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<p>Cynthia McKelvey covered the health and science for the Daily Dot until 2017. She earned a graduate degree in science communication from the University of California Santa Cruz in 2014. Her work has appeared in Gizmodo, Scientific American Mind, and Mic.com.</p>


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People won’t stop eating entire jars of Nutella for YouTube

We found out the actual secrets of Castle Grayskull

J.K. Rowling just endorsed this game-changing ‘Harry Potter’ theory

Academic journals are facing a battle to weed out fake peer reviews

9 surprising celebrities caught in the Ashley Madison hack

Quick-thinking bro saves his friend’s drink before he gets tackled

Extreme cliff jumper sets new world record with 193-foot drop

Cat accidentally takes Adderall and gets pretty loopy

ISS astronaut photographs a super-rare ‘red sprite’ above a lighting storm

‘Princess Mononoke’ is turned into a magical 8-bit quest

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Kid-friendly edit of ‘Straight Outta Compton’ is straight huggin’

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