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Are you ready for some mind-altering, existential truth? Then by all means, behold: Cookie Monster. Not afraid to ask the difficult questions, his inquiring mind is like a tour guide for the hungry.

Mashable has collected a gallery of 16 optical illusions more interesting than the dress photo that caused celebrities to argue with one another last night. (more…)

“Five of my Bassets crawled in,” says doggie momma Gretchen Hoey. (more…)

This video of a camel just chilling with his bros in what is probably a Mideast country is funny but also a little creepy. (more…)

How do you cover the tree privates of a gigantic, naked plant creature such as Groot? The nether regions of everyone's favorite one-worded Guardian certainly provided a lot of problems for the Guardians of the Galaxy design team.

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Round one goes to the octopus, round two to the cat.

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It's the third Saturday in February, which means ... it's World Pangolin Day!

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The Cut created the above video featuring American children testing out breakfast foods they’ve never experienced before. The video was inspired by this NYTimes article. So many priceless expressions.

It may never, ever stop snowing in Boston, where they've run out of places to dump it , and two more storms appear on the way over the next week. To illustrate the record-breaking snowfall this winter, the front page of today's Globe put it in terms every Bostonian can understand—slightly under one full Patrice Bergeron.

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Meet Fara — an Eastern black rhino that was born in Britain's Chester Zoo this past weekend. Here are some amazing pics, along with remarkable footage taken of her birth.

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Ship Your Enemies Glitter is a service that will mail an envelope of glitter to anyone in the US for $10.

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A fisherman's lightning-quick reflexes saved the life of two-year-old Ali Ceyhan, whose stroller was speeding down a hill in the southwestern Turkish city of Bodrum and was just seconds from plunging over the side of a steep slope. Footage originally recorded Wednesday shows the man dropping his phone to run into the street to snatch the speeding stroller.

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ArnoldC, a language devised by Finnish computer programmer Lauri Hartikka, assigns programming functions to catch phrases from Arnold Schwarzenegger movies. Some keywords:

False: I LIED

True: NO PROBLEMO

If: BECAUSE I’M GOING TO SAY PLEASE

Else: BULLSHIT

EndIf: YOU HAVE NO RESPECT FOR LOGIC

While: STICK AROUND

EndWhile: CHILL

MultiplicationOperator: YOU’RE FIRED

DivisionOperator: HE HAD TO SPLIT

EqualTo: YOU ARE NOT YOU YOU ARE ME

GreaterThan: LET OFF SOME STEAM BENNET

Or: CONSIDER THAT A DIVORCE

And: KNOCK KNOCK

DeclareMethod: LISTEN TO ME VERY CAREFULLY

MethodArguments: I NEED YOUR CLOTHES YOUR BOOTS AND YOUR MOTORCYCLE

Return: I’LL BE BACK

EndMethodDeclaration: HASTA LA VISTA, BABY

AssignVariableFromMethodCall: GET YOUR ASS TO MARS

ReadInteger: I WANT TO ASK YOU A BUNCH OF QUESTIONS AND I WANT TO HAVE THEM ANSWERED IMMEDIATELY

AssignVariable: GET TO THE CHOPPER

SetValue: HERE IS MY INVITATION

EndAssignVariable: ENOUGH TALK

ParseError: WHAT THE FUCK DID I DO WRONG

This program prints the string “hello world”:

IT'S SHOWTIME
TALK TO THE HAND "hello world"
YOU HAVE BEEN TERMINATED

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It's the best time of the year. Inside Lacrosse has chosen the best lax names from across the country, filling out two full teams for the men and three for the women.

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"Many cats have an aversion to being wrapped or being dressed up and are not toys. Please do not attempt to recreate this scene if your pet is unwilling to remain still." (more…)

The BBC reports that a foal who helped teach youngsters to drive safely in England's New Forest has been killed by a car.

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A fab idea from Rachel Binx, gorgeously executed: skirts and tank tops printed with monochrome maps based on your selected location. [monochome]

The trailer for the new Jurassic Park film "Jurassic World" has just been released, and it's awesome. (Hello, Chris Pratt-as-dinosaur-hunter!) If you haven't seen it yet, you need to. But since everyone else is sharing and posting the trailer, I thought I'd share something Jurassic Park-related but a little bit ... different.

David Mizejewski is a naturalist and media personality with the National Wildlife Federation.

HT: Clayton Cubitt

(Yes, that's snow.)

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I am not a runner so I didn't think I would find this exploration into the conditions under which a 2-hour marathon could occur that interesting. I was incorrect.

Between 1990 (the first year in which data was available) and 2011, the average male marathoner ranked in the top 100 that year shrank by 1.3 inches and 7.5 pounds. Smaller runners have less weight to haul around, yes. But they're also better at heat dissipation; thanks to greater skin surface area relative to their weight, they can sustain higher speeds (and thus, greater internal heat production) without overheating and having to slow down. Despite our sub-two runner's short frame, he'll also have disproportionately long legs that help him cover ground and unusually slender calves that require less energy to swing than heavier limbs.

Runners shed heat through their skin, so bigger runners should have an advantage, right? Indeed, a 6' 3" marathoner can dissipate 32 percent more heat than a 5' 3" athlete with the same BMI. But heat generation rises faster in bigger runners because mass increases quicker than skin area. So at the same effort, the 6' 3" guy ends up producing 42 percent more heat than his shorter peer-and overheating sooner.

The piece includes a favorite old chestnut of mine, man vs. horse:

Horses are still much quicker at distance, but humans are still improving.

Tags: running   sports

17-year-old Marcel Hamer smoked a cigarette in public, so a police officer pushed him down and punched him in the face, knocking him out: “Do you wanna get fucked up?” [NYMag]

Anthony Bourdain travels a lot; here's how he approaches flying, packing, getting good local recommendations, etc.

The other great way to figure out where to eat in a new city is to provoke nerd fury online. Go to a number of foodie websites with discussion boards. Let's say you're going to Kuala Lumpur -- just post on the Malaysia board that you recently returned and had the best rendang in the universe, and give the name of a place, and all these annoying foodies will bombard you with angry replies about how the place is bullshit, and give you a better place to go.

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Walter is a good dog, and because someone strapped a camera to Walter's back, now you can see what Walter sees as he sprints pell-mell through gardens and hedges and shrubbery and sand before diving nose-first into the clean waters of the Ionian Sea.

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Remember civet coffee? The new luxury commodity in coffee is similar — just on a much bigger scale.

Black Ivory Coffee, produced in Thailand's Golden Triangle, is made by passing coffee beans through an elephant's stomach, then picking the beans out of, you guessed it — elephant poop.

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 Fantasy sports startup DraftKings has raised another $41 million in funding led by The Raine Group. The company is also announcing that it’s acquired competitor StarStreet to capture an even larger portion of the daily fantasy sports market. Read More