Cheering/silly
- Have old books and nobody to trade them with? BookMooch might be for you!
- Matt Damon explains non-financial motivations and the education sector
- Occupy Wall Street boiled down to a humorous (but accurate) caption -- indeed!!
- A list of Obama's accomplishments to remind the nay-sayers
- Also, separately, good advice to get involved in politics, not just spectate:
... creating change is the responsibility of the people who desire that change. Being disappointed in President Obama or frustrated with the Tea Party is a waste of time. The only thing we really control is the amount of effort we put into getting what we want.
Well said. - Also well said, the now-famous quote from Elizabeth Warren on how nobody succeeds alone.
- Medicare steps up enforcement of equal visitation and representation rights in hospitals
- Malaria report sees near-zero deaths by end of 2015 -- there's a headline I didn't expect! thanks, Gates Foundation!!
- Rafe reminds us that sometimes success is just keeping going, whether or not your approach is perfect or planned to the end; adjust when you must, but show up.
- A Dutch city set up a pedestrian slide an alternative to the stairs down to the subway -- fun!!
- Here's a blog of what reasonable women's armor would look like if it were made for fighting, not titilating teenage viewers -- amen!
- Goofy photos of dogs shaking off water -- oh, the jowls!!
- I continue to find ANIMALS TALKING IN ALL CAPS absolutely inspired, from the simple and goofy to the wordy and/or profound. Rock it!
- A heap of Demotivator-style expressions of first-world angst -- most entertaining.
- The problem with averaging star-ratings - hah!
- An amusing list of cultural faux pas in New York City -- lots of insights there into cultural norms of busy places generally.
- Here's a fun cover/collaboration of the Muppet Show Theme (by Ok Go)
- I've tried to resist all these auto-tuning videos, but I love the musicality and science of this video about the matter of the universe, which features a lot of great people expressing their joy in the crazy beauty of it all... (kind of makes me teary)
- You've probably already seen this, but it's so sweet I want to bookmark it here: an elderly couple tries to figure out their webcam, with much entertaining discussion along the way...
- Here's another old couple who know how to play a duet!! wonderful.
Fascinating
- Game of Thrones visual effects -- an amazing demonstration of how real scenery can be blended into green-screen fantasies to make movie places come alive
- Amazing slow-motion video of an owl coming in for a landing.
- Spoilers don't spoil anything -- a surprising finding that knowing how a story turns out lets us relax and enjoy the trip to get there.
- Facts Don’t Persuade Climate Skeptics–So What Does? graphics!! (also, this report might have some impact...)
- Ever wonder why it's hard to speak a foreign language over the phone? Part of the answer is provided by this audio-visual illusion, in which different mouth movements make you hear different sounds from the same track. We need visual cues to put it all together well.
- Speaking of fooling your senses, apparently it's possible to make apple pie without any apples, something that came in handy during, e.g., the Civil War. Who knew?
- How to Peel a Head of Garlic in Less Than 10 Seconds -- it's not a way you probably would have thought of!
- Have an old globe? Find out how old by using this table of when different countries ceased to exist/appear on maps...
- Ever wonder why your fingers and toes wrinkle up in water (but nothing else does)? Looks like it may actually improve traction on slippery surfaces! Thanks, evolution!!
- Did you hear about that faster-than-light-speed particle that seemed to challenge Einstein's theory of relativity? A proper application of relativity made sense of things (and proved that it hadn't broken light speed after all)...
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