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What the Hell Did Researchers Pull from the Depths of New Zealand’s Seas?
No, this photo hasn’t been ‘shopped. You are looking at a specimen from a barely-known and even-more-rarely-seen group of “Supergiant” amphipods—crustaceans that grow twenty times the size of their relatives and can measure a foot or more in length. Amphipods are often referred to as the “insects of the sea” and are found throughout the … Continued
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This Nine-Year-Old Girl Just Had Six of Her Organs Replaced—That’s a Record
When she was five, Alannah Shevenell’s doctors discovered the cause of her fever, weight loss, and distended belly—a sizable tumor spreading throughout her body. After two failed surgeries and rounds of chemo, her doctors had just one option left; a risky surgery to replace six of her cancerous organs. Shevenell’s surgery, which replaced her stomach, … Continued
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Get Patriotic to Every Presidential Campaign Song Since 1933
Politics and pop music have a testy relationship. For every song supporting a particular politician or party, five more bash him, her, or it – and more still hate on the entire political system. Still, the relationship persists, and it’s never more evident than during campaign seasons when candidates use music to connect with various … Continued
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Finally! Google Wallet Is Available to AT&T and Verizon Nexus Owners
Well this is rather exciting. Verizon and AT&T both had, until now, cock-blocked Google Wallet functionality on the Galaxy Nexus phone. Blocking its installation while developing their own proprietary NFC payment service, code-named Iris. That program appears to have fizzled since the Google Wallet app is now available in the Android Marketplace right now. https://gizmodo.com/verizon-is-screwing-the-galaxy-nexus-by-blocking-google-5865580 … Continued
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Pizza In a Jar Is a Horrible Fraud and You’re Wrong if You Disagree
This dumb picture of tomato sauce, cheese, and scorched bread has been making the internet rounds, blobbing from blog to blog under the guise of “jar pizza.” Pizza in a jar is a lie. It’s not pizza. It’s a delusion. What’s pizza? It’s inherently flat—that’s an essential part of it, conceptually. A pizza that isn’t … Continued
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Stubborn Whooping Cranes Refuse to Fly South, So They Will Be Trucked
Conservationists have made huge efforts to coax endangered whooping cranes to fly south. Still, the birds, who started their journey in Wisconsin, have alighted in Alabama and refuse to fly any further. So these conservationists will now deliver them, by truck, to their end destination in Florida. In the past, volunteers have dressed like cranes … Continued
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Fifth Grader Accidentally Concocts a New Explosive Molecule
Admittedly, I did spend my childhood playing with explosives. But I certainly never had as much success as 10-year-old Clara Lazen (not pictured), who accidentally created a new energy storing molecule, tetranitratoxycarbon, that could be used as an explosive. Using one of those molecular modeling sets we all messed with in school, Clara forged a … Continued
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Feds Seize 307 Sports Domains Ahead of Sunday’s Super Bowl
The Super Bowl is like a goose that lays golden eggs from which cash cows hatch. It makes obscene amounts of money. So, that could be why the DHS has stepped up its confiscation of sports-related domains in the run-up to Sunday’s match—nuking a total of 307 separate sites. The seizures were part of the … Continued
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Groundhog Day: The Movie It Makes Sense to Watch Over and Over
Groundhog Day is such a wonderful movie that it’s totally transformed the connotation of the actual holiday from “that day when we believe the magical rat is a weather god” to a symbol of unbearable repetitiveness. It’s not like everyone you know hasn’t been making bad jokes on Facebook all day, but whatever. It’s one … Continued
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South Korean Man Arrested for Re-Tweeting North Korean Government’s Twitter Account
In a continuing trend of government agencies having no idea how humor on Twitter works, a South Korean activist was arrested last week for ironically retweeting the North Korean government. https://gizmodo.com/us-detains-and-deports-two-morons-over-dumb-destroy-am-5880460 Jung-geun Park was charged under a South Korean policy called the National Security Law that bans nebulously-defined “acts that benefit the enemy.” Except he … Continued
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Everything You Need to Throw a Super Bowl Party For a Bunch of Nerds
On any given Sunday, you’re more likely to be to be neck-deep in a D&D campaign than a fantasy football roster. Now the Super Bowl cometh, and you’re hosting a party for a bunch of people who watch football exactly once a year. Everyone watches the Super Bowl so you can’t blame people who don’t … Continued
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Beck: Debra
I still can’t believe Beck is a wacky Scientologist. I would like him to just be wacky Beck but whatever, his music is still amazing and Debra is one of my favorites. Perhaps it is because it reminds me of David Bowie. In fact, Debra rips on Win, one of my favorite Bowie songs. This … Continued
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Avoid Sea Monsters, Go to Sleep, and Stay Away From Bieber
I don’t get enough sleep. Daytime Robbie really hates nighttime Robbie. Nighttime Robbie stays up too late and when he does go to bed, it takes awhile to actually get to sleep. So daytime Robbie is checking out the ambient noise app that’s on sale today. Both Robbies are interested in the seafaring game and … Continued
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Daily Desired: How Can You Resist a Pair of Adorable, Egg-Shaped Speakers?
Computer speakers are maybe the least inspiring pieces of audio equipment in the world. They always look and sound like some designer’s boring afterthought, especially compared to the great bookshelf speakers I’ve got stacked around my house. So if I’ve got better gear why do I want a tiny set of computer speakers? I don’t … Continued
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Inside the World of Dinosaurs: Dino Fights on Your iPad
You want to know what people love about dinosaurs? Everything. People love everything about dinosaurs. They were huge—literally. And now they’re extinct, but it wasn’t our fault. But now there’s an app that’s crammed full of information and narrated by Stephen Fry. Yeah, that Stephen Fry. What’s it do? The 310 interactive 3D models are … Continued
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Beware the ATM Gangster of Taiwan — He Uses English as a Weapon
When you’re in Taiwan and you use the ATM, you should be wary of the English interface. Apparently the gangster will use this to cheat you. If we’ve learned anything today, let it be from the Twitter account of Felix Salmon. The gangster has infiltrated the First Bank of Taiwan and he speaks English. [Felix … Continued
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This Awesome Ship Is the Only Cruise I Would Take
Captain Schettino or not, I hate cruises. Being trapped in a giant floating building with three thousand people and a buffet is my idea of bloody hell. But I would love to go across the Amazon river on the ship above. It’s called Aria, the twin sister to Aqua, two luxury cruises owned by a … Continued
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New Apple Patent May Indicate a Touchscreen iMac—Or Maybe Not
Patents are as meaningful as tarot card readings. You see one that might, maybe, possibly mean something and you see a ton of crap. But still, even if it’s incredibly awkward and tiring to use a 27-inch touchscreen on a desk, touchscreen tech is the obvious future for computers. So it’s no surprise that Apple … Continued
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Blurry Cellphone Shots Could Be Eliminated With This Flash Boosting Chip
STMicroelectronics hopes to make the wimpy LED flash on your smartphone as bright as the xenon flash in your camera with a new chip that packs a supercapacitor for quick bursts of power. On average the always-on LED flashes used in smartphones only produce about 2W of power, barely enough to illuminate someone standing right … Continued