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Sesame Street’s The Count Celebrates One Billion YouTube Views The Only Way...
A few weeks ago I told you about Sesame Street’s goal of hitting one billion views on YouTube to put them in the same pantheon as the likes of PSY’s “Gangnam Style,” Lady Gaga, and Justin Bieber. As...
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Remade Intro Sends Breaking Bad Back To The 90s
I don’t know what would possess a person to remake the intro for Breaking Bad as a high concept dramedy from the 1990s. I’m just glad that the spirit took them, because this video is absolutely tops....
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Cold as Ice and Then Some: Penguins Are Colder Than the Air Around Them
A team of European penguin researchers found some unexpected results when they turned infrared heat sensing cameras on a group of emperor penguins they were studying. The outer layer of the birds...
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True Facts About the Fruit Bat Will Leave You Wanting a Pet Fruit Bat [Video]
The ever dependable and humorous Ze Frank has returned with another series of entertaining and (mostly) true facts about the noble fruit bat — both the mega and micro varieties, so there’s something...
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Today in Geek History: Alexander Graham Bell Acquires Patent for the Telephone
Phones are so ubiquitous that we screen our calls, hang up on telemarketers, and send stupid pictures to friends and family with our mobiles. Google Glass is on its way, for better or for worse, and...
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Let’s Call a Higgs a Higgs: Physicists Say Particle Discovered at CERN Looks...
The particle discovered last year is largely believed to be the Higgs boson, but it seems like nobody wants to be the one to officially name it that for fear of being wrong, but this week physicists...
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Zerg Rush This: Terrans Would Ultimately Conquer StarCraft Universe, Says New...
It’s a good day to be a human! Not only are we at the top of the food chain here on Earth, but according to a recent study by researchers at the Royal Observatory of Edinburgh, we Terrans would...
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Facebook Shows Off Redesign as World Braces for Friends’ Complaints About...
Facebook just wrapped up their event showing off the site’s new look and functionality. Here’s what you can expect from Facebook after the redesign: Bigger photos, separated news feeds, and more focus...
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Didn’t See That One Coming: Giant Camels Came From the Great White North
Everything you know may be wrong. You grew up assuming that camels originated in the Middle East, right? Or maybe Africa or Asia, like the two-humped Bactrian? Since that no longer seems to be the...
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Nice Knowing You: Our Favorite Images From the Herschel Space Observatory
The Herschel Space Observatory’s mission to photograph the stars is winding down, so we wanted to take the chance to remember some of the finest images Herschel captured during its three-year tour of...
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Police Fine Man for Relentlessly Laughing at Neighbor [Video]
41-year-old Long Island man Robert Schiavelli has been issued two summonses after a neighbor called police and reported him for laughing at him. Schiavelli is mentally disabled, and believes he hasn’t...
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Age of Empires II HD Coming to Steam, Time to Brush Up on Your Wololos
You might recall the rumors of an Age of Empires II HD update that made the rounds earlier this week. If not, that’s okay, because it’s now empirical fact. Age of Empires II HD is officially a thing...
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Engineers Harness the Power of Wind, Tornadoes Become Merely Frenemies
When you hear the word “tornado,” what do you think of? Destruction? Linka and the power of Wind? Flying cows? 113 minutes of Bill Paxton? Mostly, twisters are a dangerous, mysterious natural...
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Geekolinks: 3/7
6 board games that ruined it for everyone (Cracked) Here’s the trailer for Whedon’s Much Ado About Nothing (The Mary Sue) 8 towns that are numbered (Mental Floss) Jon Stewart actually applauds Rand...
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Harrison, Fisher, Hamill Almost Certainly Returning to Star Wars
Disney owns Lucasfilm — we’re past that now, right? Previously, half of adult geekdom already ranted that the prequel Star Wars films “ruined” their childhoods or some such. So now everyone still...
View ArticleWhat’s the Ultimate Educational Tool? It Might Be Minecraft [Video]
Could Minecraft — a game that lets players essentially do anything and build anything they want – be used by educators to teach students any subject, making it the ultimate educational tool? PBS...
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Bikini Coffee Stand Owner Arrested After 16-Year-Old Employee Puts on Sex...
The owners of several drive-through bikini coffee stands in Washington State have been arrested on charges of sexual exploitation of a minor after baristas at the stands — including one...
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Russian Scientists Claim New Kind of Bacterial Life Found in Lake Vostok
Russian researchers working on samples from Lake Vostok — a subglacial lake in Antarctica sealed away for eons by more than two miles of ice — say they have found signs of a wholly new kind of...
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MIT’s Cheetah Robot Sacrifices Speed for Efficiency and Long Battery Life...
Taking cues from animals when designing robots is all the rage right now, and the big cats have been a particularly popular creature among engineers. We’ve looked at fast models designed by DARPA and...
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Today in Geek History: Massive Meteor Hits China
Space debris is fascinating, fun, and sometimes scary. The meteorite pieces that rained down on Russia’s Chelyabinsk region last month hit with the force of 30 atomic bombs, but these were not the...
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