The Internet's Forgotten Shit Pics Are Accidentally Amazing

The Internet's Forgotten Shit Pics Are Accidentally Amazing
To relieve the boredom of his day job, Doug Battenhausen has been mining defunct websites for years — harvesting long-discarded gems from the bottom of the web.

July 28, 2018 at 02:20AM
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The 50 greatest special effects movies of all time

The 50 greatest special effects movies of all time
For about as long as there have been movies, there have been special effects. That's no exaggeration: The medium was only a few years old when people began finding ways to toy with the reality of what the motion-picture camera was capturing, creating tricks from quirks in photographic science.

July 28, 2018 at 12:10AM
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Idaho Prisoners Hack iPads And Transfer $225,000 Worth Of Credits To Themselves

Idaho Prisoners Hack iPads And Transfer $225,000 Worth Of Credits To Themselves
Prison officials say 364 Idaho inmates hacked hand-held prison tablets and collectively transferred nearly a quarter million dollars worth of tablet credits, which can be used to purchase email, music and games, to their own accounts.

July 29, 2018 at 01:24PM
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What Movie Has the Most Peak Performances?

What Movie Has the Most Peak Performances?
Some films are just lucky enough to catch a group of actors in career-best form.

July 28, 2018 at 02:48PM
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How Bad Karma And Bad Engineering Doomed An Ancient Cambodian Capital

How Bad Karma And Bad Engineering Doomed An Ancient Cambodian Capital
Angkor was the seat of authority for the Khmer Empire for more than 600 years, from the ninth to 15th centuries, except for a 17-year interval when political power and courtly life shifted to Koh Ker. New archaeological evidence might explain why Koh Ker’s glory days were so brief: The new capital’s massive water-management system failed spectacularly soon after it was built.

July 28, 2018 at 12:45PM
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We've Found A Lake Of Water On Mars. So What Happens Next?

We've Found A Lake Of Water On Mars. So What Happens Next?
Water hiding 1.6km below Mars' south pole will be hard to reach. But when we do, we may finally find out if there's life on the planet.

July 28, 2018 at 02:20AM
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Disney Just

Disney Just
The two newcomers on the list have ties to another legendary sci-fi franchise. Also included in the news: how the production will handle the death of Carrie Fisher.

July 28, 2018 at 02:20AM
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Cracked Screens Aren’t Inevitable. They’re A Design Crime

Cracked Screens Aren’t Inevitable. They’re A Design Crime
Samsung is schooling the industry on beautiful durability. Your play, Apple.

July 27, 2018 at 07:38PM
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Simone Biles Casually Pulls Off One Of The Hardest Moves In Gymnastics

Simone Biles Casually Pulls Off One Of The Hardest Moves In Gymnastics
The Moors is the highest-rated move (that is, the hardest to perform) in the gymnastics rulebook. Which means, naturally, that US Olympian Simone Biles can land it without breaking a sweat

July 28, 2018 at 01:06AM
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Every Major Diet Soda, Ranked By How (un)Healthy They Are

Every Major Diet Soda, Ranked By How (un)Healthy They Are
Spoiler alert: They're all just fizzy cancer juice.

July 27, 2018 at 06:33PM
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We've Found A Lake Of Water On Mars. So What Happens Next?

We've Found A Lake Of Water On Mars. So What Happens Next?
Water hiding 1.6km below Mars' south pole will be hard to reach. But when we do, we may finally find out if there's life on the planet.

July 28, 2018 at 02:20AM
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Disney Just

Disney Just
The two newcomers on the list have ties to another legendary sci-fi franchise. Also included in the news: how the production will handle the death of Carrie Fisher.

July 28, 2018 at 02:20AM
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Why Natural Disasters Concentrate In A Ring Around The Pacific

Why Natural Disasters Concentrate In A Ring Around The Pacific
Scientists have recognized this "belt of activity" for thousands of years, but only recently have they agreed on its cause.

July 27, 2018 at 10:47PM
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When A Stranger Decides To Destroy Your Life

When A Stranger Decides To Destroy Your Life
Eventually, after $100,000 in attorney's bills, Monica Glennon was able to unmask the culprit who posted a false, damaging story about her online. It turned out to be a complete stranger who had been offended by a comment Glennon had made about a news article on Facebook.

July 27, 2018 at 02:02AM
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Which College Degrees Earn The Highest Salaries, Visualized

Which College Degrees Earn The Highest Salaries, Visualized
If you want to make money fresh out of college, physician assistant is the way to go, but if you're thinking of making more money in the long run, there are other majors that are far more lucrative.

July 27, 2018 at 12:20AM
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Scientists Figured Out Why Our Mouths Heal So Freakishly Fast

Scientists Figured Out Why Our Mouths Heal So Freakishly Fast
Hoping to zero in on why the mouth heals much faster than other body parts, such as the skin, the researchers recruited 30 healthy, non-smoking volunteers for a simple experiment.

July 27, 2018 at 07:38PM
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Cameroon Is a Close US Ally — and Its Soldiers Carried Out a Shocking Execution of Women and Children

Cameroon Is a Close US Ally — and Its Soldiers Carried Out a Shocking Execution of Women and Children
Soldiers in Cameroonian military garb executed two women and two children. The Intercept is publishing a full video of the killing.

July 27, 2018 at 06:33PM
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Ken Burns's 'The Vietnam War' Is on Netflix and It Will F—k You Up

Ken Burns's 'The Vietnam War' Is on Netflix and It Will F—k You Up
Sometimes I ask people what they called the Vietnam War in Vietnam. It's obvious: the American War.

July 27, 2018 at 04:31AM
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Discovery In China Reshapes The History Of Dinosaur Evolution

Discovery In China Reshapes The History Of Dinosaur Evolution
An excavation of decade old fossils led to a realization: It's time to rethink the evolutionary history of some of the biggest dinosaurs that ever walked the earth.

July 27, 2018 at 04:40PM
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Two Researchers Challenged a Scientific Study About Violent Video Games—and Took a Hit for Being Right

Two Researchers Challenged a Scientific Study About Violent Video Games—and Took a Hit for Being Right
How two researchers paid a price for challenging a retracted study about violent video games.

July 27, 2018 at 04:40PM
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