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Squirrels Teach Robots To Lie, Nobody Questions Whether That’s A Good Idea
Disappointed that your Roomba can’t clean your house while also telling you that you that shirt your girlfriend hates looks great on you? Researchers at Georgia Tech are working hard to solve that...
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Worst. Christmas Sweater. Ever. Researchers Take Steps Towards Making Clothes...
Does wearing a pair of pants woven from the mucky slime produced by a nervous hagfish sound awesome to you? …Yeah, it’s not really a turn on for us, either. That’s not stopping researchers at Canada’s...
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Parks and Rec Recut As The Trailer For a Murder Mystery Is Surprisingly...
If you needed further supporting evidence for the theory that anything happening is measurably creepier when Lux Aeterna from Requiem for a Dream is playing over it, look no further than this trailer...
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Wii U Day-One Patch Here to Stay, Won’t Be Built Into System for Months
Part of the current video game landscape is the ubiquitous day-one patch required for nearly every game that comes to market. Regardless of whether they actually have some kind of online connectivity,...
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The Otter GIF That Helped Ensure President Obama’s Victory
There are two ways to ensure that workplace mistakes are kept to a minimum. The first is breathing down the necks of your employees and berating them for every little flub they make, which in the long...
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One in Three Young People Are Updating Their Facebook Status While On The Toilet
Between ads taking over your newsfeed, engagement announcements that leave you feeling even more single, and the yammerings of people you really should have unfriended back in high school, there are...
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Pope’s Tweets Will Be Church Doctrine, #YOLO Could Be 11th Commandment [UPDATED]
Remember when your parents signed up for Facebook? If you’re Catholic, the news that Pope Benedict XVI has signed up for Twitter probably feels pretty similar to that. The Pope signed up yesterday, but...
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Nefertiti the “Spidernaut” Dies Shortly After Returning From 100 Days in Space
Ladies and gentlemen, today we mourn the loss of a real hero. With a lump in our throats and a tear in our eye, the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History announced that their resident...
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Pure Magic: Netflix and Disney Close the Deal on Multi-Year Licensing Agreement
Earlier this year, Netflix’s messy breakup with Starz resulted in an even messier custody battle, with the latter walking away with their entire catalog of Sony and Disney flicks. But now it looks...
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Hitman Facebook Campaign Promotes Assassinating Friends, Gets Pulled Immediately
Had enough of your friends constantly flooding your Facebook page with invitations for FarmVille or parties you don’t care to attend? Square Enix has a solution: Put a hit out on them! Rather, you...
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Geekolinks: 12/4
Kathryn Bigelow wins 2012 NY Film Critics Circle award (The Mary Sue) Female fan watching SEC championship gropes others (SportsGrid) When Hitchcock and Nabokov traded screenplay ideas (Flavorwire)...
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Portal Comes to Graphing Calculators, Makes Them Useful Again
A few weeks ago I may have said some unkind things about graphing calculators and their place in these modern times, but that was before I saw this version of Portal. That’s right, someone has released...
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The Opportunity Rover is Alive and Well and Living on Mars
The Curiosity rover has been making all the headlines lately, even if they are a little underwhelming, but its predecessor Opportunity is still out there doing its thing. The Opportunity rover has just...
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Earliest Known Dinosaur — Or Closest Evolutionary Relative — Discovered
An international team of researchers have identified what they think is the earliest specimen of a dinosaur on record, a find that could rewrite textbooks and push back the development of dinosaurs...
View ArticleHow The Morning After Pill Ensures That Babby Is Not Formed
We’ve got a lot of methods of birth control at our disposal, and on principle, we are big fans of all of them, because dang it, family planning is a good thing. Yes, we are fans of things for boring...
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Researchers Create Transforming DNA-Based Gel That Remembers Its Shape,...
A team of researchers at Cornell University have created a gel built from synthetic DNA that remembers its own shape, and can return to that form after being reduced to a free-flowing, formless goo....
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Keep Watching The Skies: You Can Help Find Star Clusters In The Andromeda Galaxy
We suspect a lot of you kind of enjoy looking at pictures of space on the Internet. That’s a reasonable thing to enjoy, and if you do, we’ve got a project for you that’s more enjoyable than whatever...
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Women Can Tell A Cheating Man, Men…Not So Much
Cheating men may have reason to feel nervous that their significant others know what they’re getting into on the side, while women engaging in flings could have an easier time hiding their...
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NASA Wants to Send Another Rover to Mars in 2020, We Want That Too
The last few days have seen a lot of exciting news coming out of the Fall Meeting of the American Geophysical Union, but this might be the most thrilling so far. NASA has announced that they plan to...
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Pygmy Mole Crickets Can Jump From Water’s Surface, Can’t Turn It Into Wine
While they certainly aren’t capable of curing lepers of their grievous affliction, restoring the sight of the blind, or other supernatural deeds — insects just don’t make ideal religious messiahs —...
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