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Playstation’s Gamescom Conference is Today, Peep the Live Stream Right Here
If you’re looking for the latest major drop of video game news, Gamescom is where it’s at. All the big game companies are over in Germany right now displaying their upcoming offerings. Microsoft and...
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Librarians Recreate Beastie Boys “Sabotage,” Are Coolest Librarians Ever
You might imagine librarians spend their spare time sitting by the fire rereading Shakespeare. While that may hold true for some, a few others would rather show the world just what happens if you...
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Ready Your Wallet For The Just-Announced Xbox One Launch Lineup
My feelings on the Xbox One have gone from total resentment to excitement in the past couple of months, and the full launch lineup, just revealed at Gamescom, has only given me more reason to want it....
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3D Scans Show High Heels Are Basically Corsets for Feet, Can Make Toes Into...
It doesn’t matter how much you care about fashion and looking good: short of some safeword-included-S&M, serious pain should not be part of daily life. And for all those people pretending their 6″...
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What Makes Tonight’s Blue Moon Blue?
Tonight is a “Blue Moon”, but unlike the picture above it won’t actually be blue. So where does the name from? Let us explain. There are actually two definitions for a Blue Moon, and neither of them...
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Houdini Miniseries to Be a Thing, In Case We Forgot How Awesome Houdini Was
The History Channel will air a new miniseries about Harry Houdini, starring Adrien Brody (The Pianist) and Kristen Connolly (House of Cards). If you don’t know enough about him to know why to be...
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Luca Parmitano Recounts that Time He Almost Drowned in Space
During a spacewalk on July 16th, Italian astronaut Luca Parmitano began complaining that his head felt wet. That was because his helmet was filling with water. That shouldn’t happen. The spacewalk was...
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Ancient Egyptian Beads Are Actually From Space
Ordinarily, something gets way cooler if it’s really old. Stone pendant? Eh. Stone pendant from pre-dynastic Egypt? Awesome. So when the whole ancient-Egypt-thing is the boring part, you know it’s...
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Presenting the PS4 Presser Proceedings
Today Sony used its Gamescom spotlight to give us a closer look at the PS4. Everything was very exciting, with new games, ports, price drops, and a November 15th release date for the PS4. Everything,...
View ArticleWatch Astronaut Tom Marshburn Drop Stuff Because Gravity [Video]
Here’s a video from the ReelNASA YouTube channel that shows astronaut Tom Marshburn trying to explain the Soyuz spacecraft. The problem is that Marshburn returned to Earth from the International Space...
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Live Every Week Like It’s Shark Week: Shark Swallowed By Larger Shark, Seriously
When the Ocean Exploration, Remote Sensing, Biogeography lab team of the University of Delaware went out to remove tags from tiger sharks off the Delaware Bay, they found that one of those tiger...
View ArticleHonest Trailer of Star Trek Into Darkness, the Movie Old Spock Totally Didn’t...
Screen Junkies takes on Star Trek Into Darkness: a movie that, despite good critical reception, was wildly flawed. I can’t be the only one wondering why J.J. Abrams substituted a half-naked blonde for...
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Geekolinks: 8/21
Hundreds dead after chemical weapons attack in Syria. (BBC) We’ll likely find out what Bradley Manning’s sentence is in just a few hours. (The Guardian) The leak of radioactive water at Fukushima is...
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Woman Swallows Tapeworm, Doctors Marvel at Her Stupidity
We’ve all heard the old urban legend about eating a tapeworm as a gruesome dietary aid. Well, it turns out, that this sort of idiotic behavior isn’t just for grotesque old wives’ tales anymore. An...
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Comcast Threatens To Sue News Site TorrentFreak For Covering Torrent News
Last week, TorrentFreak published a great story about law firms that are also copyright trolls. As part of the article, they published a subpoena response from Comcast showing that an IP address...
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Ultra-thin Radios, Sensors, and Listening Devices Can Be Embedded In Our...
An invisible communication system inside a building? Sounds awesome at first — but maybe not in the way that a team at Princeton University’s been imagining it. They’ve been developing listening...
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Netflix Loses “Instant Queue” for “My List” Feature
Currently there are 133 titles in my Netflix Instant Queue. They’re all things I genuinely want to watch, but haven’t gotten around to, because I basically just watch Cheers. To help folks like me,...
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Want 500 Free Sandwich Recipes? Course You Do. Sandwiches are Delicious.
If you’re not familiar with The Art of Manliness blog, you probably should be. It covers things like how to dress and groom oneself, “Manly Skills”, and building better relationships. Oh, also...
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Largest Gun Bust in NYC History Because Of Rapper’s Instagram
While Sherlock Holmes may have Moriarty, and Superman Lex Luthor, and we’re all thrilled to watch their never-ending battles, it’s kind of comforting when real life criminals are too stupid to do much...
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Ray Bradbury Started a Zine, Because Of Course He Did, and It’s Available Online
The author of The Martian Chronicles and Fahrenheit 451 started a zine shortly after high school, an act which is now commonly met with derision, but was actually pretty popular for science fiction...
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