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New Pope Announces Papacy Via Twitter, Enables Cruise Control for Cool
The Holy Smoke Monster has spoken! Rather, the white smoke issuing from the Sistine Chapel announced that a new Pope has been chosen. But more importantly, the Bishop of Rome and successor of Saint...
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New Telescope Imaging Technique Reveals Four of the Weirdest Planets Ever...
A new imaging system has allowed a team of astronomers to reveal new details about the four planets orbiting a nearby star, proving them to be among the strangest celestial bodies on record. Each one...
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Stop What You’re Doing and Listen to This Chrono Trigger and Jay-Z Mashup Album
Chrono Trigger is far and away one of my absolute favorite video games, even though I did lose all my save progress during an ill-fated car trip with the PlayStation version. The characters and game...
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Geekolinks: 3/13
The geekiest Ask Me Anythings on Reddit (GeekSugar) Pope Francis I is no fan of homosexuality (Mediaite) 10 books to read while waiting for Game of Thrones to return (Flavorwire) How to score the best...
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Ancient Coin Proves China Was Into Dominating Foreign Markets Before It Was Cool
The Europeans get all the press. They’ve got all that history of old empires and discoverers and globe-spanning explorers. Columbus, Copernicus, Magellan. Ah, but who’s writing the history? It may...
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British Dad Shows Off Even More Prosthetic Arm Shenanigans [Video]
In November 2012, we were introduced to Nigel Ackland, who lost part of his arm in a work accident some years ago. His replacement prosthetic was upgraded to a BeBionic3 — a bionic hand, if you will....
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Goodnight, Sweet Prince: Google Reader Gone As Of July 1st
If Google Reader is a big part of your morning routine, you might want to brace yourself for change. Google announced yesterday that it is pulling the plug on its RSS aggregator as of July 1st. That...
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It’s (Mostly) Official: That’s A Higgs Boson, Alright
After almost a year of suspense as physicists at CERN sifted through figures, parsed data, and double and triple checked their math, this morning saw the team behind the discovery of the Higgs boson...
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Russian Man Takes Four Hostages, Only Demands Are A Pizza And A Sprite
Today in “Totally Reasonable Ransoms” news, a Russian man armed with a handgun and explosives took four people hostage on a college campus. In return for the continued safety of his captives, he had...
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10 Pieces of British Slang I’d Like to See Stay in the U.K.
Earlier this week, I confessed to watching much too much British television. So much so that I lobbied for 10 pieces of British slang to be adopted here in America, but just because I like some of it...
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Today in Geek History: Von Zeppelin Patents the Airship
The only thing cooler than a spaceship — in my humble opinion — is a steampunk dirigible. (Although a space dirigible would be pretty sweet.) But the airship didn’t just spring out of Old World...
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Engineers Create Computer Chips That Fix Themselves, Ensure Humanity’s Demise
Robots need us, because we’re the only ones who can fix them when they break. Even when the machines do rise against us, they’re sure to keep at least a few of us around. Or maybe not. Engineers at...
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CHIMP Humanoid Rescue Robot Can Also Turn Into a Tank
Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University have given robotic life to every child’s dream, building a rescue robot that can take on both humanoid and tank forms as the situation demands. The real life...
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Gotta Catch ‘em All: Pikachu 3DS XL to Appear in North America on March 24th
If you’ve been on the fence as far as the Nintendo 3DS is concerned, there’s now one more reason to go ahead and take the plunge: The Pikachu 3DS XL is set to launch in North America on March 24th....
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Sad About Google Reader? Don’t Switch to FeedDemon Because It’s Dying Too
With news breaking about Google Reader going the way of the dodo and the pharaoh, now comes the wash of panic as we desperately search for a replacement for our daily web feeds. There’s already a few...
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Hack Shows Offline SimCity Play’s Possible, Questions Always-Online Requirement
Electronic Arts has done a terrible job with the launch of the newest SimCity, and things have just gotten worse since someone hacked the game to show that it can run offline, calling into question...
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Pope Quest: The Legend of Francis Shows Why No One’s Ever Made a Pope Video...
Yesterday, as the news of the Catholic Church electing their new pope, Pope Francis, was announced, a lot of people were probably wondering what the whole process of electing a pope would look like as...
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Geekolinks: 3/14
5 alternatives to get your Google Reader fix (GeekSugar) We're officially getting a Veronica Mars movie! (The Mary Sue) How to not screw up St. Patrick's Day (Guy Code Blog) Country song about Fox...
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Digg, of All Companies, Looks to Fill Rapidly Expanding Reader Void
As part of its continuing quest to return to a time when the Internet was a simpler place and it was relevant, Digg is throwing its hat in the ring to be your new RSS feed. As Google plans the funeral...
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