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Genealogy
Trace your family back through records, names, and dead ends.
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Cryptozoology
Chase the evidence behind creatures science hasn't confirmed.
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Local History Research
Dig up the forgotten stories of the streets you live on.
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Cryptography
Make and break codes, the math that keeps secrets secret.
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Paleography
Learn to read handwriting that's been illegible for centuries.
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Meteorology
Read the sky and the data well enough to call tomorrow's weather.
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Citizen Science
Help real research by counting, measuring, and logging what you observe.
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Epigraphy
Read what was carved in stone thousands of years ago.
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Vexillology
The study and design of flags: why they look the way they do, and how to design a great one.
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People Watching
Sit, watch, and read the quiet stories strangers tell without words.
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Language Learning
Get to where you can actually hold a conversation in another tongue.
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Speculative Biology
Invent alien life that evolves by real biological rules.
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Historical Map Collecting
Collect old maps and the vanished worlds they drew.
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Chess Composition
Compose elegant chess problems, not to win a game, but to craft a puzzle with a single beautiful solution.
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Cryptic Crosswords
Crack the wordplay behind the clue, and eventually flip to setting fiendish puzzles of your own.
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Ethnomusicology
Understand cultures through the music they make and why.
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Mycology
Learn the hidden kingdom of fungi from the forest floor up.
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Astronomy
Learn the night sky by name, from planets to galaxies a million years away.
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Collecting Stamps
Trace borders, history, and tiny artwork across a lifetime of stamps.
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Deckbuilding
The brewer's craft behind trading card games: engineering a deck or cube that wins on purpose.
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Field Archaeology
Dig carefully and read the past straight out of the dirt.
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Chess
Outthink one opponent across sixty-four squares with no luck involved.
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Oral History Collection
Record the stories people carry before they're lost.
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Shogi
Japanese chess where captured pieces switch sides and return to the board, chess with the brakes off.
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