Poppy, the world’s oldest cat, has died at the ripe old cat age of 24. Read the rest

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In Canada, researchers have discovered one of the most lethal forms of antibiotic-resistant bacteria for the first time in a food product: raw squid. Read the rest

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Following on Neko Case's latest solo album, the excellent "The Worse Things Get...," she's reunited with her supergroup bandmates in The New Pornographers to record Brill Bruisers, coming out August 26. Check out the infectious first track and play with the album art below! Read the rest

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Andrea Mears, a 24-year-old Connecticut woman, has been charged with third-degree assault and breach of peace after a teenager used his cell phone to record her assaulting him. She's heard on the video saying, "I'm gonna beat your ass, you little motherfucker." She was apparently upset that he was flying a remote control drone equipped with a camera on a public beach.

http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/xHObEFUsyog/woman-arresting-for-beating-up.html

I attribute the biggest gains in the quality of my home-brewing to the immersion wort chiller.

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USA Today: "The demise of the Tea Party has been greatly exaggerated."

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I feel that the current trends in cereal box art--the wildly distorted faces and poses, the lurid digital-airbrush modeling--have surely reached some kind of maximum.

http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/WUn82leiAE0/the-future-of-cereal-box-art.html

A real-life mock Mars mission created by NASA and the European Space Agency to test the psychological stresses of long-distance space travel has inspired an action movie starring comedian-turned-serious-guy Dane Cook. Read the rest

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$4,306 raised of $12,500 goal on Indiegogo.

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The National Security Agency is using a new argument for not retaining the data it gathers about users' online activity: The NSA is just too complex.

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Volkswagen and ad agency Ogilvy Beijing created this powerful and sneaky PSA for moviegoers in China, to warn of the dangers of being distracted by your smartphone while driving. We don't know that the footage is genuine, but even it not--it's a powerful concept. More at Ads of the World.

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Jason Mecier, an artist best known for his candy portraits of pop culture figures, has a show of new works at SWEET! in Hollywood, June 25 through Sept 25, 2014. Read the rest

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Video Link. Stay for the ending. [HT: Brian Ashcraft]

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"Sifting through puddles from the firehose of last week’s American Society of Clinical Oncology annual meeting brought to my attention some promising news from the world of ovarian cancer," writes David Kroll.

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Ocean scientist Andrew David Thaler reveals his new DIY science education project: "Bad Gas." (more…)

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The work of Birgit R. Deubner: "Chorus / in vain I will away," part of a series. Read the rest

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Kevin McFarland reviews an unusual, action-packed episode that takes place almost entirely in and around a single location. Read the rest

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Video: "The Secrets of Strangers," directed by Rocsi Diaz (106th + Park, Entertainment Tonight). Read the rest

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Medicine starts with cells in a petri dish. But, increasingly, scientists are realizing they've been studying the wrong cells, writes Maggie Koerth-Baker. Read the rest

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Harvard University librarian John Overholt made an animated GIF from a 1722 geometrical treatise "that attempts to explore every arrangement of square tiles bisected diagonally with black and white shading." Read the rest

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