There are all sorts of ways you could fill a fool's spring Saturday afternoon (yard work! a good book! the new Batman movie!) but if something possesses you to re-take… Read the rest of the article: This Saturday, pay $52 to take an online SAT test. The highest score wins the pot.
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Annie Rauwerda The social media team for the Oklahoma Department of Wildlife Conservation made a quick PSA not to bring mountain lions inside, which begs the question how often do people bring… Read the rest of the article: Warning against letting wild animals in your house backfires due to cuteness of wild animal
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Annie Rauwerda A report in Input Magazine titled "My Fortune Cookie Told Me To Invest In Dogecoin" shows that a Bahamas-based "Crypto and NFT portfolio company" called FTX is advertising in fortune cookies.… Read the rest of the article: A Bahamas-based company is advertising crypto memecoins on fortune cookies
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Annie Rauwerda Evolutionary biology has all sorts of goofy-sounding titles (the sexy son hypothesis! The gay uncle hypothesis!) but my favorite is the "rock paper scissors" mating mechanism of the common side-blotched… Read the rest of the article: Lizards have been playing a big game of rock paper scissors for millions of years
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Annie Rauwerda This week, Elmo has gained attention online after a 2004 video of his heated tirades against "Rocco" surfaced. There's something hysterical about watching a red furry monster rage against a… Read the rest of the article: Elmo is feuding with a rock and it's hilarious
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Annie Rauwerda A now-deleted tweet from PBR reads "Not drinking this January? Try eating ass!" When user @thruandthrudave responded "PBR or ass? Whats the difference?" the brand account responded, "ask your mom."… Read the rest of the article: PBR apologizes for telling sober people to "try eating ass"
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Annie Rauwerda On October 23, Vancouver Canucks assistant equipment manager Brian "Red" Hamilton was on the ice when he noticed a Seattle Kraken fan banging on the glass to catch his attention.… Read the rest of the article: "The mole on the back of your neck is cancer" wrote an NHL fan. Now she's getting a $10k scholarship for med school
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Annie Rauwerda As Gary Dahl sat at a bar with friends who kept complaining about their pets, he realized that the perfect pet was a rock. He crafted fit-for-pet packaging (complete with… Read the rest of the article: The official pet rock care guide
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Annie Rauwerda The New York Times has released its 2022 food forecast and "ingredient of the year" is the mushroom, chosen because of its use as a tasty dish addition, psychedelic drug,… Read the rest of the article: Food forecasters are bullish on mushrooms in 2022
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Annie Rauwerda The New York Times provides access to its sprawling archive to paying customers, and hooo boy is it easy to get sucked in. In a fit of curiosity, I read… Read the rest of the article: Top NYT headlines from 50 years ago today
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Annie Rauwerda I quite like watching Jeopardy when I have a free evening, and if I'm not by the TV, I can watch it online using a free service called Puffer that's… Read the rest of the article: Amy Schneider is Jeopardy's first trans contestant to qualify for the Tournament of Champions
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Annie Rauwerda A NASA website (or should I say Webbsite?) shows how far the historic James Webb Space Telescope is from reaching orbit. On it, you can check out the telescope's distance… Read the rest of the article: NASA "Webbsite" shows the progress of the James Webb Space Telescope
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Annie Rauwerda A decade ago, when Spotify was two years old in the UK and had just become available in the US, Chris Johnson started a musical discovery project called TAPEFEAR. He… Read the rest of the article: A guy accidentaly made a gigantic repository of niche music
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Annie Rauwerda Jack Dorsey, the former CEO of Twitter who co-founded Square in 2009, announced on December 1st that the company would change its name to Block. It's the parent company of… Read the rest of the article: Payment software company Square changed its name to 'Block' this month. Now H&R Block is suing them.
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Annie Rauwerda A team of neuroscientists from Australia, the UK, and Canada release a pre-print paper detailing a technology called "DishBrain." It integrates with brain cells to provide a "stimulated game-world," using… Read the rest of the article: Cells in a petri dish learned to play pong
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Annie Rauwerda In 2020, we learned that negative candle reviews are a (very) informal proxy for Covid cases. The results were surprisingly clear: Before 2020, reviews of the top scented candles hovered… Read the rest of the article: Brace yourselves, one-star candle reviews are spiking again
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Annie Rauwerda There's a new FDOTUS in the White House! The commander in chief welcomed a German Shepherd puppy named Commander on Monday afternoon. Besides Trump, Polk, and Andrew Johnson, all US… Read the rest of the article: Following biting incidents, Biden re-homes Major and welcomes puppy named Commander
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Annie Rauwerda Kenyon Wilson is a professor of performing arts at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga and this semester, he ran an experiment: hiding a cash prize in a locker and… Read the rest of the article: A professor hid $50 on campus and put the location in the syllabus. No student read it
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Annie Rauwerda On Sunday, December 19th, Andrew Marr signed off for the last time. "I had been wondering how to close this final show but I can't do better than quoting my… Read the rest of the article: After 21 years at the BBC, reporter signs off final broadcast with an Anchorman quote
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Annie Rauwerda On Friday, Kellogg's confirmed online rumors that it has removed its name from Pop-Tarts boxes. The move comes amidst a months-long strike involving about 1400 workers across four cereal plants,… Read the rest of the article: Kellogg's removes its logo from Pop-Tarts boxes