Ben Jonson's "On My First Daughter" is a sad but beautiful sonnet that depicts a father's grief over his daughter's passing in her infancy. And with the last two lines of the sonnet, Zach Weinersmith of SMBC Comics made several other scenarios inspired by them but placed the setting in different locations in outer space. Check them out here.

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Hundreds of students in Liverpool were left shocked, angry, and disappointed after they received emails saying that their rooms weren't ready to be occupied on the day they were supposed to move in. So they were given alternative accommodation instead which wasn't on par with what they paid for. The Tab reports:

Hundreds of Liverpool students set to move into the Calibo Building were left in limbo after they were told their rooms weren't ready.

The new tenants were told their new accommodation would be uninhabitable for another four weeks despite having already paid a £100 deposit and eight weeks' rent.

New tenants have been placed in alternative accommodation also owned by Fresh Student Living in the city until the Calico Building is finished.

The delay has left many students unable to settle in, and some have no alternative but to commute into Liverpool each day from home or rent a storage facility to keep their belongings safe.

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Rosie the Riveter and We Can Do It! Enamel Pin Set

Need a job done well and right? Enlist Rosie the Riveter! Empowering women since the 1940's. 

The Rosie the Riveter and We Can Do It! Enamel Pin Set is there to remind you that there is nothing you can't do. You are strong, independent, and valuable. 

Each Rosie the Riveter and We Can Do It! Enamel Pin Set comes with 2 enamel pins. One pin features Rose the Riveter and the other the words "We Can Do It!" Perfect for attaching to your backpack , jacket, or favorite lanyard.  

Be sure to check out the NeatoShop for more great Apparel & Accessories. New items arriving all the time. 

Don't forget to stop by the store to see our large selection of customizable bags and apparel. We specialiaze in Curvy and Big and Tall sizes. We carry baby 6 months all the way to 10 XL shirts. We know that fun, fabulous, and hard worker people come in every size. 

We often feel intimidated or scared when we encounter something we don't understand, something unknown or different from what we normally see around us. We tend to either avoid or at worst, drive away what seems foreign to us, but this would just make our lack of understanding even worse as we wouldn't know why something is different or how we can work together.

For Patrick Kennedy, breaking the stigma on mental illness is one of the most significant advocacies as he too has his own story of mental illness and substance misuse. And so he, along with mental health advocacy organizations launched the Mental Health for US campaign.

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If you want to live in peace, away from all the stress and busyness of the modern world, then you might just want to pack your things and buy 1 Willow Island on Putnam Lake, 60 miles away from New York City. And all for the reasonable price of $850K.

The small island is two thirds of an acre and hosts the main house plus a separate 600 square foot studio. The house is made from the same stone quarry that supposedly supplied the Holland Tunnel, so it's got some staying power.

It's also been updated to feature an open floor plan, modern kitchen and 35 windows that let in plenty of natural light.

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World history is such a vast subject that it is often reduced to soundbites one can remember, whether they are true or not. Most likely, you learned in school that Ferdinand Magellan was the first to sail around the world. It's true that his 1519 expedition set out to do that, in order to find a new route to the spices of Indonesia. But only one of his five ships made it back to Spain in 1522, and Magellan was long dead by then. That's because he made his way around the globe while pillaging, killing, and trying to convert everyone he met along the way.     

As the crew forged across the Pacific Ocean, food spoiled and scurvy and starvation struck. Magellan and his men briefly made landfall in what was likely Guam, where they killed indigenous people and burned their homes in response to the theft of a small boat.

A month later, the expedition reached the Philippines. To the crew’s surprise, Enrique, an enslaved man Magellan had purchased before the journey, could understand and speak the indigenous people’s language. It turned out he was likely raised there before his enslavement—making him, not Magellan, the first person to circumnavigate the globe.

Magellan swiftly claimed the Philippines on Spain’s behalf, but his involvement in what Bergreen calls an “unnecessary war” was his undoing. “He wasn’t defeated by natural forces,” says Bergreen.

Read about Magellan's extraordinary quest and what really happened along the way at National Geographic.

For months, they were just two robots passing in the night. But one night the stars aligned, they finally met, and sparks flew. They coupled and then fell asleep. Philip Bloom captured the incident on two Nest cameras and another camera attached to his cat feeder. Since both robots have edge detectors, you'll have to watch the video to see how it happened. -via Digg
 

Absinthe is a liquor that gained a very particular reputation in the 19th century, as it was adopted by the artistic community of Paris, then spread to fashionable society, and then finally became affordable enough for commoners. The fancy rituals of serving absinthe and its supposedly hallucinogenic effects gave it a cachet of forbidden fruit that many wanted to experience. The website Victorian Paris gives us a rundown of the rise and fall of absinthe, including the backlash that got the drink banned in several countries.

Discussions followed discussions. Petitions were signed. The vise slowly tightened around absinthe. The straw that broke the camel’s back was a series of particularly brutal family murders for which absinthe was blamed – largely unjustly. For instance, preceding the crime, one of the murderers drank not only two glasses of absinthe but also a mint cream, a cognac, six glasses of wine to water his lunch, another glass of wine after work, a cup of coffee with brandy, a liter of wine on the way back, then another coffee with brandy. Only absinthe was blamed for his murderous dementia.

Intrigued, I Googled "absinthe murders" and found Jean Lanfray. After a day of drinking, he shot his pregnant wife and two young daughters. Lanfray also shot himself, but survived to be convicted of the murders. The publicity surrounding the case, promoted widely by temperance organizations, led to a ban on absinthe in Switzerland beginning in 1910. Although absinthe originated in Switzerland, the ban remained in effect until 2005. -via Strange Company

If there was something in life that can’t be brought back whatever we do, it would be time, and according to some studies, people who value this over money tend to be much happier. A new research published in the journal Science Advances further proves this, stating that new graduates who value time and money are more likely to go after things they truly enjoy, which include “hobbies, social relationships, internships, and careers that provide intrinsic satisfaction.”

Researchers asked 1,000 graduating students at the University of British Columbia to rate how satisfied they felt with their lives overall, and the extent to which they had experienced positive emotions (like joy and happiness) and negative emotions (like sadness and stress) over the past four weeks. A year later, the graduates were surveyed again.

In both surveys, about 62% of them said they value time more than money, and those people were happier. Comparing the time-money trade-off to other well-established happiness factors, the researchers found that valuing time over money brought double the magnitude of happiness related to materialism in general and happiness known to accrue from high parental income. And while the study does not prove cause and effect, it suggests that valuing time over money can also predict how happy the graduates become as adults. The graduates in the study came from families with incomes ranging from low to high, but family socioeconomic status was not predictive of their tendency to prioritize time or money.

See more of this study over at Medium.com.

What are your thoughts on this one?

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Towering at just over 2,570 m (8,430 ft), Mount Fanjing or Fanjingshan is located in China's Guizhou province and is the highest peak of the Wuling Mountains in southwest China. It's considered one of the sacred sites in Buddhism as its name means "Brahma's Pure Land".

Getting to Mount Fanjing is not easy. Located about 12 miles from the city of Tongren, daily buses run to the mountain and the journey takes around 90 minutes. There is limited accommodation in the area.

However, its relatively isolated location means, that it is home to a great variety of plant and animal life, including the rare Guizhou Golden Monkey and the Chinese Giant Salamander. The area has over 2000 varieties of plants and trees, many of them unique to the place.

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Many people have speculated about what exactly is in Area 51 and why it's so confidential. Popular theory suggests that the US government is doing research and experiments on aliens, and that we in fact have already come into contact with them.

And when somebody made a Facebook event urging people to storm Area 51, many understood the joke and moved on, but there were a few, nay, a lot of people who took it quite seriously. So they actually went to Area 51.

In the remote desert town Rachel, residents are said to be worried their quiet and rural home is going to be overtaken by people desperate to get in on the action. Rachel sits around 150 miles away from Las Vegas in Nevada.

According to The Telegraph, dozens of visitors began arriving outside Rachel's only business – an extraterrestrial-themed motel and restaurant called the Little A'Le'Inn – parking themselves in cars, tents and campers. A fire truck was stationed nearby.

On Twitter loads of people are sharing pictures of them in the towns and areas surrounding Area 51. There are camper vans, four-by-fours, inflatable aliens – the lot. It looks like storm Area 51 is actually a thing.

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From the origin of the word “muggle”, to what Voldermort’s name means, and how the term “horcrux” came to be, this video lists 30 words in the Harry Potter universe and what their origins are. But I guess you already know all of this if you’re a hardcore fan of the series.

Via Mental Floss

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We are born in a difficult time, and I know most of us would agree with me on this one. Aside from our own personal problems that we deal with everyday, we are also bombarded with problems in our respective communities, and, last but not least, issues on a global scale.

One of the problems that plague the whole world is climate change, an issue which makes us ourselves: How should a person live in order to cope up with the major environmental change happening around him?

You might be surprised at how the wisdom of the philosophers from the ancient world can help us navigate our lives in these tough times.

Find out more about this over at The Conversation.

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Most of us are unaware of our mistakes, but, for some reason, we can spot somebody else’s mistakes from a mile away. 

Today, our dumbness can be broadcast faster than ever because of the Internet. A subreddit called “Crappy Designs” is dedicated to, well, designs so dumb it’s so hard not to notice.

Check out 30 of this epic restaurant and bar design fails over at BoredPanda.

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The brain ages with a person, and that’s a fact. Over time, its performance deteriorates, and a person’s life is deeply affected as he faces difficulty in many cognitive processes such as recalling things and paying attention.

At some point in our 20s or 30s, something starts to change in our brains. They begin to shrink a little bit. The myelin that insulates our nerves begins to lose some of its integrity. Fewer and fewer chemical messages get sent as our brains make fewer neurotransmitters.

As we get older, these processes increase. Brain weight decreases by about 5 percent per decade after 40. The frontal lobe and hippocampus — areas related to memory encoding — begin to shrink mainly around 60 or 70. But this is just an unfortunate reality; you can't always be young, and things will begin to break down eventually. That's part of the reason why some individuals think that we should all hope for a life that ends by 75, before the worst effects of time sink in.

However, it seems that some people’s brains aren’t affected by the effects of time, and, even more amazing, they can perform just as well as people in their 20s. They are called “super-agers.” How is this phenomenon possible? Scientists went to find out.

More details of this one over at Big Think.

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