| | | | | | | | | 2014-04-26 22:34:54 | Digg Top Stories | | | Inside the quest to conquer addictive drugs. | | | | | | 2014-04-26 22:34:54 | Digg Top Stories | | | "Most minerals belong to a family or small group of related minerals... but putnisite is completely unique and unrelated to anything," said Dr. Peter Elliott, lead author of a new study detailing the discovery in Mineralogical Magazine. | | | | | | 2014-04-26 21:55:56 | Dennis Green | | | This elementary school talent show made a big splash. Students at W. A. Porter Elementary School in Hurst, Texas performed in their school's talent show this year, but they switched it up this time. Instead of performing your boring, basic talent routines like guitar playing or song singing, they decided to perform a synchronized swimming routine — with no pool. See also: 15 Kids Who Clearly Dressed Themselves Just like air guitar, "air swimming" involves a lot of miming. They had helpers put a blue tarp up to suspend the audience's disbelief even further. They then performed a swimming routine of such complexity, it would even make Esther Williams jealous. Read more... More about Kids , Cute , Viral Video , Talent Show , and Watercooler | | | | | | 2014-04-26 21:35:43 | Andrea Romano | | | Sometimes, humor can be an effective way to address serious issues. It can especially be welcome among a sea of somber PSAs — as long as the message doesn't miss the mark. VH1's latest anti-bullying PSA offers a light-hearted rendition of Gloria Gaynor's "I Will Survive" mashed up with kids who look like they've been pulled straight out of a 1980s teen movie. Unsurprisingly called "Revenge of the Nerds," the ad highlights the things kids tell themselves to cope with being bullied — namely, that they will have revenge one day. See also: Anti-Bullying Film Gets Shorter Every Time You Share It As well produced and humorous as the ad is, one can argue that it does little in the way of campaigning against bullying Read more... More about Viral Videos , Ads , Videos , Vh1 , and Psa | | | | | | 2014-04-26 21:24:10 | Neha Prakash | | | Take this as your warning, drones : don't mess with golfers Pro golfer Keegan Bradley was annoyed by a drone flying overhead during putting practice, so he decided to take matters into his own club-swinging hands. He drove his golf ball toward the drone four times, finally striking it out of the air See also: The 21 Worst People You Meet Playing Golf The DJI Phantom drone was equipped with a GoPro , so we get firsthand footage of the quadcopter crashing into the ground And while the entire encounter seems somewhat (read: completely) staged by Putnam Investments, you can't deny Bradley's got aim — and, apparently, a distaste for drones Read more... More about Viral Videos , Golf , Gadgets , Watercooler , and Videos | | | | | | 2014-04-26 21:13:19 | Karissa Bell | | | Dogecoin, the 139-day-old cryptocurrency, held its first conference in San Francisco Friday where hundreds of the currency's devotees turned out to show their support and, of course, "tip" anyone with a QR code handy. Dogecoin founder Jackson Palmer ... | | | | | | 2014-04-26 20:57:47 | Digg Top Stories | | | Baseball rules prohibit the application of any "foreign substance," but over the years offenders have been known to use petroleum jelly, sunscreen, and of course good, old-fashioned disgusting spit. Why not widen the field of choices? | | | | | | 2014-04-26 20:57:47 | Digg Top Stories | | | It's not so much the class you're raised in that determines how trustworthy you are. It's your socioeconomic status right now, relative to those around you. | | | | | | 2014-04-26 20:57:47 | Digg Top Stories | | | Our prophet explains that we may know what gravity is, but we don't know the cause of it, thus, "What if it is He, pushing us down with His Noodly Appendages, that causes this force?" | | | | | | 2014-04-26 20:52:36 | Karissa Bell | | | With Nike reportedly laying off most of its FuelBand team, Facebook acquiring fitness-tracking app Moves and news of the FCC's proposal to end net neutrality this week, you may have overlooked some of this week's best new apps. Luckily, Mashable cre... | | | | |
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