SKIRMISHER

Some bastard took videos of kidz while they play games. It’s surprisingly hilarious.

Video from an Arabic channel showing the development of a baby from conception to birth.

Martina Eckstut [above left] and her “beautified” version featuring wider-set eyes, longer distance between her hairline and nose bridge, and rounder facial shape courtesy of a beautifying software.
The photograph on the right was doctored by the “beautification engine” of a new computer program that uses a mathematical formula to alter the original form into a [...]

But how about men, you ask? Here’s the large complete version.

Back in 2002 I had a running debate with a friend of mine on the subject of “dignity.” She claimed that this was something I was excessively concerned about. She didn’t think it was possible for people like us to be really dignified in the old (and possibly imaginary) way of prior generations and characters [...]

Scientists have traced the origin of fingers and toes to fish-like creatures that roamed the seas 380 million years ago, according to a new study.
The findings, published today in the British-based science journal Nature, upend the prevailing theory on the evolution of digits.
It had long been assumed that the first creatures to develop primitive fingers [...]

Do you know why people stop talking to each other after college? Because they don’t want to see their wild frat buddies begin the slow slide into becoming middle-aged, emotionally drained shells of humanity.
From “10 comic strips that need to fucking end”
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…about 8 percent of the human genome is made up of viruses that once attacked our ancestors. The viruses lost. What remains are the molecular equivalents of mounted trophies, insects preserved in genomic amber, DNA fossils.
The thousands of human endogenous retroviruses, or HERVs, sketch a history of rough times during the 550 million years of [...]

The dangerous pollutant ozone, it turns out, is destroyed by hair and body oils, an oddity revealed when researchers at Missouri University of Science and Technology compared washed and unwashed hair. Environmental engineer Glenn Morrison and physician Lakshmi Pandrangi found that dirty hair—generally awash in skin oil—consumed seven times more ozone on average than did [...]

Athletes and people who exercise not only have better bods — they have better brains too, a host of studies have now firmly established.
A review of studies published earlier this month, in fact, found that a balanced diet and regular exercise can protect the brain and ward off mental disorders.
Other research has focused just on [...]