Parkour Goat Leaps Over Fence Like It Ain’t No Thang [Video]
Oh, goats. You make everything better, even Taylor Swift songs. This goat in particular, who belongs to YouTube user BrandosonR, decided to enrich our lives in his own unique way by scaling a six-foot...
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When It Comes to Science Fiction and Fantasy, Multiple Levels of Realism Are...
How many times have you complained with something along the lines of, “How did Character A survive that gaping chest wound, or get from Point A to Point B so fast, or figure out the mystery with no...
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Dog Gives Away Burglary Suspect’s Hiding Place
Ever wondered why you hear a lot of talk about “cat burglars,” but never so much as a peep about “dog burglars”? Well, it’s because dogs make terrible burglars, as a San Antonio man learned when he...
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Steam Summer Sale: Day 7 Deals
Oops! Someone over at Valve posted the Daily Deals for the seventh day of the Steam Summer Sale a little early. We’re totally cool with that, and it looks like today is going to potentially be a big...
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PayPal Computer Error Briefly Credits Man With $92 Quadrillion Fortune
Chris Reynolds is your average small-town Pennsylvania resident who uses PayPal to buy and sell vintage car parts on eBay. While a fun hobby, he never expected it to make him successful beyond his...
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Sharknado’s Getting a Sequel: This Must Be What Skynet Employees Felt Like
Oh sure, we all laughed at the Sharknado trailer when we first saw it online. We live-tweeted the Syfy movie’s premiere. We called it the greatest thing to ever exist without actually meaning it,...
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Google Reportedly Wants to Start Streaming Traditional TV Programming
Because Netflix, Amazon, and Hulu don’t offer us enough ways to procrastinate, Google may soon join their ranks. According to the Wall Street Journal, Google has begun approaching various media...
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Checkmate, Atheists! Reddit Updates Default Subreddits, Gives Politics and...
It’s happening! Reddit is finally doing some spring cleaning and changing their line-up of default subreddits for the first time since October 2011. Better yet, they’re removing two of the most...
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The IRIS Telescope Opens Its Eye to Space
In exciting space news, the door on NASA’s Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph (IRIS) telescope is open. The door was successfully opened by the IRIS Lockheed Martin team today at 2:14 PM EDT, and...
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Geekolinks: 7/17
All-new Google Maps arrives on mobile (GeekSugar) On Xena and a lack of female villains (The Mary Sue) 25 great sitcoms you can watch on YouTube right now (Flavorwire) Indian restaurant sponsors youth...
View ArticleBow to Your Sensei: BMO of Adventure Time Might Be a Modern Feminist Icon...
It’s no secret that Mike Rugnetta and the crew of PBS Idea Channel love them some Adventure Time. After all, it’s a ridiculously amazing show — partially due to its totally mathematical aesthetic and...
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Seth MacFarlane’s American Dad! Saved, Will Move to TBS Next Season
Cable to the rescue! Deadline has reported that American Dad! will move to TBS in 2014. While the 10th season of the animated sitcom, which starts airing on Fox September 29th, was expected to be its...
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Police Discover Austrian Man’s Bone Collection of 56 Stolen Skulls
Austrian police raided a man’s home to find a personal museum consisting of 56 skulls and dozens of other bones. He was charged for raiding a church cemetery, but I’m sure he has a good explanation...
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Netflix Gets 14 Emmy Nods for House of Cards, Arrested Development, and...
Those of you who are up early watching the Emmy nominations roll in this morning — as well as, y’know, those of you who know where Twitter is — have no doubt already heard, but it’s worth mentioning...
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Rabbinical Council Finally Applies Kosher Law to Personal Lubricants
As any observant Jew knows, it’s very important to make sure anything you eat — or might accidentally eat — is kosher, a fact that has slowly turned kosher from a set of religious laws into a cottage...
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Top Panels to Attend or Keep an Eye on at San Diego Comic-Con 2013
After spending more time than is healthy perusing the entire schedule for San Diego Comic-Con, my initial response was to considering begging for a ticket to San Diego. I would tell you what I’d do...
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Holy Smokes, Firefly Online Teased at SDCC
Browncoats rejoice: Fox is bringing Firefly back. But not, you know, as a Netflix exclusive series or something like that. Nope, they’ve decided to release Firefly Online — technically they’re calling...
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New Dinosaur Discovered, Given Extremely Apt Name of “Big Nose Horn Face”
All the dinosaurs have been dead for literally millions of years, but we still manage to find some new ones every once in a while. Case in point: Nasutoceratops titusi , which was recently made an...
View ArticleWorth Waiting For: Pitch Drop Experiment Started in 1944 Finally Comes to...
It’s not the most famous “pitch drop” experiment in the world — that’s the original at the University of Queensland in Australia — but the fact that hard pitch-tar is a viscous liquid has been...
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Steam Summer Sale: Day 8 Deals
Another day, another set of Daily Deals from the Steam Summer Sale. It’s the eighth day, and while this is frankly the least varied group of deals, it also includes the one Daily Deal we’d recommend...
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