“VernissageTV’s Top Ten Videos of 2015” and other Tweeted Links…

VernissageTV’s Top Ten Videos of 2015 [vernissage.tv] @megafunkmega

The Most Notable Medical Findings of 2015 [newyorker.com]

The Most Cleverly Designed Objects of 2015 [wired.com]

Winter solstice 2015: Everything you need to know about the shortest day of the year [telegraph.co.uk]

The Year in Fungi [newyorker.com]

How I Ran From War: 70 Miles in 24 Hours—In Flip-Flops [wired.com]

'Kenyan Muslims shield Christians in Mandera bus attack' [bbc.com]

Mexico’s Literary Prankster Goes to War With His Publisher [newyorker.com]

Mexican artist melts 1,527 guns, makes shovels to plant trees [pocho.com]

S.F. Poet Justin Chin Taken Off Life Support After a Stroke [sfweekly.com]

In the Studio: Sam Gilliam | BLOUIN ARTINFO [blouinartinfo.com]

7 School presentations that kept it too real [blavity.com]

UC Divests from Private Prisons After Pressure from Black Student Unions [dailynexus.com]

before the 1%, FDR used the more poetic terms "economic royalists" and "the immortal dandy" [amazon.com]

[]( "BlackInformant [BlackInformant]") Haiti Faces the Negative Effects of Too Much Foreign Aid [atlantablackstar.com]

The Unrest in Ethiopia [africasacountry.com]

Gen. Kagame's "Treasonable Action" Paves Way To Extend His Reign Of Terror In Rwanda -- RNC Statement [blackstarnews.com]

Malaysia's first Islamic airline takes off [telegraph.co.uk]

Drunk people account for 70% of weekend emergency room visits in UK city [arstechnica.com]

Meet the Scientist Who Injected Himself With 3.5 Million-Year-Old Bacteria [science.slashdot.org]

Heroin in Los Angeles: Dope House Near Downtown Shut Down [topix.com]

Recovery plan lies dormant as Elysian Park's exotic trees die off [topix.com]

Exxon Knew [wired.com]

Poverty Stunts IQ In the US But Not In Other Developed Countries [news.slashdot.org]

Exposed: How Keanu Reeves’ Newest Film Got Whitewashed [theroot.com] via @TheRoot

Celebrity Hipster Chocolatiers Reportedly Sold Remelted Commercial Chocolate [vanityfair.com] via @VanityFair - @overcookedvegan

Roger Waters' ex-wife calls Pink Floyd founder an 'a*******' as she demands return of £20,000 Rolex watch [telegraph.co.uk]

Wood Pellets Aren’t So Hot [wired.com]

New photos of John Coltrane rediscovered [smithsonianmag.com] via @SmithsonianMag

Lena Douglas (Nora Holt): First African-American Woman to Earn a Master’s Degree in Music [blackthen.com]

John Morton-Finney Earned 11 Degrees and Practiced Law Until He Was 106 Years Old [blackthen.com]

Joe Penny: The Birth of Pennytown [blackthen.com]

Meet the First Black Presidential Candidate in the United States: George Edwin Taylor [blackthen.com]

Texas Seminole Scouts: Descendants of Runaway Slaves [blackthen.com]

John Swett Rock: One of the First African-Americans to Earn a Medical Degree [blackthen.com]

Meet the Most Famous Black Cowboy in the Southwest – Nate “Deadwood Dick” Love [blackthen.com]

Richard Edward DeReef: One of the Richest Black Men in Charleston [blackthen.com]

Did You Know the First Negro League World Series was Played in 1924? [blackthen.com]

William Henry Johnson: Noted as Being the First African American to Practice Law in the Nation [blackthen.com]

The Influencers. Internet doesn’t exist [we-make-money-not-art.com]

3D Printing is for so much more than just making brightly colored plastic pieces of crap @shanselman [hanselman.com]

Google and Ford reportedly team up to build self-driving cars [arstechnica.com]

Watch SpaceX's historic rocket landing from up close [theverge.com]

Star Wars: shut-up-and-take-my-money Awakens [theverge.com]

‘Star Wars: The Force Awakens’ left me completely satisfied [Yes, there are spoilers] [blavity.com]

Disney Is Making a Fortune and Safeguarding Its Future By Buying Childhood [entertainment.slashdot.org]

Clowns && Jugglers | [codepen.io] | via @CodePen | #html5 #canvas #javascript [twitter.com]

The Guggenheim Puts 109 Free Modern Art Books Online [openculture.com] @megafunkmega @JuneCarol_E @mikemassenburg

Download 448 Free Art Books from The Metropolitan Museum of Art [openculture.com] @megafunkmega @JuneCarol_E @mikemassenburg

The Metropolitan Museum of Art Puts 400,000 High-Res Images Online & Makes Them Free to Use [openculture.com] via @openculture

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