Just an absolute must-see. This is brilliant content to sell the idea that we need to keep sending humans into space. We needed to be reminded that astronauts rule.

Space Oddity (by Chris Hadfield)

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npr: Many of the venues that display white tigers have a long history of shading the truth about their mutants. The Cincinnati Zoo, an otherwise respectable institution, labels their white tigers as a “species at risk!” Nowhere on the zoo’s website or at its tiger enclosures does it point out that this species at risk is in fact an ecologically useless hybrid of Bengal and Siberian strains, inbred at the zoo’s own facility for big money. The Cincinnati Zoo repeatedly bred closely related animals over the past few decades to produce more of the white tigers, which they sold for around $60,000 each. via White tiger controversy: Zoos shouldn’t raise these inbred, ecologically irrelevant animals. - Slate Magazine Photo: Jim Larimore Save the tigers. Breed them responsibly. The amount of time it took to evolve these awesome animals, compared to the amount of time it will take to make them extinct, is tragic.
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Many of the venues that display white tigers have a long history of shading the truth about their mutants. The Cincinnati Zoo, an otherwise respectable institution, labels their white tigers as a “species at risk!” Nowhere on the zoo’s website or at its tiger enclosures does it point out that this species at risk is in fact an ecologically useless hybrid of Bengal and Siberian strains, inbred at the zoo’s own facility for big money. The Cincinnati Zoo repeatedly bred closely related animals over the past few decades to produce more of the white tigers, which they sold for around $60,000 each.

via White tiger controversy: Zoos shouldn’t raise these inbred, ecologically irrelevant animals. - Slate Magazine

Photo: Jim Larimore

Save the tigers. Breed them responsibly. The amount of time it took to evolve these awesome animals, compared to the amount of time it will take to make them extinct, is tragic.

20121201 21 北京 北京国际魔术大会实录：Yann Frisch（法国）《球》 in (by 中文 新亞電視)

Want to see how frustrating the world would be if the laws of physics (and the predictability they provide) didn’t exist? Watch this hilarious magic routine from an international magic competition in China.

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The Dutch East India Company Cheat Sheet (via Mental Floss)

This is just an amazing story about one of the biggest megacorporations of all time. With a standing army of 10,000 (actually extremely villainous, committing atrocities like torture and genocide), it sounds like scifi, but it was actually the 17th century. Frank Herbert was right - it’s all about the spice. One of the best parts - they traded New York City (New Amsterdam) to the Brits for an island that was a great source of - not kidding - nutmeg.)

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