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Hatchet-wielding hitchhiker saves the day
This is one story in which "weird" seems like an inadequate description.
The Internal Memo That Allowed IBM's Female Employees to Get Married
"When Eleanor Kolchin worked at IBM in the late 1940s she had to keep her marriage a secret." The exception was if the wife was the breadwinner for the family.
Print Me a Condo on the Moon!
Can 3D printers and moon-mining make building a permanent moonbase a lot more feasible? That's what the European Space Agency is exploring.
We Have No Idea if Africa Is Rising
The words people are seldom willing to say - 'I don't know.' "Recent [Foreign Policy] contributors have said that Africa is and is not rising. They're both wrong because they don't have the numbers to back it up."
Brewing Controversy Over Proposal to Make Water Cheaper Than Beer
The first sentence: "In most restaurants and taverns across the Czech Republic, a mug of beer is, literally, cheaper than water."