Music: "Soulful Dress," Sugar Pie DeSanto (1962)
-Happy March 14. Sugar Pie DeSanto has an amazing voice.
Watch videoHappy March 14. Sugar Pie DeSanto has an amazing voice.
Watch videoWhat I enjoy about this $5 herb grinder is not the clever design resembling a stack of silver dollars, but rather the low price.
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Stefan Lanka, a "vaccination skeptic" who claims that measles are a psychosomatic condition brought on by "traumatic separations," publicly challenged people to prove that measles was caused by a virus.
Read the restYoutube sensation Whitney Avalon has a brilliant new entry to her amazing Rap Battles series: a rude, hilarious battle between Belle and Cinderella, starring Buffy's Sarah Michelle Gellar.
Watch videoI bought the Amazon Fire TV Stick video streamer at the pre-order price of $20. It's now $39, but still a good deal.
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Want to make a friend or loved one hate you? Give them this. I'm not linking to the online store that sells it because it's too awful.
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In honor of today, please enjoy Harry Manfedini's "Overlay of Evil/Main Title" from the score to Friday the 13th (1980).
Read the restKarl Rove, Colin Powell, Jeb Bush, Sarah Palin, and Chris Christie have all done pretty much the same thing.
Read the restSome 1,450 sea lions have washed up on California beaches this year, in what animal experts call a growing crisis for the animal.
Read the restCongrats, tail number N829BM. That was very Florida Man of you.
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NASA's One-Year Mission, which launches this month, will focus on seven categories of research.
Watch videoBB pal Oni Hartstein reminds us that her (Re)Generation Who three-day convention kicks off in Hunt Valley, MD on March 27!
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A.J. Jacobs (shown here with his [very distant] cousin Olivia Wilde) and a group of researchers are building the world's largest family tree.
Watch video“SHIT! THERE’S TIN FOIL ON THE RUNWAY!”
Read the restSome crazy Finns made a flying snowmobile, and in this video you can watch them glide down off a mountain in Riksgränsen, Sweden.
Watch videoI can't even begin to understand how this little boy's brain is working, or exactly what the method is, but it's fascinating.
Watch video"Mealworms are one of the easiest, cheapest, and most space efficient ways to raise protein for you or your animals."
Read the rest“Dad gummit!”
Watch videoRoz Chast draws a comic about her parents getting old and dying. Sometimes her account is funny, sometimes it’s poignant; always it’s memorable, even though her parent’s life and death were ordinary in most respects.
Read the restA wonderful four year old girl offers a valuable lesson in self esteem.
Watch videoI've not seen this particular video of the 2011 Japan tsunami, but it shows just how nightmarishly devastating it was.
Watch videoThere's only one way for Pastor Creflo Dollar to "continue to spread the gospel of grace around the world" and that's by donating $65 million dollars so he can have a Gulfstream G650 jet.
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Rather than focusing on the heavily armed soldiers who populate most war games, This War of Mine made headlines last year by simulating the experiences of a very different group of people: civilian survivors.
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From Mitchell Moffit and Greg Brown, whose new book, AsapSCIENCE: Answers to the World's Weirdest Questions, Most Persistent Rumors, and Unexplained Phenomena, comes out next week.
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The talented Hiné Mizushima, is an illustrator, slow crafter, doll maker, and puppet stop-motion animation video artist living in Vancouver. Her latest creation is this clever felted Apple Watch.
Read the restAustralia's National Health and Medical Research Council reviewed 225 research papers on homeopathy and came to the conclusion that "there are no health conditions for which there is reliable evidence that homeopathy is effective."
DiscussAnything can happen in the world of pretend. Microscope is a pen-and-paper game of "fractal history" that forces us to reexamine the rules of the real Read the rest
Terry Pratchett, a treasure of a writer, a gem of a human being, and a credit to our species, has died, far too soon, at the age of 66.
Read the restSarah Monette joins Veronica Belmont and Tom Merritt on the latest podcast. Read the rest
I haven't decided whether or not I'll become a mother. I'm at the age where I think a lot about it, and a lot of times, it frightens me.
Read the restAaron Swartz found out the hard way that you can't expect justice from the Department of Justice: what should the next Aaron Swartz do when facing decades in prison for information activism? Read the rest
Game makers find inspiration at Lost Levels, an intimate and involving gathering where anything seems possible Read the rest
"After I graduated from college in '68, it wasn't long before I received a letter from my draft board back in southern Idaho." Originally published in Real Stuff #7, June 1992. Illustrated by Donna Barr. Read the rest
Tom the Dancing Bug, IN WHICH Hollingsworth Hound explains the counterintuitive ways in which he wants to help the lower and middle classes (SPOILER ALERT: they all happen to do so by helping the wealthy first). Read the rest
Unconventional titles that focus on consent, care, and collaboration offer a softer future—even if the spanking is very, very hard. Read the rest
How twenty-three innocent Afghani civilians were wiped out by self-deceiving drone operators seven and a half thousand miles away. Read the rest
One of Breaking Bad's finest characters gets an episode in the spotlight Read the rest
This mysterious marine adventure is for those with the sea in their hearts and an iOS device in their hands. Read the rest
Paradox Interactive creates elaborate strategy games that are unusually popular with women. Susana Meza-Graham and Sara Wendel-Örtqvist explain why. Read the rest
David Nickle's horror novel Eutopia confronts the racial overtones of Lovecraftian fiction head on, revealing a terrifying story of the American eugenics movement and the brutality underbelly of utopianism. Read the rest
A short strip about the notorious feature film, Breakin' in this week's Hip Hop Family Tree strip by Ed Piskor. Read the rest
Everything we know about Atlantis comes from one man, Plato, and the hunt is based entirely on the clues he left behind. Read the rest
The deep problem, for Dick, wasn't that mechanisms might become more manlike. It's that men might be reduced to mechanisms. Read the rest
Both come in optional gold trim, but only one is the 18-karat real deal. Read the rest
David Lynch's mysterious TV classic has inspired a wealth of indie games Read the rest
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I'm headed to San Francisco and expect to see watches priced, features explained, and a nigh-legendary new MacBook. Read the rest
The Homan Square facility, exposed as a CIA-style "black site" where police detainees would be brutalized without access to lawyers or relatives, is nothing new to those familiar with the violent legacy of police commander Jon Burge. Read the rest
At the crossroads of pampered and powerful, what little girl doesn't love a good dungeon crawl? Read the rest
More perfect for being unfinished, The Last Guardian is a a yearning soul-whisper for its sentimental fans, the lost game of a microgeneration. Read the rest
On this week's Sword and Laser podcast, Veronica Belmont and Tom Merritt capture the latest developments in science fiction and fantasy. Read the rest
Die Antwoord's Ninja speaks with Xeni Jardin about the making of the robot drama CHAPPiE, directed by Neill Blomkamp, and co-starring Yo-Landi Visser, Hugh Jackman, Sigourney Weaver, and Dev Patel. Read the rest
Imagine a game where Gary Gygax had been possessed by Abdul Alhazred, the fabled author of the Necronomicon. This makes more sense than to believe Cave Evil was crafted by a bunch of game geeks in their basement. Read the rest
Our game site, Offworld, is returning Monday as a place for happy mutants who love to explore new worlds. Read the rest
Like any masterpiece, Carl Barks' 1949 comic book story "Lost in the Andes" means many things to many critics, each one finding something new with every reading. Read the rest
Small productions are becoming better—and more professional—than ever. But the falling price of good equipment is only part of the magic. Read the rest
IN WHICH Louis finally settles on the one superstition that will drive him crazy. Read the rest
Accurately answering the question “What time is it?” has been a human obsession for millennia – but it’s only been since World War I that you’re likely to turn your wrist to do so. Read the rest
The latest episode of the Breaking Bad spinoff, recapped for your further entertainment. Read the rest