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The Super Bowl is coming up and you’ll be hearing a lot about Deflategate again. So let’s prepare for that by watching a couple guys inflating sports balls until they violently explode into rubbery shrapnel. (The slow motion of the soccer ball is a pretty close analogue for what happens to my head when I open my first batch of news tabs each morning.)

+ Joe Buck on Howard Stern. It’s an interesting chat on universal topics like social media, family dynamics, and hair plugs. And it’s not politics. Enjoy.

+ “An international team of researchers studied nearly 400 varieties” to answer one key question: Why do modern tomatoes taste like nothing?