This video by CampusClarity puts it in everyday terms. (more…)

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Rachel McInnis is pretty serious about CrossFit. She's dedicated. She's strong. She's 14 years old.

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You probably know him better from his days on Let's Make A Deal, as Monty Hall. (more…)

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Fanfic can take you down some peculiar roads. But in Mallory Ortberg's imagined Ayn Rand fanfic of Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, the the tenets of ruthless self-interest are shouted to hilarious effect.

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A great recent video of the famed Eco-Cycle underground bike parking robots in Tokyo.

For more Eco-Cycle excellence, enjoy this Culture Japan Network TV segment about the technology.

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The nerdy stars have aligned. Nathan Fillion has a guest spot on Gravity Falls, so basically we can all just hold our breaths and pray for the Firefly reference that's hopefully forthcoming.

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Let me tell you about my favorite spot in all Korea. I won't name it, since I don't want to take the blame when, for other reasons, it inevitably gets too popular.

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Queen Elizabeth I’s court advisor was the foremost scientific genius of the 16th century, laying the foundation of modern science. Then teamed up with a disreputable, criminal psychic and things really got rolling. Read the rest

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Zach Norris of Phoenix entered a Goodwill to buy a golf equipment carrier. On his way out, he rummaged through the used watch bin and found a watch with "LeCoultre Deep Sea Alarm" on the dial, priced at $5.99. Read the rest

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"'She was having trouble adjusting her bra holster, couldn't get it to fit the way she wanted it to. She was looking down at it and accidentally discharged the weapon,' said St. Joseph Public Safety Director Mark Clapp." (via MLive)

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Net neutrality advocates StopTheSlowDown want your messages to put on a jumbotron outside the FCC, which will issue a historic ruling on February 26 concerning how the internet works.

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This podcast is entertaining and awesome, but the episode featuring Darin Morgan is especially so. Don't miss, X-Files fans. Read the rest

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Saul Bass (1920-1996) was the inventor and master of modern movie title designs. Read the rest

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These programs examine the elements on the strength of which these megacities first became and continue to thrive as megacities. Read the rest

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In his book The Architecture of Happiness, de Botton asks why we fetishize old buildings rather than building new ones even better suited to our age. Read the rest

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Has anything interesting appeared on commercial radio since Loveline? Read the rest

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If the anti-consumerist ethos of Fight Club were translated into a Minecraft game, it might look a little like Keep Working, an "interactive music video" by a developer known as Bean Chon.

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Rhode Island-based artist and designer Dennis Hlynsky creates these mindblowing videos of birds in flight. (more…)

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The Babadook is a forthcoming Australian horror movie that avoids the usual production clich'es in favor of a literary sense of dread.

There's no gore, no loud, startling soundtrack, and there's no serial killers hiding in the corners of this horror flick. There's just an exhausted single mother living with her difficult son. Which is why this movie is so scary. Read the rest

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In this new episode of Sword and Laser podcast, we have a whole Wheel of Time pilot mystery to solve, and then on top of it, George RR Martin says any character in the Game of Thrones series could be killed even if they’re safe in the book.

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