Welcome to the Shirk Report where you will find the 25 funniest images, 10 most interesting articles, and 5 most viral videos from the previous week of sifting. Most images found on Reddit; articles typically originate from Twitter, RSS and email; videos come from a variety of sources. Any suggestions? Send a note to submit@twistedsifter.com!

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25 IMAGES

– Let’s get right into it
– This meerkat is struggling to stay awake
– Your backpack is inferior | Your suitcase is irrelevant
– Leading up to today’s Canada/USA Olympic hockey game, this was spotted in Chicago
– You can do it putt your ass into it
– Going for a spin brb
– “Get off the field Mom, you’re high on Zyrtec again”
– Best. Science Fair Project. Ever.
– Humans doing coordinated things
– Yao Ming. Making everything look tiny since 1980
– I see what you did there BBC News
– Playing it cool
– “My job here is done” – Snow plow driver
– What you’ve never seen a monkey with sunglasses riding a goat before?
– Let my people go
– A building sheds its skin
– This drinking goat is making me uncomfortable
– Footballers in Germany know how to celebrate
– This week in adorable animals: a baby camel and a lab piano
– That moment when you realize you just messed up
– You know it’s time to leave a planet when…
– To reduce traffic accidents and animal deaths in Lapland, Finland, reindeer antlers are sprayed with reflective paint
– Duck.. duck.. goose!
– Soon.
– And that concludes this week’s pictures
 

10 ARTICLES

– Is the Universe a Simulation?
– The War on Reason
– Why are almonds so expensive?
– Four Numbers That Explain Why Facebook Acquired WhatsApp | The Rags-To-Riches Tale of Jan Koum
– How the north ended up on top of the map
– Alien Earths: why life on other worlds would be far weirder than us
– Why major creative breakthroughs happen in your late thirties
– One-Percent Jokes and Plutocrats in Drag: What I Saw When I Crashed a Wall Street Secret Society
– Trouble Sleeping? Go Camping
– This Old Man: Life in the Nineties

 

5 VIDEOS + rapper’s delight