A teenager's brain, converted into a binary decision tree

This is my favorite chart. Found by cultural historian Megan Prelinger, it's from a 1963 book where the authors wanted to represent what a binary decision tree looks like. The decided the "decision" should be a teenager deciding whether to be truant or not.

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Behold a piece of art that could only be created in zero gravity

What do you do if you're a physicist and want to get experiments done in microgravity, but can't drum up the cash to go to space? You use magnets to both get results and make a picture that looks like it came out of 2001: A Space Odyssey.

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Why, God, why: The Disney Princesses as space warrior-strippers

Hey, did you want the spunky innocence of the Disney Princesses to be forever tarnished in your eyes? No? Well, TOO BAD, thanks to this digital art courtesy of Mike Roshuk. Now let us never speak of it again.

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What&#39;s the worst <em>Star Trek</em> episode of all time?

With over 700 episodes, Star Trek offers enough raw television to saturate your brain for months. Including some of the greatest moments in television history... and some of the worst. But what's the absolute WORST Star Trek episode ever made?

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Mary Jane has been edited out of Amazing Spider-Man 2

Just days after announcing plans for Amazing Spider-Man 3 and 4 , Sony has also decided that Amazing Spider-Man 2 doesn't need to feature Peter Parker's future wife, Mary Jane Watson. Spider-man's red-headed love interest has been cut out the sequel.

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We are way off target if we hope to feed everyone by 2050

A comprehensive study suggests that food production is not on track to keep up with population growth. That means food prices are going to rise in coming decades. This trend could also reverse the progress we’ve made in world food security.

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HOLY CRAP, this puppet from King Kong: The Musical is INSANE

How do you make a King Kong musical? Apparently just like this. Melbourne's Regent Theatre has constructed a giant King Kong for their musical adaptation of the 1933 movie, and it is completely nutso. We love it!

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Could Spider-Man really come over to Marvel's movie universe?

In the Ultimate Spider-Man cartoon, Spidey already rubs shoulders with Agent Coulson and the rest of the Marvel Universe. But in his live-action movies, he's on his own — because the films are made by Sony, and don't cross over with Marvel's own in-house productions. But that could change.

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