At a zoo, a dicey attempt at tiger matchmaking went awry. 

The ZSL London Zoo said Friday that a new male Sumatran tiger, Asim, killed the facility’s “beloved” female, Melati. Zookeepers allowed the two wary predators to physically interact for the first time, hoping they would eventually mate as part of a greater European breeding program. 

But after Asim approached Melati, matters “quickly escalated into a more aggressive interaction,” the zoo said. 

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In a week when Liam Neeson did himself no favors again and again, The Daily Show host Trevor Noah unexpectedly had his back — to a point.

Neeson came up during a “Between the Scenes” segment on The Daily Show, a time when Noah takes questions from the live studio audience while commercials run for TV viewers at home. These snippets often end up on YouTube, and this one — in which Noah addresses the question: “What do you think about Liam Neeson’s recent admission that he tried to kill a black person?” — did.

In an almost four-minute response, Noah breaks down what happened with Neeson, both in the original interview and in the aftermath. It’s an insightful look at the situation, free of anger or judgment, that suggests Neeson’s face-value admission might have landed better in a different interview environment. Read more…

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When you’re feeling risky, but not too risky, Coca-Cola’s got you covered. 

The brilliant minds that brought us New Coke are back at it again with a flavor concoction that is sure to win hearts, minds, tastebuds, dollars, and possibly doctor visits. Say hello to Orange Vanilla, which a press release tells us is the first new iteration on that classic Coke flavor in over a decade. 

The flavor blast from your Creamsicle past will be available in the U.S. starting Feb. 25, but that Orange Vanilla is, at this moment, kept out of reach by Time’s evil grasp hasn’t stopped soda fans from speculating on the sheer possibilities offered by the new flavor.  Read more…

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Here’s a statistic: On Earth, 18 of the last 19 years have been the warmest in recorded history.

And as both NASA and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) announced on Wednesday, the last five years have been the five hottest in history — since quality record-keeping began in the 1880s. It’s an unmistakable, accelerating warming trend.

The globe’s 21st-century heating, however, becomes all the more stark when compared to the coldest years on record. As climate scientist Simon Donner, who researches human-induced climate change at The University of British Columbia, underscored via a list posted on Twitter, the planet’s 20 coldest years all occurred nearly a century ago, between 1884 and 1929. Read more…

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Astronomers have long suspected that the colossal Andromeda galaxy would, in billions years, collide with our humble Milky Way.

The collision was forecast to happen in some 3.9 billion years. But after astronomers analyzed new data captured by the European Space Agency’s star-surveying satellite Gaia, they now put the imminent date at 4.5 billion years — so 600 million years later than initially expected.

The event, detailed in The Astrophysical Journal, is characterized as a “swipe” rather than a direct collision. The end result would be a merger of the galaxies into one, monstrous galaxy. 

“This finding is crucial to our understanding of how galaxies evolve and interact,”  Timo Prusti, ESA Gaia Project Scientist who had no role in the study, said in a statement.  Read more…

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In our Love App-tually series, Mashable shines a light into the foggy world of online dating. Just in time for cuffing season.

There was a time in my life when I wanted nothing more than to get off dating apps. 

Back when I was in my twenties, I thought that dating apps were the end of our culture and the precipitating factor behind all my pain. Too sad to get up in the morning? It’s probably because XxGothGirlxX never responded to my very funny OkCupid message that referenced Foxfire (seriously, who else could she find who knew that movie?). Too anxious to eat? Well, that’s because I wasn’t getting enough Tinder matches. Everyone on there was clearly threatened by my extraordinarily clever bio. Read more…

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DIY is a concept we totally back, except for when it comes to one thing: Taxes.

And though the people at H&R Block enjoy it, they know that most of us would rather do literally anything else. So they said, “What could be better than doing people’s taxes for them?”

But then they realized today (Feb. 9) is National Pizza Day, and the deal of deals was born: Today only, anyone who has their taxes prepared virtually via H&R Block’s Tax Pro Go will get a free $10 Domino’s gift card — and you don’t even have to leave the house.

Sigh. H&R Block just gets us, ya know?

The debate about the battle of the best trash pizzas will forever rage on, but this deal is just another reason to give Domino’s a shot. Plus: Free pizza. Duh. Read more…

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Even in these dark online times, there are places on the internet that manage to shine through and offer us some form of digital redemption; places where we yearn to stay and build new forms of community.

Amazon Live is not one of those places. 

The QVC-like streaming media service — soft-launched on Amazon’s mobile apps, in stealth mode on the web, and first discovered by TechCrunch — offers a carousel of teeth-whitened enthusiasts detailing all the ways a featured product will improve their lives. 

But wait, there’s more.  Read more…

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Has Jeff Bezos’ impressive exposure of Pecker finally broken the curse of Weiner? 

Oh yes, we all laugh at the double entendres in the news that the Amazon founder has accused the National Enquirer‘s owner of blackmailing him over compromising selfies. But it’s a grim gallows chuckle, because we live in the decade of the dick pic — an age where one man’s inability to keep it in his pants, and the technology that enabled him, literally changed the course of history by helping elevate Donald Trump to the White House.

That man’s name, of course, was Anthony Weiner. The disgraced former congressman was not the first man to ever text a picture of his penis; we don’t know who that was, but it probably happened about five seconds after the first camera-enabled cellphone went on sale in Japan in 2000.  Read more…

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We knew the upcoming Captain Marvel took place in the ’90s. We did not know that the movie’s official website would be a full-on meta blast to the past of the early world wide web.

You won’t have to fire up your dial-up connection, but you will want to look out for pop ups of that old lady Brie Larson’s Carol Danvers punched in the face in the first trailer. 

Complete with animated web art, references to Y2K, eye-bleeding amounts of color, flame borders, and even a guestbook, the website looks like your livejournal from 6th grade. If it’s any indication of what we can expect from the movie, prepare for full immersion in that ’90s utopia of girl power…and believing this whole internet thing was a good idea. Read more…

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