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This dog does not exist Last week Robert Krulwich, a co-host of the wonderful program Radiolab , Pluto’d pink. In a blog post he noted that pink doesn’t occupy a slot in the familiar colors of the rainbow there’s no P in Roy G. Biv .

As long as humans have been forming gold into precious objects, goldsmiths have struggled to offset the metal’s softness. Traditionally, this issue has been addressed by alloying gold with other metals like silver, copper, and palladium (the percentages of which yield the familiar karat system for grading gold purity).

The U.S. Preventive Services Task Force is about to recommend that healthy men forgo being screened for prostate cancer with the familiar PSA (prostate-specific antigen) blood test.

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Cartier, the 164-year-old French luxury house, is well known for its wide range of animal-inspired motifs, which have included likenesses of crocodiles, eagles, parrots, and dragonflies. However, amid this extensive bestiary, it is the familiar silver and onyx-spotted panther pattern that reigns supreme. In 1914, Louis Cartier unveiled his first ...

You may not be a CEO, a billionaire philanthropist, a tech whiz kid or a saintly fighter for the rights of humanity, but you--yes, you--have a shot at the TED stage in 2012.

As the familiar battles over evolution education continue to play out in U.S. state legislatures and school boards, other countries are facing very different dynamics. Much of the world lives outside of any law that requires separation of church and state, making creationism trickier to disentangle from public school curricula.