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This IS the Wine Talking by Jason Adam Katzenstein for The New Yorker

Inside the beautiful new Oculus at the World Trade Center Transportation hub, which features many retail stores, including a new Apple Store. The Oculus was designed by Spanish architect Santiago Calatrava and is now open to the public with multiple entrances from the World Trade Center site.

photos by Scott Beale

In an episode of SciShow, host Michael Aranda looks at the science of cryonics and asks whether it could really bring people back to life. The idea of freezing someone and reanimating them far into the future has been a staple in science fiction for decades. Modern science hasn’t quite caught up to these stories, but progress is being made.

You put a dying person in suspended animation until, possibly thousands of years from now, medical science is able to cure them… or their brain can be put in a sweet robot body. It’s an age-old sci-fi trope, but there are scientists out there working on making cryonics a reality!

Leading Edge Novelty has created Flexcils, a box of triangular colored pencils that are flexible and never need to be sharpened. They are available to purchase from Vat19.

Made from top secret materials, Flexcils last up to 20 times longer than your average pencil. Unlike normal pencils, Flexcils can bend and twist. They can break, but then you’ll just have more Flexcils. They don’t need to be sharpened, but they can be sharpened just like a regular pencil. If your tired of old boring pencils, get some Flexcils. Great for kids or adults.

An eccentric bartender serves up an insanely complicated concoction in the comedy sketch “Cocktail” by Aunty Donna. The sketch is the first in Aunty Donna’s new series Trendy. New episodes in the series will be released on Fridays the Aunty Donna YouTube channel.

Online novelty retailer Archie McPhee has just released realistic-looking latex seagull mask to wear while chilling at the beach or begging for scraps of candy on Halloween.

This Seagull Mask is perfect for hanging out at the beach and looking like you’re just part of the scenery. Perfect for flitting around from garbage cans to dead fish to just picking through fast food wrappers on the side of the road. Makes for great photos on your vacations! Fits most adult heads.

In 2015, guitarist Steve Stine of GuitarZoom offered a really helpful way to help beginning guitarists grasp the basics of guitar soloing. Calling it the six-note method, Stine patiently explained how to find the lowest note in an open chord, how to find that note on the low E string and then how to find the six notes that will allow the player to play a respectable solo. He also urged that those learning to have patience with themselves and fun with the guitar.

When I first teach people how to solo, it’s not that you have to know a bunch of licks and things like that. The first thing you need to do is, you just need to learn how to what I call meander, which is just moving around playing those notes in different orders with different rhythms. This is a good place to start, and believe me when you get really good at playing guitar and you learn how to solo really well, you’re still going to use this technique. You’re just going to use lots of other techniques as well. But movement is something that we need, so it’s not like you have to feel like you can’t do this because you didn’t learn how to do this or you don’t know the notes on the guitar or you don’t know your theory. Don’t worry about all that stuff. You’ll learn all that. Right now the most important thing is you have some fun with this.

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Today I Found Out host Simon Whistler explains how the name Dick came to be short for Richard. Although “Dick” has gained a few pejorative meanings over the years, its association to Richard goes back much further.

The name Richard is thought by most etymologists to derive from the Proto-Germanic ‘Rikharthu’, meaning more or less “hard ruler” (‘Rik-‘ meaning ‘ruler’ and ‘-harthu’ meaning ‘hard’). This was adopted into Old High German as ‘Ricohard’, and from there to Old French, then Old English as ‘Richeard’, and today as ‘Richard’.