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3D animated origami instructions to make a peace crane, flapping bird, and football shirt. S Curiosities. 22 Words. High Existence. The Bureau of Communication - Fill-in-the-blank Correspondence. The Flaming Lips & Prefuse 73 - “Supermoon Made Me Want To Pee” It’s 2012 and once again everyone’s got the apocalypse on their minds, including The Flaming Lips and Prefuse 73, and in their video for “Supermoon Made Me Want to Pee” the world doesn’t end with a whimper, but an orgy of surreal death and destruction.

From the first note, the song is an onslaught, an almost relentless cacophony of buzzing electrics, primal screams and stampeding bass. Good thing, then, that the video manages to hold it’s own against the crushing wall of sound, with so much dissociative imagery it almost feels like I’m somehow missing the point by writing a corresponding article. The only thing we have in the way of a protagonist is an astronaut, whose ultimate fate ends in a hilariously dark kiss-off to our entire species. The Flaming Lips and Heady Fwends is out tomorrow. WHERE THE FUCK SHOULD I GO FOR DRINKS? The History of the Universe in 200 Words or Less. Quantum fluctuation.

Inflation. Expansion. Strong nuclear interaction. Particle-antiparticle annihilation. Copyright 1996-1997 by Eric Schulman. This piece was the inspiration for the book A Briefer History of Time and led to the Annals of Improbable Research Universal History Translation Project. Interested in learning more about any of these events? Top 10 Things That Determine Happiness. Photo: meddygarnet Happiness is, by nature, a subjective quality with a definition like a moving target. There is scant evidence — qualitative or quantitative — to lend convincing support to those life variables most critical in determining individual happiness, which is likely why past researchers committed to the scientific method rarely tried to tackle the subject.

This is changing. Take, for example, the World Database of Happiness in Rotterdam, self-described as a, “continuous register of scientific research on subjective appreciation of life.” Also, take the positive psychologists, a movement whose “members” perform scientific research into the nature of happiness and who published Character Strengths and Virtues: A Handbook and Classification, an 800-page behemoth that outlines all the characteristics, behaviors and conditions that lead to happiness. No.10 – Having a short memory Are you one to hold grudges? No.9 – Exacting fairness No.8 – Having lots of friendships No.2 – Good genes. Wind Map.

An invisible, ancient source of energy surrounds us—energy that powered the first explorations of the world, and that may be a key to the future. This map shows you the delicate tracery of wind flowing over the US. The wind map is a personal art project, not associated with any company. We've done our best to make this as accurate as possible, but can't make any guarantees about the correctness of the data or our software. Please do not use the map or its data to fly a plane, sail a boat, or fight wildfires :-) If the map is missing or seems slow, we recommend the latest Chrome browser.

Surface wind data comes from the National Digital Forecast Database. If you're looking for a weather map, or just want more detail on the weather today, see these more traditional maps of temperature and wind. Lab Test Results for Recreational Drugs.