Cool/Exciting/Interesting things (probably videos)


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“I’m going to kill you with my teacup”


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Beautiful hand painted globes


#130

http://deathtobullshit.com/

Turn on the bullshit on that page. It’s entertaining.


#131

http://politeness.mpi-sws.org/

It tells you how polite you are.


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hdr up the wazoo in there


#135

Toss up between this thread and the music thread. I think it’s as much visually interesting as is aurally amazing.


#136

This really warmed my little heart.

I’m not gonna post the whole thing, click on the gif to see it all


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A wonderful rendering of the events of Mad Max: Fury Road in the style of an ancient Egyptian painting.


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A new species of genus Homo

There’s a new (extinct) hominid on the block (in a cave system in Africa): Homo naledi.

Basically, Homo naledi had humanlike hands, legs, and feet, but tiny little australopithecine skulls, i.e., brains.

And, there are a lot of them, fossil-wise: “Representing at least 15 individuals with most skeletal elements repeated multiple times, this is the largest assemblage of a single species of hominins yet discovered in Africa.”

They don’t yet know exactly how long ago they lived: maybe two million years ago, when the Homo genus emerged, or as late as a hundred thousand years ago, when it contracted to, well,


#141

Vox made a video.

The most interesting thing is that scientists believe it is a burial ground.


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That’s the most british thing i’ve seen in a long while.