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Though it’s difficult for us puny humans to comprehend, most natural processes take milennia to unfold. So even though we invented movie cameras to slow down lightning-fast phenomena, they can also be used to speed up frustratingly slow events. Witness, for instance, Wired Science’s listicle of the Top 10 Time-Lapse Nature Videos, our favorite of [...]

As you’ve likely heard, between enforced mergers, massive layoffs and its interim CEO Frederick A. Henderson saying this morning that bankruptcy was “probable,” General Motors is in some mighty hot water. And though we’re scared by the idea of the city with the highest unemployment rate in the country losing one of its biggest companies, [...]

Something that hadn’t dawned on us until just now: with stable, wage-earning jobs becoming ever-more scarce, will we suddenly see a sharp increase in dubious and unfounded lawsuits? If so, you’d better get creative because there’s no telling who’ll take you to court over an issue so trifling you that didn’t even know it was [...]

Yesterday was National Hot Dog Day, and we were so busy stuffing our faces that we forgot to mention it. This morning a prompt memo arrived in our inbox from the National Hot Dog & Sausage Council (hereafter referred to as the NHDSC), who organized the celebration, notifying us of this tragic oversight. To make [...]

There was a time when a phrase like the title of this listicle might have been an oxymoron. With the fusing of nerds and cool kids into a srange social super-species, though, the idea of really cool shoes inspired by really geeky themes is a reality. Witness Aleptu’s listicle of The 12 Coolest Geeky Shoes, [...]

One of the most rewarding moments in life for a contemporary pop culture consumer is when an artist you love and respect shows up in the work of another artist you love and respect. Like when Mos Def was cast in Bamboozled, or when we found out that one of the nihilists from The Big [...]

About a week ago we pointed you towards a listicle of New Depression photography, and since then bad financial things have continued to happen. It seems that many people getting laid off – at least those not brawling on the street in the middle of the afternoon – have become photographers.
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Long heralded for their magical fitness applications, exercise balls seem to be used inappropriately more often than not, which results in some outrageous footage and photos. YepYep chronicles some of these with their Top 10 Exercise Ball Ownage Videos. While many of them are unpleasant as they involve little kids getting hit with balls twice [...]

For a long time growing up, we had a Chicago Bulls trash can in our room. We didn’t live anywhere near Chicago, but Jordan had just come out of retirement, the Bulls had Pippen and Rodman and were generally unbeatable, and everybody everywhere was overdosing on the team’s merchandise. Then one day it dawned on [...]

National Women’s History Month is almost over, and though there’s been a marked lack of mainstream news coverage devoted to related events, many outstanding blogs and online outlets have done more than their share covering conferences, conventions, symposia and the like. For daily doses of women’s rights and women’s issues year-round (not just during NWHM), [...]

Today is National Doctor’s Day, an important celebration of our healthcare industry and its professional practitioners. Unfortunately, we weren’t able to get an appointment for today, so we’re celebrating in true LIsticles style. As we expect nothing but the best from our medical experts, we’re outing 6 Incompetent Doctors for Doctor’s Day.
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Just in case you didn’t come across this over the weekend, Brooklyn-based artist and illustrator Kiersten Essenpreis has made a paiting featuring some 99 Seinfeld References (though we’re told there are a few extras). See how many you can spot then check out the reference key after the jump.

As anybody who watched the BBC’s Planet Earth series will tell you, animal conservation funds and programs are fraught with all kinds of bureaucratic caveats and requirements. Though we clearly have the money and resources to save entire species, arguments about how to fund such initiatives and how to most effectively carry them out are [...]

As we’ve pointed out before, food and the act of eating are loaded with all kinds of sexy symbolism, so it’s no surprise that said sex appeal is often put to use in the selling of foods. To track this trend – and spurred by last week’s premiere of Top Chef host Padma Lakshmi’s scandalous [...]

It’s Sunday, it’s Spring, probably a good day to do some Spring Cleaning. And while you may not want to vacuum, do dishes, clean the sideboards or mop the floor, those chores seem like so many pieces of pie compared to an infinitely more dangerous and unpleasant Spring ritual: the pet bath. You may not [...]

To help you in your displays of physical prowess this Spring, Super Tight Stuff has a listicle detailing 8 of the Manliest Sports. A gender-politics disclaimer before we continue: “Manliest” here denotes the socially coded performance of masculinity, which involves narcissistic display, aggression and violent domination. Manliness, therefore, is equally accessible to all genders, so [...]

Recently we started shopping for office-appropriate furniture for Listicles headquarters, and we concluded in a brainstorming session that our workplace should look cool and sexy. Logically, then, we began searching for “cool furniture” (which mostly lead us to refirgerator wholesalers) and “sexy furniture,” which produced some interesting – though office-inappropriate - results. As our friend [...]