— Christian D. Harris (@chrxstianh__) February 13, 2019
(via Buzzfeed)
Friday, February 22, 2019
Thursday, February 21, 2019
True Facts: The Lemur
Ze Frank has another edition of the delicious and ridiculous True Facts series, this one about various species of lemur. These relatively small primates are both amusing and endangered. Warning: contains potty humor and brief glimpses of lemur genitals and mating. (via Laughing Squid)
Gary
It has been scientifically proven that cats are among the smartest creatures in the animal kingdom. Then there's Gary. pic.twitter.com/frI7gmwmS9— Paul Bronks (@SlenderSherbet) February 18, 2019
(via Nag on the Lake)
Snow Day
I wish I had done this when my kids were little. But it couldn't have worked. By the time I was in a position to be home during the school day, my kids were already old enough to know how to check school closings on snowy days. This comic is from Chris at Lunarbaboon.
The Hong Kong Handover
Britain's 99-year lease on Hong Kong was up in 1997, but it's not easy to integrate a British colony into the larger China. You might recall the fireworks at the handover, but there was a lot more involved in the celebrations of the day, and plans for a transition that continues today. Wendover Productions explains what happened during the handover. They don't touch on the most noticeable conundrum: Hong Kong traffic still uses the left side of the road, while cars in China travel on the right. (via Digg)
Miss Cellania's Links
Randy Rainbow's new parody song is "Border Lies," set to the tune of Madonna's first hit "Borderline." Trump takes part.
Hot, Small, or Couch, Why Potatoes Make Great Idioms.
Nathan J. Robinson explains socialism. "What unites socialists in one big tent is a hatred of the concentration of wealth, and a belief that ordinary laborers deserve a fair share of the social product." (via Metafilter)
Why Flying On The Hindenburg Zeppelin Was So Expensive. Take a peek into the luxury travel offered in a gallery of photos.
Why parallax scrolling needs to die. It was cool for a minute, but now is just annoying.
Remembering Lee, Jackie O’s Naughty Kid Sister.
Do Jails Kill People? The former chief medical officer for Riker's Island explains what happens.
The Banana Splits: Trippy 1960s Kids Show Returns As Horror Project? (via Boing Boing)
Trump Doesn't Want A Woman Who Left The US For ISIS To Return. Her Lawyers Say She's A Citizen. Strange that the argument is over her citizenship instead of what she did.
A blast from the past (2008): 8 Television Pioneers.
The Return of Risky Playgrounds
Over time, public playgrounds have become safer: metal apparatuses were replaced by wood and then plastic, concrete or gravel was replaced by grass and then recycled rubber pellets, and anything that could conceivably present a risk was removed. Kids crave thrills, independence, creativity, and a feeling of accomplishment, which is why you take your kid to a playground and find them climbing the fence instead of the plastic ladder. "Adventure playgrounds" are different. They have building materials and tools for children to design their own equipment. They allow children to take risks while still in a controlled environment, which teaches them how to judge risks. And kids have way more fun.
Tweet of the Day
My sister accidentally locked me out of the house so I went to check if the back door was unlocked and this happened pic.twitter.com/2zkjeyFJk5— Gabby Tropea (@gabbytropea) February 18, 2019
This cat is a hero! (via Boing Boing)
Wednesday, February 20, 2019
Explosives Expert Rates Movie Explosions
You know all those movie scenes where the main characters walk away from a huge explosion? How accurate could that possibly be? And how about that time Indiana Jones hid in a refrigerator to survive a nuclear blast? Columbia University explosives engineer Rodger Cornell goes through quite a few of these famous film scenes to rate their accuracy and explain how real explosions work and the damage they can doing in real life. (via Geeks Are Sexy)
When the Mountain Fell Down
If you didn't know what was happening, you might get the feeling that the road you're on is just rising up! You get the idea that they had some warning, what with the camera and the roadblock and all. This happened in Nara Prefecture, Japan. Redditor notbueno explains.
It’s called a translational landslide, which is a slope failure where a block of land stays mostly intact and moves downslope along a slip plane. This one (in Nara Prefecture, Japan, 2004) resulted in the partial blockage of a river and a road being destroyed along a short section.(via reddit)
Once There Was This Squirrel
Not all stories are fables. The real moral to this one is that fables are hard. This comic is from Jim Benton. (via Geeks Are Sexy)
Miss Cellania's Links
The magical thinking of guys who love logic. Why so many men online love to use “logic” to win an argument, and then disappear before they can find out they're wrong.
This Spider's Eyes Still Glow, 110 Million Years Later. (via Mashable)
Strato Lizzie, the Mascot Cat of the TWA Pilots at NYC’s LaGuardia Airport. (via Strange Company)
The disturbing hypothesis for the sudden uptick in chronic kidney disease.
What's at the Edge of the Universe? Gizmodo asked various scientists.
Elephants are Evolving to Lose Their Tusks. We are seeing evolution in action as pachyderms respond to changing conditions. (via TYWKIWDBI)
Financial Windfalls: 15 Stories of the Money That Changed Everything. (via Digg)
So apparently Janky gets jealous of anything...
Great White Sharks May be to Blame for Megalodon's Extinction. (via Smithsonian)
A blast from the past (2013): 7 More Really Weird Musical Instruments.
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