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How Fast Can You Scroll? Take The 100 Meter Scroll Challenge!
You’d better train your index finger before taking this challenge. Don’t hurt yourself. The 100 Meter Scroll is the brainchild of designer/developer Michael Vestergaard, and just could be the most fun thing you do today.
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HowStuffWorks "Cannon Challenge"
Take charge of a NLOS Cannon to destroy enemy targets with indirect fire. Learn about NLOS Cannons with the Cannon Challenge Game.
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GeoGuessr
GeoGuessr is a geography game which takes you on a journey around the world and challenges your ability to recognize your surroundings.
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A comical way to sum up years of thesis work in one sentence
Summing up years of work in one sentence.
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Can You Spot the Liar?
Poker players might call it the “tell” — it’s the idea that your body language tells your questioners if the words you’re saying are actually true or false. These subjects in a University of Chicago study on body language and lying were asked several general questions — and then told off camera to lie or tell the truth when answering. Can you tell truth from falsehood?
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Kowloon Walled City
Hong Kong's Kowloon Walled City was the densest place on the planet before it was torn down 20 years ago. In this Wall Street Journal interactive, you can take a trip through the city, explore its history and hear from the people who lived there.
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See How Popular Your Name Will Be in the Future
Popular names follow a familiar cycle: They become increasingly common as new parents jump on the bandwagon, only to peak and decline as everyone on the playground starts answering to the same name. Some old standards lie dormant for half a century before gradually returning–hello, Evelyn. Others skyrocket and decline in a few years (that’s you, Miley).
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What Are You Drinking?
Let the author and bartender Rosie Schaap make you a custom summer cocktail.
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Interactive: Global peace index per country
A ground-breaking milestone in the study of peace. For the first time, an Index has been created that ranks the nations of the world by their peacefulness and identifies some of the drivers of that peace.
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How strong is that drink? The “cocktail content calculator” will let you know
No one ever really knows when they have had "one too many" but you may now at least have a chance to keep better track. The National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism has created what they are calling the "cocktail content calculator" in an effort to let drinkers know just how much alcohol is in that drink they are about to gulp down.
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Famous movie lines: How well do you know them?
Are you a movie fanatic? Prove it with this quiz!
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What the World Eats
Daily diets vary considerably around the world.
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VitaStat
Real time stats about your life so far and the world around you
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4Real x Teengirl Fantasy
4Real creates 4 virtual worlds for Teengirl's fantasy new EP!
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Your Brain On Audio Books: Distracted, Forgetful, And Bored
With so much focus in the publishing world on e-books, you might have missed the recent explosion in the popularity of audio books. They've become a billion-dollar industry with huge annual sales growth, in part because anyone with a smartphone can now also pocket an audio book. Alexandra Alter of the Wall Street Journal writes that the audio surge is changing the very way people read, "creating a new breed of literary omnivores who see narrated books and text as interchangeable."
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How Big Is Space ?
Buckle up and ride a rocket through our interactive view of the Solar System to explore our cosmic neighbourhood
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Amazon takes on textbook sales at major universities
Amazon is set to open distribution centers at two large US colleges and offer students next-day delivery of textbooks and other items through co-branded websites. The universities of Massachusetts Amherst and Purdue say that the deal means students will save nearly $400 annually on textbooks. Amazon is also giving the schools a 0.5-2.5 percent cut, which will net at least $1.7 million in revenue for Purdue and $1.5 million...
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Science Behind the Weather Words
Thundersnow and Weather Bombs: Unusual terms explained
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Who Spewed That Abuse? Anonymous Yik Yak App Isn’t Telling
During a brief recess in an honors course at Eastern Michigan University last fall, a teaching assistant approached the class’s three female professors. “I think you need to see this,” she said, tapping the icon of a furry yak on her iPhone. The app opened, and the assistant began scrolling through the feed. While the professors had been lecturing about post-apocalyptic culture, some of the 230 or so freshmen in the auditorium had been having a separate conversation about...
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Did a Human or a Computer Write This?
A shocking amount of what we’re reading is created not by humans, but by computer algorithms. Can you tell the difference? Take the quiz.
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