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Exploding Jack O' Lanterns, Pumpkin Pies and Candy Corn

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Our good friends at Tasted have gotten in the Halloween spirit by taking Jack O' Lanterns, pumpkin pies and candy corn...and blown them to smithereens in very, very slow motion.

And as we all know, there's nothing better than watching things blow up in very, very slow motion.

Check out more foodstastic videos on the Youtube Tasted Channel.

 

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So, Apparently Americans Are Not Very Bright

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If you're American and you're feeling patriotic, definitely do not watch this clip of Americans being quizzed about current events around the world.

 

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The Halloween Candy Food Pyramid

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Baby Dos And Don'ts

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The 10 Nastiest MMA Knockouts

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The Funniest Photos You Will See Today 10-26-12

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10 of the Worst Bootleg Halloween Costumes

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26 Inappropriately Hilarious Tweets About Halloween

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Preparing for A Major Storm: Dad vs. Single Guy

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The Frankenstorm is coming and everyone along the East Coast is running out to buy flashlights in case of a power outage. Well, almost everyone.

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Triumph The Insult Comic Dog Covers The Last Presidential Debate

Photoshopping Celebrities Into Your Party Photos is Fun

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I'd like to invite whoever came up with the idea of photoshopping random celebrities into their holiday party photos to my next holiday party. This is awesome.

via Reddit

 

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22 More Halloween Costume Fails, Just for Good Measure

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Shirtless Man In Horse Mask Won't Let Hurricane Sandy Stop Him From Jogging

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While most of the east coast has followed all warnings to stay safely indoors while Hurricane Sandy wreaks havoc on the world outside, there are certain individuals who won't let Mother Nature stop them from living their normal lives. Okay, maybe "normal" isn't the right word, since the only example we have for you is the guy in this video.

 

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20 Hot Photos of the Arizona Cardinals Cheerleaders

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Old-Timey Macabre Festival Images Are Creepy as Hell

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creepy child images, creepy halloween imagesHalloween is almost here. Which means it's time to watch horror movies and look at creepy photos of old-timey people dressed up in terrifying, blank death faces. Right? Which brings us to Ossian Brown's new book Haunted Air.

This collection of photographs of macabre festivals of Samhain and All Souls' Day spanning 1875-1955 shows us that the people of the olden days did creepy really, really well.

The book's synopsis explains it well:

"The photographs in Haunted Air provide an extraordinary glimpse into the traditions of this macabre festival from ages past, and form an important document of photographic history. These are the pictures of the dead: family portraits, mementos of the treasured, now unrecognizable, and others. The roots of Halloween lie in the ancient pre-Christian Celtic festival of Samhain, a feast to mark the death of the old year and the birth of the new. It was believed that on this night the veil separating the worlds of the living and the dead grew thin and ruptured, allowing spirits to pass through and walk unseen but not unheard amongst men. The advent of Christianity saw the pagan festival subsumed in All Souls' Day, when across Europe the dead were mourned and venerated. Children and the poor, often masked or in outlandish costume, wandered the night begging 'soul cakes' in exchange for prayers, and fires burned to keep malevolent phantoms at bay. From Europe, the haunted tradition would quickly take root and flourish in the fertile soil of the New World. Feeding hungrily on fresh lore, consuming half-remembered tales of its own shadowy origins and rituals, Halloween was reborn in America. The pumpkin supplanted the carved turnip; costumes grew ever stranger, and celebrants both rural and urban seized gleefully on the festival's intoxicating, lawless spirit. For one wild night, the dead stared into the faces of the living, and the living, ghoulishly masked and clad in tattered backwoods baroque, stared back."

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Buy Ossian Brown's Haunted Air here

 

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The Truth About Insomnia

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In a workforce where nearly 20 percent of people experience insomnia, office productivity suffers as a result--to the tune of nearly $32 billion a year.

That number, which comes from a new study in Archives of General Psychiatry, may seem staggering. But it doesn't quite tell the whole story.

In the study, researchers asked 10,000 people about their job performance and found that 7.2 percent of workplace errors were linked to insomnia, which is defined simply as difficulty falling or staying asleep.

The problem: People often don't accurately remember how well they slept, says Christopher Winter, M.D., medical director of the sleep medicine center of Martha Jefferson Hospital, and a Men's Health expert advisor. You won't remember all of the details about your sleep during the day because of the way your brain is wired at night, Winter says. (Click here to dive in to The Science of Sleep.)

So here's some good news: A little insomnia at night is completely normal, Dr. Winter says. In fact, throughout much of human history, people would hit the sack at sundown, wake up around midnight--a doctor-approved time for sex--and then fall back asleep, says Roger Ekirch, Ph.D., a professor at Virginia Tech and author of Sleep We Have Lost.

Nowadays, if people think they're going to miss out on ZZZ's, they panic: "The cause of insomnia is almost always fear," says Dr. Winter. When you wake up in the middle of the night, you worry about the shut-eye you're losing, and wind up staring at the ceiling, Dr. Winter says.

In reality, if you wake up around midnight for an hour, it shouldn't affect your workday, says Dr. Winter. Try this: If you can't fall asleep--or back asleep--willingly stay awake for one hour instead of stressing yourself out about not sleeping, Dr. Winter suggests. To minimize your chances of waking up throughout the night, try a pre-bed snack that's packed with tryptophan, an amino acid that helps produce the sleep hormones sertotonin and melatonin. A banana, a glass of warm milk, or a spoonful of peanut butter should do the trick. (See which other snacks will send you snoozing with our list of 6 Foods for Better Sleep.)

 

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7 Gifs of People Getting Bested By Escalators

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Escalators can be tricky. Not only are they a staircase, but they're moving. If you're old, or in a wheelchair, or just plain stupid, you can easily get defeated by those crazy mechanical monstrosities. And when that happens, it's usually hilarious. Here are some classic (and not so classic) gifs of people getting bested by escalators.


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Bonus GIf:
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The Morgan Freeman Chain of Command

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I stumbled across this Morgan Freeman Chain of Command on Tumblr and thought it was worth posting. I know it's a few years old, because I created it in a previous gig and thought it could use a little re-promotion. Because honestly, can you ever get enough Morgan Freeman in your life?

 

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10 Things You Probably Didn't Know About Will Ferrell and Zach Galifianakis

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Man Who Created the Liberty Dollar Could Be Headed to Prison

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"This is the United States government. It's got all the guns, all the surveillance, all the tanks, it has nuclear weapons, and it's worried about some ex-surfer guy making his own money? Give me a break!"

Bernard von NotHaus was clearly outraged when he was found guilty of
counterfeiting charges for minting and then distributing his own form of private
money outside the government's bounds. Von NotHaus is the creator of the Liberty
Dollar, a private currency that was issued in minted metal coins made of gold and silver

When he was in his 30s, Von NotHaus knew nothing about economics, yet he had what he considered to be an epiphany. A self-proclaimed gold enthusiast, von NotHaus had began to buy and sell gold. "We were all sitting around thinking, 'Wow, we ought to do something with this gold.' And I said: 'Yeah, we could make coins. People love coins. We could have our own money!'".

He went on to found the Royal Hawaiian Mint - a company that produced collectible coins. In 1998, von NotHaus began to introduce the world to his fledgling currency - The Liberty Dollar. He started small by driving around with hopes of convincing small, local businesses to start to use his coins. However, in order to make sure that the money was only being used by those who wanted to use it, a toll free number and URL were included on the currency so people could request to receive actual money in return if they wanted.

A problem arose in 2004, when a credit union caught a client trying to pass a fake coin/some of von NotHaus's currency as actual money. An investigation led to von NotHaus and in 2006, the United States Mint alerted him that his currency making the rounds was in fact considered a federal crime. After disregarding the letter, von NotHaus was eventually arrested.

The argument against him during his federal trial was that the money he produced was much too similar to actual American currency. He was found guilty by the jury and is currently awaiting sentencing while working on his book about the gold standard.

via The New York Times

 

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