Seventh Inning Fetch

Check out this baseball game! The kid hits what looks like a home run. He starts running the bases, but their dog is taking his position at left field seriously. You're out! Then again, maybe the dog is fetching the ball and bringing it to the boy, just like he's been taught to do. (via reddit)

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Why Are They Called “Trailers" If They're Shown Before the Film? It’s all about how they developed over the history of movies.

The 31 Best Animal Photobombs Of All Time. Are they incorrigible attention-grabbers, or just curious?

Charlie the chicken looks better in pants than most humans do. Those stunning blue trousers are something even Foghorn Leghorn didn’t have.

5 Ancient Athletes Who Dominated the Olympics Thousands of Years Ago. It’s true that sports achievements go down in history.

The Sissies, Hustlers, and Hair Fairies Whose Defiant Lives Paved the Way For Stonewall.

My friend is a male model, I'm a dork in Brooklyn. Both are hot, if you ask me. (via reddit)

Everything What’s Wrong Of Possums: It’s All Of Them.

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HuffPo

This may be too much of an in-joke. HuffPo is notorious for hiring or contracting with both aspiring and experienced writers, then "letting" them write articles for the "exposure." From Married to the Sea.

Life Before Air Conditioning

Another mental_floss article I'm kind of proud of was published way back in 2007. While it may have a "back in my day" feel, there's some historical tidbits you may either relate to or find interesting in the article Life Before Air Conditioning.

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Smelliness, Anxiety, and Dominance. Research on the odor of emotion and personality.

You don’t have to be guilty of anything for your life to be screwed by the justice system. (via reddit)

Sports History Forgot About Tidye Pickett and Louise Stokes, Two Black Olympians Who Never Got Their Shot.

The 7 Types of Pets You'll Have In Your Lifetime.

How Zzyzx Road Got Its Name. It's the story of Curtis Howe Springer, "King of the Quacks.” (via Boing Boing)

Was This Ancient Egyptian Prince the World's First Archaeologist? Prince Khaemwaset studied even more ancient Egyptians.

Why David Cronenberg's The Fly Still Has Us Buzzing. It was believable enough to be truly terrifying.

The Notorious, Disastrous, Fascinating Island of Dr. Moreau. How did Marlon Brando starring in an H.G. Wells story turn out so badly?

This Runner Stopped In Her Olympics Final To Help Her Injured Competitor Finish. Nikki Hamblin has more than just the Olympic spirit going for her.

This Dear Abby advice is insanely sexist. Mid-century marital disasters were always the woman’s fault.

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Ridding Your Home of Pokémon

Forget collecting, training,and evolving, your home is your castle, and maybe all you want to do is relax. But what do you do when you home has become infested with characters from Pokémon Go? You might want to call an exterminator. This woman uses her flyswatter. This is a Dutch ad for a health care company. I don’t know what point they are trying to make with this video, but it’s kind of cute. (via Tastefully Offensive)

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George Ohr: The Mad Potter of Biloxi. He was right about achieving fame after his death.

Are Walking Dead spoilers protected by copyright law? AMC threatened to sue a forum if they predicted a spoiler correctly.

The Biochemist Behind Light Beer, the Greatest Marketing Gimmick the World Has Ever Seen. Whatever you do, don’t call it “diet beer.”

Coverage of female athletes at the Olympics is still terrible. It’s as if they only get the spotlight once every four years or something.

20 Things You Didn’t Know about Bruce Springsteen. http://moneyinc.com/things-you-didnt-know-about-bruce-springsteen/view-all

The Rules About How to Address the U.S. Flag Came About Because No One Wanted to Look Like a Nazi.

Some incidents covered in the Department of Justice’s investigation of the Baltimore Police Department. This will make you angry (via Fark)

The new blog McMansion Hell tells us about McMansion architectural design, attached garages that dominate the house, and a look at the front door. (via Metafilter)

Beware Of Women Who Sleep.

Are Rotisserie Chickens a Bargain?

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Trump Supporters React to Outrageous Campaign Ads

Triumph the Insult Comic Dog assembled some loyal Trump supporters as a focus group for some proposed campaign ads, which are not real at all. How weird do things have to get before they realize they are being trolled? By about minute 12 I was convinced this was a staged skit, and those can’t be regular Trump supporters. But Hulu swears they are. This is from Triumph's Summer Election Special 2016 available on Hulu. (via Digg)

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Hidden Figures

During World War II, women were called up to do “men’s jobs” because the men were off fighting the war. The best and brightest of these women were called into government service for the Manhattan Project and later for NASA, but most did not receive any recognition for their contributions. Even less likely to be in our school history books are the black women among them.

Margot Lee Shetterly grew up in a family of black scientists, engineers, technicians, and teachers. Her new book Hidden Figures: The American Dream and the Untold Story of the Black Women Mathematicians Who Helped Win the Space Race goes on sale next month and is already a movie. She writes:

After the start of World War II, Federal agencies and defense contractors across the country coped with a shortage of male number crunchers by hiring women with math skills. America’s aeronautical think tank, the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (the “NACA”), headquartered at Langley Research Laboratory in Hampton, Virginia, created a pool of female mathematicians who analyzed endless arrays of data from wind tunnel tests of airplane prototypes. Women were thought to be more detail-oriented, their smaller hands better suited for repetitive tasks on the Friden manual adding machines. A “girl” could be paid significantly less than a man for doing the same job. And male engineers, once freed from laborious math work, could focus on more “serious” conceptual and analytical projects.

The war also opened doors for African-Americans. In 1941, under pressure from labor and civil rights leaders such as A. Phillip Randolph, President Franklin Roosevelt signed Executive Order 8802, which created the Fair Employment Practices Committee, and prohibited race-based discrimination in the country’s defense industry. Shortly thereafter, help wanted notices began appearing in Negro newspapers around the country, looking for blacks to fill positions at Federal agencies and defense contractors. Langley advertised in Norfolk, VA’s Journal and Guide, seeking machine shop workers, laborers, janitors—and African-American women with math degrees.

These women were nearly all top graduates of historically black colleges such as Hampton Institute, Virginia State and Wilberforce University. Though they did the same work as the white women hired at the time, they were cloistered away in their own segregated office in the West Area of the Langley campus-- thus the moniker, the West Computers.  But despite the hardships of working under Virginia's Jim Crow laws, these women went on to make significant contributions to aeronautics, astronautics, and America's victory over the Soviet Union in the Space Race.

You can pre-order the book to be released September 6, and the film Hidden Figures will hit theaters in January. (via The Mary Sue)

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Dødsing

Oh, that looks painful. It may look like a belly-flop contest, but this Norwegian sport is called dødsing. The video was taken at an event at Frognerbadet in Oslo this past Saturday. Redditor aMagnu explains how it’s done.

It's not a bellyflop competition, it's called dødsing which kinda translates do "deathing". The idea is that you spread out as you would for a bellyflop, but tuck into a sort of folded-in-half-dive right before hitting the water. The contestants are scored based on style and how long they wait before tucking in. I'm pretty sure a full-blown bellyflop from that height (10m) is potentially very harmfull. As the name implies it's about narrowly avoiding death.

Phunkstar, who is actually in the video, explains the history of dødsing.

Well, there's a context where this is natural, let me just say that up front. In the end of the 60's / beginning of the 70's, Oslo youth would hang out at the pool where this diving tower is, and the "rebels" would dare each other to do døds to impress the girls, but also to be a counter culture to the more established and more elegant traditional divers. Diving has strict rules and has to be elegant, and Oslo is a divided city in many ways. Working class on the east side, posh people from the west side. Diving was a classical west side activity, along with tennis and golf, and so dødsing was a massive middle finger from the east side boys to show that they could do daring stuff as well, and much cooler. Along the coast of Norway there are also a lot of cliffs that are perfect for jumping so dødsing has spread out of Oslo all over the place and is a typical summer activity for many who are into this sort of thing. Another thing to note is that other there are other diving towers with 10m platforms close by Oslo, and they are not regulated, so there are no rules. People do shit like this because it is fun, and to impress their mates and girls basically.

Give it a few years, and this will be an Olympic event. Read more from those who participate in dødsing at reddit. (via Digg)

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John Oliver on Automobile Lending

John Oliver explains how auto loans are a form of predatory lending on his HBO show Last Week Tonight.