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PIG! Andrew Andrews is #1 in the Pac-12 men’s basketball standings, at 21.7 points per game. Kelsey Plum is averaging 27.2, which leads the entire nation. So they played a game of PIG against each other and here's what happened.
posted by jragon at 8:37 PM PST - 2 comments

Ask Vincent: In which Vincent van Gogh gives advice both solicited and unsolicited. Part 2, Part 3.
posted by Capt. Renault at 6:25 PM PST - 7 comments

Ten Tiny Dances choreographed by Emily Schoen. #1 - Ready/Set - #2 - Mind The Gap - #3 - Face Dance - #4 - The General - #5 - Little Lisa - #6 - City Run - #7 - So Many Ways - #8 - Foot Dance - #9 - Bounce Quartet - #10 - A Jointed Affair.
posted by Joey Michaels at 5:58 PM PST - 11 comments

Paper people can have weddings, historical costumes, and baroque wigs made from paper.
posted by dilettante at 3:33 PM PST - 5 comments

FUNNNNNYYYYY JOOKKKKEEEE!!
posted by Foci for Analysis at 3:15 PM PST - 21 comments

1. Love Across the Globe Through Strava: The incredible story of how a competitive cycling app united two riders from across the world. From Caitlin Giddings [more inside]
posted by Dashy at 3:06 PM PST - 2 comments

On a Wednesday night, Bournemouth's Harry Arter learned his daughter of 38 weeks was stillborn. That Saturday, he played against Manchester United. Arter tells the Guardian all, in the heart-wrenching detail.
posted by devious truculent and unreliable at 2:19 PM PST - 11 comments

By spreading malaria, dengue fever, West Nile, yellow fever and now the Zika virus, they are the most dangerous animal in the world. What would happen if we got rid of them? It sounds like a promising idea, but what would take their place and would the rainforests survive?
posted by soelo at 1:53 PM PST - 111 comments

A distillery tour.
posted by phunniemee at 1:18 PM PST - 35 comments

Signs of Modern Astronomy Seen in Ancient Babylon - "Scientists have found a small clay tablet with markings indicating that a sort of precalculus technique was used to track Jupiter's motion in the night sky." [more inside]
posted by kliuless at 1:01 PM PST - 15 comments

Welcome to WorldPopulationHistory.org, an interactive site that lets you explore the peopling of our planet from multiple perspectives – historical, environmental, social and political. It is about the 2,000-year journey of human civilization and the possible paths ahead to the middle of this century.
posted by a lungful of dragon at 12:58 PM PST - 5 comments

When I Quit Cutting My Hair, I Learned How Men Treat Women On American Roads "The fifty-something man in the aging Lexus SUV was red-faced from screaming as he pulled up next to my motorcycle and lowered his passenger window. I caught fragments of every nasty word I'd ever heard my Catholic-school classmates whisper to each other during recess. Then he slowed the torrent of abuse long enough to enunciate the next sentence clearly: "Bitch, I am going to get out of this car and beat you until you can't stand up." From Road and Track.
posted by generichuman at 12:55 PM PST - 100 comments

Margaret Sugg, Nancy Fassett, and Barbara Fletcher moved into a group house together in the 1960s and have lived together ever since, renting a row house in Georgetown, DC; buying a home in the Maryland suburbs, and then retiring together to a nearby retirement community. [more inside]
posted by sallybrown at 12:40 PM PST - 17 comments

The Best Dishes From Every Indian State And Their Authentic Recipes Are Right Here
posted by infini at 12:30 PM PST - 33 comments

LEGO builder Adam Dodge presents a slice-of-life Star Wars story in the form of a Flickr gallery. It starts here (found via The Brothers Brick).
posted by AlonzoMosleyFBI at 12:01 PM PST - 2 comments

It has been created outside of the lab at least five times -- once at the Three Mile Island reactor in 1979, once in Chernobyl in 1986, and three separate times during the Fukushima Daiichi meltdown in 2011. It's made by melting fuel pellets or rods in nuclear reactors, which then assimilate concrete and whatever else they touch, making radioactive "lava." It's called corium, and it remains radioactive for centuries. Artur Korneyev, a dark-humored Kazakhstani nuclear inspector, has a lot of experience with it, especially the "elephant foot" in the Chernobyl sarcophagus. [more inside]
posted by filthy light thief at 11:45 AM PST - 18 comments

"Unlike the names of almost every celestial body in the solar system, the names of the moons of Mars are words. They’re names, but they’re words as well.", Fortunato Salazar
posted by the man of twists and turns at 11:36 AM PST - 39 comments

Look out the window and be sure you don't miss the neat stuff! [more inside]
posted by Brandon Blatcher at 11:25 AM PST - 7 comments

"It’s like parenting or establishing friendships, or pretty much any other intimate, cooperative endeavor: It takes attention and recalibration to be done well even when you’ve made a particularly felicitous match." Sex can be unpleasant, awkward, or even upsetting - and that's okay. In Defense of Bad Sex.
posted by sunset in snow country at 10:46 AM PST - 98 comments

America’s biggest toy company is changing the most famous body in the world. Classic, curvy, tall and petite; 7 skin tones; 22 eye colours; 24 hairstyles; 8 hair colours: meet the new Barbie Fashionistas.
posted by DarlingBri at 10:34 AM PST - 105 comments

Dr. Tim Lomas is creating a positive cross-cultural lexicography: an evolving index of expressions from many languages for positive emotional states and concepts pertaining to well-being. Most do not have immediate English equivalents. View by Alphabet, Language or Theme. [more inside]
posted by zarq at 8:56 AM PST - 21 comments

Keith Haring's New Year's Eve Party with his paintings and favorite music is a video taken at Keith's New Year's Eve Party welcoming 1984 via the 5 Ninth Avenue Project, , which uploads the work of video artist Nelson Sullivan, who, when he died in 1989, left behind almost 1,200 hours of footage of the now iconic and heavily romanticized Downtown New York scene
posted by roomthreeseventeen at 8:41 AM PST - 4 comments

On This Spot is a history blog that focusses on then and now photography, comparing historical and contemporary photographs of the same locations. Locations include cities and battlefields in the UK, Germany, France, Japan and Canada.
posted by Dim Siawns at 8:16 AM PST - 8 comments

DylanTube [more inside]
posted by y2karl at 8:07 AM PST - 9 comments

Check Your Surroundings for Safety is the first feature film shot entirely on a Prius backup camera. [more inside]
posted by Etrigan at 7:50 AM PST - 18 comments

"That’s the message of these curiously sadistic TV commercials produced by Jim Henson between 1957 and 1961. Henson made 179 ten-second spots for Wilkins Coffee, a regional company with distribution in the Baltimore-Washington D.C. market, according to the Muppets Wiki: “The local stations only had ten seconds for station identification, so the Muppet commercials had to be lightning-fast–essentially, eight seconds for the commercial pitch and a two-second shot of the product.”" --from OpenCulture.com
posted by valkane at 7:48 AM PST - 45 comments

Rabbit Female Wearing Ladies Dress Walking And Jumping , Drinking Milk From Injection Nipple. [SLYT]
Does what it says on the fuzzy wuzzy tin.
posted by Room 641-A at 7:14 AM PST - 23 comments

We're the only animals with chins, and no one knows why. "I always get entertaining emails from lay people trying to help me so let me thank you in advance for what I'm about to receive."
posted by Metroid Baby at 7:03 AM PST - 73 comments

Caroline St. Clair introduces her aunt, Toni Tennille (of the Captain & Tennille) to the music of Morrissey: Part One, Part Two.
posted by Cash4Lead at 6:47 AM PST - 22 comments

Online Feature: “Sometimes You Break Their Hearts, Sometimes They Break Yours” by Marie-Helene Bertino She's an alien, living in our world. She observes and describes. She says amazing things. Enlightening things. Things that make you embarrassed at your own humanity. Is this how we look to the rest of the universe? [more inside]
posted by I_Love_Bananas at 4:41 AM PST - 19 comments