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Monday – March 18, 2019
MySpace Lost All Uploads Between 2003 and 2015
Someday, this will happen to Facebook, Instagram, Tumblr, etc. Don’t trust the platforms to archive your data.
Categories Computers Interesting Technology
This Fun Fact Will Change the Way You Watch the Movie Airplane!
How specific is the parody in Airplane? Huge chunks of dialogue in the classic comedy are taken verbatim from Zero Hour! Everything …
Categories Comedy Documentary Interesting Videos
Wednesday – March 13, 2019
Mueller’s Investigation Has Created An Underworld Of Online Sleuths
Sorting through the data of the dead — their pots, their knives, and the rocks they cooked on — in order to …
Categories Documentary Fact Check Interesting Politics Videos
Hiking with Kevin – Hilary Swank
Holy Crap – I’m in love now! What a smart, funny, insighful person – and the chemistry between them is great.
Categories Comedians Documentary Interesting Interview
Monday – March 4, 2019
How Plastic from Clothing Gets into Seafood
Microfibers, used to make things like yoga pants, are the ocean’s tiniest problem.
Categories Corporations Dystopia Environmental Interesting Science
Friday – March 1, 2019
China Bans 23 Million From Buying Travel Tickets as Part of ‘Social Credit’ System
China blocked 23 million “discredited” travelers from buying plane or train tickets last year as part of the country’s controversial “social credit” …
Categories Dystopia Government Interesting Technology
Monday – February 18, 2019
Wait for it . . .
Someone got caught with a hooker, and it was just too perfect not to add the Benny Hill “Yakety Sax” to it.
Categories Humor Interesting Unexpected Videos
Wednesday – February 13, 2019
Kremlin Behind Anti-Vaccine Disinformation Campaign As Measles Cases Explode
Russian trolls and social media bots used vaccines as a “wedge issue”, spreading pro- and anti-vaccine information. A new study examining the …
Categories Interesting Medicine Russia Technology
LSD Can Get Deep Down and Reset the Brain – Like Shaking Up a Snow Globe
The campaign to legalise LSD in Britain is gathering pace. Psychedelics may have a role to play in treating everything from alcohol …
Categories Interesting Medicine
Monday – February 11, 2019
Fact or Fiction: Never Feed Rice To Birds
We’ve all heard the warning: don’t feed rice to birds or don’t throw rice at weddings because birds will eat it. Fact …
Categories Animals Fact Check Interesting Urban Legends
Corn Syrup in Beer: It’s For Fermenting, Not As a Sweetener
Bud Light is touting that it doesn’t use corn syrup, but that doesn’t make it nutritionally much different from its competitors. Sweeteners …
Categories Corporations Fact Check Food Interesting
Saturday – February 2, 2019
Breakfast Is a Lie
The BMJ, a peer-reviewed medical journal, published a review of 13 controlled trials this week that determined breakfast “might not be a …
Categories Corporations Fact Check Food Interesting Science
Friday – February 1, 2019
Tuesday – January 29, 2019
The Term Litterbug Was Created by Beer, Beer Can, Bottle, Candy and Other Manufacturers
It is a beautiful, if evil strategy, simple and elegant: once underway it is even cheap to run, as it is powered …
Categories Corporations History Interesting TIL
Monday – January 28, 2019
None of These Faces Are Real
A Scanner Darkley is almost here.
Categories Computers Interesting Technology Unexpected
The Beatles Rock Band Intro Cinematic Trailer
One of the coolest Beatles tributes I have seen – and it’s for a video game!
Categories Interesting Music
Saturday – January 26, 2019
How China Plans to Grade 1.3 Billion People
China wants to grade its people based on how good or bad a citizen they have been. A dozen cities are already …
Categories Documentary Government Interesting Technology
Friday – January 25, 2019
Everyone Who’s Been Charged in Investigations Related to the 2016 Election
Roger J. Stone Jr., a longtime adviser to President Trump, is the sixth Trump adviser or official to be charged in the …
Categories Government Interesting Justice Politics
Sync Your Calendar with the Solar System
Answers to common questions we’ve received Does the calendar work with Android devices? Yes. Use the signup at the top of this …
Categories Computers Interesting Space
Wednesday – January 23, 2019
The U.S. History of the Assault on Public Transport in the Last Century
Once upon a time the U.S. had an amazing public transportation infrastructure.
Categories Corporations History Interesting
Tuesday – January 22, 2019
Cholo Calls 911 – Real 911 Call from Compton
Oldie but a goodie – VICTOR FUENTES!
Categories Humor Interesting Unexpected Videos
Monday – January 21, 2019
Listen to the New Tzar Spangled Banner.
New National Anthem for the Цпited States Фf днлпerica (or more correctly Юнайтед стеитс ов америка)
Categories Comedy Humor Interesting Music Videos
You Matched With Someone Really Great Online. This Is Her Ghostwriter.
Meredith Golden charges a small clientele $2,000 a month to help them win at dating apps. Outside of the $2,000 package (“the …
Categories Gender Interesting Interview
Sunday – January 20, 2019
The Backup Singer Saves the Day
During the last song of the last performance of 1984’s “Chess The Musical”, the female lead fell ill backstage and didn’t show …
Categories Interesting Music Unexpected Videos
Despotism (1946) – Anything Look Familiar?
Released after WWII, this amazing film illustrates the thesis that all communities can be ranged on a scale running from democracy to …
Categories Documentary Government History Interesting Videos
Thursday – January 17, 2019
DNA Discounts – Aeroméxico
To inspire more travelers to visit Mexico, Aeroméxico revealed some surprising information to Americans about their own heritage.
Categories Humor Interesting Thinking Unexpected Videos
Kingfisher Keeping Its Head Perfectly Still While Observing Prey
Steady as a ChickenCam! via Gfycat
Categories Animals Interesting