agriculture
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A 1,000-Year-Old Irrigation System in Spain Is Getting a New Life
Researchers in Spain’s arid Southeast are working to restore Islamic-era acequias, canals that form an irrigation system in Andalucia’s Sierra Nevada mountains.
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How to Carve a Jack-o’-Lantern Masterpiece, According to a Professional
You’ve no doubt been carving pumpkins since you were a kid, but there is a level of jack-o’-lantern art far beyond the triangles that plebes slash out of gourds. If you want to enter the rarified air of fine-art pumpkin-carving (or even just get better at picking the right pumpkin), we have some tips from…
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Body Preserved in a Bog Since the Iron Age Still Contains Undigested Last Meal
A re-analysis of the stomach contents belonging to a naturally mummified Iron Age man is providing new insights into his surprisingly nutritious final meal and compromised state of health.
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In Strawberry Mansion’s First Trailer, Pop-Up Ads Are Literal Nightmares
At this year’s Sundance Film Festival, there were few stories quite as strange as co-directing/writing duo Kentucker Audley and Albert Birney’s Strawberry Mansion. The movie is about a world in which people’s dreams are taxed by the government, which often populates them with ads meant to fill their subconsciousnesses with the desire to buy consumer…