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Search for Survivors Ongoing After Tornado Rips Through Oklahoma. At least 24—including nine children—have been confirmed dead and more than 100 injured, though those totals are expected to rise dramatically in the coming days. (New York Times) Tales of Horror [...]
Aging Tech Giant Buys Hip Social Blogging Platform. Or at least that’s they way most people are Yahoo’s $1.1 billion acquisition of Tumblr. That’s $300 million more than Facebook paid for Instagram, if that means anything. It probably doesn’t. Apples [...]
This Year’s Cannes Film Festival Has Begun. The 12-day event kicked off on May 15 and marks the 40th anniversary of TIME film critic Richard Corliss’ first visit to the festival in 1973. He and his wife Mary break down [...]
Makeover: Reddit users digitally restore a damaged photo of a World War II Navy submarine sonar/radar operator. (The Daily What) Extreme Makeover: Check out this slideshow of comic book heros imagined as 80s punk singers. (Flavorwire) Breakfast Tacos: Forget, breakfast burritos. [...]
Bird Flu? The giant rubber duck that buoyed Hong Kong’s spirits has deflated. (TIME.com) Twitter Bird: The most popular Game of Thrones characters on Twitter. (BuzzFeed) Chirping: How sparrows use song to pin down mates. (mental_floss) Bird Brain? 20 kooky quotes from Food Network’s Guy [...]
Technology of Yore: Longing for the simpler times, when we used simpler forms of communication? Indulge your nostalgia and listen to these songs about obsolete forms of technology. (mental_floss) Bayside, Behind the Scenes: There’s a special kind of nostalgia reserved for ’90s [...]
Secret Origins: Obviously Spider-Man and Iron Man were based on beloved comic books, but you might be surprised to learn that plenty of other movies wouldn’t exist if not for the comics that preceded them. Here are 11 such films. (mental_floss) Late Night Hires Meyers: The SNL [...]
Isn’t It Ironic: This Sunday is Mother’s Day, but brace yourselves while we hit you with some knowledge about the holiday. The founder of the original Mother’s Day later fought to have it abolished. (mental_floss) Mother Nature: Who better to demonstrate the specialness [...]
TIME Machine: See how dramatically the Earth’s landscape has changed via timelapse satellite videos, exclusively on TIME.com. (TIME.com) Grueling: Whenever you complain about your job, just be glad you don’t have to work as a mudlark or a dog whipper or [...]
The Big Chill: This Sunday, you can take your mom to a frozen banana stand and hand her one of these Arrested Development-themed Mother’s Day cards. (Flavorwire) Stop Motion: TIME’s tribute to Ray Harryhausen, the special effects pioneer who died May 7 [...]
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