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100%. I grew up in this time and consumed so much of it; there's a lore around the power of those first chords in "Smells Like Teen Spirit" but it's all true, it can't be overstated how shockingly new, honest and vital it felt after the late 80s. We instantly realized how putrid things had been.

The cover of “Cool Machine” features a smoky NYC skyline.

Hard times spreading just like the flu / Watch out homeboy don’t let it catch you

Monkeys on the loose after truck overturns in Heidelberg; public urged to call 911 A truck transporting monkeys from Tulane University overturned on I-59 near Heidelberg, with several monkeys reportedly on the loose posing health risks.

A truckload of rhesus monkeys from Tulane university escaped after a crash. The university warned they’re highly aggressive toward humans and infected with hepatitis C, herpes, and COVID.

Mummy of the juvenile duck-billed dinosaur Edmontosaurus annectens preserved as a dried carcass resting on its ribcage some 66 million years ago. Large areas of scaly, wrinkled skin and a tall fleshy crest over its back were preserved as in a thin layer of clay over its fossilized skeleton.

New findings in Science offer insights into Wyoming’s “dinosaur mummies,” revealing that the stunningly preserved skin, spikes, and hooves of duck-billed dinosaurs are not fossilized flesh at all, but delicate clay molds formed by microbes as the creatures decayed. https://scim.ag/47DYjBi

Talk about an in-flight meal.

For the first time, researchers have captured rats hunting bats by grabbing them from the sky. Learn more: https://scim.ag/3Jqldmn

The original Far Side Cow Tools Cartoon by Gary Larson. A cow stands on its hind legs behind a table, staring blankly at the viewer from behind its heavy brow ridge. On the table are four crudely made tools: a lump, a lump with an offset crooked handle, a long stick with hooked prongs at the end, and a crude handsaw with irregular teeth. In the background a barn sits on a hill. Caption reads, "Cow tools."

43 years ago today, readers the world over opened their newspapers and gazed upon cow tools for the first time. happy birthday cow tools. you look great.

This game is like I got caught smoking a baseball and now I have to smoke a whole pack of baseball

Like I said, very wise

Wait don't do this

This is a lot, a lot a lot.

Friends don't let friends bunt away an out in a game where outs not time is the key constraining factor.

I guess Dave Roberts just can't get enough of Blake Treinen.

“Tell your children who the cowards were.”

Ancient Vulture Nests Reveal 600 Years of Human History—Including 25 Shoes Cliff-rappelling scientists uncovered a crossbow bolt, part of a slingshot and 25 shoes in ancient vulture nesting sites

Bearded Vulture Nests Hold 600 Years of Human Artifacts in Spanish Caves www.scientificamerican.com/article/bear...

Sky-plane view of the equatorial disk model of Chiron's rings. The gray circle (98 km radius) marks Chiron itself. Black ellipses show the three narrow rings; dashed blue ellipses mark the 1/2 and 1/3 resonant zones; red ellipses indicate Roche limits.

Astronomers have discovered rings forming around a Centaur. For real: Chiron (a comet-asteroid hybrid orbiting beyond Saturn) has set of rings that seem to be changing by the year.

Regardless of what's happening on Earth, space continues to be amazing. 🧪🔭

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Lawyer simpson world without lawyers scene

Imagining the world if they never got rid of the headphone jack on phones

This is the Philly way

At the 12 second mark, that camera operator called an audible and just said "fuck it, the lane is clear, no tripping hazards, I'm winning a Sports Emmy for cinematography right now"

YouTube video by MLB WS2008 Gm4: Blanton swats a homer in the fifth

Remember when Joe Blanton struck out 7 and gave up 4 hits in six innings and hit a Home Run in Game Four of the 08 World Series?

Max Scherzer is the only guy in the world who can scream at his boss like that

Your car has just been crushed by hagfish: Frequently Asked Questions Wait, what? Earlier today, Oregon State Police reported that a truck carrying a shipment of live hagfish overturned, spilling its slimy cargo all over the highway and damaging at least one vehicle.…

Happy world hagfish day, nerds!

Your car has just been crushed by hagfish: Frequently Asked Questions – Southern Fried Science

Railroad Sunset - 1929
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it's dope as hell that the world builds 100 million cars per year and all that plastic, metal, glass and rubber eventually ends up like this

He's standing up there and taking their questions and owning the worst moment of his career that was on national television and no poster on here can guarantee they'd be able to do the same. He doesn't need my respect but he's got it. Go Phils.

Same thought. Just embarrassing.

In what way did Kershaw "deserve that one" I mean have some dignity with your announcing

One last postseason diaper blowout for Clayton Kershaw. A beautiful sendoff for a legend.

It is bringing real joy to millions

Hey save some runs for tomorrow, the middle aged man said, sarcastically but also deeply, deeply meaning it

Schuylkill. If it can even be pronounced the way it looks.