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The Bodega: A Brief History of an Urban Institution

The Internet wants to know: what’s a bodega? Any New Yorker can answer that question. But first we’re going around the corner, you want anything?

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A Beginner’s Guide to Maundy Thursday

Maundy Thursday marks the beginning of the three-day Easter celebration, and you may also hear it referred to as Holy Thursday, Sheer Thursday, or, intriguingly, Thursday of Mysteries.

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Tornado Season: How Do Meteorologists Predict Twisters?

Tornadoes cause an average of 70 fatalities every year in the U.S. And they’re incredibly tough to predict.

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The Anatomy of an Avalanche

What triggers these disasters, which have killed five Americans this week alone? It isn’t loud noises, like movies want you to believe.

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A Brief History of (What You Think Is) Presidents’ Day

The first thing to know: it’s not officially called Presidents’ Day

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Fashion Week: How the Season’s Hottest Colors Get Chosen

As the runways dissolve into a sea of plum, navy and green at New York Fashion Week, TIME talks to Roseanna Roberts, director of color trends at The Color Association of the United States, about how the season’s most popular colors are forecasted and developed.

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Why Is Indiana’s ‘Right to Work’ Law Such a Big Deal?

Indiana governor Mitch Daniels signed “Right to Work” legislation into law on Wednesday, making his state the 23rd in the nation to adopt the collective bargaining rules, and the first in America’s Rust Belt. So, uh, what does that mean exactly?

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When Christmas Doesn’t Fall on Dec. 25

Here’s one Christmas surprise you didn’t expect: Christmas is actually on January 7.

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Celebrating Festivus: A Guide to the Holiday Created ‘For the Rest of Us’

Springing from a sitcom writer’s actual family tradition, Festivus is now immortalized after appearing in a Seinfeld episode in 1997. So how do you celebrate this alternative holiday?

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Wednesday Words: The Word That Upsets ScarJo and More

NewsFeed’s weekly highlight of our vocabulary includes useful, new, hilarious and surprising words (as well as some that are just fun to roll off the old tongue).