Upworthy is a website that tries to inspire or shame readers to click on post titles ($) and read stories to which they can emotionally connect. The site has been tremendously successful financially, though its headline style is the subject of much internet mockery.

SFFworthy takes stories from science fiction and fantasy and summarizes them using Upworthy-style headlines. You won't believe what they do next.

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Caldwell Tanner lives in New York City, where it's a bit nippy out right now. Just a few days ago it was even chillier. This inspired him to sketch out a few clothing inventions that would actually be helpful the next time a polar vortex visits your neighborhood. You can view them all here.

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I like the Liquid Heat Jacket. It's like a stillsuit from Dune, except that it's made for very cold rather than very hot and dry temperatures. Also you probably shouldn't excrete into it without first checking to make sure it's designed to handle that process.

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Inspired by a reddit thread and the blog Life Advice from Machines, Twisted Sifter created inspirational images using instructions from computer hardware, household cleansers and even a jar of mayonnaise.

I especially like the wisdom from MS Outlook. For desire--that is, attachment--leads to only disappointment. Disappointment leads to suffering. Therefore to reduce suffering, reduce your attachments.

Read the rest here at Twisted Sifter.

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Maurice and Nigel Mitchell, the internet's Geek Twins, compiled 10 pieces of triva that you may not know about Futurama. 

For example, actor Frank Welker provided the voice for Leela's pet Nibbler and Megatron on the 80s cartoon The Transformers.

And Professor Hubert J. Farnsworth was named after Philo T. Farnsworth, the inventor of the electric television.

P.S. Be sure to also check out the Geek Twins' explanations of the 11 nerdiest jokes on Futurama.

Here's a video of Captain Picard cutting a pizza with a pizza slicer shaped like the Enterprise (the original, not models A-E) while humming theme music from classic Star Trek.

You're welcome.

If you wanted to create a shrine to American childhood in the 1980s, these lamps should light it. Etsy seller Marty McFly (possibly not his real name) made these lamps by gluing together and painting Star Wars toys.

The top one, for example, is made from the Ewok Village Playset, a classic and cherished toy that came out with Return of the Jedi. The bottom lamp is made from pretty much everything else.

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The Global Data Chandelier is a permanent and functional art installation at the new headquarters of the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington, D.C. It’s the brainchild of several design firms working together: Sosolimited, Plebian Design, Hypersonic Engineering & Design and Chris Parlato.

The chandelier has 425 pendant lamps that turn on and off in order to reflect, globally, certain data types. These include renewable water resources, GDP growth and energy consumption.

Here’s a video showing the Global Data Chandelier in action:

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The Mangalitsa is a rare breed of pig from Hungary. It’s the result of a Nineteenth Century experiment in the Austro-Hungarian Empire to breed a pig with very high fat content in order to produce large amounts of lard.

The breed faded in popularity and almost died out. The pigs take a full year to grow to 350 pounds—twice the time of more popular breeds. But in the 1990s, interest in the breed revived. There are now about 60,000 Mangalitsa pigs around the world, including some in the U.S.

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The deep red meat consists of 50% fat, giving it a buttery flavor that is treasured by gourmands around the world. The lard is also prized by elite chefs who prefer to cook with it.

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Grant Snider of Incidental Comics walks us down a path of encountering, exploring and even making art.

I vividly remember, many years ago, turning a corner at the Birmingham Museum of Art and seeing the enormous, majestic Dawn by William-Adolphe Bouguereau. It was stunning. I spent quite a bit of time later chasing down Bouguereaus when I heard that they were on public display.

I will not discount the aesthetic priorities of others, but to me, the Western tradition of art reached its zenith in the works of Bouguereau.

Which encounters with art have left a lasting impression on you?

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"Have you ever been in this position: really nice bottle of wine, no corkscrew?" A representative of Mirabeau Wine, a winemaker in southern France, asks this question. Then he shows an ingenious solution to the problem.

I took a different approach. When my corkscrew shredded the cork instead of gripping it, I used my electric drill and largest bit (1/4 inch) to drive a hole through the cork. Of course, this left a lot of cork bits in the wine. So I filtered the wine through the basket of my coffeemaker, thus removing the cork.

The wine tasted terrible anyway.

Richard Gray of the Daily Telegraph describes Mirabeau's technique as a "disarmingly simple way of taking the cork out of a bottle without a corkscrew that will become your new party trick this year." I predict many broken bottles and a lot of spilled wine.

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Other signs include a second cell phone and money suddenly disappearing from your joint account.

If the plane ticket is one-way, well, then you know what's going to happen.

It's hard. But believe me: once you get through this rough time, you'll be better off. You can do better anyway.

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It's common for daycare businesses to learn about the interests and habits of children who enroll. One daycare manager gave a friend of redditor JesadBellic this form to fill out when he enrolled his daughter, Emma, in the school.

Emma is 11 months old.

So some of these questions are probably not relevant to a child of that age. You can see a larger view of the responses here.

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For weeks, the football players at Olivet Middle School in Olivet, Michigan schemed how they would carry out their plan. Their goal was to give Keith Orr, a developmentally disabled student, the chance to score a touchdown.

So the team ran the ball all the down to the 1-yard line...and stopped. They grounded the ball.

On the next play, the passed the ball to Keith, then pushed the opposing team back the yard that Keith needed to score a touchdown.

Watch this video from CBS News to learn about how this act helped the players sort out their own values and priorities.

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Electroplating is an electrical process that plates an object in dissolved metals. In the Nineteenth Century, some inventors thought that it would be an excellent way to preserve a dead body. Why rot away? Inside a thin but solid metal skin, your corpse could slowly mummify.

In a lengthy article, Atlas Obscura describes the history of this idea. Its proponents argued that it was an inexpensive and sanitary process. And since it preserved a body from decay, you could keep your relatives around the house as memorial statues.

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Fabrizio Corneli says, "Light is energy which creates forms." That neatly summarizes his work. He's an artist in Florence, Italy who creates shadowy outlines mixed with vibrant colors. He does so by shaping custom lamps to project specific images at the proper angles.

This work, for example, is entitled Iperboreo I, which appears to mean "Hyperborean" in Italian. It's a halogen lamp inside copper sheeting. When observed from the front, it looks like a ball of fire. The ancient Greeks believed that the Hyperboreans were a people who lived in a paradise to the far north, beyond the harsh north winds. Perhaps this art installation represents their sunny domain.