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1. Help Wanted

It's easier to turn an aquarium into fish soup than to turn fish soup into an aquarium.

2. Building a Mongolian Yurt

A National Geographic timelapse of a Mongolian nomadic "instant home."

3. Brussels is too cold for the Manneken-Pis to pee

We've all been there....

4. Is It Ethical to Own an iPhone?

Abhorrent working conditions have left socially conscious Americans with a dilemma.

5. Anonymous Eavesdrops on FBI Anti-Anonymous Strategy Meeting

A warrantless wiretap on an organization known to flaunt the law: the FBI!

6. Huffington Post Employee Sucked Into Aggregation Turbine

Horrified Workers Watch As Colleague Torn Apart By Powerful Content-Gathering Engine

7. The Case—Please Hear Me Out—Against the Em Dash

Modern prose doesn't need any more interruptions—seriously.

8. The Obama Administration's Abject Failure on Transparency

President Obama promised to bring unprecedented transparency to Washington.

9. Government Requests %u2013 Google Transparency Report

Google's Government Requests tool discloses the number of requests the company receives from each government to remove content.

10. Your Morning Routine Is Making You Dull

The way most of us spend our mornings is exactly counter to the conditions that neuroscientists tell us promote flexible, open-minded thinking.

11. Smart, Sportsy Things For You To Say During Super Bowl XLVI

"If Gronkowski's foot isn't 100% this will be a blowout worse than LaBalme's Massacre. Look it up on Wikipedia."

12. The Gift of Mike Kelley

Blake Gopnik on the Los Angeles artist.

13. The Most Terrible Polar Exploration Ever

My dad said: "When ships were wooden and men were iron/compulsed/nuts."

14. The Ice Balloon: The Story of the Disastrous 1897 Expedition to the North Pole by Air

Timeless.

15. Republicans Want to Throw Kids Under the Bus. Literally.

Walking is good for you. Unless you get run over. Then walking is bad for you.

16. Super Bowl Viewers Will Check Phones 10 Times During the Game

I'll check mine 10 times before the first commercial break.

17. A simple theory of why so many smart young people go into finance, law, and consulting

You will seek out jobs which reward a high G factor, or high general intelligence.

18. Spiders dodge cannibalism through remote copulation

I am going to have so many kinds of nightmares.

19. The Uncanny Valley: What Robot Theory Tells Us About Mitt Romney

Romney looks so much like a Presidential candidate that it creeps us out.

20. 101 Men

A photo timeline of men, aged 0-100.

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