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Julija Stoliarenko of Lithuania poses on the scale during the UFC weigh-in at UFC APEX on March 19, 2021 in Las Vegas, Nevada. (Chris Unger/Zuffa LLC via Getty Images)

How to gain 10% of your mass in one day

Jonathan Gelber
(Getty/zeynepogan)

5 ways COVID changed how we travel

Mary A. Shiraef - The Conversation
NFT non fungible tokens infographics (Getty Images)

Why John Cleese wants to sell you an NFT

Ashlie D. Stevens
Fragments of the new discovered Dead Sea Scroll are seen in a lab in the Israel Museum in Jerusalem on March 16, 2021. Israeli archaeologists have discovered dozens of fragments of a biblical scroll written in Greek in the Cave of Horror near the Dead Sea. (Xinhua/Muammar Awad via Getty Images)

What the new Dead Sea Scrolls tell us

Matthew Rozsa
Alewives in costume sample ale at the site of the Festival Inn, Grundy Street, Poplar in anticipation of Festival of Britain, 1950 (Fox Photos/Getty Images)

Women brewers were accused of witchcraft

Laken Brooks - The Conversation
Wrestling fighters Jack Swagger (L) and Rey Misterio (R) fight during the WWE Smackdown Wrestling (Alfredo Lopez/Jam Media/LatinContent via Getty Images)

Why wrestlers are prone to dying young

Jonathan Gelber
U.S. President Joe Biden participates in a bill signing in the Oval Office of the White House on March 11, 2021 in Washington, DC. President Biden has signed the $1.9 trillion COVID relief bill into law at the event. (Doug Mills-Pool/Getty Images)

Biden's COVID-19 bill will help you

Matthew Rozsa
Paramount+ navigation screen of original programming (Paramount+)

A guide to newest streamer Paramount+

Ashlie D. Stevens
Brain Static (Illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

How consciousness emerges from static

Thomas Nail
Julius Vance, Laville Williams, and Allen Ware stand and smile while selling the Chicago Defender, the leading African American newspaper in 1982 (The Abbott Sengstacke Family Papers/Robert Abbott Sengstacke/Getty Images)

Brownies’ Book: A pioneering publication

Paige Gray - The Conversation
A photo taken on February 12, 2021 shows a box of AstraZeneca's Covid-19 vaccine at the university hospital, at the start of the inoculation with the AstraZeneca vaccine at the hospital, in Halle/Saale, eastern Germany. (JENS SCHLUETER/AFP via Getty Images)

This vaccine could be a game-changer

Matthew Rozsa
The Belt and Road Initiative supply chain base is in construction on 08th June, 2020 in Lianyungang, Jiangsu, China. (TPG/Getty Images)

How China is reshaping the planet

Eyck Freymann
Illustration of a newly discovered black hole named MAXI J1820+070. (Aurore Simonnet and NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center)

How to explore a black hole

Leo Rodriguez, Shanshan Rodriguez - The Conversation
Alan S. Kim and Steven Yeun in "Minari" (A24)

Behind the "Minari" Globes controversy

Ashlie D. Stevens
Ken Jennings attends the ABC Television's Winter Press Tour 2020 at The Langham Huntington, Pasadena on January 08, 2020 in Pasadena, California. (Rodin Eckenroth/WireImage)

Ken Jennings courts Bean Dad controversy

Ashlie D. Stevens
Liquid drop falling into test tubes (Getty Images)

When poison becomes medicine

Luke Shors, Amit Chandra
Puritans going to church: (Original Caption) "Thanks be to God for winter time! That bore the Mayflower up, To pour amid New England snows the treasures of its cup, To fold them in its icy arms, those sturdy Pilgrim sires, And weld an iron brotherhood around their Christmas fires." - B.F. Taylor. (Bettman Collection/Getty)

Why Puritans cracked down on Christmas

Peter C. Mancall - The Conversation
(Photo illustration by Salon/Twitter)

Twitter goes ape over Dan Purdy mystery

Ashlie D. Stevens, Matthew Rozsa
Medical syringes are seen with Pfizer company logo displayed on a screen in the background in this illustration photo taken in Poland on October 12, 2020. (Photo illustration by Jakub Porzycki/NurPhoto via Getty Images)

What Pfizer's vaccine announcement means

Matthew Rozsa
US President Donald Trump (L) listens to White House coronavirus adviser Dr. Scott Atlas speak during a press conference in the Brady Briefing Room of the White House on September 23, 2020, in Washington, DC. (MANDEL NGAN/AFP via Getty Images)

Who is Trump COVID adviser Scott Atlas?

Matthew Rozsa
Sacha Baron Cohen stars in "Borat Subsequent Moviefilm" (Amazon)

What's real in "Borat 2"?

Ashlie D. Stevens
Multi-lingual "I Voted" stickers await voters after they cast their vote in the 2020 US elections at the Los Angeles County Registrar in Norwalk, California on October 19, 2020. - Voter turnout is ten times higher than in 2016 in California according the Secretary of State Alex Padilla as over 600,000 Los Angeles County ballots are already at the county registrar. (FREDERIC J. BROWN/AFP via Getty Images)

The importance of the "I Voted" stickers

Ashlie D. Stevens
Healthcare professional in protective gloves & workwear holding & organizing a tray of COVID-19 vaccine vials (Getty Images)

What do "phases" of a vaccine mean?

Matthew Rozsa
Screenshot from Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's Twitch stream, playing Among Us (Twitch/Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez)

AOC's historic Twitch stream

Matthew Rozsa
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