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Pre-Blonsky, Post-Blonsky, and Non-Blonsky Devices.

Hilarious Star Wars: The Force Awakens Meme Compilation.

Atticus Finch and the limits of Southern liberalism.

Ten Of The Funniest Video Game Mashup Shorts Ever Made.

Tic-Tac-Toe Day is Coming! That’s three in a row: 12-13-14. (Thanks, Ron!)

What Police Forces Look Like Around The World. They each have their own style of riot gear.

10 TV Events to Look Out For In December. Only one of them is a Christmas special!

Why our homes — not offices — are largely responsible for the gender pay gap. And this new study instantly absolves corporate America of any responsibility in that area.

Cannibals of the Old West. With a bonus family reunion in the comments.

My Brother

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Sybil and the Debate Over Multiple Personality Disorder

If you read The Three Faces of Eve or Sybil, you are familiar with Multiple Personality Disorder (MPD). Both books were based on real patients. The syndrome became a handy plot point for many crimes shows. However, in the years since, there has been doubt cast that the disorder even exists as those cases presented. The New York Times produced this video, along with an article exploring what we know and what we don’t know about the most famous MPD patient, Shirley Mason, who became known to the world as Sybil. (via mental_floss)

12 Pop Culture Cookbooks

Everyone could use a cookbook. Experienced cooks are always looking for something new to try, and beginner cooks can use step-by-step instructions. But you want to give a gift that’s special and meaningful to someone you love! You can combine the utility of a cookbook with the personal touch of your loved one’s favorite book, movie, or TV show with cookbooks that have the added value of a connection to that particular world they enjoy. Check out a dozen of them in this list I posted at mental_floss.

Elected Officials

(via Bad Newspaper)

Dance Like Nobody’s Watching

This guy at a hotel in West Virginia gets down to Salt-N-Pepa’s “Push It” on the dance floor. While the rest of us use age and weight as an excuse to not dance, he shows us all up. The video uploader said there weren’t even his best moves of the night. (via Daily Picks and Flicks)

Frosting

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Time Trap

A space traveler of the future has a malfunction and must land on earth. Although no one is left to greet him, he has a “time trap,” a device which allows him to look into the past to find what he needs to repair his space ship. This short film by Michael Shanks is both intriguing and funny. (via Tastefully Offensive)

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Billion-dollar Babies: The Story of Beanie Babies. With an explanation of how carefully manipulated scarcity caused collectors to lose their minds.

Chris Rock on the state of the world. There are a lot of intriguing observations in the interview. (via Metafilter) 

A brief history of DIY spaceflight. Throughout history, people have been convinced they could do a better job -and sometimes they were right.

Watch Eerily Beautiful Drone Footage of Pripyat, Ukraine. The ghost town has been uninhabited and radioactive since the 1986 Chernobyl disaster.

The clothing company Shinesty recently unveiled a new line of men’s suits based on ugly Christmas sweater designs.

My Vassar College Faculty ID Makes Everything OK. “…scars accumulated in battles won sometimes hurt more than battles lost.”

Numbers Instead of Names on the Forgotten Graves of Asylum Patients. A visit to Letchworth Village in New York reveals the few remains of their existence.

11 Things You Should Know About Rocky & Bullwinkle. Moose and Squirrel were more than you could grasp as a child.

The Science of Why Cops Shoot Young Black Men.

Blankee

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16 Holiday Life Hacks

The mental_floss List Show hit the internet early this week -and it’s a good thing,because you can use some of the tips in this list. Others, not so much. John Green tests some holiday “hacks” to see if they are really useful or not worth wasting your time. That thing about wrapping lights around a coffee can really defeats the purpose of packing things away -if you have as many Christmas lights as I do, those coffee cans would take up an entire room! I can tell you what gets pine sap off your hands: a mixture of mineral spirits and dishwashing liquid. It removes epoxy, too. (via Tastefully Offensive)   

The Committee

(via Bad Newspaper)

The Avengers as a 1978 TV Movie

If you wanted to remake the Marvel movie The Avengers as a retro made-for-TV movie from the 1970s, you wouldn’t even have to shoot film, because it’s already been done. All you’d have to do is go through the TV archives and edit our favorite superheroes together. They’re all here: the Hulk, Captain America, Thor, Iron Man, Black Widow, and Hawkeye (which is a bit of a stretch, but it’s funny enough to let slide). We’ve also got Loki and KISS as super villains, which would work quite well. (via Laughing Squid)

Poor Luke

(via reddit)

Keystone Kops

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Cats Confused by Glass Tables

When a cat sees something it wants, it’s time to go for it, whether it’s behind glass or not. These cats don’t quite understand this magic force field that is keeping them from their object of desire! Strange how these same cats can deal with a window just fine, but maybe they look at windows as the big separation between “inside” and “outside.” A glass table may be harder to rationalize. It’s all fun and games until the cat breaks the glass. (via Tastefully Offensive)

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10 Religious Holidays Not Yet Exploited by Hallmark.

10 Life Lessons Atticus Finch Taught Us in To Kill A Mockingbird. You’ll remember as soon as you see Gregory Peck fill those big shoes.

Big Cat Tracker Boone Smith Says We 'Have A Responsibility' To Protect Lions. Otherwise, they may be extinct by 2050.

20 Awesome Holiday Gifts for the Movie Geek in Your Life. They will appreciate the gift, and appreciate how well you understand their passion.

How Eating 'Healthy' Can Be Unhealthy. Could you ever become a victim of orthorexia nervosa?

A Deep Look At The Droid In The New Star Wars Trailer. You’ll learn more about fictional astromechs than you thought there was to know.

Real Santa Clauses.

The World’s Longest Straightaway. (via the Presurfer)

What Do We Know About Mormon Leader Joseph Smith's Wives?

The Gigantic, Secretive Market Where France’s Top Chefs Buy Their Food. (via Dark Roasted Blend)

Household Appliances

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Singing Along to his Favorite Song

It’s adorable when little kids do it, and it’s even cuter when a puppy does it. Oakley, a young Australian shepherd, is sleeping in the car when the strains of his favorite song come on the radio. He wakes up and has to sing along! Then when someone changes the station, he goes right back to sleep. (via reddit)