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Hovertext: That’s the safe word! New comic!Today’s News:  In honor of Her August Presence, it has been renamed the Weinersmithsonian Museum. ift.tt/1So372y via Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal ift.tt/gvqPHa

All week I’ve been in NYC with Kelli and Sasha for photoshoots and to celebrate ift.tt/eA8V8J via Design*Sponge ift.tt/qZ1yy6

Highgarden strikes me as a likely one of the best regions in Westeros in which to dine. Seriously. So when Margaery won the last round of voting for character themed meals, I was more than a little excited. You all were…

Creating a successful web site or blog on the internet isn’t as easy as it used to be. With more people now on the internet than ever before, and WordPress making it so easy for anyone to start a site……

At a luxury hotel in Maui, representatives from the 12 countries participating in the highly controversial and secretive Trans-Pacific Partnership trade deal are negotiating behind closed doors. Thanks to a secret letter from a 2013 meeting, released today by WikiLeaks,…

In the past few years, the curtain has slowly been lifting to expose some of the horrifying realities of the fishing industry. Gut-wrenching stories have surfaced of slave laborers forced to work in deplorable conditions: starved, beaten, and worked for…

Yesterday, NASA made a couple of playlists intended for aliens available on its official Soundcloud profile. The tracks come from the Golden Record, a set of recordings, images, and messages that scientists attached to the Voyager 1 probe. NASA launched…

(Photo: wavebreakmedia/shutterstock.com) It’s 2015, and living half your life online is unavoidable. Our personal computers have become like extensions of our brains and bodies, portals to a world where we can assume new identities, interact with strangers across the globe,…

"Imagination is the precursor to policy, the precondition to action. Imagination, like wonder, allows us to value something." ift.tt/eA8V8J via Brain Pickings ift.tt/eix1n1

While our presidents praise America’s magnificent national park system, they’re not maintaining them. Bill Clinton, for example, spoke of how lucky he was to have Hot Springs National Park as a childhood playground. Yet he sat idle as that park’s…

Hovertext: In fairness, my entire existence is an affectation. New comic!Today’s News: ift.tt/1S7GRcQ via Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal ift.tt/gvqPHa

Maurice Sendak, Lisbeth Zwerger, Edward Gorey, David Hockney, Shaun Tan, and more. ift.tt/eA8V8J via Brain Pickings ift.tt/eix1n1

"True adulthood… is a difficult beauty, an intensely hard won glory, which commercial forces and cultural vapidity should not be permitted to deprive you of." ift.tt/eA8V8J via Brain Pickings ift.tt/eix1n1

Why does the Sombrero Galaxy look like a hat? ift.tt/1S5Wf9S via APOD ift.tt/1c2tsI7

East of Eden? No, East of Isidis Planitia ift.tt/1fvR6pG via BEAUTIFUL MARS ift.tt/1uIlcsI

We asked you what the future of artificial intelligence would look like, and you showed us. Terraform has just wrapped our Post-Human contest with AMC, and we’ve spent the last week up to our eyeballs in AI. We got far…