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Electric Underwear Could Fight Bedsores By Shocking Your Butt
While it may sound like a kind of joke ailment, bedsores are no laughing matter. The sores, which result from inactivity in hospital patients, can ulcerate and become infected, and the condition is...
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Geekolinks: 10/16
List of solar system bodies formerly regarded as planets (Daily Dot) 10 best If This Then That recipes (GeekSugar) Million Muppet March (Flavorwire) Check out some silly food from the Texas State Fair...
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The Internet is Real: Man Receives Ominous Phone Call From His Dog, Calls Police
If you were to, say, receive a phone call from your house phone, but all you could hear was some banging and scraping, what would you do? No words are spoken; it’s just the foreboding noises coming...
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Obese Teen Males Have Less Testosterone
Man, some dudes just can’t catch a break. According to a study published online today in the journal Clinical Endocrinology, obese teen males have up to 50% less testosterone as their leaner...
View ArticleAlter Egos Features Guy’s Girlfriend Having Affair With His Superhero Alter...
Whether you dig anything even slightly related to Kevin Smith or not, the next film to pop out of his Phase 4 Films, Alter Egos, features a guy’s girlfriend cheating on him with his superhero alter...
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The Pirate Bay Heads to the Cloud, Becomes More Difficult to Stop
The Pirate Bay has a history of trying different methods of becoming more diffused. They’ve dropped various ties to things like trackers in order to make it harder on law enforcement, and anyone else,...
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Study Finds 78% of Bitcoins Stashed Away Like Digital Equivalent of Hoarding
Bitcoins are probably not the kind of thing one would want to save for a rainy day. Given the volatile nature of the currency, and its somewhat murky legal status, you’d think that those collecting...
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U.S. Government Continues to Target Piracy in All Forms, Seizes 1,400...
Assuming the image used by Today Health is accurate, it looks like 1,400 little girls won’t be going out on Halloween as somewhat creepy pirates. U.S. Customs and Border Protection diverted the...
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Common Cold Could Kick Cancer’s Keister
I think we can agree that the common cold sucks. I also think we can agree that it doesn’t suck nearly as badly as cancer. Researchers at the Salk Institute, though, may be on the trail of a way to...
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Google Adds Their Secretive Data Center to Street View, No Secret Handshakes...
Google keeps a pretty tight lid on the amount of access they allow to their various data centers. Considering the sheer volume they deal with on a regular basis, this is undoubtedly a good thing....
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Bearded Men Kickstart Game About Crumbing Up Beards
If you follow Geekosystem, you’ll know we have an alternate identity: Beardosystem. We tend to cover all things beard from time to time, so we couldn’t pass up the chance to let you in on Kickstarter...
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Best Proof Yet That Moon Was Created By Smaller Planet Colliding With Earth
Earth’s unusually large, close moon is pretty key to life on the planet, governing the regular tide cycles that may have been necessary to set the stage for the first life in the planet’s oceans, but...
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Study Finds Climate Change Now Inevitable, Suggests Learning How to Live in...
Good news, everyone! A study in the journal Nature Climate Change suggests that we can all stop worrying about how to prevent climate change, because at this point it’s too late to do anything anyway....
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News Corp. Reportedly Looking to Auction IGN Off, Bidding to Start at “Please...
News Corp. and IGN‘s honeymoon has been over for a while now. It’s no secret that the former has been looking to offload the latter for at least a year and failing miserably. After a series of...
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PSA: Carmageddon Now on App Store, Totally Free Today Only
We here at Geekosystem know that everyone enjoys free stuff from time to time. Sometimes it doesn’t even matter what that free stuff is; the fact that it’s free immediately makes it worth having. It’s...
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New Medicated Gum Aims to Prevent Motion Sickness
No matter how tough you might be, there’s nothing that removes all traces of said toughness like motion sickness. Being unable to function simply because a bus or train slightly rocked back and forth...
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Geekolinks: 10/17
Make your pumpkin cuddly (GeekSugar) 50 prison slang words to make you sound manlier (Mental Floss) This is what happens when you jump into a frozen pool (HyperVocal) The legality of doxing (The Daily...
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Antibacterial Soap Could Cut ICU Infection Rate, Apparently This is Somehow A...
According to a study presented at infectious disease conference IDWeek, screening for diseases like MRSA as patients enter intensive care units is less effective than hosing them down with...
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Hackers Could Access Pacemakers via Wireless, Deliver Deadly Shocks
Technology is an almost inseparable part of our lives at this point. For those with medical implants, like pacemakers, this is even more true. The unfortunate side effect of this dependence is the...
View ArticleFreddie Wong Turns R/C Car Race Into High-Octane Chase Scene [Video]
Gone are the days of RadioShack R/C car Christmas presents. Normally, presents now revolve around something digital, as we’re living in the age when video games became mainstream and middle schoolers...
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