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Killer Kitties: United Kingdom House Cats Threaten Local Bird Populations
In a recent survey from across the pond that may dampen the Internet’s unwavering devotion for funny felines, scientists have concluded that domestic cats in the United Kingdom are posing a serious...
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Massachusetts Department of Transportation Removes Violent Games From State...
The United States’ misinformed and eye roll-inducing war on violent video games marches ever onward in yet another show of using them as a scapegoat for violent tragedies. The Massachusetts Department...
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This Isn’t the Article on the White House’s Death Star Petition Response...
As you may or may not be aware, there’s a petition over on We the People, which is where folks post petitions to potentially receive an official response from the United State government, requesting...
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Geekolinks: 1/12
11 obscure references in classic songs explained (Mental Floss) Curious creatures from the imagination of Gibson Radsavanh (The Mary Sue) 5 little-known sequels that ruined iconic stories (Cracked)...
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Could Space Travel Make Us All Better Human Beings? [Video]
Space travel for the masses is something that’s continuously moving toward becoming reality. That isn’t to say it’s here, or that we’re even all that close, but it’s something that’s closer to...
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World of Warcraft Players Break Fundraising Record for Hurricane Sandy Relief
World of Warcraft is a community as much as it is a game, and sometimes that community has been called on to help out the real world. Blizzard, the company behind WoW, has hosted fundraising efforts in...
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Anonymous Posts Petition for White House to Declare DDoS Attacks Protests,...
Yesterday we covered the White House’s response to the petition asking them to build a working Death Star. Sometimes though, people try to use the government’s We the People petition program to try to...
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That Could Have Ended Badly: Loaded Revolutionary War Cannon Found in Central...
It seems like this story could have easily gone in a much worse direction, but a 230-year-old piece of artillery from the time of the revolutionary war was being restored at the Central Park...
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Sorry, Jerry Siegel’s Heirs, Warner Brothers Has Complete Commercial Control...
It seems like one of the legal battles that has gone on for decades over the rights to Superman has finally ended. With a unanimous decision, an appeals panel has decided that the heirs of Superman...
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Geekolinks: 1/13/13
Colin Powell accuses the GOP of racism (Mediaite) Pop culture character feel each other’s feels (The Mary Sue) Miss Iowa accidentally supported recreational marijuana use (Gossip Cop) 11 nerdy and...
View ArticleWe Exist Because Morgan Freeman Narrates That We Exist
Last week we showed you True Facts About Sloths by YouTube genius Ze Frank, but according to this week’s episode of True Facts we only did that because Morgan Freeman narrated us showing you True...
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This is An 880-Pound Snake Statue Made Out Of Cow Dung
What’s a man to do when he finds himself with nearly half a ton of spare cattle feces and a few hours on his hands? If you’re Siberian cattle farmer Mikhail Bopposov, the answer is clear — craft,...
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First Clean Water Sample Retrieved From Antarctic Lake Sealed By Ice For Eons
After years of failure, a team of Russian researchers and engineers working in Antarctica have succeeded in taking a clean sample of water from Lake Vostok, a liquid water lake sealed beneath two...
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Fireworks Exploding In Buckets Of Paint Look Great In Slow Motion
What does it look like when you dunk explosives into buckets of paint and set them off? Well, it looks like an unholy mess, of course. When you’re filming at 1600 frames per second, though, even an...
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NRA Blames Violent Video Games for Shootings, Releases Violent Video Game in...
There have been a lot of people blaming violent video games for gun violence in America, especially in the wake of the tragic Newtown, Connecticut shootings. Chief among them, of course, was the...
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Anonymous Hacks MIT Site in Wake of Aaron Swartz’s Suicide [UPDATED]
The hacker group Anonymous defaced pages of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) site just hours after the school announced it would launch a full investigation into their role in Aaron...
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Early Land-Dwelling Animals Moved About Like Seals, Probably Didn’t Balance...
One of the greatest nemeses of any paleontologist, aside from scarce government grants and scant paychecks, is the very rock they chip away at to reach the fossils within. Most of the time it shatters...
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Seriously Nintendo, Stop Giving the EarthBound Franchise the Shaft
A week or two ago, video game aficionados were caught off guard when IGN reported that EarthBound creator Shigesato Itoi hinted at a potential re-release — or a “republication” as he put it — of the...
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Firefly Abdomens Could Be the Key to Brighter LEDs
We may have only come across this because of a Google Alert for news on Firefly, but it’s still pretty interesting. Researchers have studied the abdomens of fireflies and what they’ve found could lead...
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Power Up: East London’s Brick Lane Gets an 8-Bit Makeover to Promote Wreck-It...
Disney’s Wreck-It Ralph may have come and gone for us yanks in the United States — hey, we at least have an expedited digital release to look forward to this February — but our friends over in the...
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