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The Art of Space Art

A history of the thriving subgenre of imagining what the surfaces of other planets look like.

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10 Modern Board Games That Don't Suck!

If you’ve spent any time on Kickstarter perusing successful projects, you may have realized we are in a sort of board game renaissance. We’re not talking Trouble, Mouse Trap, or Life, these games c...

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Weekend Links: The Dog Who Really Eats Homework

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Emperor (2012)

Directed by Peter Webber. With Tommy Lee Jones, Matthew Fox, Kaori Momoi, Eriko Hatsune. As the Japanese surrender at the end of WWII, Gen. Fellers is tasked with deciding if Emperor Hirohito will be hanged as a war criminal. Influencing his ruling is his

I can't wait for this to come out! It looks like it's going to be a good one! Tommy Lee Jones playing General Douglas MacArthur!

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Hitchcock review: a genius director at a creative crossroads - Telegraph

Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho marked a departure for the horror and suspense film genre so it's appropriate that Hitchcock, the new movie chronicling the making of the 1960 classic, also confounds expectations.

Science & Technology | Science

NASA Mars rover Opportunity, resilient Red Planet explorer, officially dead

The robotic trailblazer's mission comes to an end after more than 14 years on Mars. Goodnight, Oppy.

Science & Technology | Science

Apollo astronaut thinks sending humans to Mars is ‘almost ridiculous’

Mars is the hottest topic in the space science world these days, with new rovers, orbiters, and landers finding out new and exciting things about the Red Planet with startling regularity. Multiple …

Science & Technology | Science

Astronomers have found a new crop of moons around Jupiter, and one of them is a weirdo - The Verge

Ten more moons have been confirmed to orbit around Jupiter, bringing the planet’s total known satellite count to 79. That’s the highest number of moons of any planet in the Solar System.

Science & Technology | Science

We tracked scientific discoveries from five years ago to see if they held up

We still don't have male birth control.

Science & Technology | Science

Scientists Detect Mysterious Radio Signals From Deep Space | HuffPost

Strange bursts are coming from 3 billion light years away.

Sports | Surfing/Skating/SUPing

The 15 most common excuses for dropping in on fellow surfers

Taking off in front of a surfer who is riding a wave under priority is not a good thing to do. Drop-ins are an intolerable violation of the surf etiquette but still quite common these days.

Sports | Surfing/Skating/SUPing

The best cheap surf destinations

Surf travel can be inexpensive. Explore the most affordable countries in the world for surfing.

Sports | Surfing/Skating/SUPing

How to adopt a proper surfing stance

A proper surf stance will help you maintain your balance, accelerate and brake, turn, and pull off nearly all surfing maneuvers.

Sports | Surfing/Skating/SUPing

The funniest surfing memes of all time

Do you think surfing the web is a sport? Have you caught a wave with an ironing board? Take a look at the craziest and funniest memes about surfing and surfers.

These are hilarious!

Sports | Surfing/Skating/SUPing

Running late, man dons suit, paddle boards across Hudson to make meeting on time

Commuting in the Big Apple has gotten so bad, a New Jersey man chose to cross the Hudson River on a paddle board to make his meeting on time — in a suit, no...

THIS is epic.

Miscellaneous | Guy Stuff

How to Travel Around the World With Just a 20lb Backpack | The Art of Manliness

Editor's note: This is a guest post by David Danzeiser. I hung up the phone with the travel agent. I had just finished booking 45,000 miles worth of flig

I should try this.

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Watch people surf the most dangerous wave in the world

You are right to fear the ocean.

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How to: Make DIY Barrel Aged Cocktails At Home (No Barrel Required...)

The tradition of barrel or cask aging distilled spirits, wine, and beer goes back thousands of years. Letting the liquid mature within wood is what gives them their distinct flavors,...

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What Is Cocktail Attire? (with pictures)

For men, cocktail attire means a casual suit or a nice button-down shirt and tie. Women's cocktail attire generally means...

A guy should know how to dress.

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Men, What Are We Afraid Of?: Men's Lives: GQ

How to overcome fear

Humor | Humor

Brutally honest job titles that are more accurate than the official ones - Lost At E Minor: For creative people

This list is marvelous. If you have ever wondered what a Head of IT does (Director of Turning Things Off and Back On), or what a Receptionist does (Executi

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Radio Stations Abandoned Decades Ago Are Still Transmitting And No One Knows How

The strange sounds from these un-owned radio stations keep internet sleuths up at night. Are they actually used for espionage?

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Four 2015 Energy Ideas 'Back to the Future' Got (Almost) Right

Hoverboards, flying cars, automatic fill-ups, and fuel from garbage—Back to the Future's energy ideas are close at hand.

So this isn't exactly science, and it isn't exactly tech...and it's kind of entertainment...so...

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Top 10 Wrongly Built or Misused Stadiums

It's no secret that World Cups and Olympic Games often leave stadiums where no one needs them, and with Brazil 2014 coming to a close, it's hard not to agree with what many Brazilian protesters have...

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This Abandoned Wasteland Was Once America's Largest Mall

The life and death of the American mall is a familiar story by now. A few decades ago, these shrines to consumerism dotted suburbia, only to be denied relevance by a push back towards city centers. But few images express the scale of this trend as much as

These pictures are very eerie.

Science & Technology | Technology

How to use Facebook while giving it the minimum amount of personal data

The Cambridge Analytica revelations illustrate why we can’t trust Facebook to police its own platform

Science & Technology | Technology

Apple will address kids’ iPhone addiction with enhanced iOS parental controls

Apple has a response of sorts to activist shareholders concerned about kids' addiction to iPhones: Enhanced parental controls are coming to iOS.

Science & Technology | Technology

Apple is facing lawsuits over its policy of slowing down older iPhones

Apple is facing two class-action lawsuits, filed by furious customers days after the company said it had intentionally slowed down older iPhones.

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5 Android shortcuts you'll wish you knew all along - CNET

​While Android doesn't have keyboard shortcuts, these time-saving tips are the next best thing.

Science & Technology | Technology

Twitter Suspends Deadspin, SBNation Accounts for Violating Copyrights | Re/code

The Twitter sports clip crackdown begins.

News | News

Senate: No direct proof of conspiracy between Trump campaign, Russia

"We were never going to find a contract signed in blood saying, 'Hey Vlad, we're going to collude,'" one Democratic aide said.

News | News

Bataclan Survivor Jesse Hughes Calls Parkland Teens ‘Pathetic’

Eagles of Death Metal frontman accuses Parkland teens of “exploiting tragedy.”

News | News

Country music star Mel Tillis dies

Country music legend Mel Tillis died early Sunday morning, according to a statement from his publicist. He was 85.

News | News

Paris attack suspect Salah Abdeslam shot in Brussels and captured alive | Daily Mail Online

Salah Abdeslam was shot in the leg by police commandos and has been captured alive in the district of Molenbeek in the Belgian capital.

History | History

10 Huge Misconceptions About Famous Medieval Figures

Renaissance thinkers didn’t heap much praise on the Middle Ages, but the period is full of inspiring figures who performed …

Business & Finance | Finance

Learn To Invest Like A Casino Rather Than A Gambler

At its essence, a stock’s price is the price at which a buyer and a seller agree to transact, because the buyer believes a company will do better than everyone else’s current expectations and the seller thinks it will do worse.

Entertainment | Entertainment

When The Day After Terrorized 100 Million Viewers With a Vision of Nuclear War | Mental Floss

Test your knowledge with amazing and interesting facts, trivia, quizzes, and brain teaser games on MentalFloss.com.

I remember this well. It terrified me.

Sports | Sports

The 2018 Free-Agent Class No Longer Looks Poised to Change Baseball - The Ringer

If Bryce Harper, Clayton Kershaw, Josh Donaldson and others don’t rebound, and teams fail to spend big for another year, it could spell trouble for free agency as we know it

Sports | Sports

Red Sox-Yankees: Why MLB players say Boston is 'the roughest'

It’s easy to group the Red Sox and Yankees, but no place in baseball is tougher on its own than Boston, according to players who experienced both.

Health & Fitness | Health & Fitness

Side effects include ... a potential treatment for baldness - CNN

A drug originally developed to treat osteoporosis may soon be used to reverse hair loss, new research finds.

Pets & Animals | Pets & Animals

Everything you think you know about bald eagles is wrong

Bald eagles look awesome. Heck, all eagles look awesome. It’s why they’re a good national symbol—they seem so fearsome and regal. But despite their image being absolutely freakin’ everywhere, the average American probably doesn’t know a whole lo