Sunday, May 25, 2014

This Week's Best Videos: A Little Lady-Killer, Morgan Freeman Gets Higher And A 360° Camera

What Morgan Freeman Sounds Like On Helium, Clever Guy Uses Cels And An iPhone To Animate Real Life, This Man Drinking Out Of A Flower Vase Is Our Age's Greatest Videobomb, This Little Camera Shoots 360°, Baby Falls Out Of Window, Man Makes Amazing Catch, Neil deGrasse Tyson Explains How Rich Bill Gates Is
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Sunday, May 25, 2014
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THE VOICE OF GOD
What Morgan Freeman Sounds Like On Helium
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While narrating an episode of The Science Channel's "Through The Wormhole," Morgan Freeman takes a hit of helium.
THE VANDALISM ONLY YOU CAN SEE
Clever Guy Uses Cels And An iPhone To Animate Real Life
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Can the world look like this all the time?
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WET, WITH FLORAL NOTES
This Man Drinking Out Of A Flower Vase Is Our Age's Greatest Videobomb
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You can look at some things a hundred times and your brain still can't comprehend what your eyes are seeing.
NOWHERE TO RUN
This Little Camera Shoots 360°
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360cam is also water-resistant, wi-fi enabled for live-streaming and can adapted for a light socket for home surveillance. Go ahead and take our money.
IN THE RAIN NO LESS
Baby Falls Out Of Window, Man Makes Amazing Catch
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A man successfully caught a one-year-old baby who fell from a second story window on Sunday in a south China county, according to local reports.
WHAT IS LOOSE CHANGE TO BILL GATES?
Neil deGrasse Tyson Explains How Rich Bill Gates Is
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Neil deGrasse Tyson helps put Bill Gates's fortune in perspective at a talk at the University of Washington in 2011.
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IT GETS BETTER... UNFORTUNATELY
Image: This kid's dilemma is the envy of every man.
This kid's dilemma is the envy of every man. Credit:
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Friday, May 23, 2014

Food To Dye For

Just How Much Dye Is In Your Food?, This Little Camera Shoots 360°, What We Learned This Week, ​The Military Is Shutting Down Its Weather-Controlling Death Beam, Google Is Working To Build A Wi-Fi Network In The Cloud, Dear Graduates: Don't Follow Your Dreams
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Friday, May 23, 2014
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ENOUGH TO DYE FOR
Just How Much Dye Is In Your Food?
modernfarmer.com
Everyone knows the old tale, eat too many carrots and your skin will turn orange. But what happens if you eat too much Kraft Mac & Cheese?
NOWHERE TO RUN
This Little Camera Shoots 360°
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360cam is also water-resistant, wi-fi enabled for live-streaming and can adapted for a light socket for home surveillance. Go ahead and take our money.
DIGG PICKS
What We Learned This Week
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This week we learned about the three deadliest drugs, girls who never age, and whether it's better to buy or rent a home.
WHY WE CAN'T HAVE NICE THINGS
​The Military Is Shutting Down Its Weather-Controlling Death Beam
io9.com
Can a facility that has inspired global conspiracy theories be designated a World Heritage Site? If so, that might be the only way to prevent the shutdown of the High Frequency Active Auroral Research Program in Alaska.
RAINING NODES
Google Is Working To Build A Wi-Fi Network In The Cloud
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Gigaom has learned Google's plans to offer business Wi-Fi services in a very Google-like way. It's building a virtual Wi-Fi network in the cloud that could connect hundreds of thousands of wireless nodes.
THERE'S A REASON YOU SLEPT THROUGH THEM
Dear Graduates: Don't Follow Your Dreams
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The brutal truth is that most people can't pay the bills by "living their passion." So what can we do instead?
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PRAYER P.O.V.
Image: Shiite pilgrims pray at the Imam Moussa al-Kadhim shrine during the preparations for the annual commemoration of the saint's death in the Shiite district of Kazimiyah in Baghdad, Iraq.
Shiite pilgrims pray at the Imam Moussa al-Kadhim shrine during the preparations for the annual commemoration of the saint's death in the Shiite district of Kazimiyah in Baghdad, Iraq. Credit: AP Photo/Karim Kadim
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Thursday, May 22, 2014

Six Seconds Between Love And Hate

Here's How MTV's Catfish Actually Works, This Hellish Desert Pit Has Been On Fire For More Than 40 Years, How To Never Lose Your Dog, A Vine Romance Gone Wrong, The 11-Story Building Calling Itself A Country, The Case For Reparations
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Thursday, May 22, 2014
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SORRY, NO ACTUAL CATFISH INVOLVED
Here's How MTV's Catfish Actually Works
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Like all other reality shows, it's super contrived, but maybe not in the ways you might think.
ALL IT'S MISSING IS A SARLACC
This Hellish Desert Pit Has Been On Fire For More Than 40 Years
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In the Turkmenistan desert, a crater dubbed "The Door to Hell" has been burning for decades.
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How To Never Lose Your Dog
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THE SIX SECONDS BETWEEN LOVE AND HATE
A Vine Romance Gone Wrong
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They were Vine's first superstars, falling in love online, and making lots of money from it. But once they met in the real world, things went horribly wrong.
ONE BUILDING, ENDLESS BEAURACRACY
The 11-Story Building Calling Itself A Country
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With one 11-story building to its name, the People's Republic of Donetsk is the smallest country in the world. It must also be the most bureaucratic.
THE BIG PAYBACK
The Case For Reparations
theatlantic.com
Two hundred fifty years of slavery. Ninety years of Jim Crow. Sixty years of separate but equal. Thirty-five years of racist housing policy. Until we reckon with our compounding moral debts, America will never be whole.
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YOU RANG?
Image: A sloth peeks out from behind a door on a floating house in the 'Lago do Janauari' near Manaus, Brazil, Tuesday, May 20, 2014. Manaus is one of the host cities for the 2014 World Cup in Brazil.
A sloth peeks out from behind a door on a floating house in the 'Lago do Janauari' near Manaus, Brazil, Tuesday, May 20, 2014. Manaus is one of the host cities for the 2014 World Cup in Brazil. Credit: AP Photo/Felipe Dana
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Wednesday, May 21, 2014

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

The Life And Times Of ¯\_(ツ)_/¯, How To Write Your Name On The Moon, The Best Reading App Just Got Better, The Great 'He-Vage' Crisis, The Science Of 'Game Of Thrones', Your Favorite Websites Have A Password Problem
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Wednesday, May 21, 2014
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HAN SHRUGGED FIRST
The Life And Times Of ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
theawl.com
After seeing the light of ¯\_(ツ)_/¯, it's hard to not notice it everywhere.
WE'D WRITE ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
How To Write Your Name On The Moon
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It's a common thing in sci-fi: somebody writes a huge message on the moon that people can read on Earth. Well, maybe you want to do this too! I'm sure you have a very good reason. Here, then, is a scientific guide to writing on the moon.
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The Best Reading App Just Got Better
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It's simple: if you're not using Instapaper, you're simply doing it wrong. And with their brand new highlighting feature, you'll never forget a great line, good quote, or funny typo again. How did people read for so many years without this?
RHYMES WITH 'CLEAVAGE'
The Great 'He-Vage' Crisis
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Guys, let's talk. How low is too low?
YOU KNOW NOTHING
The Science Of 'Game Of Thrones'
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How could a planet have winter for years on end? Can an animal actually breathe fire? Would a giant wall of ice melt itself? All this and more will be answered.
1-2-3-4-5
Your Favorite Websites Have A Password Problem
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A new post-Heartbleed study shows that 86% of the web's top sites have "subpar password security policies."
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NSFW
Image: Two Northrop F-5E Tiger II airplanes of the Swiss Patrol fly close together during an aerobatic performance at the ILA Berlin Air Show in Berlin, Germany, Tuesday, May 20, 2014.
Two Northrop F-5E Tiger II airplanes of the Swiss Patrol fly close together during an aerobatic performance at the ILA Berlin Air Show in Berlin, Germany, Tuesday, May 20, 2014. Credit: AP Photo/Michael Sohn
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Tuesday, May 20, 2014

You Are Literally Covered In Death

Why Do People Persist In Believing Things That Just Aren't True?, What Television Will Look Like In 2025, According To Netflix, How To Snack Without Eating Crap, Veteran Who Blocked Live Grenade To Receive Medal Of Honor From Obama, Why Don't We All Have Cancer?, Patton Oswalt Confronts His Haters
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Tuesday, May 20, 2014
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IF LOVING MYTHS IS WRONG...
Why Do People Persist In Believing Things That Just Aren't True?
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To change false beliefs, appealing to a person's sense of self may be more important than the facts.
IT'S A COMPUTER
What Television Will Look Like In 2025, According To Netflix
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In the future, Netflix will know exactly what you want to watch, even before you do. You won't have to spend all that time browsing through endless lists of shows on your television.
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How To Snack Without Eating Crap
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OUR HERO
Veteran Who Blocked Live Grenade To Receive Medal Of Honor From Obama
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His bravery in 2010 has been hailed by Marines, but it wasn't clear that Cpl. Carpenter would ever receive the Medal of Honor. Soon he'll become only the second living Marine since Vietnam to do so.
YOU ARE LITERALLY COVERED IN DEATH
Why Don't We All Have Cancer?
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A question that makes perfect sense once you start thinking of our bodies as a constantly replicating collective of cells.
IF COMMENTERS WERE REAL PEOPLE
Patton Oswalt Confronts His Haters
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Patton Oswalt sets up a sting operation to confront his most vocal Internet critics face-to-face. But he's in for a big surprise.
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HAIL OF A TOWER
Image: A woman makes a tower using ice from an overnight hailstorm in Sao Paulo, Brazil. Some told local media their children hadn't ever seen hail or played with ice.
A woman makes a tower using ice from an overnight hailstorm in Sao Paulo, Brazil. Some told local media their children hadn't ever seen hail or played with ice. Credit: AP Photo: Nelson Antoine
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