A front-runner for People’s Choice Award at this year's AI Video Competition is Mario Lives! The University of T"ubingen project is working to make video game character Mario self-aware. He's not there yet, but they are taking tiny steps. Read the rest

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What the hell did we just watch? And can we watch it again? Read the rest

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These lantern slides on silent movie theatre etiquette from the 1910s show that inconsiderate audience members have existed since the dawn of cinema. They're collected in Silent Movies: The Birth of Film and the Triumph of Movie Culture. Read the rest

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In just two months, Kelly will begin a year-long trip to space. “Good luck, Captain,” said the President. “Make sure to Instagram it.” Read the rest

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Earlier this month, Tommy Caldwell and Kevin Jorgeson made the first free ascent of El Capitan's 3,000-foot Dawn Wall at Yosemite. This dizzying footage is sure to have your palms sweating. Read the rest

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Ladies and gentlemen, this is a skateboarding cat. (via)

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"Well, that's what you do with these straps -- you just go," says the young man who didn't pay attention to the Wooden Block Between Two Strings experiment in physics class.

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Ship Your Enemies Glitter is a service that will mail an envelope of glitter to anyone in the US for $10.

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Over at BB pal John Brockman's Edge.org, nearly 200 very smart people, like Daniel C. Dennett, Brian Eno, Alison Gopnik, Nina Jablonski, Peter Norvig, and Rodney Brooks, ponder the EDGE Annual Question of 2015: What do you think about machines that think? Read the rest

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The FleshLight is a masturbation device for men. In this video, we visit the FleshLight factory in Spain to meet Eufrat Mai, the woman whose vagina was molded to make the device.

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A fisherman's lightning-quick reflexes saved the life of two-year-old Ali Ceyhan, whose stroller was speeding down a hill in the southwestern Turkish city of Bodrum and was just seconds from plunging over the side of a steep slope. Footage originally recorded Wednesday shows the man dropping his phone to run into the street to snatch the speeding stroller.

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Will Self suffers from “everythingitis.” Why aren’t we surprised? Read the rest

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Tom the Dancing Bug, IN WHICH the God-Man Fan Club must avenge the grave insult of… "Clod-Man!" Read the rest

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Thousands of carp, iridescent sharks, catfish and tilapia have been netted from the flooded remains of the New World Mall in Bangkok, which has been collapsing in legal limbo since 1997, when judges ordered it demolished after finding that the 11-storey mall had been built on the basis of planning permission that only allowed for four storeys. Read the rest

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The AWS 100g x 0.01g Digital Scale ($10) is about the size of an iPhone. I needed a scale to weigh the powdered supplements I take (powders are cheaper than capsules). This scale measures up to a limit of 100 grams in 0.01 gram increments. Read the rest

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Former Arkansas governor and presidential hopeful Mike Huckabee defended his love for Ted Nugent (who wrote a song called "Jailbait" about raping a 13-year-old girl and asking a cop to handcuff her so the cop and the rapist could "share" her) on The Daily Show last night. Read the rest

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I happened upon these Bifocal safety glasses ($11) while on vacation in a hardware store (yes, I go to hardware stores while on vacation). Read the rest

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Johann Hari, author of Chasing the Scream: The First and Last Days of the War on Drugs, learns about drunk elephants, the stoned water buffalo, and the grieving mongoose. Read the rest

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Full of nail art win. Read the rest

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Just proves you never know what's gonna work in online dating. Read the rest

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