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Science The insect architects have been building these trash heaps for 4,000 years. Termite mounds cover a huge area in northeastern Brazil, but no one lives inside. Now researchers think they know why. via Popular Science "https://ift.tt/2Qgm9fy"

Animals Hold the turkey skin and fatty gravy—your pet will thank you later. A lot of ingredients that might show up in your holiday spread (or unguarded trashcan) are harmful to pets. via Popular Science "https://ift.tt/2zlSQ1t"

Health Maybe. After thousands of years of getting wasted, humans still aren't exactly sure what causes hangovers. via Popular Science "https://ift.tt/2R0spVT"

Technology The quiet propulsion system has no moving parts. The plane's "engine" has no moving parts. via Popular Science "https://ift.tt/2FB8DPG"

The 2018 Steam Autumn Sale is here, with great deals across the Steam catalog through Black Friday and Cyber Monday*. Check in each day to see the new featured titles, and you can always find great games in your Discovery Queue or our recommendations. In addition to discounts on thousands of great games, join the nomination process for the Steam Awards. Nominate games and developers across a variety of categories, and earn profile XP and badges for participating! Your nominations will help determine the finalists for each category. In December, you can vote on the winners for each category during the Steam Winter Sale. Learn more about the Steam Awards here. *Offers end Tuesday November 27th at 10am Pacific. via Steam RSS News Feed "https://ift.tt/2AgnR6C"

Health And don't buy more. We don't lightly advocate for food waste, but with the holidays approaching, an E. coli outbreak of unknown origin is nothing to play around with. via Popular Science "https://ift.tt/2FB0r1J"

Gadgets Genuinely useful tech for the pragmatic people in your life. When you’re a kid, practical gifts are the worst. Sure, you needed those pens for school, but you asked Santa for Nintendo or a Ninja Turtle, not office supplies. They… via Popular Science "https://ift.tt/2i3FttL"

Looking Beyond the Photo Finish: Women Racers By Barbara Orbach Natanson The following is a guest post by Hanna Soltys, who arrived at the Library of Congress in June 2018 as a Librarian in Residence, making wonderful contributions and observations while working as a reference librarian in the Prints & Photographs Division . When getting acclimated to a new place, you're encouraged to "get lost." I pleasantly have gotten lost in the Library of Congress tunnels, Union Station, a handful of Metro locations, and the streets of D.C. But a favorite was getting lost in the rich collections of the Prints & Photographs Division. Hanna Soltys looking at photo of Janine Jennky that sent her touring Prints & Photographs Division collections for pictures of autoists. Photo by Jan Grenci, 2018 Nov. 19. I came across a photo of a woman in a race car with a man, ide...

Science No one seems to know how to thaw a turkey in America. Every year, around 100,000 people call the Butterball Turkey Talk-Line to ask their most burning question: how the heck do I thaw this thing? via Popular Science "https://ift.tt/2TwHtwf"

Space And now we know exactly where it's going to poke around. Was the red planet home to life? Thanks to the Mars 2020 rover's new target, we might find out soon. via Popular Science "https://ift.tt/2R0TBnF"