> Aaron Amat </a> via <a href='http://www.shutterstock.com/'>Shutterstock</a>)

Jenny Kutner
FILE - This undated file image made available by the CDC shows the Ebola Virus. As a deadly Ebola outbreak continues in West Africa, health officials are working to calm fears that the virus easily spreads, while encouraging those with symptoms to get medical care. (AP Photo/CDC, File) (AP)

The Associated Press

Joanna Rothkopf
(<a href='http://www.shutterstock.com/pic.mhtml?id=91104299'>Calek</a> via <a href='http://www.shutterstock.com/'>Shutterstock</a>)

Jenny Kutner
(Reuters/Eric Thayer)

The Kardashian index exists

Joanna Rothkopf
Neil deGrasse Tyson (AP/Richard Shotwell/<a href='http://www.shutterstock.com/gallery-259645p1.html'>CURAphotography</a> via <a href='http://www.shutterstock.com/'>Shutterstock</a>/Salon)

Greta Christina - Alternet

Jason Overdorf - GlobalPost
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"Life is 100% mortality"

Mary Elizabeth Williams
(<a href='url to photographer'>Lightspring</a> via <a href='http://www.shutterstock.com/'>Shutterstock</a>)

Alex Henderson - Alternet
Neil deGrasse Tyson (AP/Richard Shotwell)

Why the right hates brainiacs

Amanda Marcotte - Alternet

This octopus is a great mom

Joanna Rothkopf
Paul Krugman, Neil deGrasse Tyson, Rachel Maddow (AP/Fredrik Persson/Richard Shotwell/Chris Pizzello/Photo collage by Salon)

War against the nerds

Andrew Leonard
(Shutterstock)

Run half an hour, die later

Joanna Rothkopf
(<a href='http://www.istockphoto.com/user_view.php?id=4283187'>pearleye</a> via <a href='http://www.istockphoto.com/'>iStock</a>/Salon)

Sarah Gray
(Shutterstock / Pressmaster)

Half the world has this virus

Joanna Rothkopf
Alex Pring's bionic arm (screenshot)

Sarah Gray
Neil deGrasse Tyson (AP/Richard Shotwell)

Sarah Gray
A sign outside the Comcast Center in Philadelphia. (AP/Matt Rourke)

Sarah Gray

Sarah Gray
David Koch (AP/Phelan M. Ebenhack/<a href='http://www.shutterstock.com/gallery-84876p1.html'>Marek Szumlas</a> via <a href='http://www.shutterstock.com/'>Shutterstock</a>)

The right's dinosaur fetish

Asher Elbein

Prachi Gupta
(<a href='http://www.shutterstock.com/gallery-346741p1.html">Peter Kim</a> via <a href='"http://www.shutterstock.com/">Shutterstock</a>)

Prachi Gupta
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