Your Friday Mix: The Little-Known Reason Pencils are Yellow

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Read about the origins of yellow pencils, and more this weekend.
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artsy.net
The Little-Known Reason Pencils are Yellow
Pencils weren't always yellow. We have the marketing genius of a 19th-century Czech manufacturer to thank for their now-ubiquitous hue.
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1843magazine.com
How Keith Haring's art forced us to talk about AIDS
Though his work is supremely alive, it is also fearless in confronting death, explains Tim Smith-Laing.
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mentalfloss.com
Match the Victorian Slang Term to Its Meaning
Test how well you would have understood people in the 19th century (and maybe find new favorite slang terms along the way).
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inverse.com
Scientists pinpoint how brain activity could be manipulated to slow aging
New research reveals an anti-aging secret sauce.
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technologyreview.com
Astronomers have found a planet like Earth orbiting a star like the sun
The discovery of the exoplanet KOI-456.04 orbiting the star Kepler-160 suggests we should more aggressively look for habitable planets around sun-like stars.
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