Holy Schmoly! I was suitably impressed when a sinkhole in LA swallowed a fire truck. This baby swallowed a three story building!
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Do celebrities really cheat more? Well, according to NPR, there’s three options: 1. It just seems like celebrities cheat more because more attention is paid when they’re caught. To those who wonder why humanity has such an intense interest in celebrity cheating, my favorite primatologist Frans De Waal would say that it’s instinctual for our [...]
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An off-Broadway production retells Romeo & Juliet based on peoples mis-remberings from Freshman English. For example, here is some snippets of dialogue: “Juliet is the sky, and I am the sun. No … It’s getting all jumbled in my head. Jumbled in my head!” “It is the East, and Juliet is the West.” Even better, [...]
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A prediction of what the internet would be like from 1969. Worth watching just for the line, “What the wife selects on her console will be paid for by the husband at his counterpart console.” Good times, the ’60s.
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I love the idea of the Apple iPad – nothing gives me writer’s block like sitting down to a laptop or desktop. I’ve already taken to doing a lot of my writing pecking away at my iPhone, allowing myself to roam freely through the house, releasing my inner kinesthetic thinker. But it’s my policy never [...]
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Look, I don’t care if you classify Pluto as a planet or not. But science has to be fair. If you do call Pluto a planet, then Eris (which is bigger than Pluto) is also a planet. Oh, and Charon should probably be included as well (It doesn’t actually orbit Pluto, they both orbit a [...]
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My brother-in-law -a man of many eloquent words who could make an hour long discussion on paper clips interesting- recently posted an article from The Atlantic by Jonathan Rauch on understanding the introvert – in his case his wife. Growing up, my sister and I were never regarded as introverted – most likely because compared [...]
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The Daily Show With Jon Stewart Mon – Thurs 11p / 10c Eamon Javers www.thedailyshow.com Daily Show Full Episodes Political Humor Health Care Reform If I was humongo rich, I’d rent a CIA agent to find out inane information for me. (Quick, you have 10 min to discover the names of all the cats who [...]
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Wesleyan frames a Cornell professor for murder. That’s unfortunate. [IvyGateBlog] A couple days ago, what I thought was a forest fire turned out to be a truck belching an inconceivable amount of smoke. I think just driving by it increased my chances of lung cancer so, anyway, this FAIL reminds me of that… [Fail Blog] [...]
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