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"the price is right" was taken

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from »(untitled) notebook« by jean-michel basquiat (+)

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Tatiana Shvetsova-Yaperova

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A Cleveland Teenager Was Kicked Out of His Rec Soccer League for Some of the Best Reasons 

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President Barack Obama: The Audacity of Hope

Submitted by Ken Schultz.

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Before the computing era, ILM was the master of oil matte painting, making audiences believe that some of the sets in the original Star Wars and Indiana Jones trilogy were real when they weren’t. They were the work of geniuses like Chris Evans, Michael Pangrazio, Frank Ordaz, Harrison Ellenshaw and Ralph McQuarrie ! Forever thank you, to their handmade art and the work of their colleagues, that made us dream of impossible worlds and fantastic places across Earth and the Universe.

There are more background paintings on this article, featuring comments by the masters/artists themselves ! 

Some of the following pieces were made by other artists:

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Awesome.

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Respect the craft.

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In vitro fertilization (IVF) has been used successfully in many animals — including, notably, humans — for decades. But despite numerous attempts, scientists had never been able to figure out IVF for dogs. 

This year, for the first time, seven puppies (five beagles and two “bockers,” or beagle-cocker spaniel mixes) were born through IVF. That’s cool. And cute. And also very exciting for the people trying to save other canine species that are in decline because of habitat destrcution:

ISLAND FOX, Urocyon littoralis (Southern California) ~4000 left They live on only six of the eight Channel Islands (less than 400 square miles).

ETHIOPIAN WOLF, Canis simensis (Ethiopian Highlands) 360 - 440 adults left The Ethiopian wolf sometimes team up with monkeys to hunt alpine rodents.

AFRICAN WILD DOG, Lycaon pictus (from Algeria to South Africa) ~5,000 left They hunt antelope by chasing them to exhaustion. 

RED WOLF, Canis Rufus (North Carolina) ~150 left Their population once fell to just 14 individuals.

MANED WOLF, Chrysocyon brachyurus (central South America) ~17,000 left Maned wolves need wide uninterrupted territory to survive.

DHOLE, Cuon alpinus (China, India, Southeast Asia) 4,500-10,500 left These pack hunters use “whistles” to communicate with one another while hunting much larger prey. 

DARWIN’S FOX, Lycalopex fulvipes (Chile) less than 250 left So-called because Darwin collected a specimen in 1834. 200 of the remaining population live on on Chiloé Island. MEXICAN GRAY WOLF, Canis lupus baileyi (Mexico, the southeastern US) ~360 left All the Mexican gray wolves alive today are all descendants of five wolves captured in 1973.

Currently, efforts to increase these species rely on natural breeding programs. The Smithsonian’s maned wolf breeding program ships males from South America to their facility in Front Royal, Virginia. It would be great if they could just ship sperm. And using samples collected from multiple individuals could greatly increase the genetic diversity of a population, instead of relying on a few captive mating pairs. Exciting!

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If Cats Were Scientists (photos via Eat Liver) Related: Cats Who Have Serious Hoarding Issues

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Andy Weir: The Martian

Submitted by Elihu Dietz.

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Cool clock, Ahmed. We’re looking forward to your visit to the White House!

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GRIS GRIS magazine, Baton Rouge, Fall 1976. pic.twitter.com/vGPueynXEn

— Bitchuation (@Bitchuation) August 25, 2015

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Depression Symptom Checklist Speaking To Area Man As No Poem Ever Could 

SYRACUSE, NY—Saying the bulleted list of diagnostic criteria had touched something at the very core of his being, local 34-year-old Adam Zenner reported Friday that an online depression symptoms checklist was speaking to him as no poem ever could. “When I read those words for the first time, I was completely mesmerized—it’s almost like the part about persistent sad and anxious feelings was written just for me,” said Zenner, adding that no piece of writing had ever resonated with him as deeply as the checklist’s stirring opening lines about changes in appetite and the tendency to fixate on past failures. 

More.

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I hope whoever wrote this got all the raises. 

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Amazing graphic from the Urban Institute. The rich get much more from the government in tax deductions than the poor do from housing subsidies.

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Calvin knows what’s up.