Weekend Links: Beautiful, but Deadly

Some flowers are beautiful; some are deadly. Some are both.

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So this is the place where Bill Nye hangs up his bow ties.

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Dogs: Man's best friend? Well, Henri Matisse, Georgia O'Keeffe, John Cage, Maya Lin, and dozens of other artists who preferred feline companionship would beg to differ.

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Celebrity photographer Victoria Will has, for the second Sundance Film Festival in a row, taken an old-school approach to the paparazzi shot: rather than snapping away with her usual digital equipment, she set up a modernized tintype portrait studio and took timeless photos of today's famous faces.

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In case humanity's potential to destroy Earth itself wasn't enough, here are 12 possible ways our civilization could bring a catastrophic end to the entire solar system.

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Darth Vader's big revelation ("Luke...I am –") is equally as dramatic in any language, but it does sound quite different dubbed in, say, Portuguese, German, or Hungarian than it does in the original English.

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When Neil Richardson retired to a quiet English village, he probably wasn't expecting to meet a man who was his near-exact doppelganger—oh, but he did.

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What's the big deal with this new "flat white" drink Starbucks is offering? For starters, it's arguably not a flat white at all.