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The Robots Are Coming!

The Franklin Institute’s new exhibit on our future overlords opens Saturday.

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How the USDA Deprived Me of So Much Delicious Butter

Hingston: The government doesn’t have any idea what foods are good for us. So why doesn’t it just shut its trap?

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Best Thing: Springsteen Signed a Fifth-Grader’s School Absence Note

Why didn’t we think of that?

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13 Things You Might Not Know About Penn’s ‘Life at Vet U’ TV Show

It debuts tomorrow night, by the way.

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11 Things You Might Not Know About Boathouse Row

We shine a light on how those famous lights got there.

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Best Thing: September Sunsets in Philly

Hingston: The sky ought to be charging admission. Look up quick, before they’re gone!

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Best Thing: Carson Wentz Had the Best-Selling Jersey in the NFL

And just a few months ago, he was locked in a bathroom in Jersey …

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Best Thing: Allen Iverson Made It to the Hall of Fame

“I don’t think there will ever be another relationship like the relationship between me and the Philadelphia fans.”

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11 Things You Might Not Know About the Pledge

It was first printed on this day in 1892.

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Best Thing: An End to the Summer From Hell

Hingston: We’ve never, ever been so ready for back-to-school.

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Welcome to Philly’s Robot Revolution

Meet Flo. She’s going to take out your trash, help you exercise, have sex with you and be your BFF. (And we do mean forever.)

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10 Things You Might Not Know About College Mascots

Now that we’re in the midst of March Madness, a few facts about those bizarre creatures without whom basketball wouldn’t be basketball.

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Best Thing: Chase Utley’s Standing Ovation

Hingston: On his first game back in Philly, Utley brought the house down.

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11 Things About the Philadelphia Folk Festival

Beatniks! Zoning fights! Theft rings! Buffy Sainte-Marie! 55 years of guitars under the stars

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The Best Thing That Happened This Week: Wawa Went to Rio

Well, metaphorically speaking, that is.