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Backwards-Moving Flash Mob Confuses the Hell Out of NYC Tourists [Video]
New York City is a weird enough place, justifying daily the phrase “only in New York!” As the Geekosystem office is situated in the Big Apple — which no one who lives here calls it, by the way — we’re...
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Mellow Out With This Amazing Footage Of Northern Lights, Pan-STARRS Comet...
Last month, we talked about how “baby comet” C/2011 L4 was set to buzz the Earth. It was going to be visible to the naked eye, if you knew where to look and had clear skies. And Pan-STARRS didn’t...
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Caffeine-Junkie Bacteria Discovered, Could Help Clean Up Water Pollution,...
Fun fact: As much as I love to cook, and it’s a lot, I would trade all food in a second if I could live by just drinking coffee, which is what I functionally do most days anyway. Now, researchers have...
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New Technique 3D Prints Skeleton of Living Animals, Brings Us One Step Closer...
An interesting challenge presented by 3D printing is coming up not only with what to print, but where to get the designs of things to print. One engineering student looked to the natural world for...
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Cicadas Set to Swarm East Coast, Radiolab Wants You To Help Track Them
East Coast kids won’t have seen them before, but they’re coming again soon as they do every 17 years: A brood of cicadas known as Magicicada Brood II will make the “air hum with a 7 kHz mating buzz.”...
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Geekolinks: 4/1
All GeekSugar’s geeky spring-cleaning tips in one post (GeekSugar) Martha Stewart bakes “green” brownies with Snoop Lion (The Braiser) “LomoGoggles” are the fake analog Google Glass you didn’t know...
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Luke is a General, Han Solo Is a Lizard in Dark Horse’s New Adaptation of The...
Wouldn’t it be weird if Han Solo was a six-foot lizard guy, not human at all? Or if Luke wasn’t a whiny moisture farmer but a bearded general from the get-go? Well, that’s how things were before...
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Nuts to April Fools’, We Want to Buy Sphero’s Giant Remote-Controlled Ball
It never fails — every April Fools’ Day, a product or two comes along that I would absolutely buy. This year is no different, and the product is the Peacekeeper from Sphero — a 3-foot-tall, 150-pound...
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Being Middle Management Sucks For Monkeys, Too
The corporate ladder has a lot of rungs, but there are three basic places you can be on it: at the top, where you’re making the rules, at the bottom where you’ve got nothing to lose, and everywhere...
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Symbiotic Bacteria Tell Squid When To Hunt, When To Sleep
Glowing bacteria that live in the light-generating organs of the tiny bobtail squid play a key role in determining the animal’s circadian rhythms — the natural cycles that help determine when a...
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Sea Lion Rocks to the Beat, Proves We’re Not the Only Species Who Can Dance...
We used to think that only animals with the ability to vocally mimic the sounds of another were capable of rhythmic movement. Clearly, this is not so! Ronan the adorable sea lion at the Long Marine Lab...
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We Take a Firsthand Look at the Urinal Gaming System [Video]
Last week I told you about the first “Urinal Gaming Systems” being installed in the United States at the home of the Lehigh Valley IronPigs — Coca-Cola Park. It’s a video game you control with your...
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Everything You Need to Know About President Obama’s BRAIN Initiative
President Obama in his most recent State of the Union speech referenced commitments to science and technology, and shortly after the speech some details of a 10-year study of the human brain came out....
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Game of Thrones Season 3 Premiere Sets Piracy Records, HBO Doesn’t Care
Two big things happened on Easter a few days ago: The Walking Dead season 3 finale and the Game of Thrones season 3 premiere aired at the same time. One of the two was exceptionally good and involved...
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Finding Nemo Sequel’s Officially Finding Dory
Pixar movies are pretty great, and Finding Nemo is still one of the best. And of all the characters in that fish-out-of-water-then-back-in-water story, none is more endearing than the...
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Former Voice of Snake in Metal Gear Solid Issues Depressing Twitter Statement
If you’re a Metal Gear Solid fan, chances are you’ve come to expect a certain voice emanating from the series’ long-time protagonist, Solid Snake, in the English version of the games. Specifically,...
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OK Go Wants You to Make Their Next Music Video
The gentlemen of the musical group OK Go make good music, but they make tremendous videos. They dance on treadmills, skydive in cars, and make elaborate Rube Goldberg machines all in the hopes that...
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Chris Hadfield Shows How to Brush Your Teeth in Space [Video]
At some point in their lives, nearly every right-thinking kid wants to be an astronaut, because being an astronaut is awesome. You get to ride a rocket ship, live in zero gravity, and dine on...
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Geekolinks: 4/2
Google Drive gets way more visual (GeekSugar) AP drops "illegal immigrant" (Mediaite) The science of falling in love (Guy Code Blog) Robert Redford's leading S.H.I.E.L.D. (The Mary Sue) Tech's tricky...
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Aww, They Think They’re People: Male Bats Perform Oral Sex on Females
Earlier today, we brought you news of a sea lion that dances along to Backstreet Boys. This evening brings more news of animals partaking in an activity once thought to be the sole dominion of...
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