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Birth Control Pills May Improve Women’s Cognitive Abilities Later In Life
Beginning in the 1960s, the introduction of hormonal birth control pills introduced modern family planning to the world, preventing unwanted pregnancies and generally making the world a better place...
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Whole Mess of Internets: North American Internet Traffic Doubled Over Past Year
As it turns out, people are using the Internet more and more. Shocking, I know. It’s like it keeps growing, with more content always being provided and access to the web becoming easier, or something....
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Pacific Islands of Tokelau First Territory To Be 100% Solar Powered
The island territory of Tokelau consists of just three small islands, including Atafu Atoll, above, which looks really pretty from the International Space Station, and has just 1,500 residents, so you...
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Brand New Dinosaur Xenoceratops Discovered In Canada
Everybody, meet Xenoceratops foremostensis, a brand new species of ceratopsid, or horned dinosaur, discovered in the plentiful fossil beds of Canada. Weighing in at 2 tons and about 20 feet long,...
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Grand Theft Auto V’s a Triple Threat, Includes Three Protagonists
Grand Theft Auto V, the latest and greatest video game from Rockstar, has just had its protagonists detailed thanks to Game Informer‘s December cover reveal. That’s right: Protagonists, as in plural....
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Stupid Cyborg Tricks: British Dad Shows Off His Awesome Prosthetic Arm
Nigel Ackland lost his arm in an accident about six years ago, and recently received an upgrade to his prosthetics: the newly released BeBionic3. Though it starts off a little on the technical side,...
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Crocodile’s Jaws Are Armor Plated, But Still As Sensitive As A Human Fingertip
Crocodile researchers have discovered an unexpected organ associated with the famously toothsome and heavily armored reptile — one that makes the monstrous creature’s jaws one of the most sensitive...
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Pinterest Adds Secret Boards, Oddly Not Associated With Hidden Planks of Wood
Pinterest, the social media platform mostly populated by women and consisting of things you can buy and adorable animals, functions by allowing users to “pin” different images to various interest...
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Geekolinks: 11/8
The terrifying origin of “Drinking the Kool-Aid” (Mental Floss) 5 reasons to get into Grooveshark (GeekSugar) The breathtaking colors of Iceland (Environmental Graffiti) The most offensive things you...
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This is a Squirrel With a Cowboy Hat Riding a Rattlesnake
It’s a cold, dreary Thursday, and now that Daylight Saving Time has hit, you can add “dark way too early” to your Thursday adjectives. So, to brighten up (or ruin, we guess) your day, we wanted to let...
View ArticleStop-Motion LEGOs Make Installing Solar Panels Interesting [Video]
Created by The Eco Experts in an attempt to show how easy it is to install solar panels, this stop-motion LEGO video does just that, and warms our cold, jaded hearts in the process. Look at how...
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Silicon Knights Must Recall and Destroy All Unsold Copies of Their Games With...
As if the death knell hadn’t already sounded for video game developer Silicon Knights, a judgment signed just two days ago in the legal battle between themselves and Epic Games pretty much indicates...
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Watch Microsoft Turn Spoken English Into Spoken Mandarin Using Speaker’s Own...
Speech recognition, as it relates to software, isn’t what one might call a perfect science. There are still a number of bugs and glitches to fix in even the best transcription software out there. It’s...
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Key Ingredient In Mucus Could Fight Hospital Superbugs
Of all the gross things that the human body can produce — and let’s face it folks, we can get pretty gnarly sometimes — mucus has to be near the top of the heap. As unpleasant as it may be, though,...
View ArticleNew World War Z Trailer’s a Chaotic Mess, Like Every Zombie Apocalypse Should Be
The film adaptation of Max Brooks’ novel World War Z continues to chug along. At this point, it’s really only morbid curiosity that keeps us interested, but that’s probably the right kind of curiosity...
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Ouch: Sony’s Bond Rating Now One Step Above Junk Bonds
How the mighty have fallen. Credit rating agency Moody’s has dropped their rating on long-term bonds issued by Sony to it’s lowest investment grade, marking them just one notch above junk bonds. For...
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Happy Birthday, Carl Sagan! We Are Sorry You (Inexplicably) Didn’t Get A...
Today is Carl Sagan’s birthday, which, if there were any justice in the world, would be celebrated in the fashion we’ve become accustomed to for nerds of note — with a Google Doodle commemorating the...
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Woman Buys iPad From Stranger at Gas Station, Surprised to Find Mirror Instead
As a preface, let’s just go ahead and say that if you buy anything from a random stranger at a gas station, you’re pretty much asking for it. Strangers working the counter are okay, but if they pull...
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Hurricane Sandy Leaves New Jersey Liquor Lovers High and Dry
One of the potentially unforeseen consequences of Hurricane Sandy‘s aftermath might see New Jersey boozers left without their favorite beverage. Fedway Associates Inc., the exclusive distributor in...
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They Might Be Giants Wants to Sell You Famous Cryptid Playing Cards
When the greatest rock band in the world decides to start try and sell us the greatest playing card deck we’ve seen in quite some time, how are we supposed to resist? We have no idea, which is why we...
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