48 years ago today, Saturday Night Live premiered on NBC with George Carlin as host. The seminal comedy television program in American history, SNL has launched the careers of dozens of talented writers, comics, and actors. Broadcast from Studio 8H at NBC’s headquarters in the Comcast Building at 30 Rockefeller Plaza, SNL has aired 948 episodes […]
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NPR's Sacha Pfeiffer talks with Jason Gay, Wall Street Journal sports and humor columnist, about "world champion" status in American sports culture and why the U.S. devalues sports it's not good at.
A pair of scientists have found fragments of ginger pigment molecules in fossilised frogs which they take to mean that most famous of genetic mutations has been around a long time. University College Cork (UCC) paleontologists discovered molecular evidence of pheomelanin, the pigment that produces ginger coloration, in the amphibians dating back 10 million years. […]
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A new Rembrandt has been discovered—disguised as another artist’s work, potentially making the owners millionaires as it goes up for auction at Sotheby’s. While unknown or lost works from the Dutch master painter have been found occasionally over the last three decades, they are mostly head portraits or character studies. This large Adoration of the […]
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60 years ago today, the second, and often considered best film starring James Bond, was released as From Russia With Love. In the film, Bond, played by Sean Connery, is sent to assist in the defection of Soviet consulate clerk Tatiana Romanova in Turkey, where SPECTRE plans to avenge Bond’s killing of Dr. No. by using […]
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NPR's Mary Louise Kelly talks with Scott Douglas, freelance writer for Runner's World, about 23-year-old Kelvin Kiptum's record-breaking marathon run on Sunday.
A couple of beautiful puppies have found a new home after a difficult start to life. Workers at an animal shelter in Jackson, Michigan were shocked when in early September they found a pair of snow-white husky puppies in their facilities. Security footage showed a pickup truck arriving at the Jackson County Animal Shelter fence […]
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Britain was once a paradise of oysters, and one conservation group hopes that if they continue their pioneering work, it can be so again. The Wild Oysters Project in the UK just released 10,000 oysters to live wild, undisturbed lives off the northeast coast of England near Newcastle-upon-Tyne. Oysters are a vital part of marine […]
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The perfect synchronicity of a classical symphony has the power to similarly synchronize the movement, heart rate, breathing rate, and the electrical conductivity of skin between audience members, The beautiful finding comes from a study of 132 people and three classical pieces: Ludwig van Beethoven’s “Op. 104 in C minor,” Brett Dean’s “Epitaphs,” and Johannes […]
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Chemical engineers are pioneering a process to equip diesel ships with the onboard capacity to turn collected plastic garbage into fuel. The result has been dubbed “blue diesel” and would save time, money, and emissions in both the trips necessary for ocean-cleaning vessels to reach the mainland to offload and in running fuel use. Millions […]
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A first-of-its-kind football helmet will allow coaches at Gallaudet University, a school for deaf and hard of hearing students, to transmit plays to their quarterback via an augmented reality screen.
On this day, in Game 2 of the 1909 World Series, Ty Cobb stole home base. The details around this famous of all capers are what make it so. Losing Game 1 to the Pittsburgh Pirates, Detroit Tiger’s star and all-time great Ty Cobb was sitting on third base at the top of the second […]
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The self-coached 23-year-old runner from Kenya beat two-time Olympic champion Eliud Kipchoge's previous world record by 34 seconds at the Chicago Marathon.
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Friday night was Megan Rapinoe's last regular season home game in Seattle with the OL Reign, the team she's played with for her entire 11-year NWSL career.
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A student born without a left arm has a “new lease of life” thanks to her prosthetic limb with painted-on veins, freckles and acrylic nails. Zahra Tabibniya says she felt embarrassed during her school years and wanted to hide the truth. She tried different prosthetics–including a heavy limb made of silicone–but now she has a […]
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Bumblebees have top-tier combat skills when targeted by Asian hornets, reveals new research. Buff-tailed bumblebees drop to the ground when hornets attack—carrying the pests down with them, according to the findings. Hornets lose their grip as they drop, or the bee raises its sting and fights until the hornet gives up. “Stunned” scientists at University […]
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After 20 years of advocacy and legal challenges, the largest dam removal in history is returning the Klamath River in California to its natural state. In partnership with tribal nations, the demolition of four hydroelectric dams will allow wild salmon from the Pacific to run upstream and spawn again as they haven’t done for 100 […]
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The Lesson: Today’s Good Talk teaches 5 ways to love yourself and be in the flow of your life using the philosophy of Lao Tzu. This ancient Chinese philosopher was the founder of Taoism and author of its masterful text, the Tao Te Ching. Lao Tzu suggests that life is like the course of a […]
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On this day in 1945, the microwave oven was patented by Percy Spencer. The self-taught engineer from Howland, Maine, employed by Raytheon at the time, noticed that microwaves from an active radar set he was working on started to melt a Mr. Goodbar candy bar he had in his pocket. The first food deliberately cooked […]
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A new vaccine from Oxford, called R21, has been shown to be not only effective for the prevention of malaria in children, but also easier to make with a lower price tag—so will help protect a greater number of African countries. The World Health Organization (WHO) officially recommended the R21/Matrix-M vaccine this week—the second malaria […]
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