Thin Mints

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Why Everyone Should Have a Cat

Simon Tofield of Simon's cat has a guest star- Anna Akana tells of the many reasons you should consider having your own cat.

Population Distribution

The world divided into 4 equal parts [🗾 justforstev24] Original post

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I looked at this and said, India doesn't have two billion people! India has 1.4 billion, but this map includes Pakistan, Bangladesh, and a couple other countries in that quadrant.

When Idioms Attack

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Kronos

The 1957 film Kronos was also marketed as Kronos, Destroyer of the Universe and Kronos, Ravager of Planets. It was made in two weeks on a budget of $130,000. Kronos is an alien robot that comes to earth to steal energy, so it attacks power plants, after stealing the mind of a scientist. The more energy the robot gathers, the larger it gets. The special effects were fairly good for its time, and the subject of limited energy supplies was prescient. WTM says it might be the first movie he ever watched. This colorized version is only 1:16:35 long; after that, it's someone's home movie, as if this was ripped from a VHS tape. (Thanks, WTM!) 

Doctor

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James Bond 003 (years old)

This guy makes movies with his three-year-old son. Here, the child is Bond, James Bond. (via reddit) 

Grizzly Bear

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Royal Inbreeding

Somewhere along the lines, a long time ago, ruling families got the idea that their blood was better than everyone else's, so they wanted keep reproduction in the family, so to speak. This was also a convenient way to keep inherited wealth from being divided. But inbreeding will catch up with you sooner or later, as more and more harmful genes get doubled up. The case we are most familiar with is that of Charles II of Spain, whose family tree was not only a wreath, but even more like an Euler diagram. 

But he was far from the only victim of royal inbreeding. It's been pretty common in Europe. Loony Throne takes us through ten royals in which inbreeding made a lasting mark on history. 

Car Story

The only time I ever bought a new car was in 1983. I was looking for a used car, but everything available seemed awful. It was the end of the model year, so I got a deal on a stripped down new Plymouth Champ. It didn't even have an FM radio. I told Mom I might call it "Bullet" because it was silver and sloped in the front. She said I should name it "Little Old Lady" because it was small, gray, and didn't go very fast. I drove Little Old Lady for about ten years. 

The fall of 1983 was a weird time to buy a car. One dealer tried to sell me a new '82 DeLorean. There was no way I could afford even a deeply-discounted DeLorean, but I humored him a while. I asked where I would be able to get it serviced. He said, "Right here! Until I get these four sold." We both laughed at that. 

Since then, I've sometimes wondered about that dealer. If he held onto those four cars until that movie came out in 1985, he would have made a killing. But it was more likely he took a loss. 

Skip ahead twenty years or so, and I wrote an article for Mental Floss on cars as metaphors. In a list of about ten vehicles, I used the DeLorean as a symbol of "hubris and failure" because of John DeLorean's story. I got my first lesson in being an out-of-touch Boomer when I was raked over the coals in the comments. The DeLorean was a metaphor for "time machine"! Yeah, I saw the movie, in which the DeLorean was used as a joke (and a good one at the time). But I didn't realize how much that film meant to the Gen X kids who saw it. I learned my lesson about how things change.   

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The Dancing Movies

Diego Carrera made an extremely pleasant music video that uses well-edited dancing clips from movies you've seen. Or at least most of them. They run the gamut from Al Jolson to Emma Stone -and it ends with a clip from 1896. (via Digg)

Autocorrect or AI Prophesy?

Incidentally somehow autocorrect changed my attempt to wrote "my astronomy" as "my obituary" and WHAT DO YOU KNOW THAT YOU'RE NOT TELLING ME AUTOCORRECT

— Phil Plait (@philplait.bsky.social) April 29, 2026 at 11:48 PM

Cuddles

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Why Bees Mostly Ignore The Waggle Dance

Bees have always been impressive. They pollinate our crops, make honey, and wax, too. Then we found out they communicate complex ideas to each other by dancing, and that's even more impressive. They're insects! And now we find out that other bees who witness the dance understand it, but have to weigh the pros and cons of taking that bee's advice, which includes calculating odds. Bees are way more intelligent than they've been given credit for. (via Laughing Squid) 

Wildlife Warning

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Forensic Linguistics

Forensic linguistics deals with the study of language used in legal cases. Not lawyer talk, but things like figuring out who wrote something when they aren't identified. I've been delving into that type of thing just yesterday, in reading about Trota of Salerno and what she did and didn't write, and Luke, who wrote two books of the Bible. So I was surprised to see a video about the science of these investigations. 

FBI forensic linguists learned an awful lot about the Unibomber by the manifesto he released. It didn't contain any identifying information, but it was so long that his writing style was a treasure trove of clues. Most communications from unknown perpetrators are much shorter, but there are techniques that police can use to trace them back to a suspect. Half as Interesting shows us some of those techniques that have cracked cases before just from some anonymous writing.  

Pope Leo

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"Psycho-Push-it" by Salt-Knot

Master mixer Bill McClintock is back with his latest project, which basically uses the instrumental track of Slipknot's 2008 song "Psychosocial" with the vocals from Salt-N-Pepa's 1987 rap-dance hit "Push It." To be honest, this mashup actually includes music and lyrics from both songs, to mix things up a bit. It works well, which is what McClintock does. He finds the most disparate songs you can think of and makes them sound good together. 

Miss Cellania's Links

Thiess of Kaltenbrun, the Benevolent Werewolf. (via Strange Company) 

Jennifer Kamrass confessed her worries to her therapist: her marriage, her finances, and self-esteem. Therapists are legally and ethically bound to confidentiality, but two years later, a transcript of every word Kamrass had typed to her psychologist using the app Talkspace was produced in court by her former employer. (via Metafilter) 

Practical concerns with the afterlife. 

Every New Car Could Become a Surveillance Machine by 2027 — And It May Decide If You Can Drive. By the time I move up to the '27 model, I'll be too old to drive. (via Fark) 

“We Must Be Up Inside the Cyclone!” Except we know it was really a tornado that carried Dorothy's house away. (via TYWKIWDBI) 

Trump Reveals Plan to Turn All Schools into Ballrooms. The latest from Tom the Dancing Bug. 

A History of Mario, Nintendo’s Golden Boy. In 45 years, the character has gone from a nameless avatar in arcades to a pop-culture icon — and maybe saved gaming along the way. (via Everlasting Blort) 

Not now, Sheila, I'm on duty. 

The Fertility Drug Derived From Nuns' Urine.