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Fiordaliso/Getty Images 3 Ways to Stay Soft in a Cold, Hard World
There is a time and place for both softness and toughness, but I don’t define them as antonyms. In fact, I believe they work best in tandem.
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Tunart/Getty Images Why Some People Laugh at Funerals, According to Science
The harder you fight it, the worse it gets.
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The Good Brigade/Getty Images 5 States With the Best (And Worst) Food in America, Ranked
Americans don’t just eat their state’s food. They defend it.
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DANIEL LEAL/AFP/Getty Images You Won’t Believe How Much It’s Going to Cost to Fix Sydney’s Disgusting Fatberg Problem
One chemist described it as worse than anything he’d ever encountered.
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Mary Parrish/NMNH Everything We Know About Prototaxites, the Giant Organism That Came Before Trees
This thing should not exist, and that’s exactly the problem.
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Grafissimo/Getty Images This Is How Much Money the Average American Spends Trying to Lose Weight
Trying to lose weight in America feels a little like subscribing to a service you never meant to sign up for.

