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Where you are born, who you are born to and when you are born are all things you can’t control; where you go, how you treat your family and what you do with your time on Earth are all things you can. The challenges you’ll face in your lifetime are not something you can choose, but the way that you…
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The Most Beautiful Images on Google Street View
Since 2007 Google Street View, in an effort to “to organize the world’s information and make it universally accessible and useful” has visually captured the human experience gamut from pranks, to nudity, to crimes to death. While it’s had its share of issues, the Google Maps project is one of the greatest juxtapositions of technology and imagery our culture has produced.
In homage to this,...
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Scientists say dolphins should be treated as... →
Studies into dolphin behaviour have highlighted how similar their communications are to those of humans and that they are brighter than chimpanzees. These have been backed up by anatomical research showing that dolphin brains have many key features associated with high intelligence. The researchers argue that their work shows it is morally unacceptable to keep such intelligent animals in...
How To Turn Google Translate Into Google Beatbox
For inexplicable reasons, a “Today I Learned” thread on Reddit has turned into a treatise on how to make Google Translate beatbox for you, among other things. It must have taken some intense experimentation for Redditor Harrichr to get here but he somehow stumbled upon the following combination of steps.
1) Go to Google Translate 2) Set the translator to translate German to German 3) Copy +...
Parkour for Lazies: The Bizarre British Lying Down...
So weird…
It’s happening all around the world: people are taking pictures of their friends awkwardly lying face-down in all sorts of unlikely places. On top of statues, in the middle of roads, in front of famous landmarks – absolutely anywhere you can conceivably fit a horizontal human body, you’ll find someone playing the bizarre game. The weirder the place and the more people...
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Robot Identifies Human Flesh As Bacon
Let the robot holocaust commence: robots think we taste like bacon.
Researchers at NEC System technologies and Mie University have designed the cute little guy to the right: a metal man gastronomist, “an electromechanical sommelier”, capable of identifying wines, cheeses, meats and hors d’oeuvres. Upon being given a sample, he will speak up in a...
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Men who clean house are happier
So are husbands with wives who put in similar hours at the office. Could equality be their secret?
By Tracy Clark-Flory
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Egalitarian relationships may not be the emasculating, soul-sucking prison they are made out to be on television sitcoms. (Shocking, I know: The TV lies to us?!)
The preliminary results from a British survey of 1,000 working...
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TSA recommends using sexual predator tactics to...
from Boing Boing by Cory Doctorow
TSA regional security director James Marchand advises parents whose kids are upset by TSA groping to make a game of it, a suggestion that alarmed sex-abuse prevention experts, since “Telling a child that they are engaging in a game is ‘one of the most common ways’ that sexual predators use to convince children to engage in inappropriate...