2015 will be awesome

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Each New Year is Just Like The Old Year!

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Knock loud, I’m home.

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Throwing furniture, South Africa

 It’s the idea of starting the new year afresh that leads residents of Johannesburg, those in Hillsboro in particular, to throw old furniture out of their windows. Italians follow a similar tradition and, not wanting to be lumbered with anything unwanted, conduct an early spring clean by way of their windows.

  Strange New Year traditions around the world

 

30 great New Year quotes

"May all your troubles last as long as your New Year’s resolutions!”

JOEY ADAMS (1911-1999), American Comedian and author of the book Borscht Belt
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Goodbaye

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This Bebeh Harp Seal is getting ready for his first swim!

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Snowflakes All Fall In One of 35 Different Shapes

The stunning diversity of snowflakes gives rise to the idea that every single one is unique. While "no two flakes alike" might be an attractive metaphor, it isn’t entirely true. Yet that doesn’t stop us from peering at the intricate crystal structures caught on our mittens. It also doesn’t stop researchers from painstakingly cataloguing each and every type of crystal that might form. Thanks to their work, chemistry teacher Andy Brunning, who keeps the graphics and chemistry blog Compound Interest, has created a fascinating graphic that shows 39 kinds of solid precipitation, including 35 that are snow crystals or flakes.

 

Sam Cristoforetti's view from the International Space Station

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Is it 2015 yet?

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The Best Thing About 2014

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When is New Year for aliens?

New Year's resolutions are so difficult to keep up. A year lasts 365 days, and that's an awfully long time to go without chocolate or bickering with relatives. Aliens, if they exist, may have quite different attitudes to New Year's promises. That's because some planets have much shorter years than Earth's, while others are vastly longer. So depending where the extraterrestrials live, they might find their resolutions easy to keep – or impossibly difficult.
Why the drastic difference in year lengths?
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Stunning Time-Lapse Reveals Auroras and Earth From Space

Published this week, the time-lapse shows stunning views of the Earth, sunrises, clouds, lightning, auroras, stars, and the International Space Station.
 The video was made by European Space Agency astronaut Alexander Gerst, who stitched together 12,500 images captured during his six-month stay on the International Space Station, which orbits 250 miles (400 kilometers) above the surface. via

 

Improve Your Sexting With NSFW Emojis

Nowadays, as more and more people express sexual desires through non-verbal, electronic communication, Flirtmoji is valuable.

 

Historical Fiction

Calvin and Hobbes

 

John Oliver explains the 3 worst things about New Year's Eve

 Enter John Oliver, who likens December 31 to

"the death of a pet. You know it's going to happen, but somehow you're never truly prepared for how truly awful it is."

Pleasure In Ink

Apollonia Saintclair explores pleasure, intimacy, and sexual expressivity through erotic illustrations. From tangled hair, to parted lips, to the minute contours of the erogenous body, her masterful line work captures desire in detail. Her illustrations go far beyond titillating us in the conventional sense, however; with writhing tentacles and zippers embedded in flesh, many of her images are simultaneously arousing and unsettling. By conflating eroticism with elements of horror and the grotesque, she reminds us that sex and death are familiar lovers, and that desire so often involves a daring venture across boundaries into darkness and radical difference.
 For Saintclair, the artistic process begins in her own erotic imagination.

 

Argentina Has a Superstition That Seventh Sons Will Turn into Werewolves

Christina Fernández de Kirchner, the president of Argentina, got a new addition to her family last week when she adopted a 13-year-old Jewish boy named Yair Tawil as her godson, the Independent reports. Her motivations for doing so are based on a centuries-old legend that seventh sons will transform into werewolves.

 

Winter Layers

Photograph by Paul Nicklen, National Geographic

 

Key to Survival

Photograph by Matthieu Paley, National Geographic

 

What is love?

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Life

“ First no tooth fairy then no santa and no god and then your parents are only human your government is corrupt and the universe is a hologram. ”

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suck

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Sorry, Pal- Nothing Personal

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Croatians vote for new president

Croatians are electing a new president, with the poll seen as a test for the main political parties.
Apart from the incumbent president Ivo Josipovic, supported by the Social Democratic Party (SDP) and another parties in the ruling coalition, the other three candidates are diplomat and former minister Kolinda Grabar Kitarovic of the strongest Opposition party -- the Croatian Democratic Union (HDZ) --, gastroenterologist Milan Kujundzic, supported by "the Alliance for Croatia" consisting of the parliamentary HDSSB party and a few nonparliamentary parties and political activist and the youngest candidate in Croatia's presidential polls so far, Ivan Vilibor Sincic, 25, supported by civil society organisation "Human Barrier".
 If none of the four candidates wins more than 50% of the vote, there will be a runoff in two weeks time.