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Morning Cup of Links: Memorable Explosions
by Miss Cellania - August 8, 2008 - 2:23 AM
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The opening ceremonies of the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing are today. The fireworks designed by Cai Guo-Qiang and Phil Grucci are bound to be spectacular.
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5 Scientific Theories That Will Make Your Head Explode. I’ve picked the pieces up several times.
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Origins of Familiar Phrases. Do you wanna lay an egg, bury the hatchet, chew the fat, beat around the bush, or read between the lines?
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Watch lightning strike in super slow motion. Freaky cool, but still scary.
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If plagiarism doesn’t catch up with you in college, it certainly will on the internet. Even if it takes years.
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DNA tests on the mummy of King Tut and two fetuses found in his tomb may indicate whether he fathered them. If ancient Pharoahs weren’t always marrying their sisters, we could chart the genealogies of all the Egyptian mummies.
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Most people find things that look almost but not quite human to be incredibly creepy. That’s what we call the uncanny valley.

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Comments (3)

  1. Raised in Conroe, Texas the Slate story of The Bulletin’s plagiarism cracks me up. This is nothing new with this fine piece of bird cage liner, from Conroe, Texas. Additionally, you have to understand the nature of this paper, its a weekly (and cheaply done) advertiser that often uses articles to make up for the ad space not sold. It didn’t surprise me but is a different world now and little things like this don’t go unnoticed and as it seems hell hath no fury.
    Plagiarism is my new pet peeve, after recently sitting through a Sermon one Sunday Morning my daughter leaned over to me and said she saw the sermon the preacher just delivered on Youtube. Sure enough when we got home she Googled it and there it was, I was completely shocked. Is there no more originality. Couldn’t she have at least given credit to the original author, Do people have no shame?

    posted by Don on 8-8-2008 at 10:24 am

  2. Wow, there’s nothing like Cracked.com to explain scientific theories in a mature, educational manner…

    Sorry to vent, but I’m glad my kids didn’t read it….

    posted by Jim on 8-8-2008 at 11:03 am

  3. After reading this post I was catching up on 30 Rock, and they started talking about the uncanny valley! More proof that it’s one of the best sitcoms around today - it has a mental floss-level intelligence.

    posted by Colin GG on 8-9-2008 at 4:11 pm

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