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AsapSCIENCE Wants to Teach Your Old Brain New Tricks
Sometimes, the best way to find out how a thing works is to break it first. Now, these interesting brain tricks from the folks at AsapSCIENCE won’t necessarily break your brain… but they will give you...
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This Thunderstorm On Saturn Wrapped all The Way Around The Planet And Touched...
Every once in a while, a story comes along to which the only appropriate response is “Dang.” This morning brings us one such story, as images taken by NASA’s Cassini probe in orbit around Saturn show...
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Japanese Zoo’s Zebra Escape Drill Is The Best Video You Will Ever See [Video]
Pop quiz, hotshot. You’re running a zoo and an earthquake strikes. Cages break open, and panicked animals are roaming the streets. What’s your first move? If you said “Secure the zebra at all costs,”...
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Psychic Cells? Researchers Baffled By Cells That Communicate Despite Physical...
Cells are amazingly complex little machines, but there are some things that even they aren’t too good at — like communicating over long distances. Generally, cells can only talk to their close...
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Too Bad, You Guys: Frankenweenie Killed Pinocchio [UPDATED]
There was going to be a Jim Henson Company produced, Guillermo del Toro directed, and Mark Gustafson animated version of Pinocchio based on Gris Grimly’s illustrations, but Frankenweenie ruined it....
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PlayStation 4 Will Almost Certainly Be Revealed at February 20th Event
It’s finally happening, people. Sony’s having an event on February 20th at 6PM EST, and all signs point to this being the event where the company finally announces the PlayStation 4. If they really do...
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Disgruntled Employee Live-Tweets Their Own Firing From Corporate Account,...
You might think that a large corporation would be smart enough to change the password on the company’s official Twitter account before firing the people who control said Twitter account. That’s not...
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Nothing Personal: Ants Execute Their Own To Prevent Damaging Population Booms
Around many ant colonies, laying eggs is a one-woman-show, the duty of the queen ant. It’s a facet so ingrained in ants that a number of species have been known to drag females who start laying eggs...
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Geekolinks: 2/1
The weirdest Craigslist ads for Super Bowl tickets (The Daily Dot) Does anyone care about Spock? (The Mary Sue) Happy 9th anniversary, Janet Jackson’s wardrobe malfunction (HyperVocal) Here’s a dumb...
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“Elephant” May Be Our New Favorite Expense Account Line Item
Look, we’ve all padded an expense account or two at some point in our lives. There’s no shame in it, and frankly, anyone who denies doing it here and there comes off as a litte Ned Flanders-style...
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Here’s an Entire Hour of Valve’s Gabe Newell on Business, Economics, and...
Can Gabe Newell, of video game company Valve fame, do no wrong? The breathless way some fans speak of the company’s products like Half-Life and Portal seems to indicate that they believe he can’t....
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Editors’ Picks 2/1: Field Gambling Chess
This week in Editors’ Picks: Rollin rediscovers an old favorite, Ian gives in to his vices, and Glen challenges his boss. Rollin’s pick: Fieldrunners When I came home to Indiana for a visit, I decided...
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Prey 2′s Alive and Well and Living in Wisconsin
Well, well, well. It looks like the reports of Prey 2‘s demise were greatly exaggerated. The sequel to 2006′s Prey video game has been in development hell for some time now — not unlike the original —...
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This Slender Man Music Video’s Both Horrifying and Strangely Adorable
Slender Man is one of those things that’s crawled up from the underbelly of the Internet back in 2009 to make its mark on popular culture. When the games featuring the creepy creation began to crop...
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Skyrim PlayStation 3 DLC Finally Gets Release Dates
Hell must have frozen over, pigs are surely flying, and dozens of other tired phrases have obviously come to pass. It’s the only explanation for the PlayStation 3 downloadable content for The Elder...
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Freshen Up on Your Dead Space Lore With This Handy Video
The latest video game in the Dead Space franchise comes out on Tuesday, and there’s a bunch of lore to catch up on if you’ve never played any of the game’s before. Even if you have, chances are that...
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Geekolinks: 2/2
15 historical brother vs. brother matches (Mental Floss) Sesame Street's Downton Abbey spoof is the greatest (The Mary Sue) 100 of the best quotes from 30 Rock (Flavorwire) The best 2013 Super Bowl...
View ArticleThis Autotuned Super Bowl Superfan Supercut Proves Folks Sure Do Like Sports...
We here at Geekosystem aren’t what you’d call major sports fans. Well, except Ian, but he’s the odd man out. Even so, we’re more than willing to watch the Super Bowl when the time comes, and we get...
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Is Your Mac Running Too Smoothly? Type These 8 Characters to Crash Almost Any...
I’ve used Macs for most of my adult computing life. They’re normally very stable machines, but they’re not perfect, and a new flaw proves it. It turns out if you type “File:///” (no quotes) into most...
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Parody Twitter Account Parodies Getting Hacked
In the wake of the news that Twitter got hacked on Friday, a parody account of the U.K.’s Daily Mail, @DMReporter, pretended to be hacked this morning by a group of hackers who weren’t in on the joke....
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