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Man in the Moon Mystery Solved by GRAIL Mission: Volcano Behind It, Not Asteroid:

NASA’s GRAIL (Gravity Recovery and Interior Laboratory) mission has spilled some more secret. The new data suggests that a volcanic plume, and not a striking asteroid, caused the 2,900km-wide section of Procellarum region on the near side of the moon. The Procellarum region is a broad region of low topography enclosed in dark mare basalt.

The research team from MIT, the Colorado School of Mines and other institutions from a high-resolution map discovered that the border comprised of sharp angles which can’t be created due to an asteroid impact as the impact of asteroids normally leads to circular craters not polygon one with edges made up of 120-degree angles.

According to the researchers the sharp edges and angles are gigantic tension cracks created following the cooling down of the moon’s crust- repercussion of a volcanic episode and defacing left due to a phenomenal upwelling of magma, deep the moon’s interior.

(See also this article at Mother Nature Network, with more diagrams.)

Going through the British countryside with Becky Cloonan is about as delightful as you think it will be

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Mitt Romney’s family misspell their last name in the greatest Freudian slip in history.

I’m not even sorry

never forget

The Register reports that Motorola has issued a recall for an early batch of its hotly anticipated new Nexus 6 smartphones that were sold through U.S. mobile carrier AT&T, owing to a software glitch that can reportedly causes the devices to boot to a black screen. ... AT&T retail stores have reportedly been told to return their existing inventory of the Nexus 6 and wait for new units to arrive from Motorola, which has already corrected the problem on its assembly line. Any customer who brings a defective unit into an AT&T store will receive a replacement. Motorola's memo to stores says that only initial shipments were affected, and that the problem has been identified. However, as the article mentions, there's thus far less luck for those like me who've found that at least some original Nexus 7 tablets do not play nicely with Lollipop. (The effects look nice, but it's never a good sign to see "System UI isn't responding. Do you want to close it?" on a tablet's screen.)

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jones_supa writes: Eizo has introduced an interesting new PC monitor with a square aspect ratio: the Eizo FlexScan EV2730Q is a 26.5-inch screen with 1:1 aspect ratio and an IPS panel with resolution of 1920 x 1920 pixels. "The extended vertical space is convenient for displaying large amounts of information in long windows, reducing the need for excess scrolling and providing a more efficient view of data," the firm writes. The monitor also offers flicker-free (non-PWM) backlight and reduced blue light features to avoid scorching users' eyes. Would a square display be of any benefit to you?

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An anonymous reader writes: A new study by researchers at Ohio State University found that dramatically increasing the amount of saturated fat in a person's diet did not increase the amount of saturated fat found in their blood. Professor Jeff Volek, the study's senior author, said it "challenges the conventional wisdom that has demonized saturated fat and extends our knowledge of why dietary saturated fat doesn't correlate with disease." The study also showed that increasing carbohydrates in the diet led to an increase in a particular fatty acid previous studies have linked to heart disease. Volek continued, "People believe 'you are what you eat,' but in reality, you are what you save from what you eat. The point is you don't necessarily save the saturated fat that you eat. And the primary regulator of what you save in terms of fat is the carbohydrate in your diet. Since more than half of Americans show some signs of carb intolerance, it makes more sense to focus on carb restriction than fat restriction."

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The SEC Network is all about Tim Tebow cake-givin'. He receives, and he gives, too:

This is also what happened every time a running back received a handoff from Tebow. It was a huge problem.

(via Deadspin)

Yale mascot Handsome Dan was College GameDay's celebrity guest picker for Harvard-Yale (it was actually Matt Birk, but let me dream). Handsome Dan (XVII) is such a good dog. He's also a very slippery dog:

SLIPPUP.

And my word, that dog made Kirk Herbstreit happier than I've ever seen him or any person ever, really:

GOOD DOG.

Not goggles. Glasses. Under a facemask.

College GameDay at The Game between Harvard vs. Yale brought many great nerd jokes -- Sign vs. Sine, etc. -- but nothing anybody could've come up with could be as good as this:

We've reached peak Harvard Yale....@PhilHecken @SBNationCFB pic.twitter.com/Fw2RPVCXJx

— Victory Cheeseballs (@VictoryCB) November 22, 2014

That's Harvard's Andrew Flesher wearing legit glasses on the field under his facemask. His Harvard athletics profile pic:

Before you say AHHHHH THAT'S SUCH A BAD IDEA GET CONTACTS GET CONTACTS THOSE GLASSES WILL BREAK EVERY PLAY, it should be noted that Flesher is a kicker, so he doesn't have to make a lot of hits on the field. The senior playing in his final college game has no career tackles.

But it could happen! Sometimes kicks get blocked! GET GOGGLES OR CONTACTS WE'RE WORRIED ABOUT YOU, ANDREW.

Flesher nailed a 25-yarder to open the scoring for Harvard in their biggest game of the year as they seek an Ivy League championship.

Harvard ends the year 10-0 with an undisputed Ivy League championship after topping Yale 31-24 in their eighth straight win in the biggest game of the year.

Harvard held on despite a furious rally from Yale, winning the 131st playing of The Game 31-24 to complete an undefeated season, take the Ivy League Championship and win their eighth straight in the storied rivalry.

Harvard had led 24-7, but Yale capitalized on some Crimson turnovers to tie the game up at 24. Then Connor Hempel found Andrew Fischer on this 35-yard touchdown:

(GIFs via NBCSN)

A last-ditch drive by Yale ended with a Morgan Roberts interception, his second of the day -- the first had been a 90-yard Harvard score.

The game was a de facto Ivy League title game. At 9-0, Harvard was guaranteed at least a share of the championship, but if they'd lost to the Bulldogs, they would've had the indignity of sharing the title with their biggest rival. With a relatively weak college football schedule this week, College GameDay went to Cambridge in a rare non-FBS appearance.

The prettiest play of the game was this end-around touchdown pass by Harvard receiver Seitu Smith:

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“Every time someone says we don’t need feminism anymore, things like this come to mind. Due to insufficient dowry this young girl’s husband lacerated her face with a razor blade.” (Gwalior - India) - ph. Adrian Fisk

if you say you don’t need feminism, you are selfish. selfish that you have not stop to think about the millions of girls and women and trans women who are either getting killed, mutilated, raped, or sold into sex slavery and child marriages. for fucks sake, the women’s right to vote in the US isnt even a hundred years old yet. women in the work force is still recent. the first american women to go into  space was in 1983. the firs women to be credited for a marvel movie just happened. like firsts are still happening. and women are still getting murdered for being women. WE NEED FEMINISM. 

Free tagging: 

• Logan Airport

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• East Boston

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• Crime

What would the original Batttlestar Galactica series look like if it was remastered, and rereleased? It would look a lot like this, and this is awesome.

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Jill St. John’s Robin disguise