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15 Apr 20:27

Bobcat Drags Enormous Fish Out of the Ocean Like It's Nothing

by Dayna Evans

We're all gonna die someday. Just you wait. Perhaps you'll die with dignity and you'll be missed; maybe not. If a bobcat came into your water bed and yanked you straight from your happy life into the depths of hell, that would be an okay way to die. A death with purpose.

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08 Apr 20:57

Jeopardy Gets Awkward With Contestant's Understanding of Consent Laws

by Gabrielle Bluestone

A puberty question posed to a bunch of nerds. What could go wrong?

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08 Apr 18:08

New Maya Angelou Postage Stamp Features Thing Maya Angelou Didn't Say

by Bobby Finger

A new Forever stamp issued by the USPS has Maya Angelou’s face on it. Beside her face is the name “Maya Angelou.” Underneath the name “Maya Angelou” is the quote “A bird doesn’t sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song.” But there’s one problem with the stamp that uses Angelou’s face and name: she isn’t responsible for the quote. Joan Walsh Anglund is. Speaking of quotes, here’s one from Anglund:

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03 Apr 20:59

The Most Popular Antidepressants Are Based On A Theory We Know Is Wrong

by Levi Gadye

One in ten Americans takes an anti-depressant drug like Zoloft or Prozac. But these drugs are designed based on a theory that's already been roundly disproven: the "chemical imbalance" theory of depression. Why haven't our drugs kept up with the science of depression?

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03 Apr 18:07

This Guy Could Have Deleted Everything on YouTube, but He Resisted

by Sam Biddle

Some powers are so terrible and vast that they should be denied to humankind, for we would not know how to wield them responsibly. For example: Kamil Hismatullin, a Russian hacker and security tinkerer, briefly had the ability to delete everything on YouTube.

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03 Apr 18:04

Price Is Right Model Cries After Accidentally Giving Away a Car

by Gabrielle Bluestone

Ever royally fuck something up at your job? Ever royally fuck something up at your job on television?

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03 Apr 18:02

Sailor Rescued After 66 Days Lost at Sea

by Gabrielle Bluestone

A man who went missing more than two months ago was finally rescued by the Coast Guard, which found him floating on the overturned hull of his destroyed boat hundreds of miles off the coast of North Carolina.

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03 Apr 17:58

Prepare for the Brief Glory of Tonight's Earth Moon Shadow

by Dennis Mersereau

Behold! The Earth will rockblock the Moon from basking in sunshine for five minutes tonight. The islands in the Pacific will have the best view of the brief Earth Moon Shadow, but most of North America will see it, too, if you crawl out of bed early enough, but it's Saturday morning, and you won't do that.

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01 Apr 18:40

I Can't Stop Looking at This Lamb With a Deformed Old Man's Face

by Taylor Berman

Look at this creepy lamb reportedly born in a village in Dagestan earlier this month. Described by some as the "anti-Christ" and others as an "old man," the deformed baby sheep has terrified everyone who's laid eyes on it.

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30 Mar 20:30

A Train From 1836 Could Be Buried In Brooklyn Because Of Petty Politics

by Michael Ballaban
Darendukes

TMNT lair?

A beautifully preserved 1830s steam train is thought to be lurking under a busy thoroughfare in one of the posher parts of Brooklyn. But in 1861, it was sealed up, seemingly for eternity. Everything was set to excavate it just a few years back, until petty personal politics seem to have destroyed any chance of that.

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26 Mar 19:29

You think FIFA is sinister??!! Check out the Heckler & Koch boardroom.

Darendukes

drool...

26 Mar 19:11

Jade Helm: The Pretend Invasion of Texas That's Driving the Web Crazy

by Sam Biddle
Darendukes

Cool.

From July 15th to September 15th, over a thousand armed American soldiers will maneuver through the Southwest United States as part of a vast operation with a single motto: "Master the Human Domain." Internet conspiracy theorists wait their whole lives for a moment this rich.

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26 Mar 18:46

Boston House Was Rigged to Explode When Someone Turned On the Lights

by Gabrielle Bluestone
Darendukes

I'd hire that electrician in a heartbeat!
Also, if you happen to notice a lamp that has a gasoline and dish soap filled bulb, do NOT turn it on.


An electrician conducting a pre-sale inspection on a Massachusetts home discovered the entire house was wired to explode when someone flipped a particular light switch.

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26 Mar 18:42

Prosecutor: Co-Pilot Deliberately Crashed Flight as Passengers Screamed

by Kelly Conaboy
Darendukes

Yup...
That's terrible.

Audio from the cockpit voice recorder recovered from Germanwings flight U49525 indicates the co-pilot intended to "destroy the aircraft," said Brice Robin, Public Prosecutor of Marseille, on Thursday.

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23 Mar 22:01

Singapore's Founding Father and First Premier Lee Kuan Yew Dies at 91

by Brendan O'Connor

Lee Kuan Yew, prime minister of Singapore from 1959—when the country attained full self-government from the British—until 1990, has died, The New York Times reports. According to a statement, he passed away "peacefully" at the Singapore General Hospital early Monday morning.

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23 Mar 20:16

3D tattoo

23 Mar 20:16

Electricity is amazing, 500kV Switch Opening.

Darendukes

Electricity be scary!

19 Mar 14:45

David Lynch Won't Remake Twin Peaks on the Contract Showtime's Offering

by Gabrielle Bluestone
Darendukes

Uh oh...

Contract negotiations between David Lynch and Showtime are apparently not going very well: Lynch told a gallery of people this weekend, "I'm not sure at this point if [the Twin Peaks reboot is] happening" because of the "complications."

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19 Mar 14:45

This settles it then

13 Mar 21:52

Springfield, IL., Just Gave The Key To The City To Cobra Commander

by Rob Bricken
Darendukes

Huh..

No. Really.

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13 Mar 21:48

This Notorious B.I.G./Dinosaurs Mash-Up Video Is My New Happy Place

by Charlie Jane Anders
Darendukes

Wow.

I apologize if you've already seen this, since it's a couple days old — but I had to post this amazing music video, featuring Earl from Dinosaurs "lip"-synching to "Hypnotize" by the Notorious B.I.G. Because it is the most amazing thing I have seen in ages.

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13 Mar 18:54

Surface Tension

13 Mar 18:48

My friend was Wes Anderson's personal assistant back in 1999. This is one of the notes Wes would leave for him.

13 Mar 18:39

Obama Reads Mean Tweets About Himself, Talks Ferguson on Jimmy Kimmel

by Gabrielle Bluestone

President Obama spoke out against the police shooting last night in Ferguson and read some Meh Tweets about himself in an appearance on Jimmy Kimmel Live Thursday.

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12 Mar 21:27

A Halo Snipe Shot That Is Completely Nuts

by Patricia Hernandez

Okay, what's with all the unbelievable Halo snipes lately?

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12 Mar 20:36

Game of Thrones' Cast Tries To Recap The Series In 30 Seconds

by Gergo Vas

The fifth season of the show is upon us, so Entertainment Weekly sat down with some of the main characters and gave them the near-impossible task of summarizing the first 4 seasons in a few seconds.

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12 Mar 20:35

The $761 Peanut Butter and Other Insanely Expensive Government Products

by Sarah Zhang
Darendukes

We deal with NIST all the time when calibrating our instruments. Never really thought about all the other "standard reference materials" that would be needed to calibrate various other instruments.

The most expensive peanut butter in the world is sold by the U.S. government. The $761 jar of peanut butter, created to calibrate machines in food science labs, went viral last month. But "Standard Reference Material 2387," aka peanut butter, is only the tip of the iceberg of a strange and fascinating world.

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11 Mar 18:57

Like Marty, a Back to the Future Documentary Will Arrive in October 2015

by Katharine Trendacosta


Back In Time, a documentary that started life as a small film about Back to the Future from the point of view of the Delorean, has expanded far beyond its original brief. Just from the trailer you can see just how perfect a celebration of the thirtieth anniversary of Back to the Future the documentary is.

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11 Mar 17:58

McDonald's has decided to pay the artists participating in its SXSW showcase.

by Kelly Conaboy

McDonald's has decided to pay the artists participating in its SXSW showcase . No word on where they will find the money.

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10 Mar 18:02

Annyi szelfibotos quokkaszelfizőt láttam, hogy csak na

by Orosz Péter
Darendukes

No idea what horrible language this is, but that thing is damn cute.

Dilis képek lepték el az internetet. Vigyorgó emberek szelfiznek rajtuk egy még náluk is jobban vigyorgó állattal. Véletlenül helyszíni riporttal tudunk szolgálni a dili és a vigyorgó állatok otthonából: az Indiai-óceáni Rottnest-szigetről.

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