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Great Googly Moogly!

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Holy bloody huge! Check out this “colossal” squid. Calamari jokes aside, the article mentions they think this thing is only two-thirds is full size. Yowza. Suddenly some those sea monster stories start to make sense. BBC [via Neatorama]

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Pimp My (Ice Cream) Bowl

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Terrible pop-culture reference, check. Informational follow-up post, you bet. Back in May, I wrote about Mount Desert Island Ice Cream, the best ice cream I’ve ever had. I incorrectly said in that post that they did not have a website. Linda Parker, owner of MDIIC posted a comment pointing out that, in fact, there is […]

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WP: New Orleans repeats mistakes – washingtonpost.com Highlights – MSNBC.com

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The WaPo weighs in. “It’s terrifying: We’re doing the same things we have in the past but expecting different results,” said Robert G. Bea, a professor of civil engineering at the University of California at Berkeley and a former New Orleans resident who served as a member of the National Science Foundation panel that studied […]

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Why we're so good at recognizing music – Culture – International Herald Tribune

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“You hear only one note, and you already know who it is,” he said. “So what I want to know is: how we do this? Why are we so good at recognizing music?” Short on science but long on interest, this article explores the work of Daniel Levitin, a cognitive psychologist at McGill University. Link […]

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File under DUH: Obese kids more likely to have low self-esteem

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Wow, stunning. Obese children, particularly girls, may be more likely than their peers to suffer from low self-esteem, research shows. Feel free to leave your own follow-up research project ideas. Personally, I’m gunning for the lucrative “people who consume alcohol get drunk more often than teetotalers” NIH funds.[via Reuters ] (?!?!)

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Christmas in Chelsea

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Let’s hit the major stuff. What’d you do? Not a damn thing. J– and I stayed home, no family, no friends, just us and the pets. We got up on time and opened presents (more later), had cinnamon rolls for breakfast, and then farted around all day. For dinner, we made a prime rib using […]

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