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Are You in NASA’s Composite of Earthlings Waving to Saturn?
On July 19th the Cassini spacecraft pointed itself at the Earth to snap a picture, and NASA encouraged everyone to smile, wave, and snap a photo of their own. Folks submitted more than 1,400 images...
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Ghost Shark Sneak Peek Leaves Us With Even More Questions About Ghosts, Sharks
Movies this summer seem to be written using Mad Libs. Specifically, shark-themed Mad Libs, because after Sharknado, the Megalodon “documentary,” and the shark that ate another shark, TV execs have...
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One of Queen’s Swans Found BBQed Near Windsor Castle in England
You ever tell somebody a weird piece of trivia you know only to have it become a viral news story the next day? Because yesterday in an editorial meeting I happened to mention that it’s illegal to eat...
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Samurai Jack Back From The Past in New Comic Series
In 2004, the beloved Cartoon Network series Samurai Jack was abruptly cancelled. The time traveling hero was never able to return to his own era and square down with nemesis Aku, leaving the series...
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White House Doing a “We the Geeks” Google Hangout Tomorrow
With politicians making noise over American graduates moving to other countries, the White House is using this issue as a jumping off point for comprehensive immigration reform and aiming to attract...
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Hey, Media: Here’s the Official AP Style For Writing About Transgender People...
On the heels of being sentenced to 35 years in jail for a variety of crimes, Private Manning has officially come out as transgender and now wishes to be referred to with feminine pronouns. You’d think...
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6 Things I Love about Bobak Ferdowsi, NASA’s “Mohawk Guy”
Earlier this week I wrote about a PSA that Bobak Ferdowsi did to encourage young engineers, and then immediately followed it up with a post about the silly faces Ferdowsi was making in some freeze...
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Face Your Nightmares in Sonic Lost World‘s Special Edition
Remember NiGHTS Into Dreams on Sega Saturn? The surreal flight game has a cult following to this day, but hasn’t seen much action as a series. But SEGA is about to whet the appetites of NiGHTS fans...
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Doctors Fined for Implanting Fecal Bacteria into Patients’ Brains
A hospital was fined after a pair of neurosurgeons implanted fecal bacteria into the brains of patients during operations without proper authorization. A few things jump out at us here. 1) They did...
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I Wanted the Opposite of This: Bradley Cooper Rumored To Be Rocket Racoon in...
Personally I’m not the hugest Guardians of the Galaxy fan, but the cast list alone for the upcoming 2014 film is enough to get any nerd excited — Karen Gillan, Vin Diesel, Chris Pratt, Zoe Saldana,...
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General Mills Resurrecting Fruit Brute, Yummy Mummy This Halloween
All five of General Mills’ classic monster cereals are returning! Resurrections of Count Chocula, Boo Berry, and Frankenberry have become a regular Halloween thing, this is the first time in decades...
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We Fail at the Prime Directive: Humans Could Be Causing Animals to Develop...
It’s no secret that quite often, humans seriously mess things up, on scales both large (like all that the-environment-is-going-to-hell-and-it’s-our-fault stuff) and small (like causing bacteria to...
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There’s Already a Ghost Shark 2 Trailer Online, Somehow Not Related to Ghost...
The original trailer was a joke. But in a cautionary tale of interneting, a few terrible, terrible people took notice and thus Ghost Shark 2: Urban Jaws was created for real, though they didn’t...
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Lovely Google Doodle in Honor of Claude Debussy, Kind Youtuber Made a Video
Whatever faults Google may have, winning the heart of the internet via distractions is not one of them, with easter eggs for gay pride, the first snowfall– and today’s home page is a gorgeous...
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Ghost Shark Now Has a Twitter Account; Also We Think It Likes Us
Because this is the day I write about ghost sharks three separate times, here is our latest update in the ongoing saga: the ghost shark (of the SyFy movie, not that other one from down under) has a...
View ArticleMeet Patrick, The World’s Oldest Wombat
At the tender age of 27, Patrick at the Ballarat Wildlife Park in Australia is most likely the world’s oldest recorded wombat. He is also bigger than any of us ever thought it was possible for a...
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Geekolinks: 8/23
You’ve got a new Batman, and it’s Ben Affleck. (EW) Awesome YouTube series The Brain Scoop has a new home at Chicago’s Field Museum (The Mary Sue) One in three people prefer their dogs to their...
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Adorable and Endangered Lion Cub Born in France
Asiatic lion cub at the Bristol Zoological Gardens. One of the really terrible things we as a species have done is cause other species, both majestic and adorable, to become endangered and sometimes...
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Meet Zephyr: The Windsailing Rover NASA May Use to Explore Venus
Because Venus, ranging from 24 to 162 million miles from Earth, is as close as any of us really want to get to a nightmarish hellscape, I suppose it makes sense that we haven’t yet figured out a way...
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Facebook Junkies, Worry Not: New Pavlov Poke Shocks You If You Use Facebook...
If you’ve ever wondered what PhD candidates at MIT do in their spare time, wonder no more. It’s actually about what you would expect: they make “proactive art/design projects” to administer non-lethal...
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