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Holy manatee! David Blaine, everyone's favorite magician punchline (think of him as the 21st century Doug Henning), will live in an aquarium for a week outside of Lincoln Center. According to the AP:

The "human aquarium" in which Blaine will float is a specially built 8-foot acrylic sphere. He will receive liquid nutrition through a tube and the water will be kept at a balanced temperature to help keep his core temperature close to 98.6 degrees F.

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Do you prefer the company of fish? There's a site, The Goldish Sanctuary, that's dedicated to the "humane treatment of golfish everywhere." Here's another goldfish care site, plus here's fish supply stuff from Petco. Gothamist is not totally down with multi-color Goldfish crackers or the sunglasses-wearing Goldfish - they are crackers, not people! And Troy McClure had a thing for fish.

Of course, many people are familiar with some variation on the film strip, even if filmstrips were being phased out in favor of videotapes (Gothamist's personal favorite: The 1970s film about menstruation, where an excited girl yells "I got it!" and then her parents say to each other proudly, "She go it!" and the younger brother says, "Got what?" Bwa ha ha.). The educational film are also a frequent subject of homage on The Simpsons (see a list of Simpsons educational films here on this page about Troy McClure, if you scroll down) - "Two Minus Three Equals Negative Fun."

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