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“For an assignment, I asked some of my terminal paediatric palliative care patients what they had enjoyed in life, and what gave it meaning. Kids can be so wise, y'know. Here are some of the responses (Thread).”

Well worth a read

From now until January 2nd, you’ll be invited to many parties of the house, cocktail, and dinner variety. If you love to cook, making and bringing something won’t be a problem, but if you have the baking skills of a young Cher Horowitz, you may need to lie. By “lie” I mean “buy some food you did not make and pretend you did.” This isn’t honest, or righteous, or even very easy, but it can be done.

Utter genius. We all need to chill out and stop trying to live up to what we see on TV.

“That document,” he said, “which really just looked like a bureaucratic ledger — it was very forensic, had no kind of emotion to it — really contained the hints of a systematic murder campaign.” He said that that was the nature of archival work: a document that looked like nothing could turn out to be telling a powerful story — but only if you had a sense of what you were looking at. “I was not looking for that book, I just came across it. And unless you were versed in what was going on, it might’ve just seemed innocuous. And yet this very innocuous document really showed the banality of evil.”

Keepers of the Secrets

When they signed up, subscribers filled out a survey with a mix of demographic questions and red herrings. We ranked everyone based on their survey responses and geographical census data to figure out who most needed money. Most of our subscribers (about 140,000 people) got nothing today—they could have it worse. The next 10,000 subscribers received a full $15 refund of their Cards Against Humanity Saves America purchase. Finally, the poorest 100 people received a check for $1,000, paid for by everyone else.

Cards Against Humanity Redistributes Your Wealth

A very interesting idea.

I feel like I’m taking crazy pills.

19 REASONS THIS “SURVIVAL” STORY SMELLS FISHY

I have no idea if the story commented on is true or not but the outrage is hilarious.

More than just a grab bag of oft-quoted great lines, The Princess Bride is a fairy tale about fairy tales and a showcase for a gaggle of great character actors.

Great movies stand the test of time.

It’s one of our most widely used natural resources, but it’s scarcer than you think.

You don’t think of sand as being a finite resource, if you think of it at all, but it’s amazing how much we rely on it.

Some hard-hitting truths about being poor.

Africa's population is set to boom over the next few decades - reaching 2.5 billion people by 2050. Scientists in Kenya are trying to find ways of growing enough food for everyone.

This is a great approach, rather than throwing aid at the problem.

(via Let's rescue Britain's forgotten 1930s protected cycleways by Carlton Reid — Kickstarter)

Instead, we’ve rushed headlong into a hyper-fragmented mess, with a jumble of on-demand services that, added up, cost more and often offer less than the old cable bundle. There are lots of great shows and movies being made, but finding them has become harder than ever.

The Messy, Confusing Future of TV? It’s Here

Ethylene is combustible, and in 1936, the Pittsburgh Banana Company building exploded, causing it to rain bananas in the city’s Strip District.

The Secret Life of the City Banana - The New York Times

(via Finland Has a Sports Screw Loose - The New York Times)

“We have some weird hobbies,” said Paivi Kemppainen, 26, a staff member at the swamp soccer competition and master of the understatement.

Surely impossible not to love the Finns?

Ready Player One is looking pretty darn good!

This Insane Greek Fireworks Battle Puts Your July 4th to Shame

Once a year, residents of this mountainous island gather at two churches on opposite ends of town and launch 100,000 handmade rockets — directly at each other.

Insane and brilliant.

Astrophysicist Brian Schmidt was once stopped by airport officials on his way to North Dakota because he was carrying his Nobel Prize—a half-pound gold disk that showed up as completely black on the security scanners. “Uhhhh. Who gave this to you?” they said. “The King of Sweden,” he replied. “Why did he give this to you?,” they probed. “Because I helped discover the expansion rate of the universe was accelerating.”

That Time the TSA Found a Scientist’s 3-D-Printed Mouse Penis

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