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March 16, 2012
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thedailywhat: Animated GIF of the Day: Avery Monsen and Jory John’s best-selling not-really-for-children children’s book All My Friends Are Dead gets an appropriately titled sequel, All My Friends Are Still Dead. Spoiler Alert: Everybody dies in the end. [laughingsquid.]

thedailywhat:

Animated GIF of the Day: Avery Monsen and Jory John’s best-selling not-really-for-children children’s book All My Friends Are Dead gets an appropriately titled sequel, All My Friends Are Still Dead.

Spoiler Alert: Everybody dies in the end.

[laughingsquid.]

(Source: averymonsen)

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March 15, 2012
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March 05, 2012
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thedailywhat:

Words Of Wisdom of the Day: Neil DeGrasse Tyson responds to the question “What is the most astounding fact you can share with us about the Universe?”

Money: “When I look up at the night sky, and I know that, yes, we are part of this Universe, we are in this Universe, but perhaps more important than both of those facts is that the Universe is in us. When I reflect on that fact, I look up — many people feel small, ‘cause they’re small and the Universe is big, but I feel big, because my atoms came from those stars.”

Music: “To Build a Home” by The Cinematic Orchestra.

[maxschlick.]

I’m glad Neil deGrasse Tyson’s getting a lot more press now than he has in the past; he’s such an eloquent man and I absolutely cannot wait for his Cosmos sequel (late 2012 or even 2013).

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March 03, 2012

Great tutorial on how differential gears work.

(You can safely skip the first 1m50s and stop at 8m00s.)

(Source: youtube.com)

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March 01, 2012
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thedailywhat:

Morning Fluff: An adorable sloth gets non-adorable mange. Solution: Put him in an adorable homemade onesie.

[arbroath.]

Possibly the best thing I’ve seen in 2012.

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March 01, 2012
"I pay close attention to the body language of who I am communicating with. While I am speaking, are they bored? excited? indifferent? curious? If you don’t take notice of all this then you are just lecturing. If and when you do, then you are empowered to discover the conduits of contact that can maximize the value and meaning of what you are saying to others."

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Niel deGrasse Tyson on how he became a powerful orator.

That’s solid public speaking advice, right there.

via I am Neil deGrasse Tyson, Ask Me Anything… : IAmA

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March 01, 2012
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"If you want to build a ship, don’t drum up the men to gather wood, divide the work and give orders. Instead, teach them to yearn for the vast and endless sea…"

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- Antoine de Saint Exupery, as quoted by Neil deGrasse Tyson in his current Reddit AmA

One of my life goals is to have dinner with him some day. That’s bucket list material there.

(via spytap)

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February 28, 2012
Zen Pencils — a cartoon you should read.

Zen Pencils — a cartoon you should read.

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February 28, 2012
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thedailywhat:

Lights Out: As part of a campaign to raise Alzheimer’s awareness, the Israeli Alzheimer Association (EMDA) attempted to convey the feeling of confusion and disorientation Alzheimer’s patients experience on a daily basis by showing thousands of moviegoers at the country’s largest cinema complex a different film than the one they expected to see.

[thanks simon!]

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February 23, 2012
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Every World Press Photo Winner From 1955-2011

via Kottke, who said “Some amazing photos but in general they do not paint a very kind picture of humanity.”