December 2011
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Dec 30th
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ITHAA: Underwater Restaurant →
Five metres below sea level at the Conrad Maldives Rangali Island in Rangalifinolhu, Maldives.
Dec 29th
Warm-Season Flows on Slope in Newton Crater
This series of images shows warm-season features that might be evidence of salty liquid water active on Mars today.  More details from NASA.
Dec 28th
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Big Ben (over 150,000 followers) →
Dec 23rd
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Rorschmap: Kaleidoscope the World →
New York Wellington London
Dec 21st
5 Insane Ways Words Can Control Your Mind →
#5. Speaking English Makes Us More Likely to Blame People #4. It Makes You Worse At Following Driving Directions Than Aboriginal Tribesman #3. It Makes People Who Speak Russian See More Colors Than You #2. It Skews Your Perception of Time #1. It Warps How We View Objects
Dec 20th
Cute Boys With Cats →
An ENTIRE blog of this. *hyperventilate* 
Dec 19th
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Dec 18th
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Dec 17th
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WatchWatch
Just couple guys talking about dark matter in the CERN cafeteria.
Dec 16th
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Dec 15th
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IF WE DON'T, REMEMBER ME. →
Like movie stills, but not. A selection on the theme of eyes.
Dec 14th
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Give Me Something To Read: 2011 Highlights →
Dec 13th
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Strahov Philosophical Library @ 40 Gigapixels →
The world’s largest indoor photo. See the alchemist’s handwriting on the cracked leather spines of thousands of books from this 18th century monastery in Prague. Zoom in to an incredible level of detail and explore an ancient library where time has stood still for centuries.
Dec 13th
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Dec 12th
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Comics by Nick St. John →
Dec 11th
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Kuriositas: Necessary EVOL →
Dec 10th
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Dec 9th
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Dec 8th
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Dec 7th
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Amazon’s $23,698,655.93 Book About Flies →
Modern life is run on the whims of algorithms. Great collection of related comments here. Also see this TED talk.
Dec 6th
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Dec 5th
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Camoflage
Dec 4th
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6 Sports That Required Hallucinogens to Invent →
Underwater hockey, cheese rolling, chess boxing, outhouse racing, binocular soccer, goat-head polo.
Dec 3rd
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Dec 1st
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November 2011
30 posts
The Anosognosic’s Dilemma: Errol Morris Interviews... →
Dunning wondered whether it was possible to measure one’s self-assessed level of competence against something a little more objective — say, actual competence.  Within weeks, he and his graduate student, Justin Kruger, had organized a program of research.  Their paper, “Unskilled and Unaware of It: How Difficulties of Recognizing One’s Own Incompetence Lead to Inflated Self-assessments,” was...
Nov 30th