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European Forest Cockchafer Keeps Gut Microbes Through Metamorphosis, Has...
The European forest cockchafer – which no, I can’t type without giggling, thank you for asking — lives on a diet of rough, woody, cellulose-heavy food. It can’t digest much of the tough material on...
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A Disturbance in the Force: Marvel to Acquire Star Wars License from Dark Horse
It was the question that was on every comic book fan’s mind the moment Disney purchased Lucasfilm for a whopping $4 billion dollars, “What about Dark Horse Comics?” Since 1991, the publisher has been...
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Who Knew the X-Men Cartoon Intro Was So Much Better in Stop Motion? [Video]
We all have that one moment in our childhood when we “borrowed” our parents camcorder for the afternoon and attempted to make a stop motion masterpiece with the action figures we had lying around. But...
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Scientists Propose Mealworms As Protein Source of the Future, Soylent Green...
Be it a slice or ten of bacon in the morning or a good steak for dinner, most meat shares a common bond — it is pretty awesome to eat. While this is clearly the best thing about meat, it is also one...
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Depressing New Study Finds That Human Hands Evolved For Punching, Not Playing...
As humans, one of the things that sets us apart from almost all other species on the planet is our sweet hand design, complete with opposable thumb that lets us do everything from input the Konami...
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Alpha Dog Robot Hears, Obeys Commands From Humans… For Now [Video]
A few months back, we brought you video of the DARPA-funded, Boston Dynamics-built Legged Squad Support System (LS3) robot, known more familiarly as Alpha Dog. It looks like it’s time for another...
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The Road All Runners Come: THQ Files for Chapter 11 Bankruptcy
It’s funny, we at Geekosystem have covered developments regarding THQ twice this month, the first being their Humble Bundle offering — which reportedly raked in $5 million in a matter of two weeks —...
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9 Things That Actually Will End on 12/21/12
As a man of science, I know there’s nothing to be afraid of on 12/21/12 besides the things I’m usually afraid of, like robots. The world isn’t going to end just because the Maya Long Count Calendar is...
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It’s Dangerous To Go Alone! Solo Pop Stars Twice As Likely To Die Young As...
Rock stars and pop idols are well known for their propensity to live hard, die young, and leave behind a grotesquely booze-swollen corpse. According to a study in the journal BMJ Open, though, solo...
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First Freshwater Mosasaur Discovered, Was Basically A 20-Foot Long,...
Researchers from the Hungarian Natural History Museum and University of Alberta have discovered fossils that they believe represent the world’s first real river monster — a never-before-identified...
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Where We’re Going, We Don’t Need Roads: Back to the Future LEGO Set’s Really...
LEGO‘s just released the summer review results from their CUUSOO website, which is a system where modelers can submit their creations in the hopes that they’ll eventually become actual sets. Once a...
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Archaeologists Unearth Remains of Man That Tried to Reason With Volcano,...
The expression “don’t negotiate with terrorists” certainly didn’t exist in sixth century Japan, but something more along the lines of not trying to reason with volcanoes is a likely possibility....
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Lightning Returns: Final Fantasy XIII Trailer Hits the Interwebs, Cryptic and...
What Square Enix thinks you need more of in your life — regardless of the fact that we’ve made it evidently clear otherwise — is more Final Fantasy XIII. The trailer for the franchise within a...
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Geekolinks: 12/20
The 14 most WTF moments that prove why Russia ruled 2012 (HyperVocal) The story of how former Olympian Suzy Favor Hamilton became an escort (SportsGrid) The Jane Dough’s 50 women of the year (The Jane...
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There’s a New Form of Magnetism, New State of Matter Thanks to MIT
We all learned in elementary school that the three states of matter are solid, liquid, and gas. Then if you took science classes in high school you probably learned plasma was a state of matter too....
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Drive Straight On: North Korea Develops Racing Game for Travel Agency
Is this really happening? Is North Korea actually turning over a new leaf? Okay, maybe not the entire country, but a video game development company called Nosotek — the first of its kind to break...
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Boeing Uses Potatoes as Human Substitutes to Test Wi-Fi
Wi-Fi on airplanes is great as an idea, but the sad reality is that W-Fi on airplanes is actually terrible. Anyone who tries to connect their device to an in-flight Wi-Fi connection is in for a spotty,...
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Money Can Buy Happiness… By Spending It On Others [Video]
Can money buy happiness? Well, having enough money to keep yourself out of poverty can certainly prevent rampant unhappiness, but a number of studies suggest that, as noted by philosopher-king Biggie...
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Megapiranha Was An Actual Fish, Had Strongest Bite In History
Beautiful though they may be, let’s get one thing straight — the world’s oceans and rivers are basically giant, terrifying bottomless pits full of things that wants to eat you, like great white sharks...
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Watch The World Not End All Day With This Live Stream From The International...
If the world breaks open or shudders to a halt today, the folks on the International Space Station will be the first to know about it. Or, you know, the second. The first to know about it will be the...
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