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Zombie Talk with Max Brooks
In celebration of Halloween and all things creepy, Max Brooks talks about his new book The Extinction Parade, and the value of overcoming adversity. – JLW
When Brad Pitt isn’t battling zombies in World War Z he’s battling the daily erections from being married to Angelina Jolie.
The creator of Soylent stopped pooping to use less water
Rob Rhinehart, the masochist behind homogenous food paste Soylent, is a quotable character. That’s not much of a surprise; the man replaced a majority of his food intake with a brown liquid, after all.
Rhinehart took on the 4 Liter Challenge issued by clean water nonprofit Digdeep, which just asks people to try to keep their water usage under four liters per day. And Rhinehart, being Rhinehart, took it to the extreme.
He decided to stop pooping, for instance.
Read more here The creator of Soylent stopped pooping to use less water
The Physics of the Hendo Hoverboard
This hoverboard looks like the real deal – unlike the recent fake hoverboard. Although I’m not exactly sure how the Hendo Hoverboard works, I have a pretty good guess. Let’s look at electromagnetic repulsion physics that it might use.
If you read the description on the kickstarter page, it says:
“The magic behind the hoverboard lies in its four disc-shaped hover engines. These create a special magnetic field which literally pushes against itself, generating the lift which levitates our board off the ground.”
That “pushes against itself” makes me worried. You can’t make yourself fly by pulling up on your belt, can you? No, you can’t. But there is a way that this could work.
Read more here The Physics of the Hendo Hoverboard
Idiot Of The Day: Joni Ernst
Following her logic it only makes sense that she put her gun against her head and pull the trigger. – JW
WASHINGTON — Joni Ernst, the Republican candidate for U.S. Senate in Iowa, said during an NRA event in 2012 that she would use a gun to defend herself from the government.
“I have a beautiful little Smith & Wesson, 9 millimeter, and it goes with me virtually everywhere,” Ernst said at the NRA and Iowa Firearms Coalition Second Amendment Rally in Searsboro, Iowa. “But I do believe in the right to carry, and I believe in the right to defend myself and my family — whether it’s from an intruder, or whether it’s from the government, should they decide that my rights are no longer important.”
Read more at Huffington Post
Hitler was a meth head
Nazi dictator Adolf Hitler was addicted to meth-amphetamine, according to documentation recently released by U.S. intelligence services. Though it was well-known that Hitler was a hypochondriac surfing through life on a cocktail of drugs, the new disclosures include juicy details, such as that time he took meth before a meeting with Mussolini and “ranted nonstop for two hours.”
The Telegraph reports that he took 74 different medications, and was slamming it the final days of the war.
Wikipedia has the background on Hitler’s health troubles and the relentless diet of drugs that supposedly exacerbated them.
Bonus: Meth Head Goes Shopping