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Karl Pillemer interviewed 1,500 people ages 70 to 100 years for his book 30 Lessons for Living. This was their biggest regret by a wide margin, the most important lesson: Don’t waste countless hours of your time in a job you don’t really like. https://lifehacker.com/the-most-important-life-lesson-older-people-want-younge-963838889
With all the giant flops from Hollywood this summer and all the potential new flops coming in 2014, movie insiders including Steven Spielberg are saying a major industry collapse is coming soon. Are we sick of these superheroes, finally? [Photo by Mark Anderson via Flickr.] https://gizmodo.com/is-hollywoods-glut-of-big-budget-blockbusters-doomed-t-967544709
With marriage itself so unaffordable and put off by so many people until the middle of adulthood, it’s no surprise that plenty of traditional wedding gifts end up being redundant. People already have a bunch of consumer junk. So now the newlyweds just want your money, in large bills. https://jezebel.com/newlyweds-dont-want-your-stupid-presents-they-want-co-953276444
Everybody could use some good news on days and centuries like this one, so it was welcome indeed when a very cute cat greeted readers of the Chicago Tribune website for a few glorious minutes today. Why not make every day Caturday? Because American Business hates fun. https://gizmodo.com/the-chicago-tribune-has-made-the-best-internet-mistake-964073520
Let’s leave out the cable shows and the entire Cinemax suite and focus on plain old broadcast television prime time. What’s the most masturbated-to program in the world? The answer is also the secret behind David Hasselhoff’s global fame. https://deadspin.com/searching-for-the-most-masturbated-to-tv-show-of-all-ti-962942967
This freakish “radish” was plucked from a Japanese vegetable farm, and news of the green-haired homunculus quickly made the mysterious entity a national hero in Japan. Doubters say the Radish Man is not able to walk without assistance, but photos suggest otherwise. https://kotaku.com/how-a-japanese-radish-became-an-internet-hero-959300090
Monogamy is not much fun, and it’s not even efficient. Men have the biological ability to impregnate women constantly from puberty until death. What’s the evolutionary point of staying with one female who can only get pregnant every nine months? https://gizmodo.com/how-did-monogamy-evolve-965375691
Some of our greatest achievements in space are some of the least known. Consider the iconic pop artist Andy Warhol and his secret art gallery on the Moon. It’s a very real thing, thanks to a tiny ceramic chip smuggled aboard Apollo 12. https://jalopnik.com/the-ten-greatest-space-achievements-nobody-knows-about-961669989
The U.S. Army private accused of “aiding the enemy” for giving classified documents to WikiLeaks has been spared guilt on that charge, ending a three-year ordeal of solitary confinement and constant humiliation for Private First Class Bradley Manning. But he has been found guilty on five other counts. https://gizmodo.com/bradley-mannings-not-guilty-of-aiding-the-enemy-but-o-963034954
According to science, the whole idea behind the Jurassic Park movies is bogus. Those “preserved in amber” mosquitoes used to create living, tourist-eating dinosaurs? A new study proves this could not happen the way it did in the popular movies. If only Spielberg had changed one little detail …. https://gizmodo.com/the-entire-premise-of-jurassic-park-is-wrong-because-of-961667776
Remote forest cameras capture all kinds of amazing animal video, and this footage from the parks department in Alberta, Canada, shows this one bear who cannot stop hugging this tree—when he’s not scratching his butt on it. https://deadspin.com/wildlife-camera-captures-bear-party-that-you-wish-youd-954301999
You can easily use your old Wi-Fi router to expand the coverage of your wireless network so it can get to the garden or the café downstairs. It’s not hard if you follow this guide. https://lifehacker.com/how-to-extend-your-wi-fi-network-with-an-old-router-915783308
A new research paper published in Nature Geocience claims “it’s likely impossible for human activity to induce a runaway greenhouse effect,” which is what turned Venus into a lifeless toxic hell. That would require “burning 10 times more” our fossil fuel reserves. The sun, however, will do it sooner than we thought. Of course, the…
One of these Walter Whites—the main character from the popular Breaking Bad series coming to its end this August—is real. The other one is computer generated. Can you tell who is who? I honestly can’t. https://kotaku.com/breaking-bad-images-so-good-youll-think-theyre-photos-956530496
That’s what this promotional video for HelloFlo says. The company—which allows women to subscribe and get tampons, pads and free candy delivered right on time for their periods—wants to be “like a monthly Santa for vaginas.” Photo by Shutterstock https://jezebel.com/tiny-tampon-queen-stars-in-best-menstrual-marketing-eve-952689744
In science fiction movies, imagined futures and alternate environments become real places populated by humans. But even an existing cityscape becomes a fantastic spectacle in the hands of a talented director, which is why many of these films used real, existing architecture. https://architizer.kinja.com/a-brief-history-of-modern-architecture-through-movies-950297045
Control Edward Snowden in a game in which you will keep running and running through Moscow’s airport corridors on a non-stop getaway from evil CIA agents. If you have an Android phone, try this game now. Then delete it five minutes later. https://gizmodo.com/nsa-surveillance-scandal-feds-shut-down-snowdens-secu-511588927 https://kotaku.com/theres-an-edward-snowden-game-and-yes-its-a-runner-951954898
Tokyo’s hot and humid summers are all the encouragement people need to go around in bikinis and … monster masks. What are these scary monsters? These three were just a few photographed in bizarre costumes at a Tokyo festival—the more horrifying of the creatures seem to be living cartoons. https://kotaku.com/mid-summer-cosplay-was-wonderful-this-weekend-in-japan-948488295
How does a dirty creep like Anthony Weiner stay married to such a lovely and intelligent woman like Huma Abedin? Right-wing commentators have figure it out: Huma grew up in Saudi Arabia, where sinister Islamic magic is used to make women stand by their men. Magic! https://jezebel.com/new-dumb-theory-huma-abedin-stays-with-anthony-weiner-950526747
What’s the use of a fast car if you’re just sitting in traffic? Get that car out of gridlock and onto these incredibly beautiful roads where it’s just you, your wheels, crazy scenery and a whole lot of roadway. https://jalopnik.com/the-worlds-greatest-road-actually-sucks-here-are-fo-944904488