Thursday, February 28, 2013

Miss Cellania's Links

A Few Things You May Not Know About Seth MacFarlane.

You think kids these days have strange names? Read about this family! (via Metafilter)

28 Reasons Kentucky Is The Weirdest State In The Country. Then there's #29: I live here.

Scientists Uncover Invisible Motion in Video.

More of Ol' Jay's Brainteasers.

The Ultimate Fictional Baseball Team. This dream team is composed of the heroic and talented players from baseball movies we know and love.

Viral Video Stars Then and Now. They don't look different, but many have parlayed their moment in the sun into careers or or reality TV.

Making Roadkill Beautiful. Photographer Marian Drew takes dead animals, cleans them up, and places them in lovely settings for their final portraits.

Kimmies Harpin’ Boontling: A Dying American Dialect? Learn a little about the language spoken by only about a dozen people in California.

The disturbing rise of anorexia among very young children. It's too easy for kids to pick up our obsessions without really understanding them.
The Ultimate Fictional Baseball Team. This dream team is composed of the heroic and talented players from baseball movies we know and love.
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Viral Video Stars Then and Now. They don't look different, but many have parlayed their moment in the sun into careers or or reality TV.
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Eat Like a Greek: The Mediterranean Diet That Could Save Your Life. A new study touts the benefits of olive oil, nuts, and red wine.
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Making Roadkill Beautiful. Photographer Marian Drew takes dead animals, cleans them up, and places them in lovely settings for their final portraits.
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PBS made a cartoon explaining the the tongue-eating fish parasite Cymothoa exigua. Yeah, it's gross.
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Kimmies Harpin’ Boontling: A Dying American Dialect? Learn a little about the language spoken by only about a dozen people in California.
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Lago Epecuén: The Lake That Drowned A Thriving Tourist Village. And then 25 years later, it reappeared -wrecked, but recognizable.
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8 TV mashups almost as good as the originals. The Three Stooges starring in The A-Team? Yeah, I'll buy that!
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The disturbing rise of anorexia among very young children. It's too easy for kids to pick up our obsessions without really understanding them.

2 comments:

Old Geezer said...

It looks like Kentucky Man has outdone Florida Man.

Miss Cellania said...

Ha! Exactly what I thought when I skimmed through these!