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In 1964, paleontologists unearthed the skull of a giant ancestor of the sockeye salmon at a quarry near the town of Gateway, ...

Asher Elbein is a journalist and fiction writer based in Austin, Texas. Among other places, his work has appeared in The New ...

On the list of things the state of Minnesota loves to boast about, Rollerblades are somewhere near the top. To understand this you must go back in time to a simpler period, the America of the 1980s ...

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