Candy Crush Saga! The addiction has now spread to 15.5 million people. According to the latest stats, Candy Crush has overtaken Angry Birds. Candy Crash Saga is now the world’s hottest casual game, topping charts on the Facebook, Android and iOS platforms.
In this episode of Crash Course, John Green teaches you about the Mexican-American War in the late 1840s, and the expansion of the United States into the western end of North America. US territory finally reaches from the Atlantic coast to the Pacific Ocean. After Oregon was secured from the United Kingdom and the Southwest was ceded by Mexico, that is.
The United States and Canada share one of the longest and most peaceful borders dividing any countries anywhere in the world. But make no mistake about it. The border is a dividing line, underscored by its many strange quirks. CGPGrey offers his inimitable insights.
Sarah DiNardo doesn’t like calling herself an artist, but her creations — rolled from countless yards of tape — evoke everything from barnacles to bones. Boston-based DiNardo talks of her enduring love of tape in this video by Gnarly Bay Productions, a Rhode Island filmmaking team led by Dan Riordan and Dana Saint. “There’s nothing like a fresh sticker when you pull it off of something,” she says, “and as soon as it loses that crispness, I can’t be bothered with it … Everyone has their vice, and I guess my vice just happens to be rolling tape.” H/T Mercedes Buck
The tongue-tying kiss has long been known in English as the “French kiss.” Now, the French have finally adopted their own jargon for this sloppy mouth-to-mouth action: Galocher.