Don’t Panic: Earth’s Atmosphere is Escaping [Video]
Okay, so, don’t freak out or anything, but Earth’s atmosphere is escaping. Ridiculously slowly, I should say, and there’s no concern that it’ll happen at any point soon. We’re talking billions of...
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Fight Against Land Mines Gets an Unlikely New Ally
During the Balkan wars in the 1990′s, an estimated 90,000 land mines were deployed in the region. They were mostly deployed at random without a map of their location, so finding them is a difficult...
View ArticleMatt Smith and David Tennant Chat About Being The Doctor, Make Us Long For...
Last night was the finale of this season of Doctor Who and we’re now left wanting until the 50th Anniversary special airs on November 23rd. That’s going to be a long six months for fans of the show,...
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Don’t Worry, Chris Hadfield Is Still Great On Earth! Here Are Some Of His...
Chris Hadfield had us riveted with his stream of updates from the International Space Station. We learned so much about life in space, not just from someone who had been there, but from someone while...
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Yahoo Pays $1.1 Billion for Cat GIFs (Gets Rest of Tumblr Free With Purchase)
Yahoo is holding a big media event in New York tomorrow, at which everyone was expecting them to announce they would be buying Tumblr. Instead of waiting for the big event, The Wall Street Journal...
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Geekolinks: 5/19
Who Said It? Star Trek: Original Series vs. TNG Quiz (GeekSugar) PSA: You can buy the Kindle version of Watchment right now for $3.99 (Amazon) Watch the Doctor Who Fan Orchestra performing “Amy’s...
View ArticleYou Could Rewatch Aliens Or Just Check Out This 60-Second Speedrun
The topic of the Alien movies came up in the office the other day, and I realized I probably haven’t watched the first two since high school at the latest. I probably would have wasted hours of my...
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Hello Kitty Melon Solves The Problem Of Your Fruit Not Being Adorable Enough
Do you enjoy a good slice of melon with your breakfast, but can’t stop wishing it was branded with the face of the world’s most adored cartoon cat? Well, the weirdest problem in your life has just...
View ArticleRobot Octopus Takes To The Water, Tries Out Different Swimming Strokes
Octopi are great swimmers, but they’re pretty weird about how they do it. The cephalopods get around via a strange swimming technique known as sculling, which uses all eight of their rubbery legs....
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Amazon Thinks You Should Cash in on That Fan Fiction, Meet “Kindle Worlds”
Fan fiction is something that I never understood. Why put all the effort into writing something that you can never have published because you don’t own the rights? That’s not a problem anymore. Amazon...
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Frequency of Candy Consumption Not Linked to Obesity, Suggests Study Funded...
According to a recently published study in Nutrition Journal, frequency of candy consumption is not linked to obesity. If that’s not a shocker, they also suggest it isn’t linked to other health risks...
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Xbox One Not Backward Compatible With Xbox 360, Registers Games to Specific...
After the reveal of the Xbox One, there were still a lot of questions floating around about exactly how Microsoft would be handling used games and whether it’d play Xbox 360 titles. Those questions...
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Let’s Have a Serious Talk About Pokémon Living Conditions
So you’ve gone and caught em’ all. Now what? Pokémon (maybe) are living things and you’ve crammed them into a tiny Poké Ball without a second thought like a savage. What’s it really like in there? The...
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Sanctuary for Giant Pandas Also Home to Newly Discovered Tiny Spiders
One of the great things about setting aside land as a sanctuary for one creature is that it helps to preserve a whole ecosystem full of plants and animals — some of which we may not even know exist...
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Invisible Driver Prank Returns for Another Installment, Now With Added Zombie...
We’ve featured YouTube magician Rahat Hussein on Geekosystem a few times, now. Over the past few months he’s put out several videos of his “invisible driver” prank, where he uses his car seat costume...
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Why Ramapo College of New Jersey Needs Me to Write Their Twitter Account
I have a Bachelor of Arts degree in Contemporary Arts from Ramapo College of New Jersey, which is basically the middle child of New Jersey state schools. It’s a beautiful campus in Mahwah, New Jersey,...
View ArticleLearn How Allosaurus Fed With This Awesome ‘Visible Dinosaur’ Animation
Allosaurus and T-Rex have a lot in common. They’re both carnivores, both theropods, and I would not know whether to cheer or weep in terror if I saw either one in the flesh. But researchers at Ohio...
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Geekolinks: 5/22
Social media etiquette can be hard, so here’s a primer (GeekSugar) Jose Canseco’s being investigated for rape (SportsGrid) 10 Tumblr webcomics you should be following (The Daily Dot) Seth MacFarlane...
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Herschel Space Observatory Discovers Two Galaxies Colliding With Each Other
“Merger” is usually such a dull word. Companies merge. Lanes of traffic merge. But it’s not all bland and boring, because large galaxies can also merge with one another to form what is scientifically...
View ArticleThis Gravity Falls Rap’s the Best Disney Channel Rap You’ll Hear Today [Video]
In case you aren’t already aware, Gravity Falls is a fantastic animated show, currently airing on Disney Channel, that’s basically an animated version of Eerie, Indiana mixed with the shenanigans from...
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