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  • David Pescovitz
    4:52 pm Fri, Jan 11, 2019
    Listen to Siouxsie Sioux's absolutely magnificent isolated vocal track from "The Killing Jar"

    Siouxsie and the Banshees' "The Killing Jar" from Peepshow (1988) is easily one of the band's finest tracks from an incredible body of work that has aged with grace. I… Read the rest of the article: Listen to Siouxsie Sioux's absolutely magnificent isolated vocal track from "The Killing Jar"

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  • David Pescovitz
    9:21 am Fri, Jan 11, 2019
    Drug-sniffing doggo OD'd at EDM cruise ship checkpoint, given Narcan, will be OK

    Jake the police dog was screening passengers boarding the Norwegian Epic cruise ship for the Holy Ship! EDM festival on the ocean. Jake alerted his police officer companion that he… Read the rest of the article: Drug-sniffing doggo OD'd at EDM cruise ship checkpoint, given Narcan, will be OK

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  • David Pescovitz
    7:39 am Fri, Jan 11, 2019
    Why video games are made of triangles.. smaller and smaller triangles

    The power is in the polygons.

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  • David Pescovitz
    10:08 pm Thu, Jan 10, 2019
    Watch this trailer for the new Fyre Festival documentary!

    The Fyre Festival documentary premieres on Netflix on January 18 and I can't wait. If you remember the Fyre Festival, you definitely weren't there… because, y'know, it didn't happen. And… Read the rest of the article: Watch this trailer for the new Fyre Festival documentary!

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  • David Pescovitz
    9:36 pm Thu, Jan 10, 2019
    A delightful cartoon about the "living fossil" fish, the coelacanth

    Known as a "living fossil," the coelacanth is an order of fish thought to have been extinct for 65 million years until one was caught in 1938 in a fisherman's… Read the rest of the article: A delightful cartoon about the "living fossil" fish, the coelacanth

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  • David Pescovitz
    1:38 pm Thu, Jan 10, 2019
    School police officer removed after ticketing principal for parking in disabled space

    At Jefferson K-8 School in Warren, Ohio, school police officer Adam Chinchik noticed that a car kept parking in the no-parking zone between two disabled spaces in front of the… Read the rest of the article: School police officer removed after ticketing principal for parking in disabled space

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  • David Pescovitz
    1:13 pm Thu, Jan 10, 2019
    The neuroscience of creativity (and yes, right brain/left brain is mostly bullshit)

    Anna Abraham literally wrote the book on creativity and the brain. The Leeds Beckett University psychology professor is the author of a new textbook titled The Neuroscience of Creativity. From… Read the rest of the article: The neuroscience of creativity (and yes, right brain/left brain is mostly bullshit)

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  • David Pescovitz
    12:44 pm Thu, Jan 10, 2019
    Cyclops cow worshipped in West Bengal

    A cow born with just one eye and no real nose was recently born in Bardhaman, West Bengal, India. According to, er, The Sun, a local source said that "Ever… Read the rest of the article: Cyclops cow worshipped in West Bengal

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  • David Pescovitz
    11:57 am Wed, Jan 9, 2019
    Smart jock strap: testicle sensor device helps improve sperm count

    Fertility doctors often advise men that wearing boxers instead of briefs lowers scrotal temperature and possibly increase sperm count. The CoolMen device takes that idea to the extreme, instrumenting the… Read the rest of the article: Smart jock strap: testicle sensor device helps improve sperm count

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  • David Pescovitz
    10:57 am Wed, Jan 9, 2019
    Ask Dr. Ruth: Watch the trailer for the new documentary about the iconic sex therapist

    Dr. Ruth Westheimer is a German-born Jewish Holocaust survivor who emigrated to the United States in 1956 and eventually became arguably the world's best known sex therapist. She's hosted multiple… Read the rest of the article: Ask Dr. Ruth: Watch the trailer for the new documentary about the iconic sex therapist

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  • David Pescovitz
    10:40 am Wed, Jan 9, 2019
    The most magical little free library is inside a hollowed-out tree stump

    Librarian, artist, and bookbinder Sharalee Armitage Howard of Coeur d'Alene, Idaho decided that rather than dig up the stump of the 110-year-old cottonwood tree in her yard, she'd transform it… Read the rest of the article: The most magical little free library is inside a hollowed-out tree stump

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  • David Pescovitz
    10:20 am Wed, Jan 9, 2019
    Woman in ten-year coma gives birth at care facility, police seeking DNA of workers

    In December, a woman at Hacienda HealthCare in Phoenix, Arizona who has been in a coma for at least a decade gave birth. This week, police served a warrant for… Read the rest of the article: Woman in ten-year coma gives birth at care facility, police seeking DNA of workers

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  • David Pescovitz
    9:59 am Wed, Jan 9, 2019
    Michael Jackson's "Thriller" masterfully covered by a single guitarist playing two guitars at once

    Luca Stricagnoli has the funk of 40,000 years.

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  • David Pescovitz
    11:45 pm Tue, Jan 8, 2019
    Deer-poaching woman brags on dating app to the wrong person

    Cannon Harrison, 24, was on dating app Bumble when he connected with a woman in his area who quickly bragged to him that she had just shot a "bigo buck,"… Read the rest of the article: Deer-poaching woman brags on dating app to the wrong person

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  • David Pescovitz
    5:32 pm Tue, Jan 8, 2019
    Police nab gentleman who was caught on camera licking doorbell

    Salinas, California police nabbed Roberto Daniel Arroyo, 33, after homeowners the Dungan family captured video of the gentleman licking their doorbell, many times, in the middle of the night Saturday.… Read the rest of the article: Police nab gentleman who was caught on camera licking doorbell

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  • David Pescovitz
    7:56 am Tue, Jan 8, 2019
    Lin-Manuel Miranda and his Hamilton colleagues just bought a bookstore

    Composer and Hamilton creator Lin-Manuel Miranda and three of his collaborators on the massively successful musical have saved a famed 100-year-old specialty theater bookstore in New York City from going… Read the rest of the article: Lin-Manuel Miranda and his Hamilton colleagues just bought a bookstore

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  • David Pescovitz
    7:40 am Tue, Jan 8, 2019
    How to improve your rubber band shooting with science!

    When I was very little, my big brother brought me in to school for show-and-tell. In the lunchroom, a kid fired a rubber band that hit me right in the… Read the rest of the article: How to improve your rubber band shooting with science!

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  • David Pescovitz
    7:24 am Tue, Jan 8, 2019
    "Invisible ink" features found in Basquiat painting

    Art conservator Emily Macdonald-Korth was evaluationg a client's Jean-Michel Basquiat untitled painting from 1981 when she looked at the work under ultraviolet light to reveal any repairs or varnishing. From… Read the rest of the article: "Invisible ink" features found in Basquiat painting

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  • David Pescovitz
    9:11 am Mon, Jan 7, 2019
    Watch Mr. Rogers' wonderful show for adults from 1978

    In 1978, Mr. Rogers hosted a television show for adults called "Old Friends…New Friends" in which he interviewed interesting musicians, artists, athletes, teachers, and others "about their search for meaning… Read the rest of the article: Watch Mr. Rogers' wonderful show for adults from 1978

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  • David Pescovitz
    9:00 am Mon, Jan 7, 2019
    Listen to haunting Ethiopian hymns over the buzzing Harp of David

    Sosena Gebre Eyesus by Sosena Gebre Eyesus Listen above to Sosena Gebre Eyesus's deeply spiritual and enchanting Ethiopian Orthodox hymns sung over the Begena, a ten string instrument also known… Read the rest of the article: Listen to haunting Ethiopian hymns over the buzzing Harp of David

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