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Brain Scans Used to Predict Reoffending Criminals, Reality Edges Closer to...
Neuroscience just sounds like villainy. See, where physicists tamper with the fabric of the universe and try to rip a hole into another, potentially monster-filled, dimension, neuroscientists study...
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James Cameron Donates Submarine to Science, Puts All Other Directors to Shame
Tyrannical director, film producer, screenwriter, and self-proclaimed “king of the world” James Cameron, to be fair, has done a lot. Maybe he helmed his movies and projects with an ego and a serious...
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Here’s Everything Wrong With The Hobbit in Under Four Minutes [Video]
I’m a serious Middle-earth apologist, but I’m not even close to being a purist. Big difference. I could list off a bunch of things that Peter Jackson’s movies “get wrong” about the world and stories...
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Is This The First Picture Of IRL Tatooine?
A team of astronomers in France believe they have captured the first direct image of a distant planet that orbits a pair of binary stars. It’s probably not a lot like Luke’s home planet of Tatooine,...
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Gwyneth Paltrow Gets Armored Up in Latest Iron Man 3 Teaser
With just over a month before Iron Man 3 hits theaters, we’re hitting predictable trailer saturation — the point where you can pretty much watch the entire movie before it comes out if you’re willing...
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Flying Rescue Robot Could Be the Lifeguard of the Future
A research lab in Iran is hard at work building a new robotic lifeguard that could respond instantly to passengers and crew who fall from ships by flying to their rescue and dropping a life preserver...
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Welcome to the Party: T-Mobile Finally Offers the iPhone
T-Mobile, the fourth-largest cellular carrier in the nation, has finally gotten around to offering the iPhone. Sure, it’s probably the fourth-largest carrier because it took so long to offer the...
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19-Year-Old Scores 30-Month Prison Sentence for Shining Laser at Aircraft
You might think we live in a world where people would realize that pointing lasers at aircraft is a bad idea. You might think that, but you’re wrong if you do. On March 29th, 2012, 19-year-old Adam...
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New Type of Itty-Bitty Stellar Explosion Discovered
We love explosions, don’t we? Especially when they’re a) on TV or b) very far away from us. In this case, crazy far away, because I’m talking about supernovas – those spectacular events wherein a star...
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There’s a Huge Cyber Attack Slowing Down the Internet Because of Spam
Noticing a bit of a lag online today? If you are, you might be able to thank an ongoing battle between anti-spam organization Spamhaus and alleged spammer safe-haven Cyberbunker. Spamhaus is currently...
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Don’t Use Oculus Rift Drunk, Says Designer Who’s Missing the Point of Oculus...
It’s come to our attention that, in an interview with Joystiq, developer Palmer Luckey tried to dissuade customers from using the Oculus Rift gaming helmet while drunk. This means I have another...
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Wachowskis Team Up With Babylon 5 Creator and Netflix for New Series
Here’s a sentence that has so many great things in it, it’s almost unbelievable: The Wachowskis will be teaming up with J. Michael Straczynski and Netflix to produce a new sci-fi series called Sense8....
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Giant Oklahoma Earthquake Might Have Been Our Own Fault
Earthquakes just happen. It’s no one’s fault, really. Well, it is faulting, the vertical or lateral shifting of rock, but this time it might be another sort of fault: Ours. In a study published in...
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6 International Chip Flavors We Want in the States Right Now
Earlier this week when the delicious snack food and slap to the face of a functioning space-time continuum that is Doritos Locos Taco Doritos were announced, I may have been heard to announce in a...
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Geekolinks: 3/27
How to back up your Facebook photos and data (GeekSugar) Try to tell the difference between anti-interracial and anti-gay marriage quotes (Mediaite) Evolution of manhood through classic deodorant...
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Stay in the House, Carl: The Walking Dead Monopoly and Risk Coming Soon
We as consumers like to think that we get what we ask for — like it’s the “demand” part of supply and demand — but sometimes maybe we shouldn’t. Apparently, we asked for The Walking Dead versions of...
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Pesticides Fail to Kill Bees, Succeed at Making Them Dumber
Bad news, bees. Two new studies found that two separate pesticides adversely affect the part of a bee’s brain that is responsibly for its ability to learn, and when used in combination the effects are...
View ArticleHonest Trailer of Les Misérables Might Be Better Than Les Misérables,...
I didn’t catch Les Misérables in theaters, and now thanks to this new honest trailer of the movie, I no longer regret it. In the spirit of the all-singing all-dancing movie, most of the trailer is...
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Giving A Robot An Origin Story Makes You More Likely To Trust It
I’m a huge fan of robots, because let’s face it — robots are pretty awesome. Like many of our readers, though, I don’t necessarily trust robots. Thanks to movies like The Terminator and psychological...
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Here Are Some Things You Can Buy Now That Disney Owns Star Wars
In a move not unlike the scene where Yogurt shills all that Space Balls merchandise, yesterday Disney pulled back the curtain on some of the items that will be on sale as part of their Star Wars...
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