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“According to a new study, smog is drifting across the Pacific Ocean from China and polluting our West Coast. Can’t we make anything in this country anymore?” – Jay Leno 
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13 Hilariously Absurd Inventions That Deserve to Be Real

Given the chance to redesign our world, there would probably be a few things we’d all like to change. Sure we could tackle the obvious ones like restructuring poorly designed highways or creating an effective mass transit system for a sprawling metropolis, but let’s get a little more creative than that. For instance, what if we could genetically modify peas into squares, so they’d stop rolling around on our plates? Or turn shrubs and lawns into sponges to prevent flooding? What would happen if you carried around an umbrella with a built-in garden on top? Sure, you wouldn’t save the world, but it might become a more interesting place. These fanciful ideas are just a few examples plucked from
Dominic Wilcox’s sprawling notebook of clever inventions.

 

Mom! Maybe next time I can ride on your back like the others guys do with THEIR moms?

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Human Faces Might Only Express Four Basic Emotions

How many facial expressions can you make? Offhand, you might guess ten, or twenty, from fear to disgust to sadness to joy to skepticism. But researchers now say that human faces might only be able to make four universally recognized facial expressions.

 

Facebook, the world’s most widely used social network, celebrates its 10th anniversary today.

It’s come a long way from its beginnings as a wayward Harvard student’s dorm room hack. From Facemash, to “thefacebook,” to its official public debut in September 2006, to its May 2012 IPO, the social network and has undergone some pretty massive transformations in a relatively short time. Today, Facebook has 1.26 billion registered users who record 3.2 billion likes per day. The company can also claim one of the most successful initial public offerings in history, and despite criticism that it’s dead to teens (or dying in general), the social network continues to expand into new avenues and new global markets. But it’s just not the company’s grand $5 billion debut that marks its success as an internet giant. It’s things like News Feed, the Facebook Platform, and other successful experiments that define Facebook and the people behind it. In short, none of the social network’s success would have been possible without constant iteration and innovation. While not everything Facebook tried was a hit , the company learned from its mistakes and moved forward. With that in mind, here are decade’s worth of Facebook milestones.

Simon’s Cat does his best to impress his Valentine!

Out at Sea

Photography by Nikolai Tcyrulnikov

 

Wikipedia Archiving Voices So You'll Always Know How Celebs Sound

What's in a voice? To the folks at Wikipedia, the online encyclopedia, a voice means a lot. They've begun a project to archive the voices of famous people. Actor Dustin Hoffman, writer John Updike, scientist Jane Goodall and Nobel Peace Prize winner Aung San Suu Kyi are among the audio clips now found in Wikipedia's biographical entries. Formally called Wikipedia's Voice Introduction Project, it aims to collect 10-second sound recordings of anyone with a bio page on Wikipedia. The BBC is helping, by providing a lot of its archival audio through an open license.
 Wikipedia expert Andy Mabbett is one of the people helming the project and spoke with NPR.

 

Are you sad about being alone on Valentine's Day?

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Coke’s Wild Assertion That Other Languages Exist Stirs Controversy

 The Coca-Cola Company ignited a firestorm of controversy on Sunday with a Super Bowl ad that appeared to make the inflammatory claim that other languages besides English exist. From coast to coast, viewers reacted with outrage and horror to what many were calling the most incendiary Super Bowl ad in history. “I was enjoying the Super Bowl with my family, and suddenly, out of nowhere, comes this ad suggesting that there are other languages that aren’t English,” said Carol Foyler, a mother of three from Akron, Ohio. “I grabbed the remote and turned it off. My kids shouldn’t be exposed to garbage that’s just going to confuse them.” The Alliance for Responsible Advertising, a conservative watchdog group that monitors advertising it considers offensive and unfit for family viewing, issued a statement demanding that Coke apologize for the controversial ad and promise never to air it again. “Last night, Coke assaulted millions of Americans with its misguided and inappropriate view that other languages exist,” the statement said. “In the future, we strongly hope that Coke will keep its crazy theories to itself.” Andy Borowitz

Six More Weeks of Winter?!

There’s only one thing for that. OK, two things.

 

There's a chill in the air

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Klingon Valentine's Day Cards

With these Klingon Valentine's Day Cards in hand, pretty soon, you'll be ducking heavy objects.

 

Can couples really get stuck together during sex?

Homer described how Mars and Venus were caught together to the "inextinguishable laughter" of the Gods (Joachim Anthonisz, J. Paul Getty Museum collection) 

 It sounds like a scene from a trashy sex comedy. But stories of getting stuck during sex have been with us for centuries - and some of them might just be true.

 

Russian Wedding Photos

What on Earth are these people doing?

 

Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson

Philip Seymour Hoffman, Actor, Dies at 46

The actor Philip Seymour Hoffman was found dead in his New York apartment on Sunday morning of an apparent drug overdose, according to a law enforcement official who requested anonymity because he was not certain the actor’s family had been informed of the death. The official said Mr. Hoffman, 46, was found in his West Village apartment around 11:30 a.m. by a friend who had become concerned at not being able to reach Mr. Hoffman.

 

Hole lotta love

Two black holes begin merging into one, in this image created by Nasa; it believes two black holes are currently merging some 3.8 billion light years from Earth.

 

Woody Allen sex abuse claim renewed

The adopted daughter of Woody Allen and actress Mia Farrow renews claims, in an open letter, that the filmmaker "sexually abused" her as a child.

 

Shadow Seen! Groundhog Predicts 6 More Weeks Of Cold

Punxsutawney Phil, the "prognosticator of prognosticators" saw his shadow after being roused from hibernation just long enough to make his annual prediction.
 That means ... six more weeks of winter.

 

Capybaras So Cute You Can Taste It

Japanese kawaii-style capybaras!

 

Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson

You can’t resist, so just give up now.

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Extremely Loud And Incredibly Close

For diehard football fans, nothing beats screaming your lungs out in the stadium alongside tens of thousands of other fans. There is, however, a downside: hearing loss. With the battle among fans to be the loudest crowd getting almost as competitive as the NFL itself, hearing experts say it's time for a serious conversation about the damage caused by crowd noise.

 

Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson

Antarctica's Blood Red Waterfall

On the southern edge of the world, a waterfall runs red as blood.

 

Strong wind and icy roads in Croatia

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