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- Hans Zimmer played Coachella. Your argument is invalid.
- Last week’s sports hero was the cat that made a baseball clip worthwhile. This week’s sports hero is a small child who pitched in at exactly the right time.
- I have a sudden need for one of these kinetic wood installations on each of my most prominent walls.
- This Week in Awkward Situations: It’s never fun to misjudge your hopes, especially when you have to awkwardly rearrange your big ol’ truck, and especially when some dingus stars honking when you’re midway through doing it.
- A Dutch court recently ruled against fan-made subtitles, which might not be a big deal if content creators took accessibility seriously, or if subtitles were universally available, of high quality, and provided in many languages.
- This Week in Star Wars Feels: Everyone loves the little child who went to a con as Jyn Erso and gave out Death Star plans to every Leia she saw. The variety of ages of Leia cosplayers is great, and the last card left at the Carrie Fisher memorial is perfect.
- Sometimes it’s a beautiful thing when a podcast inspires you to change your life.
- One lab has successfully used an artifial womb to gestate premature lambs, circulating amniotic fluid and connecting the umbilical cord to an artificial placenta. Translating the developments to human preemies is, as ever, tricky in the extreme, but anything that blunts the risk of premature birth is pretty cool.
- Rolling tires down an Olympic ski jump to see how far they’ll go might be the best use I’ve seen of a former Olympic facility.
- Crab blood is a crucial element in medical testing, but, quelle surprise, likely harms crabs more than the biomedical industry says. But, like, we really need their blood.
- If you’re not tragically and debilitatingly awkward when called upon to talk to another person, I don’t even understand your life.
- It’s refreshing to see the Radio Shack Facebook account that has exactly the attitude a Radio Shack Facebook account should have.
- The 3-year-old’s AMA is probably one of, like, three good things that’ve happened on Reddit.
- Yom HaShoah (Holocaust Remembrance Day) was this week. Each year, six survivors are chosen to light torches in memory of the Jewish victims, and this year’s have video testimonies to mark the occasion.
- We deserve better. We deserve the best in life. We deserve no-drip wine bottles.
- Once again, while pretty much all dogs are Good Dogs, therapy dogs are the Best Dogs.