SFFworthy adds Upworthy-style headlines to SciFi/Fantasy/Superhero tropes. What this Tumblr does with linkbait will... damnit now I'm doing it..

The Negativity Scene , my favorite bit of seasonal blasphemy for 2013.

Australian sign language for holidays. via the comment section in a Dan Savage review of the introduction to Sarah Palin's latest book....I really like the internet. I really do. Best to all the monkeys!

MONSTER PORN: Amazon Cracks Down On America’s Latest Sex Fantasy. [Via]

NSFW--This is not yer grandma's Christmas tree . Unless grandma was really kinky

Unwrap all the presents! Christmas is coming with presents and eggnog, turkey and stuffing, and lots and lots of bananas. But not Cthurkey, PLEASE!

The amplituhedron stands as if in hyper space-time, it is said. Quark field theory predictions can be driven now by such a higher level “jewel.” As a pragmatic geometry its shape solves problems which used to flummox supercomputers. Predictive formulas have been simplified by using such geometries. But other pictures exist for it... more inside

Why Life Does Not Really Exist.

Hope for blindsighted people. Blindsightedness uses subliminal data processing, a step or two up from the dark first image shown in this example of a new technology which could help such a crippled eye... more inside

Bees sense sickness on human breath. I've heard before that sensitive people sense when someone is sick, but bees are probably more objective. The smell of garlic? No problem. Cancer? Check. Diabetes? Check. (Their apocrine glands are known to contain pheromones that retain information about a person's health that bee antennae can identify.) But if they don't like people to be sick, what then? more inside

(and now you can say you've seen everything on CONAN)
Every "season", Conan O'Brien has a "supercut" made to celebrate surviving another year on Basic Cable. This time, for Season 3, he let deranged British animator Cyriak work on it... more inside

Welcome to Dinovember: A month-long imagination invasion.

Lindsey Carr's aristocratic monkey paintings.

Surreal Photo Manipulations by Caras Ionut.

A Prayer For The Chronologically Enhanced Ya gotta stay sharp. It's either your mind, your hide or your wallet that goes. It's time to declare a Manifesto for the Chronologically Enhanced. more inside

Princeton University poll: Hitler is the greatest living person. From a poll held in 1939: Einstein came in second and Chamberlain in third.

I am shocked, shocked I say to hear that that well known conservative writer Edmund Burke was all too happy to have his old age comfortably provided for by the UK Government while writing against it doing so for farm labourers.

Monkeys 'take turns in conversation' Marmoset monkeys take it in turns to "talk" in a pattern very similar to human conversation, according to scientists.

The DSM-5 reviewed as a work of dystopian fiction. "Something has gone terribly wrong in the world; we are living the wrong life, a life without any real fulfillment. The newly published DSM-5 is a classic dsytopian novel in this mold."

Curious George<b>:</b> Remember the joy of socks? We loved our socks. We even posted about them incessantly. We worried about them. Petebest taught us sock sorting, and PigAlien gave us sockherding. more inside