Article — From the January 1946 issue
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Article — From the January 1946 issue
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Further discoveries of new land (conclusion)
Article — From the August 1919 issue
Our first discovery of new land (part V)
Article — From the July 1919 issue
Hunting caribou and building snow houses (part IV)
Article — From the June 1919 issue
Drifting to Banks Island–the arrival of the Mary Sachs (part III)
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Ways and means of life on the ice (part II)
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A record of five years’ exploration (part I)

Ratio of the number of cicada eggs per square mile of southern New Jersey to the number of stars in the Milky Way:
Jeffrey Lockwood, University of Wyoming (Laramie)/American Museum of Natural History (N.Y.C.)

A Singaporean company unveiled Kissenger, a pair of plastic lips mounted on a large plastic egg, which transmits real-time interactive kisses to a distant lover. “I am not interested in the sexual uses for it,” said the device’s inventor. “We’ve taken several steps to minimize the creepiness.”

The practice of sexualized eyeball licking was causing conjunctivitis in Japanese sixth graders.
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