President Obama is urging the Senate to reauthorize the NSA's illegal and useless spy program that collects millions of Americans' phone records. Read the rest

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Iceland should license this to include in a tourism promotion video!

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Wow. So here's what $20,000 of damage to a C7 Corvette Z06 looks like. Read the rest

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This raw footage provides an inside look at the making of Mad Max: Fury Road. (more…)

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Scumbags posing as car insurance brokers sell fraudulent car insurance policies to poor people. Then the cops tow the poor people's cars and tell them the only way to get their car back is to be the high bidder when the seized car is auctioned. Read the rest

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The driver of this car assumed the "self-parking" system would prevent the car from running into people. Sadly, he was wrong. Read the rest

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The name Chop Sizzle Wow sounds vaguely like a Japanese cooking show, so I was surprised to discover that this delightful cookery and comix mash-up is actually derived from a classic 1950 Italian cookbook called Il Cucchiaio d’Argento, or The Silver Spoon.

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This fantastic wind-up truck transforms into a dog. Read the rest

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Andrew Ott's job was to record evidence that student protestors in Parliament Square were violent, but his clever plan—physically attacking them!—has earned him 8 months in prison. Read the rest

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Vox demonstrates that expensive wine isn't preferred by drinkers until they are "trained" to like it. The distribution of gold medals in competitions is not only close to random, but one study found that professional judges often can't tell what they're drinking.

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With respect to the finding that cheap wine is as good as expensive wine, I respectfully submit that free wine is better than any other wine.

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Here's the trailer for the original Twin Peaks made entirely from paper. (more…)

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In an outstanding lecture at the London School of Economics, Macarthur "genius award" recipient Sendhil Mullainathan explains his research on the psychology of scarcity, a subject that he's also written an excellent book about. Read the rest

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The current season of Game of Thrones saw the rise of a powerful sect in King's Landing, led by a down-to-Earth but ruthless leader bent on imposing religious law on Westeros's corrupt aristocracy. Read the rest

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But on the business news beat, they're all behind Business Insider, Forbes, and Yahoo Finance, "as defined by comScore". Yahoo is sinking, though (As is AOL Money)—it lost nearly a third of its traffic in a year, "as defined by comScore." Another winner, though, seems to be CNNMoney, ignored in the report.

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Charter Communications plans to acquire Time Warner Cable in a $78.7bn deal. The acquisition follows an earlier attempt by Comcast to buy TWC, a plan foiled by regulators worried about lack of competition in the market for high-speed internet.

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According to a map doing the rounds, two regions stand out where more than half the locals consider themselves happy: a broad swathe across Scotland, Northern Ireland and Northern England, and the central uplands of Turkey.

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Dog-like, and adorable. (more…)

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A dose of serenity: “CLOUDS OF GRACE, Yosemite Water,” short film by Sterling Johnson photographed over a period of 13 years and shot entirely in Yosemite National Park. (more…)

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This infographic shows the percent of life each American, perhaps including you, has spent with their country at war or at peace.

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