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Morning Cup of Links: Animals with Tools
by Miss Cellania - January 19, 2009 - 4:10 AM
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Lifehacker’s Guide to Catching the Inauguration from Anywhere. Watching it on TV is easy, but if you’re at work you can follow events on the internet or your phone.
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Dangerous Psychology Experiments from the Past. Stage a rape to see what bystanders will do -what could possibly go wrong?
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Buck Rogers and the World of Tomorrow. A faithful modern recreation of the 30s serial.
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Hawaii has started a pilot program in which doctors see patients online. This will come in handy for people who are too sick to go to the doctor’s office.
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The Curious Case of Benjamin Button will be an Oscar contender. We also enjoyed it years ago when it was called Forrest Gump.
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Clever Critters: 8 Best Non-Human Tool Users. Scratch “tool use” as the dividing line between humans and other animals.
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Marry Me, a cute short film about a girl who likes a little boy and a boy who likes his BMX bike. Inspired by a true story.
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How Not To Build an Inland Sea. The Salton Sea in California came about by mistake, and more mistakes are causing its death.

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Comments (6)

  1. HAH, love the “Forrest Gump” video. I have no plans to see “Benjamin Button” but at least now I don’t feel so bad about that.

    posted by Sarah on 1-19-2009 at 1:56 pm

  2. Benjamin Button was written by the same guy who wrote Forrest Gump. End of similarities.

    posted by Jeremiah on 1-19-2009 at 8:01 pm

  3. You mean the scripts, right? Because the writer of “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button” the story is certainly NOT the writer of “Forrest Gump,” the novel. :)

    posted by Leaper on 1-19-2009 at 10:01 pm

  4. Marry Me! How funny; I just saw that in Script Analysis last week. Really cute, and insightful. Not insightful that it teaches anything new, but very true nonetheless.

    posted by RJ on 1-20-2009 at 12:55 am

  5. Here is some interesting info on the Salton Sea. We may not want to write it off as hubris.

    http://www.saltonsea.ca.gov/thesea.htm

    posted by BassMan on 1-20-2009 at 9:27 am

  6. Here is some interesting info on the Salton Sea. We may not want to write it off as hubris.

    “aich-tee-tee-pee. Colon. slash, slash. double-yew, double-ewe, double-you.” saltonsea.ca.gov/thesea.htm

    posted by BassMan on 1-20-2009 at 9:30 am

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