10 non-work-related items that I found fun or interesting

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Cultural looting reached its apex under the Nazis, who were efficient but careless. What kind of idiot hangs a da Vinci painting above a radiator?...more

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Ortega y Gasset: “Culture is what remains after we’ve forgotten everything we’ve read.” And what, Sven Birkerts asks, is left after reading a novel?...more

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In America today, men are caught: they are shown the old breadwinner ideal in an economic era that no longer delivers a proper family wage...more

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Viagra in the agora. The little blue pill gives rise to enduring philosophical insights. But if they linger for more than four hours, consult a doctor...more

Maus Trap via the How-To Geek by Asian Angel
Your mission is to help a poor mouse named Peanut escape the dangerous lab she is trapped in. Do you have what it takes to save the day?
Play Maus Trap

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Moral intelligence, an innate sense of right and wrong, allowed both dogs and early human societies to flourish and spread across the world...more

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Dogs do it, lions do it, even babies in the womb do it, and though weird theories abound, nobody really knows why we yawn... more

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Deciding on the best science fiction calls for literary judgment. Asking what is the most accurate science fiction is a different question altogether...more
And having read the comments from six scientists about the accuracy or otherwise of fiction in their area of interest then think about the SF you would most like to be true!

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Real ants offer no lessons in human moral conduct, says Deborah Gordon. Brave soldiers, dutiful factory workers: this is the stuff of our fictions, not insect behaviour...more

Get ready to detonate that boredom via the How-To Geek by Asian Angel
In this game your mission is to move level to level and blow up the evil things you encounter while not harming the good ones.
Play Blow Things Up! 2

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