Tina Fey Quote – Go Down The Chute
“You can’t be that kid standing at the top of the water- slide, overthinking it. You have to go down the chute.” – Tina Fey
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Robert Green Ingersoll Quote – The Soul of Man
“What light is to the eyes – what air is to the lungs – what love is to the heart, liberty is to the soul of man.” – Robert Green Ingersoll
Read moreSlow TV
An Icelandic public broadcast station aired 24 hours of live sheep birthing, part of its “slow TV” campaign, which also featured chess, knitting, and wood-burning.
Read moreCartoon – Uh Oh
Radiation from medical scans
Patients are getting larger and perhaps even dangerous doses of radiation from the growing number of advanced medical-imaging tests being ordered by doctors, a new study says. Researchers at the University of California, San Francisco, analyzed data from millions of patients who received medical treatment between 1996 and 2010. They found that the number of patients who underwent CT scans […]
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William Dean Howells Quote – Universally Interested
“The secret of a man who is universally interesting is that he is universally interested.” – William Dean Howells
Read moreRussian Beliefs
Chance that a Russian believes the sun revolves around the earth: 1 in 3
Read moreCartoon – When Motivational Speakers Go Bad
Up, Up, and Away!!
A helium balloon launched by a British schoolboy was discovered in Australia after making an incredible 10,545-mile journey across the world. Joshua Blackaby, 6, from Alvaston, England, released a balloon tied to a letter in December as part of a school project. Three months later, his family received a note from a girl named Millie, informing them that she’d found […]
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