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"You don't have to go all the way to the North Pole to feel some Christmas cheer. There are places all around the world that scream Christmas, in one way or another — from the red-and-white-striped hills of Azerbaijan to Santa's New York workshop, and roaming reindeer in Scotland to Christmas trees around the globe. Get in the holiday spirit by exploring these 17 spots that are all about Christmas."

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"High school science misses a lot of the science researchers actually work with. For example, you learn that there are three states of matter — solid, liquid, and gas — but in advanced physics, things get a bit more complicated. From this complexity, physicists have derived a weird new state of matter: a hybrid between solid and liquid. Introducing 'corralled supercooled liquid.' Like a solid, it contains atoms that stay stationary under special conditions. Like a liquid, most of its atoms are constantly in motion. Remarkably, both of these things can be present at the same time."

"Across cultures and millennia, humans have embraced a diversity of sexual and marital arrangements — for instance, around 85% of human societies in the anthropological record have allowed men to have more than one wife. But in the broader evolutionary picture, some researchers have argued that monogamy played a dominant role in Homo sapiens' evolution, enabling greater social cooperation. This theory aligns with research on mammals, birds, and insects, which hints that cooperative breeding systems — where offspring receive care not just from parents, but from other group members — are more prevalent among monogamous species."

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"Dystopian or useful? Amazon's Ring doorbells will now be able to identify your visitors through a new AI-powered facial-recognition feature, the company said last week. The controversial feature, dubbed 'Familiar Faces,' was announced earlier this September and is now rolling out to Ring device owners in the United States. Amazon says the feature lets you identify the people who regularly come to your door by creating a catalog of up to 50 faces. These could include family members, friends, and neighbors, delivery drivers, household staff, and others. After you label someone in the Ring app, the device will recognize them as they approach the Ring's camera."

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