This video from Golf Digest is oddly captivating.

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Patrick Macnee, who brilliantly portrayed dapper secret agent John Steed in the 1960s television series The Avengers, has passed away.

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“I Watch You,” a most nifty hack by Eirik Solheim. Read the rest

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Vintage Youtubeage from 2007. (more…)

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"It took all the skin off your hands," says former Army soldier Rollins Edwards. "Your hands just rotted." Read the rest

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Polyphasic sleep is a method of training your body to requiring much less sleep by taking multiple short naps throughout the day instead of one long sleeping time at night. Over at Quartz, science-trained journalist Akshat Rathi reports on his year-long experiment attempting to cheat sleep. Read the rest

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I have one of these tiny inexpensive microscopes, and it is surprisingly good. But it didnt come with a clip to attach it to a phone camera, like this.

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Need a place to stay near Google X in Mountain View? John Potter is renting out a 92 x 72 Coleman tent in his backyard on Airbnb for $46/night.

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A few years ago the most horrific insect Ive ever seen chased my family while hiking in Los Angeles. Its dark bluish wasp-shaped body was gigantic, its stinger visible even from afar.

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For $25/month, you can soon have access to a network of guaranteed clean bathrooms in New York City through a new app called Looie. The service launches in July with seven bathrooms at cafes and restaurants in TriBeCa. Read the rest

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Approximate translation: Its the Family Computers Dream Adventure Game, Super Mario Bros.! With a mysterious power, he gains a great transformation! Explore the earth, underground, the sea, the sky, and much more to see in this complete world. Read the rest

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MinutePhysics created a simple explanation of the complicated task of detecting secret nuclear tests. Theres a push underway to demand that the US and other countries legalize such inspections worldwide.
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Imgur user PapJ06 created these interesting Lichtenberg figures by electrocuting wood blocks with a modified microwave transformer, then applying glowing powder and resin. Read the rest

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On June 25, 1978, Gilbert Baker raised the first Rainbow Pride flag in San Francisco. Last week, MoMA acquired the flag for their collection, and they have a terrific interview with the designer.

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Recent rulings at the Supreme Court of the United States have left some people confused at its ideological composition, traditionally held to be perfectly balanced between four liberals and four conservatives, with a swing vote in the middle. In order to help explain whats going on, I prepared this useful info-graphic.

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Researchers demonstrated an early proof-of-concept system in which tiny robots inside your body, controlled by an MRI machine, could self-assemble into a Gauss gun and fire projectiles to clear blockages or deliver drugs. Video below. Read the rest

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Last Saturday a Cessna 303 plane crashed in a Columbian jungle. The pilot died, but when rescuers arrived at the scene, 18-year-old Maria Nelly Murillo and her baby son were missing.

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For $5 this simple ring, with some elvish-style script, is a pretty strong magnet!

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Voice actor Susan Bennett was the original voice of the iPhone assistant Siri. Its fun to hear her use different voices in this video, made by Vox.

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Teenage sleight-of-hand artist Moritz Mueller performs the One Coin Routine.

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