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“He is, for all intents and purposes except for his own, genetic material that comes in the handy form of semen.” Alexis Madrigal’s wonderful opus about Big Dairy, featuring a cow called Badger-Bluff Fanny Freddie

“We suggest that Astro Fighter & Dark Warrior epilepsy be classified under “electronic space war video game epilepsy

“There are two forces doing work on The Hulk when treated as a point particle (which he is not).” A wonderful post on the physics of the Hulk’s jump, by Rhett Allain. Bonus: he also determines how big C-3PO’s battery would need to be

Remember when Facebook was about poking people? Now: organ donation!

This might be the most awe-inspiring Wikipedia page of them all: a

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