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Scientists Measure Force of Cell Division, Prove We Could Totally Take Cells...
Anyone who passed high school biology knows cells divide through mitosis, but new research has measured the strength of the forces at work when cells divide. A pair of scientists at the University of...
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Cry for Attention: Taiwan Makes QR Code From 1,369 People
Taiwan wants to let the world know that it exists, and they have decided the way to do that is to assemble 1,369 people to form a massive human QR code. In general, QR codes are stupid, but this one...
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Asperger’s Gets Cut From List of Mental Disorders to Make Room for Hoarders
For the first time in almost 20 years, the American Psychiatric Association is rewriting its diagnostic manual, and it could affect millions of people. The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental...
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Geekolinks: 12/2
The most popular songs of 2012 (Flavorwire) Steampunk Darth Vader (Mowrer Art) Universal's not pleased by the Fifty Shades of Grey porn parody (The Mary Sue) Meryl Streep snaps selfie with Hillary...
View ArticleWe Want This Cat to DJ Our Next Party [Video]
It’s the time of year when a lot of people are looking to book DJs for various holiday events and parties. Might we recommend just letting a cat do the honors? It seems to work pretty well in this...
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Wake Up Right This Morning With New Footage From Game Of Thrones Season Three
Ugh, Monday mornings, right? Yeah, us too. Luckily, we’ve got the cure for what ails you, unless “what ails you” is working a job you hate for reasons you no longer understand, though you know they...
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Aussie Explorer To Recreate Shackleton Expedition With Outdated Equipment,...
Here’s a new one for our ever growing file of stories labelled “idiots doing idiot things because they’re idiots” — an Australian professional adventurer is hoping to recreate the last leg of polar...
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Is The Venus Express Probe Watching Volcanoes Erupt On The Planet As We Speak?
Scientists at the European Space Agency (ESA) are seeing increased levels of sulphur dioxide in the already rather poisonous atmosphere of Venus. There are a couple of possible explanations for the...
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[UPDATED] Life on Mars? NASA Live Streaming Noon Press Conference to Answer...
[UPDATE] The embedded stream was playing alternate coverage. It is fixed, and should be streaming the press conference directly from the AGU – 12:12pm Last month NASA said that the Curiosity Rover had...
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F*ck Yes! “SuperF*ckers” Gets a Weekly Web Series
Would you ever think that the producers of kid-friendly fare like The Fairly OddParents and Adventure Time would work to bring comic book writer/artist James Kochalka’s Top Shelf Productions comic...
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Called It: Too Much Running Is Bad For Your Health
Running makes for great exercise and keeps your heart healthy, but overdoing it by running more than an hour per day, or running multiple marathons, can actually shorten your life, according to a...
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Navy Dolphins to Be Replaced by Robots in 5 Years, Human Jobs Probably Safe A...
Looks like the robots’ insidious plot to displace all of mankind from their jobs even extends to our friends in the animal kingdom. The Navy is planning to reduce its reliance on mine-detecting...
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$100 Linux Tablet Coming, Sadly Arrives After the Holidays
Thanks to another crowdfunding victory, the PengPod, a $100 tablet capable of dual booting Android and a full desktop version of Linux, is becoming reality. The PengPod is expected to start shipping to...
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Follow Up: What NASA Found on Mars
The press conference NASA held today about what the Curiosity Rover found on the surface of Mars is over, and although NASA scientists explained that they have not yet found organic compounds, they...
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GNAA Tumblr Hack Resolved, Here’s What Went Down
Earlier today, the blogging platform Tumblr and its massive community of blogs were hacked by an organization known as the GNAA, notorious for their malicious rhetoric as well as their propensity for...
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Geekolinks: 12/3
Kid Rock is OK with Obama being president, which is a load off our minds (Mediaite) Here are ALL OF THE TRAILERS from 2012 (Gossip Cop) A very strange animation of our new hero, Martellus Bennett...
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Apocalypse No: The World Will End When Only The Russian Government Allows It To
With the purported 2012 Apocalypse only a mere 18 days away, many folks are more on edge than ever. Russia in particular has its hands full trying to calm the public’s anxieties over the Mayan...
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Studios Demand Google Take Down Their Own Sites Because DMCA Really Works For...
Is it time to declare that the Digital Millenium Copyright Act (DMCA) is a mess yet? Because several major studios have requested that Google take down legitimate websites featuring their own content,...
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Impressive Voyager 1 Discovery Overshadowed By Mars Press Conference
We got ourselves all excited for NASA’s Mars press conference today, even though we already knew it wasn’t about life on the red planet, but what we should have been paying attention to was happening...
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Take a Journey into Imagination with “Reading Rainbow Remixed” [Video]
Forgive the brief moment of nostalgic adulation, but LeVar Burton is truly a god among mortal men. Having the uncanny ability to instill a lasting appreciation for literature and take us on glorious...
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