Sunday, March 9, 2014

This Week's Best Videos: Mars, Hyperlapse, And Nonsense

Meet The People Who Want To Go To Mars And Never Come Back, World's First Sunset Hyperlapse From An Airplane, How To Spot A Liar, This Second-A-Day Video Is Going To Kick You Right In The Feels, No One In 'True Detective' Makes Any Damn Sense
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Sunday, March 9, 2014
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GET YOUR ASS TO MARS!
Meet The People Who Want To Go To Mars And Never Come Back
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Two-hundred thousand people applied to participate in a project called Mars One. It's a private enterprise to establish a permanent human settlement on Mars and film a reality show along the way. The thing is, right now the technology can only get them there.
SCREW TIMELAPSES
World's First Sunset Hyperlapse From An Airplane
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A hyperlapse is a special photography technique where you take a series of photos with similar framing while physically moving in between every shot.
BY THE FIRE IN HIS PANTS SPONSORED
How To Spot A Liar
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Liars tend to avoid using personal pronouns like "I," "me," "we," and "our."
OUR WHOLE DAY IS RUINED
This Second-A-Day Video Is Going To Kick You Right In The Feels
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This might not be happening to you, but it's probably happening somewhere.
WHAT DID YOU JUST CALL ME?
No One In 'True Detective' Makes Any Damn Sense
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Joel McHale and "The Soup" take on the nonsense dialogue and thick-as-molasses Southern accents of "True Detective."
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ENJOY YOUR 23 HOUR DAY
Image: Custodian Ray Keen inspects a clock face before changing the time on the 100-year-old clock atop the Clay County Courthouse Saturday, March 8, 2014, in Clay Center, Kan.
Custodian Ray Keen inspects a clock face before changing the time on the 100-year-old clock atop the Clay County Courthouse Saturday, March 8, 2014, in Clay Center, Kan. Credit: AP Photo/Charlie Riedel
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Friday, March 7, 2014

Someone Always Profits From Chaos

Meet The People Who Want To Go To Mars And Never Come Back, Putin Is Not Crazy, The Conservative Alternative To The Slutty Girl Scouts, Why Hollywood Thinks Atheism Is Bad for Business, The Frank Underwood Of Venezuela
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Friday, March 7, 2014
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GET YOUR ASS TO MARS!
Meet The People Who Want To Go To Mars And Never Come Back
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Two-hundred thousand people applied to participate in a project called Mars One. It's a private enterprise to establish a permanent human settlement on Mars and film a reality show along the way. The thing is, right now the technology can only get them there.
FRUSTRATING, UNPREDICTABLE AND SHIRTLESS
Putin Is Not Crazy
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President Obama has called Vladimir Putin "the bored kid in the back of the classroom." Hillary Clinton compared him to Hitler. And George W. Bush complained that debating policy with him was "like arguing with an eighth grader with his facts wrong." But he's not crazy.
PLAN B FOR BADGES
The Conservative Alternative To The Slutty Girl Scouts
jezebel.com
Want your daughter to learn all about camping, sewing and car repair, but with a heaping helping of Jesus? You could try to find a local Girl Scout troop with an especially Bible-thumping troop leader. Or you could just skip straight to the American Heritage Girls, conservative Christianity's very own copycat.
PIETY IS PROFITABLE
Why Hollywood Thinks Atheism Is Bad for Business
newyorker.com
Matthew McConaughey's Oscar speech is far from the only sign that God is, in fact, alive and well in Hollywood.
SOMEONE ALWAYS PROFITS FROM CHAOS
The Frank Underwood Of Venezuela
theatlantic.com
Behind the daily scenes of anti-government protests, another power struggle is underway.
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KIEV WASN'T REBUILT IN A DAY
Image: A woman walks past barricades set up by anti-Yanukovich protestors at Kiev's Independence Square, in Ukraine.
A woman walks past barricades set up by anti-Yanukovich protestors at Kiev's Independence Square, in Ukraine. Credit: AP/Emilio Morenatti
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Thursday, March 6, 2014

Why Is American Internet So Slow?

9 Things You Should Know About Your Caffeine Habit, Russia Today Anchor Quits On-Air Over Putin Whitewashing, Shut Your Pie Hole With Every Kind Of Food, Why Is American Internet So Slow?, Sixteen, Alone, 23 Hours A Day, In A Six-By-Eight-Foot Box
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Thursday, March 6, 2014
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GRAB SOME COFFEE FIRST
9 Things You Should Know About Your Caffeine Habit
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Even if you're not among the 63 percent of Americans who drink coffee every day, caffeine is hard to avoid. But despite its pervasiveness, we still understand little about the stuff.
MAD AS HELL
Russia Today Anchor Quits On-Air Over Putin Whitewashing
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American anchor, Liz Wahl, quit her job at Russia Today live on-air over the network's Russian funding and resulting pro-Putin bias.
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Shut Your Pie Hole With Every Kind Of Food
eat24.com
Too hangry to talk on the phone? That's basically us every day. Thankfully with Eat24 you can stuff yourself without flipping out over having to repeat your address a dozen times.
EXCEPTIONALLY ANNOYING
Why Is American Internet So Slow?
theweek.com
The country that literally invented the Internet is now behind Estonia in terms of download speeds.
BOXED IN
Sixteen, Alone, 23 Hours A Day, In A Six-By-Eight-Foot Box
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Only the U.S., Somalia and South Sudan have declined to ratify the United Nations' Convention on the Rights of the Child, which prohibits juvenile solitary confinement as a matter of international law.
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SAVE IT FOR LEO
Image: A person holds a mock Oscar statue as Pope Francis tours St. Peter's Square at the Vatican prior to the start of his weekly general audience, Wednesday, March 5, 2014.
A person holds a mock Oscar statue as Pope Francis tours St. Peter's Square at the Vatican prior to the start of his weekly general audience, Wednesday, March 5, 2014. Credit: AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino
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