Chocolate is a true joy in life. Not OTC wax like Cadbury, Milka or Hershey: the prescription-strength real thing, such as Omnom's burned-sugar 55% milk chocolate from Reykjavik, Iceland.

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House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee Chairman Bill Shuster [R-PA] admits that he's having an affair with Shelley Rubino, vice president for global government affairs for Airlines for America, but swears that's not why he gave her industry so many awesome legislative gifts. Read the rest

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Jon Gottschall is a man you want at every academic dinner party. He seems to have read everything, takes interest in the work of others, and can converse for hours about anything. Read the rest

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Writer S.E. Smith points out a hypocrisy in modern American society Read the rest

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Vlogbrother/The Fault In Our Stars author John Green is one of my favorite people on the Internet (along with his brother Hank, of course). Read the rest

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If you haven’t already seen it, I can’t recommend Marvel’s new Netflix series Daredevil highly enough. Read the rest

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Neither the 1992 live action musical Newsies (starring a young Christian Bale!), nor the 1988 animated feature Oliver & Company Disney classics. Read the rest

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Apropos of absolutely nothing, here’s one of my all-time favorite videos Read the rest

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I’m going to go ahead and declare The Empire Film Podcast my all time favorite film podcast Read the rest

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Ah, the tech and the aesthetics of 1990s games. The terrible framerates, indistinct faces and rough edges seem eerie today, perfectly recalling the horror games of a bygone age. If you miss it too, you really need to watch this: Read the rest

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Earlier this year I shared the story of a group of police torture survivors and their supporters who have been fighting for reparations from the City of Chicago. Read the rest

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My Summer Car is an upcoming game about building your own vehicle in the reputedly "hot, hot, hot" Finnish summer. It also promises absurd difficulty, lots of death, and all-important physics bugs. Listen to a man with a wonderful accent show you a weirdly-compelling experience: Read the rest

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Glen Chiacchieri's produced a heavily annotated version of Eyes on the Prize, the brilliant video documentary series on the history of the Civil Rights movement that was rescued from copyright oblivion by a civil disobedience campaign. Read the rest

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Raising suspicions with his frequent trips to the bathroom, Gaioz Nigalidze was searched to no avail. But when they checked the stalls, they found a hidden iPhone.

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Imagining an incredible night sky of stars and star trails over the light polluted city of Los Angeles. Read the rest

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How very magnanimous of them! But don't get any ideas: "close-ups of fully nude buttocks" are still unacceptable.

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"Today, 16 April 2015, WikiLeaks publishes an analysis and search system for The Sony Archives: 30,287 documents from Sony Pictures Entertainment (SPE) and 173,132 emails, to and from more than 2,200 SPE email addresses…"

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"Chewie, we're home."

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Lars Andersen is back with a new video, in which he responds to everyone who says he and his archery technique are bogus. Read the rest

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A film by Gilles-Alexandre Deschaud that “follows a ukelele-playing girl who is chased through a dark forest by the monster that emerges from her own shadow.”

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