• Vast Video Game Collection Sells for $1.2M
• A Hot Drink on a Hot Day Can Cool You Down
• Why Were CD Boxes So Big in the Early 1990s?
• Is the Web Driving Us Mad?
• Walker Arts Center Validates the First-Ever Internet Cat Video Film Festival
• Discovery of an arsenic-friendly microbe refuted
• Scientists just discovered what makes migration possible
• Tire reefs fail to revive marine life in Florida
• Share it Maybe with Cookie Monster “Call Me Maybe” Parody (yes, I know, I too feel awful)
• The 20 Awesomest Photos of Women & Bacon
• 17 Famous Literary Characters Almost Named Something Else
• 12 Fascinating True Stories About Guest Stars On ‘The Simpsons’

And lastly, a short commercial by Jon Lajoie. If you were completely honest with yourself, you’d realize that you are a terrible person.

• The father-son team who run L.A.’s vibrator empire
• Hollywood, Inception, and the Cinematic Dream State great interview with Jason Silva
• A bizarrely well reasoned look at Adam Sandler’s career
• How to Determine If A Controversial Statement Is Scientifically True
• European Space Agency gave the go ahead on the Euclid telescope’s search for dark matter and energy
• Using a quantum theory with black holes to consolidate physics principles
• Why Do People Feel Phantom Cellphone Vibrations?
• The influence of Twitter on language and culture
• I love how creepy these Disney Face Swaps are…

And hooray! A teaser is out for Pixar’s follow up to Monsters Inc: Monsters University.

• Prometheus, Viewed as a Roleplaying Game (contains spoilers; but seriously good fun read)
• What If Beethoven Gave Your Commencement Speech?
• ‘I Just Want to Feel Everything’: Hiding Out With Fiona Apple, Musical Hermit
• Anatomy of CGI: A Scene from “Tangled”
• 20 Things Fantasy Characters Should Do More Often
• Germany’s Ambitious Energy Plan (here’s hoping it works)
• Most Internet trolls are probably trolls in real life, too
• Photos: Behind the scenes of The Empire Strikes Back

• The only honest revenue based sites out there are porn
• Scientists Closer than Ever to Discovering Higgs Particle
• Is Earth at an Environmental Tipping Point?
• Inside the Troubled ‘World War Z’ Production
• The heartwarming story behind the ugliest man on YouTube
• It’s Gettin’ Hard Out There For A Troll
• “I’ve been playing the same game of Civilization II for 10 years”
• ‘Game of Thrones’ Director Explains All the Rampant Nudity
• Brain Scans Show Specific Neuronal Response to Junk Food When Sleep-Restricted

Also, Conan teaching the blues to school kids:

• Game to look forward to: South Park RPG Is Hilariously Inappropriate Fun
• Want to go to place: An abandoned French subway station was turned into the set of Prometheus
• World of Quantum Mechanics May Govern Life
• Ex-Spy Telescope’s New Identity as a Space Investigator
• How the internet killed porn
• Fabulous, Feminist Porn
• The Huffington Post secretly hosts entire vertical dedicated to Sideboob