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The megalodon swam between 3.6 and 23 million years ago. 🦈Today, you can see a life-size model hanging from the ceiling ...
07/06/2026

The megalodon swam between 3.6 and 23 million years ago. 🦈

Today, you can see a life-size model hanging from the ceiling at the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of Natural History.

Some were four times the size of today's great whites.

Are you struggling to find a job after college graduation?A career coach gave us some tips:
06/06/2026

Are you struggling to find a job after college graduation?

A career coach gave us some tips:

It’s a low-hire job market right now, which makes being a new college graduate bittersweet.

These sandwiches are more than bread with random leftovers in the fridge:🥪 Fish sandwich with caper-pickle-lemon mayo🥪 H...
06/06/2026

These sandwiches are more than bread with random leftovers in the fridge:
🥪 Fish sandwich with caper-pickle-lemon mayo
🥪 Hippie vegetable sandwich
🥪 Italian meat and mozzarella sandwich

What if dinner sandwiches were exciting? Something more than bread with assorted refrigerator leftovers.

The megalodon was one of the biggest fish that ever lived, with seven-inch-long teeth and jaws with 40,000 pounds of bit...
04/06/2026

The megalodon was one of the biggest fish that ever lived, with seven-inch-long teeth and jaws with 40,000 pounds of bite force. 🦈

Some were four times the size of today's great whites.

It’s a low-hire job market right now, which makes being a new college graduate bittersweet. 🎓
04/06/2026

It’s a low-hire job market right now, which makes being a new college graduate bittersweet. 🎓

It’s a low-hire job market right now, which makes being a new college graduate bittersweet.

What should we have for dinner?It's an age-old question, and a sandwich can be a simple-yet-tasty answer. 🥪
03/06/2026

What should we have for dinner?

It's an age-old question, and a sandwich can be a simple-yet-tasty answer. 🥪

What if dinner sandwiches were exciting? Something more than bread with assorted refrigerator leftovers.

" America is in a battle for its principles and its identity," said Nevada State Sen. Dina Neal.
31/05/2026

" America is in a battle for its principles and its identity," said Nevada State Sen. Dina Neal.

Ahead of the nation's 250th birthday, we asked people from across the country that question.

From an early age, Bahar Movahed started to play traditional Iranian music instruments, including the tanbur, tar and se...
31/05/2026

From an early age, Bahar Movahed started to play traditional Iranian music instruments, including the tanbur, tar and setar. She also learned to draw and paint.

Bahar Movahed is a practicing orthodontist in Southern California. She's also a classically trained musician with a solo career, something she wasn't allowed to have in Iran, where women are prohibited from singing alone in public.

When talking to skeptical parents about vaccinating their children, pediatrician Dr. Vincent Iannelli uses a technique c...
30/05/2026

When talking to skeptical parents about vaccinating their children, pediatrician Dr. Vincent Iannelli uses a technique called "motivational interviewing."

Heather Simpson was convinced that if she vaccinated her child, the little girl would die. She also remembers pro-vaccine parents attacking her on social media, calling her a 'baby killer' and repeating over and over that vaccines were safe and effective without addressing any of her fears.

Fully paved in the 1930s, Route 66 became a Depression-era migration route for poor farming families fleeing the Dust Bo...
30/05/2026

Fully paved in the 1930s, Route 66 became a Depression-era migration route for poor farming families fleeing the Dust Bowl for a new start in California.

Route 66 is not the oldest, longest or most well-travelled long-distance highway in the U.S. So why is it the most famous?

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