Weekend Links: Legos In Space

"In honor of Kristen Bell’s now infamous 31st birthday sloth meltdown, here are 31 pictures of sloths chillin’." This link is dedicated to my sloth-loving friend David E. Enjoy it, buddy!
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Turns out, Dolly Parton is actually two amazing singers (don't diagram that sentence, it will only lead to heartbreak). If you slow her songs down she sounds completely different and pretty fantastic.
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Doctors endorsing cigarettes, and other things that make us wonder what ill-advised things we currently do that will make people in the future facepalm.
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Doodles! A game (of sorts) with bubbles and string, it's a gravity thing.
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A long-form piece on "revisiting the haunted history of Gettysburg," and the fight over how it should be remembered.
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I found this "25 Things I Learned From Opening a Bookstore" pretty cute and interesting regarding people's buying habits! When was the last time you went into an independently owned bookstore?
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From reader Holly, "

Legos in Spaaaaaaace

!" Truly, some Toronto Teens launched a lego man into space and recorded his adventures.

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Staycation time -

take a trip to Switzerland

! (virtually). These stunning photographs cover Geneva into Montreux and the tiny village of Wengen where "the main sound heard was cow bells." Plus the alps as a backdrop, of course.

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And let’s end again this week with one of fellow _flosser David Israel’s recent Twaggies! For more great tweets illustrated, visit the

Twaggies section of GoComics

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