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The internet and I discovered a strange little world today, the Mountains of Mouthness. It’s a website hosting an interactive 3D graphic that consists of two animated mountains loudly reciting tweets sent either with to handle @momountains or with the…

It is one of the more massive galaxies known. ift.tt/1EBCpee via APOD ift.tt/1c2tsI7

What’s happening to Comet 67P/Churyumov�Gerasimenko? ift.tt/1bgAcZQ via APOD ift.tt/1c2tsI7

Mazel tov, it’s a global baby boy! The egg was from a South African donor; the sperm was from Israel. The surrogate mom lived in Nepal. And when the dads came to meet their son, an earthquake struck. ift.tt/eA8V8J via…

President Obama recently declared: “We’ve got to make sure we’re writing the rules so that we’ve got a level playing field.” Wow – so much “we” in only one sentence. He was talking about his Trans-Pacific Partnership – but who…

From a 1905 sheet-music cover. “That parrot,” he said at last. “You know something? It had me completely fooled when I first saw it through the window. I could have sworn it was alive.” “Alas, no longer.” “It’s most terribly…

In his latest video, Destin Sandlin of Smarter Every Day tells the curious tale of how a special bicycle with mechanically flip-flopped steering ruins his ability to ride a normal bicycle. The story begins when a welder friend gives Sandlin…

What’s that in front of the Moon? ift.tt/1DB1n9M via APOD ift.tt/1c2tsI7

The Dr. Frankensteins on our Supreme Court created a monster by declaring that a lifeless, soulless corporation is a "person." But why stop there? Another coterie of Frankensteins is now trying to transform multinational private corporations into "nations." Their secretly-engineered…

The candy colored clown they call the Qyburn / Tiptoes to my room every night ift.tt/1PTeJWv via ALL LEATHER MUST BE BOILED ift.tt/1b8W9aj

​The universe is expanding and will continue to do so until it is a cold and seemingly empty void. As best as we can tell, this is the destination of all existence—the “where.” But the “why” and the “how” are…

This is the recipe created by Jenn Fujikawa of how to make a bundt cake with surprise Bigfoot shapes inside. Basically you cook a chocolate cake, use a Bigfoot shaped cookie cutter to cut out some Bigfoots, then add those…

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​Thiovulum majus is already a strange-enough form of bacteria. For one thing, it’s big, relatively speaking, existing as 5- to 20-micrometer spherical cells. The cells also exhibit some unique collective behavior—as residents of saltwater marshes surviving on oxygen harvested from…

“Too Many Kings” by Alex Cohen is a Game of Thrones-themed parody of the bizarre Internet sensation “Too Many Cooks” that originally ran as a late night infomercial on Cartoon Network‘s Adult Swim. Cohen’s spoof expertly uses footage from the HBO series…

The ‘holographic principle,’ the idea that a universe with gravity can be described by a quantum field theory in fewer dimensions, has been used for years as a mathematical tool in strange curved spaces. New results suggest that the holographic…