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Can You Identify These 40 Flowers in Five Minutes?
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Hurry! Quickly identify as many flowers as possible before the clock shaves five minutes are less. Newer generations of flowers can be tricky, so scan our bunch of blossoms as best you can and give your best bloom guesses!
How Video Game Systems Work
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Game consoles are complex computer systems specialized for game playing, and they can do some incredible things. Learn about the most popular consoles from the inside out.
How Dieselpunk Works
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The dieselpunk subgenre of speculative fiction looks at a world that could have been. Learn about the dieselpunk style and where dieselpunk gets its inspiration.
Richard Sharpe Shaver, UFO Hoaxster
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Richard Sharpe Shaver was a controversial UFO storyteller promoted by Ray Palmer. Check out his amazing stories of aliens called deros and teros.
Brontosaurus vs. Brachiosaurus: Comparing Long Necks
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Brontosaurus vs. Brachiosaurus species are easy to confuse. They're two dinosaurs, both giants, both sauropods, but vastly different in some key ways.
The Epic History of Werewolves
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Werewolves are popular creatures in folklore where a man changes into a wolf. Learn more about werewolves and find out where werewolves originated.
How Driverless Car Racing Works
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With a little more technology tinkering, driverless cars could take over the racetracks. Learn more about these automated wonders at HowStuffWorks.
Can You Identify These Lizard Species?
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We may not have dinosaurs in the world anymore but we do have lizards. Lots and lots of lizards! Let's see you flex your herpetology muscles and name as many of these species as you can!
10 Things We Thought Were True Before the Scientific Method
Before the scientific method came along, science dabbled in some pretty far-out ideas in its youth. Remember miasmas? And spontaneous generation? And the four elements?
Can You Identify These Crystals and Gemstones?
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Crystals and gemstones are majestic things found in nature. Of course, they can be grown outside nature, but the most beautiful, rare and valuable ones come right from the earth. Think you can identify all of them? Take our quiz to find out which ones you can identify!