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Europeans Wants To Unravel Our Brains, Solve Reading Problems
When you misspell a word but still use all the correct letters, most people can figure it out without wasting much time. TEH becomes THE in our minds easily, which is why it’s a common typo (and a...
View ArticleExplain Like I’m Five Web Series Launches, Explains Existentialism to Children
It’s hard to explain complex things to people, and it can be equally as hard to understand what someone is trying to explain to you. Sometimes it’s just easier if the person doing the explaining...
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Cobra Takes To Kickstarter To Rebuild After Latest Foiling By G.I. Joe
Times are tough for terrorist organizations right now, especially the long suffering agents of Cobra. These guys can’t catch a break any more than they can hit the broad side of a barn with a volley...
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You Can Buy Jesse Pinkman’s Tercel, Live Out All Your Wildest Breaking Bad...
Are you in the market for 1984 Toyota Tercel featuring four wheel drive and all four of those wheels still on the car? No? Well, what if I told you the car you can buy was the one time ride of...
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Buggy Curiosity Rover Retreats Back Into Safe Mode
Following last week’s momentous discovery that the chemistry of Mars could have once supported life, the Curiosity rover is on the fritz again. Engineers at NASA returned the rover to safe mode after...
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11 Amazing Science Fiction Songs You Need to Hear
There’re too many songs out there about love, and breaking up, and dancing. And single ladies. What there aren’t enough songs about: Spaceships, aliens, interstellar exploration, time travel. But you...
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This NPR Bracket Might Be Nerdiest Alternative to NCAA Tournament
Today starts the NCAA March Madness tournament. Yawn. I don’t want to perpetuate the stereotype that geeks can’t also like sports, but man, do I hate March Madness.* The real action is in public radio...
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Google Might Be Smashing Together Their Chat Platforms Into a New Unified...
Google has a lot of platforms with which users can communicate with each other, and I use all of them. They’re great, but once you realize you’re using multiple applications to accomplish very similar...
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Today in Geek History: United States Congress Establishes Time Zones
Time zones don’t bother us too terribly much in our everyday lives — in fact, they make a lot of sense — except when people fly across the planet and appear to arrive before they left. Or when folks...
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Man Has The Walking Dead’s Daryl Dixon Shaved Into His Hair, Because Sure,...
People throughout history have come up with any number of ways to celebrate things they like. From pieces of art to questionable songs, people enjoy creating stuff that shows just how big of a fan...
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Handy Video Explains Why the Large Hadron Collider Shut Down, Shows the...
The Large Hadron Collider shut down last month for what is expected to be a two year period of upgrades and repair. Since the field of particle physics and the giant machines used to study it can be...
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This Somewhat Horrifying Drone Has a Surprisingly Mundane Purpose
Robot drones have a wide array of applications that range from spying on things to killing them. They’re usually pretty unassuming to look at, but sometimes they’re the stuff of nightmares, like the...
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Geekolinks: 3/19
Aliens are getting really good at hiding (GeekSugar) So long and thanks for all the fish, Nets PR Twitter account (SportsGrid) 30 Seconds to Mars talks with the ISS (Space.com) Donald Rumsfield should...
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Google Adds GIF Search Filter, Internet Rejoices
Using GIFs to send dismissive and passive aggressive replies to things people say on the Internet is a tradition as old as GIFs themselves, but finding just the right jumpy, low-resolution,...
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Say Hello to the Uma Thurman of Parasitoid Wasps, Because That’s a Thing Now
I keep a mental list of places in the world to never go, and one of those is Brazil, thanks to the existence of the terrifying Brazilian wandering spider. Trust me, it’s awful. I’m afraid I now have...
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Italian Superfan Builds Spot-On Replica of Ghostbusters Basement
We love Ghostbusters as much as the next guy, unless the next guy is Ghostbuster Italia member Guusc72. He clearly has the edge on us, on you, and on just about every Ghostbusters fan out there. He...
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Real Master Blacksmith Forges He-Man’s Sword of Power [Video]
Oh, hell yes. Tony Swatton is a blacksmith by trade, and he’s made weapons for scads of movies and TV shows. Swords for Game of Thrones, cutlasses for Pirates of the Caribbean, Batarangs for Batman,...
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Lawsuit Against Elmo Puppeteer Includes Phrases Like “Crystal Meth Sex Party”
I’ll level with you, folks. I’ve been kinda hoping the other shoe just wouldn’t drop regarding allegations that Elmo puppeteer Kevin Clash had sex with underage boys for years while also bringing to...
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Fellow Geeks Explain March Madness Using Only Star Wars Analogies [Video]
The annual mental health awareness event college basketball tournament that is March Madness has officially descended on us once more, leaving plenty of us out in the cold without a clue as to what,...
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This Calvin and Hobbes Animation’s Both Warm and Fuzzy
Calvin and Hobbes was one of those great comics — like The Far Side — that at its dullest was still far, far more entertaining than the best installment of Family Circus. Cartoonist Bill Watterson had...
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