The human brain is happy working with nice finite numbers. As soon as you start working with infinity, things start happening that are completely counter-intuitive. Read the rest

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Well we're here to kick off the new year AND celebrate our 200th episode so we gathered drinks and cheer and your favorite books of 2014 as well as our own and a few others. Read the rest

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Some communities don't pay much attention to who they elect. Check out this imbecile in Frederick County, Maryland, who threatened local journo Bethany Rodgers for using his name without permission.

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Rover.com released its annual list of top dog names, with top ten lists for males and females. Many also made 2014's top human baby names. Read the rest

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Photographer Benjamin Von Wong turned ordinary people into Super Athletes fit for energy drink ads and action movie posters using high-end lights, a DIY rain machine, and a great eye (and no Photoshop beyond light, contrast, and color tweaks).

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If you like what you hear, build one. It will take practice to play as well as Justin Johnson does, but even a rank beginner can make good music with a diddley bow. (Watch Justin play a full song at the 16:00 minute mark). (Thanks, Kent!)

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What is this? We do not know. Read the rest

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This chip of plastic is a pan scraper. It’s my favorite new kitchen tool. See how the corner radii are different sizes? That's so you can scrape burnt food from the curved sloping edges of different kinds of pots and pans. Read the rest

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SING FOR MEEEEEE! Oh, that sweet lens flare at the end.

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“Be regular and orderly in your life, so that you may be violent and original in your work,” wrote Gustave Flaubert. Read the rest

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"A last-minute problem with a single actuator forced a postponement of SpaceX's attempt to launch a Falcon 9 launch vehicle carrying cargo to the International Space Station on Tuesday." Read the rest

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Minnesota-based designer and juggler Tom Gaasedelen presents Carpool Lane, a series of cool tricks with multiple jugglers using colorful pins and rings.

• Carpool Lane (via Vimeo)

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Watch tonight, January 6, at 10/9c. Read the rest

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YouTuber RwDt09, aficionado of all things tasteless, curated this remarkable collection of tacky opening credits for 1980s sci-fi and fantasy TV series. Included on the list: Read the rest

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"Its protagonist lives in a world of almost continual night, with the hungry eyes and dead affect of an Ayn Rand wet dream: his world is constituted of chrome, glass, a palette of white-to-taupe, a spatter-pattern rug and one book, a single book, on graphic design" - Piercepenniless on the Redrow London property development promo video. Read the rest

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The fleshy lips of Ctenoides ales "flash like a mirror ball" as it stalks the Indo-Pacific seabed. [via]

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I'm an unabashed Terry Pratchett fanboy, and it often seems like each Discworld novel is the best of the lot. But there's one book I return to again, and again, and again: 2003's Monstrous Regiment, a book about gender, war, identity, strategy and tactics. It also happens to be the most stand-alone of all the Discworld books -- one that can be enjoyed without reading any of the other marvellous books in the series. Read the rest

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Erik Martin, Reddit's longtime general manager, recently left the site after years with the hardest job on the net ("appeasing a crowd that at some point got too big.") His new gig is helping everyday people deal with corporate bullshit.

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As a reporter for the Berkeley Barb, Paul Krassner covered the trial of Dan White, who was found guilty of killing San Francisco gay leader Harvey Milk and Mayor George Moscone, yet received a shockingly lenient sentence. Read the rest

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Dave writes, "Could this be the last year that this is required? Canada will see an election in 2015. This year brought us temporary foreign workers, refugee abuse, unwanted changes to election laws, and much much more." Read the rest

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