Once a week, Kevin Kelly, Claudia Dawson, and I send out a weekly newsletter that gives you 6 brief personal recommendations of cool stuff....
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Nominative Determinism
Nominative determinism : "the hypothesis that people tend to gravitate towards areas of work that fit their names." Exhibit A . ...
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Outback Steakhouse is a chain of Satan
Is Outback Steakhouse the devil's restaurant? Several twitter users mapped the location of Outbacks around some major cities to the sha...
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Adam Savage meets makers of cool costumes for kids in wheelchairs
Magic Wheelchair is an organization that teams up with makers to build costumes for kids in wheelchairs. In this video, Adam Savage met wit...
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Odd video about egg yolk massages, pine needle baths, and strawberries for skin care
"This is not cookery as the egg breaking implies, but massage." Scenes from Madam Frieda Moroz's Natural Beauty and Health Sa...
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Daniel Handler: "Want Teenage Boys to Read? Give Them Books About Sex."
Teenage girls read far more than teenage boys. Daniel Handler, author of the Lemony Snicket series and other fantastic tales, has a suggest...
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Danger looms at California's Oroville Dam
Last winter's epic rainfall brought the Oroville Dam, the country's tallest embankment dam and a crucial reservoir in California...
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Please Destroy My Enemies
I love Michael Sweater's collection of 60 darlingly ironic and awful comics . It feels like each comic perfectly captures the frustra...
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Trump removes Scaramucci from communications director role
Kelly says no more dicksucking jokes. The Mooch is out. From the NY Times : The decision to remove Mr. Scaramucci, who had boasted about...
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Former Sheriff Joe Arpaio found guilty
Joe Arpaio, the notoriously brutal and racist former Sheriff of Maricopa County, Arizona, was found guilty of criminal contempt , report co...
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Gentleman eats 203 Chips Ahoy cookies in 27 minutes
Trencherman Matt Stonie was able to drink one gallon of milk and eat 203 Chips Ahoy cookies in 27 minutes, 33 seconds. That's 12,800 ca...
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Nuclear energy is the safest major energy source, says University of Oxford group
When measured by power output, nuclear energy is the safest major energy source , according to Our World in Data, an online publication pr...
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Replace your AC outlets with this dual USB charger
This AC outlet has two built-in USB charging ports. I have found it to be useful not only for phone charging, but for keeping bluetooth sp...
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Ofsteve acquires The Atlantic
Two related tweets from Joey DeVilla. from Boing Boing http://ift.tt/2hh1Q1x via IFTTT
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I bought and clock for a quarter and 3D printed new hands for it
I bought this wall clock at a garage sale on Saturday for 25 cents. The aluminum clock hands were bent and damaged beyond repair, but I fig...
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Days before elections, the official in charge of Kenya's voting machines has been tortured and murdered
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p6DlkMBKVVs Chris Msando is the Kenyan electoral commission IT manager who oversaw the country's compu...
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Headbadges: the lost, gorgeous bicycle hood ornaments of yesteryear
Collectors Weekly's feature on "headbages" tells the story of the 1000+ badge collection of bike-mechanic-turned-evolutionar...
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Security researchers repeatedly warned Kids Pass about bad security, only to be ignored and blocked
Kids Pass is a service that offers discounts on family activities in the UK; their website makes several common -- and serious -- security ...
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John Oliver reveals Alex Jones's woo-empire of overpriced, terror-fuelled quack remedies
Alex Jones is the self-described "performance artist" whose four-hour-per-day show mixes odious conspiracy theories (like the id...
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Watch the primitive technology guy make a pair of attractive sandals
The fellow in Australia, who makes tools and shelters from his bare hands and natural materials, is back with a new video. This time, he we...
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Read tons and tons amazing Golden/Silver age comic books for free
The Comic Book Plus site has an unbelievable trove of over 33,000 Golden Age and Silver Age comics books, scanned and ready to be read in ...
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Reader reviews for animal medication tell a grim story about human healthcare in America
If you want an idea how desperately bad the U.S. healthcare system is for those unable to afford it, the reader reviews on Moxifish —aquari...
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Buy the book "How I Made $290,000 Selling Books," only $290,000 on Amazon
Jack Stratton, the leader of the band Vulfpeck has offered a book on Amazon, "How I Made $290,000 Selling Books." It was much f...
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The first traveling library
Said to be the first example of a portable, miniaturized selection of books , this 17th-century traveling library toured England and was re...
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A list of the most deadly calorie bombs for sale at America's chain restaurants
Dave and Buster's will sell you a 1,970 calorie appetizer (the "Carnivore Pizzadilla"); Texas Roadhouse adds marshmallows and...
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Insights from statistical analysis of great (and not-great) literature
Ben Blatt's Nabokov's Favorite Word Is Mauve: What the Numbers Reveal About the Classics, Bestsellers, and Our Own Writing takes a...
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Man steals chicken and biscuits, say police
A Bronx restaurant has one less chicken today, according to reports from ABC News in New York, with the pollo purloiner also making off wi...
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Cat adopts orphaned hedgehogs
The story varies depending on the source—momma being killed by a trap, run over by a car, lawnmowered, etc—but in all cases the result is t...
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What not to do when you're anonymous, if you want to stay that way
If you're using an anonymity tool -- Tor or something like it -- to be anonymous on the internet, it's really easy to screw it up a...
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Carlos from Night Vale has a new podcast where he talks with his trolls
Conversations with People Who Hate Me is a new podcast from the Welcome to Night Vale folks in which Dylan Marron, who voices Carlos the ...
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Counting cuts in 'There Will Be Blood' yields interesting insights
Cinemetrics is an emerging field of media studies, and NerdWriter deftly applies cinemetrics to There Will Be Blood to mine it for insigh...
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Watch an astonishing demonstration of face-mapping art
INORI (Prayer) is a proof of concept inspired by a call for artists and technologists to collaborate on works that push boundaries. (more…...
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Grandpas smoke weed for the first time
For one reason or another, these three elderly gentleman had never tried cannabis, until now. Watch as "grandpas" Robert, Marvin,...
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Zoom in and zone out on this Mandelbrot set
Set this Mandelbrot zoom video to full screen and prepare to zone out on deep fractals for the next five+ minutes. It has 750 million itera...
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These photo awards finalists will make you want to go exploring outside
EyeEm announce the finalists for their 2017 awards, and among the many standouts, the Outdoors category is especially impressive and compe...
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This algorithmic generative art explores the visual beauty of math
Romanian artist HyperGlu creates programs and algorithms that generate fascinating images and animations with a geometric and mathematical...
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Pop culture detritus illustrated as abandoned, overgrown ruins
What would some of the most iconic items of recent pop culture look like if they were real, enormous, and left to rot away? Filip Hodas exp...
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Photographer upconverted this lightning photo to 5.45 gigapixels
In 2016, Dan Piech photographed an amazing lightning bolt over New York City. The shot was so popular that he spent hundreds of hours upcon...
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Boars, Gore, and Swords podcast covers Game of Thrones S7E3, "The Queen's Justice"
The new season of Game of Thrones has come ashore, and Boars, Gore, and Swords is ready to count the many fleets burned in their recap of ...
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Guitarist and his unbalanced washing machine churn out hits
Aaron Attaboy McAvoy and his unbalanced washing machine "Ken E More" had a big hit earlier this year with a rousing cover of Cha...
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Ferris wheel karaoke now exists
Starting on August 1, select visitors riding Tokyo Dome City's Big-O Ferris wheel will be able to sing their hearts out as they swing ...
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The brilliant idea behind these anti-Elvis buttons
By the late 1950s, Elvis Presley merchandise was selling like hotcakes, but not everyone was buying. So, Presley's manager, Colonel Tom...
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An '80s music mashup parody by the Sesame Street gang
In classic Sesame Street parody style, the puppets take on 1980s pop music in this mashup music video . As they've been known to do, t...
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