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Bask in the Glory That is In-Game Footage from Project Eternity
Project Eternity from Obsidian Entertainment, which is composed of a lot of folks that helped make Black Isle Studios the role-playing video game powerhouse that it once was, is about as close as...
View ArticleLatest Elysium Trailer Proves Neill Blomkamp Sure Does Love Garbage [Video]
Elysium, the latest sci-fi epic from District 9‘s Neill Blomkamp, is essentially all about those that have everything versus those that have nothing. There’s literally a floating paradise, but the...
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Maine Hermit Suspected in More Than 1,000 Burglaries Over 27 Years
Christopher Knight isn’t exactly a people person. The 47-year-old Maine man has lived as a hermit in the woods of Maine for nearly 30 years, becoming a sort of local legend. Mr. Knight’s latest...
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OK, But Why? Phantom Limb Sensation Induced in People With All Their Limbs...
Today in Scientific Studies Sure To Make You Go ‘Huh’ we bring you the latest news from researchers at the Karolinska Institutet, who have succeeded in inducing phantom limb sensations that can make...
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The Far Cry 3: Blood Dragon Trailer Just Won Trailers [Video]
Full disclosure: I’m not sure I will play Far Cry 3: Blood Dragon. It’s getting to be all summery, which generally knocks my video gaming down to pretty meager levels. What I can tell you for sure is...
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Who’s the Robot With Unusually Strong Actuators? SCHAFT! Can You Dig It?
Anyone worried about the inevitable robot uprising can take solace in knowing that humanoid robots are not particularly strong. That’s because the electric motors commonly used to build them are...
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Congress Doesn’t Care About Your Asteroid Plan, Would Rather Have a Moon Base
The White House’s 2014 budget proposal includes funding for a NASA mission to park an asteroid in lunar orbit. Besides being awesome, the mission will also put humans farther into space than we’ve...
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Kiss $50 Goodbye, a Remote-Controlled Flying TARDIS is Available for Preorder
That’s weird. I could have sworn that about five minutes ago I had $46.99 more in my bank account than I do right now. I wonder if it has anything to do with the this remote-controlled flying TARDIS...
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Microsoft Creative Director Gone From the Company After Incendiary Next-Gen...
Remember when we previously reported about Microsoft Studios creative director Adam Orth’s Twitter comments about the “always-on” complaints in regards to the next-gen Xbox? Specifically, remember...
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Fossilized Dinosaur Nest Offers Clues to Baby Dino Development
While the sonogram that our own Glen Tickle keeps on his desk proves that he is an adorable and loving father, it’s not awesome because it’s a sonogram of his daughter, not a dinosaur. We’ve heard...
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How Much is a Nobel Prize Worth? If It’s Francis Crick’s, the Answer is $2...
In 1962 Francis Crick, James Watson, and Maurice Wilkins were awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for their work on discovering DNA’s double helix structure. There’s a cash purse that...
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Flesh-Eating Bacteria Repurposed Into Disease-Fighting Glue
Flesh-eating bacteria just sounds evil. It’s known in the medical world as necrotizing fasciitis, which sounds even more sinister. But what if something evil could be turned into something good? For...
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What Happens to Your Email When You Die? Google’s Got a Solution
There are a lot of ways people can prepare for death. With things like life insurance and wills you can make sure your loved ones are taken care of, or at least not fighting over your stuff, but what...
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Geekolinks: 4/11
4 apps you have to get if you're going to Coachella (GeekSugar) Syfy announces a whole slew of new shows (The Mary Sue) 4 hazards of drinking during the day (Guy Code Blog) Jon Stewart on gun control...
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Man Bitten to Death by Beaver Somehow Not an Isolated Incident
A fishing trip to a quiet lake in Belarus ended about as badly as it’s possible for a fishing trip to end when one of the men was attacked and killed by a beaver as he tried to photograph it. The man,...
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“Why Can’t Rodents Vomit?” is the Most Important Question Science Addressed...
Did you know that rodents — from the humble mouse to the noble beaver — are incapable of vomiting? It’s true, and a team of investigators led by researchers at the University of Pittsburgh turned...
View ArticleBuying Games Like Call of Duty Might Be a Moral Choice [Video]
Violence and video games is a tricky subject, but it’s just plain factual that many games — like Call of Duty, for example — sometimes license the use and depiction of actual firearms. As in, the...
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Kinky Sex Leaves Man Hospitalized With 2-Foot-Long Eel Up His Anus
On the off chance you needed another reason not to use live eels in sex play, consider the story of a man in China’s Guangdong province who was hospitalized after an eel — apparently being used in sex...
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Animals Are Drugging Themselves Way More Than We Thought
Sometimes animals don’t need you and your fancy pills. They can get their own meds, thank you very much. It’s a phenomenon called zoopharmacognosy, and it’s a known thing. A chimp might eat a...
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Meet Champa, the First Bear to Undergo Brain Surgery
Operating on animals is a bit different than putting humans under the knife, due to all kinds of different physiological and even chemical differences. But it’s not like it’s brain surgery. Y’know,...
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