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‘90s Game of Thrones Illustrator Tackles Breaking Bad and the Muppets
Chances are you’ve seen Mike Wrobel’s ’90s-style Game of Thrones illustrations around the internet lately, but that’s not all he’s up to. In honor of Breaking Bad’s final season, Wrobel’s graced us...
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Pregnancy Not Necessarily Super Exact, Just Like Everything The Human Body Does
The average pregnancy lasts 280 days — but average is the key word there. That whole 9-months-equals-healthy-baby-thing? Apparently it’s not exact. Rather, a new study published in Human Reproduction...
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Man Locks Verizon Worker in His Underground Vault For Parking On His Grass
A 71-year-old storage facility owner in Westborough, Massachusetts, took the whole “get off my lawn” thing too far when he trapped a Verizon worker in a vault for parking on his grass. He was probably...
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Geekolinks: 8/8
The mystery of the Subway Shark has been solved (Gothamist) Nintendo confirms Luigi for Super Smash Bros on Wii U, 3DS (DigitalSpy) Watch the second teaser for American Horror Story: Coven (YouTube)...
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Got Actual Shark Questions? Ask Real Live Scientist David Shiffman In...
Between the current criticism lobbied at this year’s Discovery Channel Shark Week programming and the mysterious dead shark found in the New York subway the other day, people have a lot of unanswered...
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Batman Rules YouTube, Surprising No One
It’s no real shocker that the internet loves Batman. Between Christopher Nolan’s trilogy, the Arkham games, and recent news that Bruce Wayne will invade Zack Snyder’s Man of Steel sequel, it’s a rare...
View ArticleWatch The Completionist, Erm, Complete All of Portal For Geek Week [Video]
It’s Thursday now and YouTube’s Geek Week is going full steam ahead. So what is today’s theme? Gaming. The smorgasbord on hand includes video game spoofs, song covers, live-action reenactments, and...
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GlutenfreeSingles: The New Dating Site for People Who REALLY Hate Gluten
Exactly what it says on the tin: a dating site for people who don’t eat gluten. The reason doesn’t matter: celiac disease, a gluten intolerance, or a mere tendency to be swept up in bizarre health...
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Sharknado Sequel Given Title That’s as Dumb as You’d Expect
Oh, Sharknado, what a ridiculous phenomenon you’ve become — so much so that now The Asylum, a company known for their mockbuster films, is considered culturally relevant now. What’s more, they’re...
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Scientists Make Electrical Activity In Fruit Flies’ Brain Cells Light Up
We know that electricity drives neural impulses in the brain, forming complex networks of neurons, but it’s still difficult to trace the electrical activity of the nervous system. Scientists at the...
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Here’s How Scientists Track Interplanetary Dust From Meteor Showers
The Perseid meteor shower will peak August 11 and 12, but while you’re wishing on a shooting star, do you ever wonder what happens to the remains of the meteors that are burning up due to intense...
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Got a Favorite Cat Video? Vote For It To Win The 2013 Friskies Award
There’s an award ceremony for literally everything these days — includin gone for the best cat video on the Internet. That’s right, voting for the the 2013 Friskies is currently underway, as...
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The Best of Real Shark Scientist David Shiffman’s Ask Me Anything Reddit...
University of Miami marine biologist David Shiffman really loves sharks, but is super bummed by the state of this year’s Shark Week — so he decided to take questions about his life’s work as part of...
View ArticleGet Lost In This Slow-Motion Water Balloon Fight Between 1500 People [Video]
For Geek Week, the SlowMo Guys Gavin Free and Daniel Gruchy teamed up with Freddie Wong to round up 1500 people at RTX Austin and threw balloons at each other. Well, it’s more like 1500 people threw...
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Check Out The Live Feed For the White House’s Google Hangout About Robots at 2pm
In honor of Geek Week, the White House’s We The Geek program will host a google hangout at 2pm E.S.T today about robots and science education. Plus everybody’s favorite YA novelist-turned-vlogger John...
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Apes Apparently Use The Breaststroke While Swimming Just Like We Do
On TV and in movies, you can see various types of primates doing all kinds of athletic things like climbing trees, swinging from vines, or even playing hockey. But swimming? That’s pretty rare, but it...
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NASA Sending Crowd-Sourced Poetry to Mars, Martians Probably Impressed
Now that the US Senate has re-authorized NASA, the much-maligned Space Agency is going out of its way to convince Congress and the tax-paying public that exploring the final frontier is an essential...
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Elysium Space Station is Actually Totally Believable, Says NASA Scientist
In the future, everything is terrible – according to most movies, anyways. But Neill Blomkamp’s newest film Elysium shows us a 22nd century which isn’t entirely the worst (if you’re rich enough). In...
View ArticleWonderful 101 Trailer Finally Released and the Trailer Looks Redonkulous [Video]
From the people who brought you Viewtiful Joe, Wonderful 101 is a tokusatsu inspired superhero action game set to release later next month for the Wii U. It’s also pretty bonkers. Like, really...
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Geekolinks 8/9
Want more Korra: Book 2 clips? Sure you do (Nickelodeon) Here’s a supercut of the final seasons in blockbuster action movie trailers (Uproxxx) First You’re Next Clip throws down the proverbial axe...
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