Five hours of simmering Sith. (BenjaminApple, thanks Jordan Kurland!)
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David Pescovitz In The Guardian, psychologist Tom "Mind Hacks" Stafford outlines five classic scientific studies that underpin much of today's thinking about how we learn things. One of Stafford's favorites is BF… Read the rest of the article: The pigeons that could discriminate between a Monet and a Picasso
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David Pescovitz Stephen Bassett is the only lobbyist of his kind in Washington DC. He's working to get the government to admit that it has proof of extraterrestrials visiting our planet. "I… Read the rest of the article: Meet the only lobbyist pushing for US government "disclosure" of E.T. visitation
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David Pescovitz Police swarmed a Paris kindergarten today after a teacher claimed that a man wearing a balaclava stabbed him in the throat while yelling that the attack "was for Daesh." But… Read the rest of the article: That French kindergarten teacher stabbed by ISIS? Nope, didn't happen.
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David Pescovitz Special bonus: Trailer soundtrack by the Beastie Boys.
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David Pescovitz The inimitable Charles Barkley goes to town on Donald Trump. "Your life sucks because of you, not because of Hispanics." (TNT's "Inside the NBA," thanks UPSO!)
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David Pescovitz Keep fucking that chicken.
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David Pescovitz From the Cincinnati Zoo's wonderful Instagram feed: Bonobo smiles can mean different things like fear or playfulness. They also have large grins when they are wrestling with other bonobos and… Read the rest of the article: This bonobo's big grin is infectious
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David Pescovitz Thao & The Get Down Stay Down continue their post-punk alt.country folk jamboree with a new track! "Nobody Dies" is the first single from their new album, A Man Alive,… Read the rest of the article: New eccentric, post-punk/folk from Thao & The Get Down Stay Down
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David Pescovitz Marina Gorbis, executive director at Institute for the Future where I'm a researcher, is in Washington DC at a U.S. Department of Labor Symposium where they're talking about the on-demand… Read the rest of the article: Why we need a new operating system for work
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David Pescovitz Josh Rosenthal is the cratedigger and DIY musicologist behind such fantastic collections as the Grammy-nominated "He Is My Story: The Sanctified Soul of Arizona Dranes," "Work Hard, Play Hard, Pray… Read the rest of the article: Inside the mind of an intrepid record collector
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David Pescovitz Liquid ASS is described as smelling like a fine combination of "butt crack, kind of a sewer smell with a hint of dead animal." It is arguably the worst smell… Read the rest of the article: This is the worst smell in the world
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David Pescovitz Emptystate.es celebrates "Empty States," those moments in a user's app experience where there's no data to display yet, or an error has occurred. Empty States are actually a great moment… Read the rest of the article: Great, weird, and bad examples of Empty States in apps
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David Pescovitz NASA just released this beautiful composite infrared view of Saturn's moon Titan. The Cassini spacecraft captured the image last month during its flyby about 6,200 miles above the moon's surface.… Read the rest of the article: Look at Saturn's magnificent moon Titan!
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David Pescovitz From Coachella 2008. When fans over the years previously posted this video from Coachella 2008, Prince sent DMCA takedown notices. But when Radiohead's Thom Yorke was asked about the matter,… Read the rest of the article: Watch Prince's burning cover of Radiohead's "Creep"
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David Pescovitz Retired US Army lieutenant colonel and Fox News commentator Ralph Peters's comment on live TV after President Obama's Oval Office address yesterday about ISIS: "We're angry. We're pissed off. We're… Read the rest of the article: Ralph Peters calls President Obama a "total pussy" on TV
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David Pescovitz In 1988, Leonso Canales of Kingsville, Texas, began his righteous, decades-long campaign to replace the greeting "hello" with "heaven-o."
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David Pescovitz Idaho State University anthropology/anatomy professor Jeffrey Meldrum 3D printed a scale model of a speculative bigfoot skeleton.
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David Pescovitz David Vetter (1971-1984) suffered from severe combined immunodeficiency (SCID), a disease that required him to live inside a sterile environment, a plastic "bubble." Eventually, he tested a special suit developed… Read the rest of the article: The real bubble boy's impact on medicine
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David Pescovitz The incredible Zach Mueller up to his old (and new) tricks again! See more at Mueller's cardistry company site Fontaine Cards. Previously: "Watch this mesmerizing floating cards magic"