Featuring a view that is both very nice and absolutely terrifying.

Fuck you heights.

First modern Olympic Games in Athens, 1894 – via

Two very interesting Olympics based items popped up today. The first is a collection of photos from the Olympics of past that goes all the way back to the very first games. That can be found here.

And also, this video that profiles just what professional photographers will go through to cover events like track and field from every angle to get that one shot.

• Woah: Some unknown disease is causing a woman to grow fingernails instead of hair
• Tumblr: Famous album covers recreated with my socks
• Beastie Boys’ Adam Yauch left some instructions in the advent of his death
• New favourite web comic: The Monkey’s You Ordered
• Drinking at work is good for creativity (not so much for productivity)
• Mitt Romney Sure Does Lie a Lot, Doesn’t He?
• Scary: Google to include your own Gmails in search results?

Also, this amazing 3 year-old bucket drummer… is only 3 friggin’ years old!

Hands down; Greatest. Version. Ever.

Using high speed cameras, this video explains the dynamics of how cats are able to rotate themselves in the air when falling, while conserving their angular momentum.

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by Chip Zdarsky

An official selection at this year’s Sundance film festival, this animated short was Julia Pott’s theses at London’s Royal Colloge of Art in 2011. Mixing various styles and symbolisms, Belly tells a beautiful coming of age story that is both wonderfully weird and mildly terrifying.

History of Comics in 6 Panels with write up via Paul Lopes

• The first color 360-degree panorama from Curiosity
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• How rogue biohackers are revolutionising the human body
• The science of Staring
• A new prehistoric species of humans identified
• Conservative pundits are plain wrong: Barack Obama hasn’t lost Europe. That was his predecessor’s doing.
• How billionaire backers pick America’s candidates
• The Fog of War: How can we talk about the military if we can’t define what it is?
• The Elephant in the Map Room: The Israel/Palestine Border
• The 1916 Shark Attacks that were the inspiration for Jaws
• Wait… There’s a 30 minute longer cut of The Shining?