Poor cat… All he ever wanted to do was dominate the skies in a fighter plane.

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Another cool interweb innovation brought to us by Slate. It's like six-degrees of separation meets news meets graph.

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Stephen Colbert talks to a leading researcher in the field of uber-creepy-lab-grown-meat. The shmeat segment starts about 1:20 in. This is more disarming than Quorn .

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The Best Links:

1. Will Anyone Eat This??
2. The Schtory of Schmeat: Vladimir Mironov’s Lab-Grown Chicken

Has anyone considered the possibility of obesity being a spell? I mean, hello…. Princess Fiona? Does art imitate life or life imitate art?

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This hilarious Sugar Lumps song from the second episode of season two of Flight of the Conchords more than makes up for the semi-dull, plot focused premiere last week.

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Link: http://www.usnews.com/blogs/capital-c...

An unusually high number of small earthquakes have occurred in the park since Friday. http://www.nowpublic.com/environment/earthquake-swarm-yellowstone-supervolcano http://www.salon.com/wires/ap/scitech/2008/12/29/D95CN8P80_yellowstone_quakes/index.html

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sweet surprise

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Link: http://www.komonews.com/home/video/18...

“I wanted to do hood rat stuff with my friend”

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the shocker is the new black in the district

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Link: http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/geo...

National Geographic's sensational Novermber cover story “The End of NIght” discusses how nighttime artificial light distorts biological rhythms, disorienting humans and animals and disrupting natural patterns that have evolved without the hazy glow surrounding cities and the bright outdoor lights in our neighborhoods.

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Link: http://www.treehugger.com/files/2008/...

Apparently grocery stores in Japan can't keep their banana shelves stocked ever since the popularization of Japan's Morning Banana Diet. The diet claims up to 43 pounds can be lost in ten weeks.

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More Monifa

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Adorable baby pygmy hippo, Monifa — whose name means “I am lucky” in Nigerian — arrives in Taronga Zoo in Australia, and may be the cutest thing ever.

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Is anyone else having a laugh every time a news story refers to Obama's COS choice as a “shocker”? From a recent article in TIME: As a teenager, he severed his right middle finger slicing meat at Arby's and went swimming in Lake Michigan before getting stitches. After the wound became severly infected, Emanuel had the top of his finger amputated and spent six weeks recovering.

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