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Today Department of Awesome Natural Wonders is mesmerized by this awesome footage of hundreds of thousands of Brazilian free-tailed bats (Tadarida brasiliensis) emerging en masse from their cave at dusk and flying off into the sky to forage for food:

Produced by Spine Films, this stunning video was created by scientists using high-speed video cameras. Click here to learn more.

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Holy shit!

Watch: This is exactly what’s at stake on election day

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"Unfortunately, your review of my book doesn’t offer many reasons for optimism. It is a strange document—avuncular in places, but more generally sneering. I think it fair to say that one could watch an entire season of Downton Abbey on Ritalin and not detect a finer note of condescension than you manage for twenty pages running."

—Sam Harris, “The Marionette’s Lament: A Response to Dan Dennett”

But, the same things were said in each of those past examples. And I'm sure you heard this already. So, help me understand why this is really truly the time to not vote one's beliefs? I'm also not saying it isn't true, but there never seems to be any recognition that this has been said everything since George II.

You know what, looking back on it, my friends and I survived the Bush Presidency

We would have survived a McCain Presidency

We would have survived a Romney Presidency

I honestly worry that there are some people who would not survive a Trump Presidency

I don’t care how much you love Gary Johnson, or Jill Stein. On November 8, 2016, one of two things will be true: either Hillary Clinton will be elected President, or Donald Trump will be elected President.

Which one, HONESTLY, would be worse?

This isn’t the year to “vote your conscience.”

There’s a fucking dangerous man one election away from being President.

This is the year to vote to survive.

Any other year, this would be an exaggeration. We survived Bush, we could have survived McCain or Romney. This year, Trump’s danger is no exaggeration.

Don’t vote your conscience, vote to survive.

Remembering the officers lost in the Dallas shooting

Five officers were killed by at least one sniper near a peaceful protest in Dallas on Thursday night. They served the Dallas Police Department and the Dallas Area Rapid Transit agency. Here are their names and stories.

Does anyone have any orange slices?

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