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Morning Cup of Links: Conspiracy Theories for Kids
by Miss Cellania - August 20, 2008 - 2:24 AM
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Scientists Create Blood From Stem Cells. Could this lead to the end of blood supply shortages?
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15 Images You Won’t Believe Aren’t Photoshopped. In fact, I’ve seen arguments break out over several of these.
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Rocket Scientists Say We’ll Never Reach the Stars. Unless we use a warp drive or a tesseract.
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Emily is not real; she’s a completely computer-generated image. But she looks so real, they have to throw in some weird stuff to prove she’s not.
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Five Hoaxes that Fooled the World. Some were done for profit, some for kicks, and one just to bring a certain guy down a notch.
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In the game Orbitrunner, you are the sun. You must use your gravity to keep the planets in line, or else they’ll escape orbit or collide. But it’s fun to collide!
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Trevor of the Whitest Kids U Know talks to kids about conspiracy theories and stuff. It’s amazing what you can learn in school.
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Steve Blass’ Horrible, Terrible, No Good, Very Bad Disease. There are plenty of other victims in the sports world.

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Comments (5)

  1. I find it amazing that the graphics for ‘Emily’ were so sophisticated but….I found ‘her’ extremely creepy! Is it just me?

    posted by JaneM on 8-20-2008 at 8:14 am

  2. It’s not just you, JaneM. It’s the “uncanny valley” where something is NOT human but gets close enough to be creepy.

    http://www.mentalfloss.com/blogs/archives/6314

    posted by Miss Cellania on 8-20-2008 at 8:21 am

  3. technology is amazing.

    posted by septer on 8-20-2008 at 9:53 am

  4. I will never understand 3D graphics of humans. It’s not like there’s a shortage of people. We’re spending all this time making all these movies that 10 years from now people won’t be able to watch because they’ll look so silly “compared to technology these days.”

    posted by Sawicki on 8-21-2008 at 12:21 pm

  5. Holy cow some of those “15 Images You Won’t Believe Aren’t Photoshopped” were wild!!!

    posted by Sarah on 1-19-2009 at 9:45 pm

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