Ramblings...
Life-Altering Invention of the Day: It took two months and a whole team of MIT mechanical engineers and nano-technologists, but at long last, mankind has a solution to the ketchup bottle battle.
LiquiGlide, a “super slippery” coating, is made up of nontoxic materials that allow the condiment to pour out smoothly, the way it was intended. The lubricant can be applied to all sorts of food packaging, but ketchup had better be likely will be priority number one.
One of the biggest challenges the team faced was making sure the coating was safe to consume, which meant ingredients had to be FDA-approved. “We had a limited amount of materials to pick from,” said team member Dave Smith, an MIT Ph.D. candidate. “I can’t say what they are, but we’ve patented the hell out of it.”
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What is this sorcery?
Behind the Scenes of the Day: The latest Wes Anderson, Moonrise Kingdom, is out Friday, and star Bill Murray gives us a preview. The pair go back quite a ways — the actor has worked on every Anderson-directed film except Bottle Rocket (“I still haven’t seen that one,” Murray laments during his video tour of the project).
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He is flawless.
This 15 year old just won $75,000 for developing a test for pancreatic cancer that’s over 90 percent accuracy, and 28 times faster, 28 times less expensive and over 100 times more sensitive than current tests.
SCIENCE! His face though, so cute.
(Source: societyforscience.org)
Fresh Prince Intro of the Day: The Fresh Prince himself recently visited the BBC’s The Graham Norton Show, where he rapped his legendary intro – but now without a major assist from the all-British audience.
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A spectacular Monday afternoon pick-me-up.
bobby finger: Think Like A Man, the "movie."
Women date men and then the men are all horrible but so are the women so the women buy Steve Harvey’s disgusting and sexist and ignorant self-help book “Act Like A Lady, Think Like A Man” and try to change their men but then the men find out and also buy Steve Harvey’s disgusting and sexist and…
this.
I LITERALLY GASPED.
Perfect abomination is perfect.


