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Hang Out With CERN This Thursday, Talk About Particle Physics and Mice Versus...
Sunday saw the first Large Hadron Collider physics beams of the year. Hooray! The scientists at CERN smashed together lead ions and protons in an attempt to study quark-gluon plasma, believed to be...
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They Might Be Giants Have A New EP Out, Listen To Two Free Tracks Here
The godfathers of nerd-rock, They Might Be Giants, have a new album, Nanobots, coming out in March, but you don’t have to wait — you can check out three tracks from the new album on the Nanobots EP...
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StarCraft II: Heart of the Swarm Opening Cinematic Reminds Us Why We Love...
Sure, Blizzard‘s notorious for running late with products. Okay, maybe Activision is willing to gouge players to the absolute breaking point. Still, there’s a reason folks have come back to franchises...
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People In Their 20s Hook Up With Their Exes, Says World’s Least Necessary...
If you’re a person who doesn’t know any other people and has never been in a relationship before, it may come as some surprise to you that sometimes, people who are no longer in relationships do silly...
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Geekolinks: 1/22
The best shots fired in the Oxford comma wars (Mental Floss) Beyonce totally lip-synced the U.S. anthem (Mediaite) 10 lies video games tell us about women (GamesRadar) Here’s a Doctor Who dress that’s...
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Searching for Pokémon X on Google Leads to Porn, Because Of Course It Does
Futilely wishing that this development won’t be used as more justification for the misinformed anti-video game agendas of parent groups and law makers worldwide, children in Britain were met with the...
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How Much is Your Soul Worth? Find Out With Facebook and Get Offers to Sell It
There are countless stories in which characters sell their souls in exchange for something, but like any commodity, you have to know the value of what you’re trading. Why sell your soul for a new car...
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Code.org Says “Hello, World” to Get Everybody Coding
Computer science is one of the fastest growing fields out there, but its growth is outpacing the number of young people studying it. One projection says that by the year 2020 there will be 1,000,000...
View ArticleWatch the Banned Dexter’s Laboratory Episode “Rude Removal”
For years there have been rumors of an episode of Dexter’s Laboratory that went unaired because it didn’t pass muster with Cartoon Network’s Standards and Practices department. Back in December, Adult...
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Norwegian Road Tunnel Closed By 27 Tons Of Flaming Goat Cheese
In what’s bound to be one of the defining events of our generation, a Norwegian truck burst into flames after it’s cargo — about 27 tons of goat cheese — caught fire. One day, your children will ask...
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Hidden Snowman Camera Reveals What It’s Like To Be Eaten By A Tiger [Video]
When the morbidly curious staff at England’s Longleat Safari Park wanted to know what it looked like to be eaten by a tiger, they did what any thinking person would do and installed some hidden video...
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Loophole Closed: Sweden Extends TV Tax To Computer and Tablet Owners
TV taxes, or license fees per television set, are pretty common throughout Europe, providing funding for many large public broadcasters across the continent, such as the much-loved BBC. This week,...
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Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull Honest Trailer Reminds Us...
Just when you thought our five-year nerd rage over the cinematic garbage that was Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull was finally beginning to simmer down, the avid film aficionados...
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Teddy Bear Internet Meme Set to Become Movie, Will Be Produced by The Rock
Obviously a sign of the internet zeitgeist, only in this generation can a lowly internet meme have the potential to be turned into a million-dollar box office blockbuster. The above image —...
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Nintendo Announces New Zelda Games for Wii U, Finally Makes Wii U Appealing
We’ve been accused of being too hard on Nintendo since the Wii U launched last year, but I put it to you that it’s just a case of tough love. That’s why I was so glad to see them doing something we can...
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Wildlife Conservation Society Scientists Document Tapir Eden on the...
Tapirs may lovable in that so-ugly-they’re-adorable kind of way, but the fact that they’re cute as the dickens hasn’t helped them avoid a spot on the endangered species list. Due to unsustainable...
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Full Power Of Canadian Government Thrown Behind Effort To Identify Source of...
Contrary to your very safe assumptions, the Windsor Hum is not a well-regarded shoegaze band. It is not a deviant sex act practiced exclusively on the frozen tundra of Canada. And not, it’s not the...
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Shin Megami Tensei X Fire Emblem Officially a Thing We’re Tentatively Excited...
Nintendo‘s apparently abandoned making major announcements at, you know, trade conventions and the like. Who needs E3 when you can drop a whole mess of news at the end of January? Whatever the case,...
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Adafruit Shrinks a Wearable Arduino Platform Down to One Inch
Don’t you hate it when you’re building the arc reactor for your Iron Man costume, but the Arduino powered circuit board you’re using is just too big? Well friend, it sounds like you could use the...
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Good Grief: Charlie Brown Voice Actor Arrested on Stalking Charges
Peter Robbins, the voice of Charlie Brown in many Peanuts television specials, was arrested at the border crossing between San Diego and Tijuana after officers learned of an outstanding warrant from...
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