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Scientists finding ways to turn rattan into artificial bone implants.

Ancient Egyptian eye makeup may have had health benefits.

Kit Whitfield discusses why it's bad when horror movies make us sad rather than scared. Or, how to deal with the consequences of the emotions you evoke in your stories. If you want to make someone sad, you have to give them space to grieve. In horror, there's no time for that, therefore you shouldn't try to evoke sadness in the first place. Kit's got a lot of other interesting things to say on horror.

Religious optical illusion. Only click if you can handle really bad puns.

Gambling on volcanoes. Mt. Rainer's got 11/1 odds of a serious eruption in the next year.

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Having heard that awriter has never seen The Goonies, I remedied this tonight. Probably...you have to have grown up with it.

However.

One thing I'd never seen, which was included with the special features, was the Cyndi Lauper music video, which I will here embed for your pleasure. Probably you'll need to be on as many drugs as Cyndi and company were when they made it. It's Loooonnnggg... originally a two-parter, I think. However, at least try to watch the end, which has the weirdest and best deus ex machina ever. EVER.
About 10:30 minutes in.

I want Summon Andre the Giant as my superpower!