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Spray For Cleaning Ship Hulls Could Relieve Your Really, Really Bad Sinusitis
Do you suffer from sinusitis? Like, really bad sinusitis? Sinusitis that you would describe as “nightmarish” or… well, you get the point. No matter how badly your cavities are clogged, a team at...
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Russian Meteorite Explosion Was As Powerful As 30 Hiroshima Atomic Bombs
Now that the dust has settled from last Friday’s spectacular meteorite explosion over Russia, the facts are slowly coming in about just how big the explosion really was, and it’s turning out to be a...
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Hypocrisy-Off: Anti-Piracy Group Steals From Pirate Bay, Pirate Bay Files...
The Pirate Bay has, let’s say, pretty liberal views on copyright laws, though they kind of have to, considering they’re entire raison d’être is letting people share files illegally. hat means they’re...
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Oh, God No: Amazonian Frog Steals And Fertilizes Eggs From Dead Females
Today in News You Probably Would Have Been Happier Not Knowing, the tiny, unassuming Amazonian frog Rhinella proboscidea doesn’t seem like the most awful creature ever to walk the Earth, but it...
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William Shatner Leads the Charge to Name Pluto’s Moons
We should have known! When SETI announced that the public could vote to name the fourth and fifth moons of Pluto, they also allowed voters to suggest their own. Given the demographic of astronomy and...
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Houston, We Have A… Never Mind! ISS Lost Communication With Ground This Morning
NASA had what we can only imagine was a very tense hour or so earlier this morning, as a computer malfunction cut off communication between the International Space Station and Mission Control in...
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Canonical Announces Next Logical Step: Ubuntu for Tablets
Back in January Canonical announced that they were releasing a mobile phone version of their Ubuntu operating system, and everyone in the whole entire world Linux users got very excited. The mobile...
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Netflix Apparently Did Something Right With House of Cards
Netflix went out on a limb with original programming when they decided to bring House of Cards to the table. It might seem obvious now to some, but there was a time not that long ago when original...
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Today in Geek History: Copernicus Was Born
Some days you celebrate just because something happened on that day, and some days just because a person who did an amazing thing was born. Case in point: On this day in 1473, Nicolaus Copernicus was...
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This Open Twitter Account Lets You Pretend You’re Burger King
We all had a good laugh yesterday when Burger King’s official Twitter account got hacked, but while we give the hackers an “A” for effort, at best they get a “C+” for execution. Most of what was...
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The 7 Best Harlem Shake Videos the Internet’s Produced Since Last Week
Okay, folks. Looks like people really, really love the Harlem Shake meme that’s still making the rounds. It might be slowly dying off at this point, but a number of late bloomers joined the party...
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Geekolinks: 2/19
Recluse leaves $1 million estate to actors he never met (HyperVocal) Columbia professor strips, shows 9/11 footage during physics (Mediaite) Library of Congress accepts first emoji novel (The Daily...
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Watch How NASA Turns Atmospheric Data From the Sun Into Abstract Art [Video]
I know, I know — I don’t get modern art, either. Luckily, the picture above isn’t a painting — it’s a visualization of the heating and cooling of plasma erupting from the sun in solar flares. NASA’s...
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Mexican Priest Channels Superman, Squirts Holy Water With Plastic Gun
There are a lot of different ways to conduct a religious sermon. Sometimes a preacher can even make it fun, exciting, and easy to relate to, but few people would expect a Catholic priest to be one of...
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New BioShock Infinite Trailer Absolutely Teems With Steampunky Action
The release date for BioShock Infinite is fast approaching, and to make sure everyone knows it and is super pumped about it, the creators of the game just dropped a shiny new trailer. Besides the...
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You Can Get From Any Website To Any Other Website In No More Than 19 Clicks
The Internet is an awfully big place where you can find just about anything — a fact that can be both a blessing and a curse, depending on what you find yourself looking at. As big and intimidating as...
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Want To Be The First Kid On The Block With Google Glass? Here’s Your Chance
Heads up, gadget geeks — Google is opening the floodgates on Google Glass. Well, kind of, anyway. As of today, you can appeal directly to Google to tell them what cool things you would get up to with...
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The End Is Nigh Billions of Years Away: Higgs Discovery Might Suggest...
The scientific community got pretty excited with the discovery of a Higgs-like particle last year, but it turns out it’s not all smiles and high fives. Apparently the Higgs boson was the missing piece...
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Twinsies! Alpha Centauri A Has A Cool Outer Layer, Just Like Our Sun
The Sun, it will surprise no one, is very, very hot. What is surprising — and consistently baffling to researchers — is that there are certain parts of the sun that are actually rather chilly. You...
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Analysis of Bible Reveals Genesis Death Sandwich, Less Metal Than It Sounds
Literary analysis is one of those things that often draws the short end of the stick. To those that don’t actually participate in literary analysis, the whole process and results can seem a little...
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