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- This Week in Inventions: people have long tried to improve on the humble bicycle.
- This Week in Things That Really Happened: Stephen Colbert showed up at this week’s Republican hate-fest cosplaying as Caesar Flickerman. Really.
- Star Trek inspired one person to come out by finally having a queer main character, and the movie isn’t even out yet.
- Netflix must have a ridiculous amount of data on people’s viewing habits, including which shows are watched in longer blocks.
- Crow swoops into crime scene and tries to take evidence. That crow is no snitch.
- Word to the wise: if you’re planning on cheating in this year’s Tour de France by hiding a miniature motor in the frame of your bike, they’re on to you.
- Making a Murderer is still getting made, in case you’re wondering how ol’ Stevie is doing.
- Astronauts are suffering mysterious vision loss, which seems like kind of a hindrance to astronauts.
- This Week in Ultra HD: pine for the fjords.
- This Week in Horrifying Science: it seems possible that some effects of aging can be reduced or reversed…by an infusion of children’s blood. A protein isolated from the blood doesn’t seem to get the job done very well, so bathing in the blood of the young it is!
- I’m fascinated by the fact that lots of people live right on top of history, in places that’ve had civilizations come and go for hundreds or thousands of years. (Fascinated in a way I really can only be because I don’t, honestly.) For instance, subway paths often have to be diverted because eventually you can’t drill through the bones of the ancient dead.
- This Week in Art: you can make a whole lot of animals with thirteen circles.
- This Week in Procedurally-Generated Text: feed synopses for Batman TAS into a text emulator and you get the new adventure Batman Loves Him a Criminal.
- This Week in Music: many of us wish we could enjoy our classical music this much.