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Educative New Genus of Bat "Niumbaha Superba"

A new genus of bat has been discovered in South Sudan, the world’s newest country. The strikingly striped bat has been placed into the genus Niumbaha, which means “rare” or “unusual” in the Zande language of the region.

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17 Apr 2013 12:51:00,post received 0 comments

Touching 2013 MTV Movie Awards

Selena Gomez performs at the MTV Movie Awards. (Photo by Jordan Strauss/Invision for MTV)

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15 Apr 2013 11:26:00,post received 0 comments

Touching Boston Police

Mounted cop in action on Tremont Street, 1920 – 1929 (approximate). (Photo by Leslie Jones)

Mounted cop in action on Tremont Street in Boston, Massachusetts, 1920 – 1929 (approximate). (Photo by Leslie Jones)

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21 Apr 2013 09:10:00,post received 0 comments

Sad Syria's Child Soldiers

A young Free Syrian Army fighter holds a rifle in Haresta neighbourhood of Damascus January 16, 2013. (Photo by Goran Tomasevic/Reuters)

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26 Apr 2013 10:58:00,post received 0 comments

Fact The Week in Pictures: Animals, May 10 – May 18, 2013

Gelada baboons (Theropithecus gelada) play in their enclosure at the Zoo in Zurich, Switzerland, Wednesday, May 15, 2013. (Photo by Steffen Schmidt/Keystone/AP Photo)

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18 May 2013 12:04:00,post received 0 comments

Educative World of Averages: Typical Female Faces

FaceResearch.org, a site run by two psychologists at the University of Aberdeen in Scotland, features software that can average together faces from thousands of photos. These images purportedly show the average face of women from 40 different nationalities.

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20 May 2013 06:36:00,post received 0 comments

Touching A Senegalese (and Not Only) Beauty by Photographer Finbarr O'Reilly