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XBLA and PSN to Get Much Weirder With HD Remake of JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure
Fans of strangeness for its own sake — and the peculiar variety of strangeness endemic to Japanese fighting games — have cause to celebrate; JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure is getting an HD remake for Xbox...
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iAMScientist Looks to Crowdfunding to Support Scientific Research. Here’s Why...
Ask any scientist in the university system what they spend most of their time doing, and the answer may surprise and disappoint you. Generally speaking, it’s not science. I’s not even grading papers...
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Geekolinks: 8/14
4 ridiculous space accidents where everyone survived (Mental Floss) The Oatmeal now has their own snack (Laughing Squid) So, you can now send your baby announcement over Facebook (GeekSugar) Inside...
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DC Comics Reveals New Joker Design on Batgirl Cover
The world of comics is something of an oddity. Due to the publishing patterns of the various ongoing series, comics are often finished way ahead of their release. For example, the new design for...
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Star Wars Characters as ’80s High Schoolers are Pretty Bodacious
Denis Medri made seven portraits of Star Wars characters in the style of kids from a 1980s High School movie a la The Breakfast Club or Ferris Bueller’s Day Off. You have all your standard cliques...
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Fukushima Site Producing Mutated Butterflies
Today’s reminder that nuclear accidents stay with us much, much longer than we might care to remember them: Butterflies in the vicinity of the disaster at the Fukushima nuclear reactor in Japan are...
View ArticleThe Science of Appetite, How to Beat Overeating [Video]
For those who need science as soon as possible, science delivery team AsapSCIENCE is usually on the ball. This week, they teach us exactly how appetite works, and why we overeat even though we know...
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India Planning a Mission to Mars in 2013, Seems Way Too Optimistic
India wants some of that space exploration pie for themselves. Prime Minister Manmohan Singh announced that the nation is planning to send an unmanned spacecraft to orbit Mars. Ever since NASA’s...
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Player Caught Hiding Blank Tiles at Scrabble National Championships
The National Scrabble Association does not condone cheating. Also, the National Scrabble Association exists. One of the United States’ top young Scrabble talents was caught hiding blank tiles, and...
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Rights to Daredevil Movie Likely Returning to Marvel
Before Disney gobbled up Marvel, the comic book purveyor had already sold off film rights of some of its more popular characters. Those film companies keep those rights as long as they can prove they...
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A Nintendo 64 Emulator Written in JavaScript
Lately in the coding world, building a program entirely out of a language that one wouldn’t normally associate with the program seems to be all the rage. From building a miniature MMO entirely in...
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Garry Kasparov Arrested, Beaten at Pussy Riot Sentencing
In what has to be the most foregone of conclusions, all three members of the Russian punk band Pussy Riot have been found guilty of hooliganism this morning, stemming from an impromptu guerilla...
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Hyrule Historia, the Book that Exposed the Official Zelda Timeline, is Headed...
Not too long ago, Nintendo finally shed light on the official The Legend of Zelda timeline. Nintendo always said there is a cohesive order of events between each and every official Zelda title, but...
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Terrifying New Family of Cave Spider Discovered in Pacific Northwest
You guys, there is a new kind of spider now, and it is awful and terrifying! Like, even more so than standard issue spiders on account of its raptor-like claws (closeup after the jump, and also in...
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Walking iPad Robots Now Available for Pre-order
This may very well be the next big thing in remote-conferencing. A small startup located in Mountain View, CA by the name of Double Robotics is looking to revolutionize the way we communicate in...
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Ground Finch Genome Sequenced to Honor Darwin, Tell Finches Apart
Scientists have sequenced the genome of the medium ground finch, marking the unassuming bird’s second contribution to the wonderful world of science. The first? This finch (geospiza fortis) is one of...
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The Curiosity Landing, From A NASA Engineer’s Perspective
Even as a mere spectator, watching Curiosity land on Mars sent tingles up my spine. I was witness to one of the greatest achievements of my time, a culmination of humanity’s Curiosity. What then, must...
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Geekolinks: 8/17
The economics of bank robberies (Mental Floss) 6 speaker options for your Kindle Fire (GeekSugar) Milk is fighting on Facebook (The Daily Dot) Scully says “Oh my god” a lot (Johnny Lloyd Rollins) 4...
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Science Uses Urine-and-Olive Cocktail to Combat Global Warming
Next up in science’s fight against global warming isn’t proving to a very specific group of people that global warming actually exists, but instead is a special potion made of urine that can absorb...
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Steam on Your TV? Big Picture Mode to Launch Beta this September
At last year’s Game Developers Conference, Valve really got people talking when they unveiled Big Picture. A new mode for the company’s online game distribution platform, Steam, Big Picture would...
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