Well this is delightful on two counts. First, the talk is a pretty good one, with Bill Gates talking about the importance of reducing our CO2 emissions. But second, and as more of an Easter egg, when presented with the need to show a photo that represented the entirety of earth's human ... Read more »

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3. The Great Debate: Diversity vs Flawless So much better than anything on the American dance shows. Flawless, Round 1: Flawless, Semi-Final: Britain’s Got Talent is doing...
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This video of a single-mother moose family frolicking together in a water sprinkler is pretty adorable, but it's kinda like watching a heartwarming montage of serial killers playing a friendly game of touch football in Grandpa's backyard on Thanksgiving weekend - sure, it's life-affirming, but then you remember that they're cold-blooded murderers. So enjoy this ... Read more »

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1. NASA finds significant water on the moon. Yeah, I know. So apparently there’s water on the moon: NASA said Friday it had discovered water on the moon, opening “a new...
2. Apparently they’ve made a better type of Play-Doh Like, better than the stuff I used to play with. ...

Redmond Junior High School, Teacher-Assigned Detention Notice: [caption id="attachment_1328" align="aligncenter" width="500" caption="Reason for Detention: Another student made the comment "you need to push it in further" (innocent comment) and Datton added "that's what she said.""][/caption] Win. Related posts:I really enjoyed this Under Armour commercial I’m not sure why. It’s the “Protect This ... Read more »

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2. This made me laugh out loud a couple times. Another Onion piece, Dancer Risks Everything, and it just kept getting better and better. So I post it in...
3. Unfair advantage Footage of Shaquille O’Neal when he was in high school: ...
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5. From a friend: An argument in favour of the hijab: it’s great for pranks Here’s an actual story from the BBC: Dubai court annuls marriage to ‘bearded lady’ An Arab country’s ambassador to Dubai...

Here's an actual story from the BBC: Dubai court annuls marriage to 'bearded lady' An Arab country's ambassador to Dubai has had his marriage contract annulled after discovering the bride was cross-eyed and had facial hair. The woman had worn an Islamic veil, known as the niqab, on the few occasions the couple ... Read more »

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Granted, I need to expand my list of go-to adjectives, but this is insane: [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pQ50PYMXDCQ[/youtube] These are bottlenose dolphins, one of the most intelligent animals on earth. Their prey is fairly elusive fast-swimming fish. But the dolphins have invented a completely new way of hunting. By beating its tail down hard, this dolphin stirs up the ... Read more »

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Wow. This is insane. Krishna Gone Missing. It's an article by Michael Idov, published in New York Magazine on September 13, 2009, about Krishna Gurung, a Nepalese woman who took a wrong turn while walking home and ended up wandering the streets of Queens, New York for 53 hours. You have ... Read more »

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1. Similar to what a vitamin shop makes… From an article over at Bloomberg.com: Apple, based in Cupertino, California, increased revenue at its stores by 2.5 percent...
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Dr. Hans Rosling, formerly a physician, co-founder of Doctors Without Borders Sweden, and professor at Karolinska Institut in Stockholm, now spends most of his time dispelling common myths about the developing world, and does so through the use of Gapminder, fantastic software he developed to better illustrate trends in data ... Read more »

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This is a great talk by Rory Sutherland, the Vice Chairman of Ogilvy Group, about perceived value. From the description on the TED page: Advertising adds value to a product by changing our perception, rather than the product itself. Rory Sutherland makes the daring assertion that a change in perceived value ... Read more »

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As will become clear, the above photo is not what the new Halifax Central Library will look like (it's actually a Selexyz bookstore inside a former Dominican Church in Maastricht, Holland, designed by Merkx+Girod). There was an article in The Coast last Friday by Tim Bousquet that outlines local architect Brian MacKay-Lyons' beef ... Read more »

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