Captain Dave’s Dolphin & Whale Safari has some new amazing drone videos online that showcase the incredible variety of cetacean life off the Southern California coast, where their tours operate. Read the rest

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San Francisco-based designer Cameron Drake created this amazing series of anatomical GIFs.

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Rick Rosner is my unfathomably weird and wonderful high school friend. I knew he was smart, but it turns out he is the second smartest person in the world, according to a bunch of IQ testing he's taken. He is so unusual that Errol Morris made a documentary about him. Read the rest

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So metal. [YouTube, thanks Joe Sabia]

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Amazing Stories: The Giant 35th Anniversary Issue is a new reprint of a classic 1961 issue of the highly-influential science fiction magazine started in 1926 by Hugo Gernsback. It's just $4 for Kindle and $9 in paperback! Read the rest

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Ben Marks of Collectors Weekly says: "Our resident shellac-record expert, Lisa Hix, has just finished a lengthy interview with Amanda Petrusich, whose Do Not Sell At Any Price: The Wild, Obsessive Hunt for the World's Rarest 78rpm Records was published last month by Scribner. Read the rest

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Rockets fire in this short video captured by the test vehicle for NASA's Low-Density Supersonic Decelerator (LDSD) project. The rocket-powered, saucer-shaped test vehicle's flight occurred in late June from the U.S.

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A Northern California man who claims to have worked for the Transportation Security Administration was hit with federal child pornography charges after an undercover sting reportedly caught him trying to arrange sex with a mother and her 13-year-old daughter via Craigslist.

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This week, Yahoo announced that it will join an effort by Google to launch an encrypted email system by 2015 to make it "mathematically impossible to hand over users’ messages to a court." Thank you, Edward Snowden.

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The 2013 median salary for people graduating with bachelor's degrees in journalism graduates is $32,000 in most of the US.

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Paris-based photographer and digital retoucher Laure Fauvel's "Terreurs." Read the rest

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Berlin-based artist and illustrator Rafael Varona created this wonderful series of animated GIF art: Impossible Bottles.

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The idea behind Smart Bricks is that giant Lego-like blocks could be used to build houses, building, and bridges. Video below. (via Smithsonian)

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The cover art for the forthcoming Penguin Modern Classic edition of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory is deeply freaky. Read the rest

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The Motoped Survival Bikeis a combination mountain bike and moped outfitted with a crossbow, tomahawk, shovel, knives, tools, climbing equipment, and everything else you might desire in a post-apocalyptic two-wheeler.

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Admit it, you've eaten them too.

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Video: "Bewegungen," Christoph Bader, 2014.

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Parents in Fremont, California are alarmed and demanding the removal of a health textbook that talks about masturbation, foreplay, vibrators, oral sex, and erotic touch, as well as other sexual education topics such as bondage.

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The weekend of August 22-24, I'll be in Washington, DC speaking at Intervention, a conference about geek creativity online, from comics, games, and blogs to videos and podcasts! Read the rest

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A throwaway line in io9's review of TMNT (2014) is just one of the many data points on its chart of why the movie fails.

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