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Cretinoid coprocephalic
An excerpt from Julian May’s Orion arm (second book of the Science-Fiction Rampart Worlds series): Dr Crystal diagnosed Matsukawa as a cretinoid coprocephalic -helpfully translating the medical terminology into its Standard English equivalent of ‘stupid shithead‘- who was lucky to be alive. My own translation into French: “crétinoïde orchydocéphalique“.
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Long hair has its web site
Rapunzel’s delight.
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Durian
Graphic animation to be seen at least once. link
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52 photos that warped our collective minds
Year after year, there are a few photo images that wrote History. LukeProg found 52 of them. The choice is always subjective, but most of them really hit the public.
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Star War, the backstroke of the West
What happens when you translate English to Chinese to English? This is the question that should have been asked before translating the subtitles to Star Wars, the revenge of the Sith (or is it Star War, the backstroke of the West?) It’s so bad, that it may have been good to store it under “culture”.…
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Super pet
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Doomsday photo gallery
A photo gallery only about nuclear explosions: nuclear.fatal.ru from Russia.
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Darth Vador privacy breached
We knew already all about Darth Vador youth. But his private life was staying out of reach of even the most courageous paparazzis. This is no longer the case, thanks to Esteban Diacono.
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Giant jellyfish
This is too big! Did you think that sharks were dangerous? Yomiuri Shimbun/AFP/Getty Images, via ScienceBlog Select.