Romney and Obama’s platforms explained for a 5-year-old

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• The differences between President Obama’s platform and Romney’s, explaiend for a 5-year-old. (r/explainlikeimfive)

• How to become a fossil after you die. (r/askscience)

• Reddit has launched a new feature that shows the number of a subreddit’s subscribers who are currently online. (r/changelog)

• Redditor Deimorz collects some “horribly anecdotal” statistics from the new data. (r/TheoryOfReddit)

• Where does the voice in your head come from? (r/DepthHub)

• This guy used to buy gold. (r/IAmA)

• A first-hand account of schizophrenia. (r/explainlikeimfive)

• Was ancient China really “light years ahead” of the rest of the world? (r/AskHistorians)

• An entertainingly absurd question with a very specific answer: “Could a 1 trillion decibel sonic weapon actually harm a starship in orbit?” (r/AskScienceFiction)

Pic of the day: ITAPx3 of a Green Tree Frog (r/itookapicture)