Dr. Ian Crozier caught Ebola last year, but survived and seemed Ebola-free -- until scientists discovered his left eye still harbored a mass of infection, so bad it turned the eye green. Read the rest

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Meet "Hunny Goes Wild," a furry doll created by the husband-and-wife team at Stuffed Company whose entire site is well worth your time. Read the rest

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Some stories get told endlessly in our media, while others are ignored or reduced to stereotypes. So while white masculinity has been explored in movies, TV, books, and journalism for years, there are far fewer spaces that examine black masculinity. Read the rest

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Hatnote lets users hear the edits that are happening to Wikipedia in real time. Read the rest

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After the American Civil War, a group of Southerners left for Brazil -- where the "Confederados" remained so culturally separate from the rest of Brazilians that to this day their ancestors speak in the cadences of South Georgia: A linguistic time capsule "preserved in aspic". Read the rest

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For lots of commercial games, being able to spatter the walls with viscera or to leave a mess of smashed barrels and crates behind is part of the abandon. But aren't people often just as driven by the urge to clean up? Read the rest

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If you have a fond memory for Pokemon games, you'll remember that Lavender Town tends to be where all the ghost stories can be found. Somewhat famously, Lavender Town is also the source of a great work of creepypasta—now it is the inspiration for a great handmade outfit. Read the rest

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Performance California artist and sculptor Chris Burden — best known for shooting himself in the arm as art, crucifying himself to the top of a VW Beetle with nails through his hands, and creating the Urban Light installation outside the Los Angeles County Museum of Art — has died at age 69. Read the rest

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"Easier than it sounds," writes Old World Gardens. You'll need a barrel, a junction for your downspout, and some elbow grease. [via]

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It's as if "they have very carefully gone through this process of intentionally slowing down the internet for no reason."

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Andreas Ulrich recounts how Germany's war machine became increasingly dependent on amphetamines, morphine and booze. Read the rest

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I enjoyed Footloose tremendously, but Kevin Bacon's dance scene in the empty warehouse always bugged. After watching this version with "realistic audio" and no music though, I have a newfound appreciation of its deep-seated absurdity. (Mix Minus)

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A great explainer video from the folks at Kurzgesagt.

The universe is unbelievably big – trillions of stars and even more planets. Soo… there just has to be life out there, right? But where is it? Why don’t we see any aliens? Where are they? And more importantly, what does this tell us about our own fate in this gigantic and scary universe?

http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/jrxLfpWP6c4/where-are-all-the-aliens-vide.html

Ed from the Open Rights Group writes, "The Conservatives have won an absolute majority in the General Election. The Home Secretary Theresa May has already said that she will use this majority to pass a new Snoopers' Charter." Read the rest

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I had a friend who wanted to get better at painting. But she thought she had to be in Paris, with all the conditions right. She never made it to Paris. Now she sits in a cubicle under fluorescent lights, filling out paperwork all day. Read the rest

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The promised returns from globalization just aren't there: poor countries don't have as much to spend, corrupt governments undermine foreign multinationals, domestic rivals hack trade secrets out of multinationals foreign offices and doing business all over the world is complicated and expensive. Read the rest

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Harvard/Chicago economist Luigi Zingales published a sharply argued, searing paper about the finance industry's reputation for corruption and social uselessness, concluding that it's largely deserved and that academic economists have a role to play in reforming it. Read the rest

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Libraries have always been places where people gathered for intellectual inquiry, where communities could form around emerging ideologies that challenged the status quo. Read the rest

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