End Of Year “Best Of’s” … Yahoo Photo Galleries Edition

13 Most Popular Yahoo News Photo Galleries Of 2013

Photo by Andrey Pavlov/National Geographic Traveler Photo Contest

2013 National Geographic Traveler Photo Contest

Here’s another teaser . 

 

 

 

Photo by Sarah Lee/ CATERS NEWS

Female surfers beneath the waves

 

    See Yahoo’s most searched photo galleries of 2013 here. The links for each picture will take you to the collection noted in the title and at the end of each gallery you will be provided with even more gallery links not included in the referenced article . There really are some amazing photos to view . Take the time to enjoy them all .

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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What Is A Monster ? That’s The $24,999 Question According To The NEH

Your Tax Dollars: $24,953 To Research ‘Meaning Of Life’

 

 

 

 

 

” What is the meaning of life? The answer is worth $24,953, at least according to the National Endowment for the Humanities, a taxpayer-funded federal agency that is providing an educational grant to study the question.

“What is the good life and how do I live it?” Well, for $25,000 in tax dollars, NEH has tasked someone with finding out.

Sessions has personally taken a closer look at the NEH grant program and now has “questions” about some of the awards that have been granted, including one for $24,999 to determine, “What is a monster?

Here are a few more examples of recent educational program grants:

— Why are we interested in the past? $24,803

— Why are people bad? $23,390

— What is belief? $24,526

— Why do humans write? $24,774

The NEH spends about $150 million annually, though Republicans recently proposed slashing its budget by half.”

 

We can save the taxpayers $25k . The State is the monster . Plain and simple .

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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23 Movies That Put Insane Detail Into Stuff You Missed

From Cracked Readers … Who Else ?

 

 

” Directors put a lot of hard work into their movies. And a small percentage of those people put more hard work into their films than any sane human being should. And all for tiny details you didn’t even notice, you jerk. We asked our readers to provide some of the craziest details overlooked by the movie-going public. Winner got $100 …”

 

#23 By: The_Real_Sawyer

 

 

 

Here’s Another

 

 

#7 By: whoiswillo

 

 

 

See the rest here

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Inspiration For The Day

He Has No Legs. His Best Friend Is Blind. Together, They Win At Everything They Set Their Minds To.

 

 

 

 

 

” When I watched this the first time, I was hypnotized and a teary mess. The second and third times, things didn’t change. Their story is amazing. Watch it. Share it. Enjoy the wondrous and happy ending. And remember not to take things for granted. If you aren’t hooked by 1:30, you are a stronger person than I am.”

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Listen To Clapton’s New Album Now

Exclusive: Hear Eric Clapton’s New Album ‘Old Sock’ First

 

 

 

” Eric Clapton has never shied away from giving credit where it’s due, and his latest project “Old Sock” is no exception. His 21st solo studio album features the guitar great’s take on 10 favorite songs from throughout his life, along with two new tunes.

“Old Sock,” due March 12 on Bushbranch/Surfdog, has plenty of more familiar fare, too: the new song “Gotta Get Over” is a big, bluesy rocker soaked in electric guitar and soulful backing vocals, while Clapton limbers up his slide-guitar skills on a version of Leadbelly’s classic “Goodnight Irene.” “

Listen to it here .

 

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A Bird’s Eye View … Very Cool Photos

Top 9 Examples Of Mind-Blowing Bird’s Eye View Photography

 

 

” Bird’s Eye View photography is a type of photography that captures the subject from an elevated location. Perspective, angle, and composition are vital component in this type of photography. Bird’s Eye View photography adds interest to a shot or simply offers significant information about the subject.

Compiled below are the Top 9 Examples of Mind-blowing Bird’s Eye View Photography captured by various photographers. The main source of these pictures is http://www.flickr.com along with artists’ individual websites. We have done every care to research upon copyright issues. If you are the owner of these pictures please get in touch with us through our ‘Contact Us’ page.”

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Biting The Hand That Feeds It

Cartman Shrugged: The Invisible Gnomes and the Invisible Hand in South Park

” Comedy makes fun of people—that is its nature.

Thus the people who condemn South Park today for being offensive need to be reminded that comedy is by its very nature offensive.It derives its energy from its transgressive power, its ability to break taboos, to speak the unspeakable. Comedians are always pushing the envelope, probing to see how much they can get away with in violating the speech codes of their day. Comedy is a social safety valve. We laugh precisely because comedians momentarily liberate us from the restrictions that conventional society imposes on us. We applaud comedians because they say right out in front of an audience what, supposedly, nobody is allowed to say in public. Paradoxically, then, the more permissive American society has become, the harder it has become to write comedy. As censorship laws have been relaxed and people have been allowed to say and show almost anything in movies and television—above all, to deal with formerly taboo sexual material—comedy writers, such as the creators of South Park, Trey Parker and Matt Stone, must have begun to wonder if there is any way left to offend audiences.

The genius of Parker and Stone was to see that in our day a new frontier of comic transgression has opened up because of the phenomenon known as political correctness.”

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A Call To All Conservative & Libertarian Artists

By All Means , Let’s Organize The Liberty Loving Art Community . Enough With Allowing The Typical ” Court Jester ” Type of Statist Artists To Be The Public Face Of Creativity

Khan Academy Founder Talks Radical Education Reform …

… And The One World Schoolhouse

 

 

 

” “There’s a lot more demand for people who want to just improve themselves than anyone would have guessed,” says Salman Khan, founder of the free educational video series that bares his name and the new book, The One World Schoolhouse: Education Reimagined.”

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