July 2012
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Can you find your romantic match by sniffing dirty...
Pheromones are one of the many things that go into who we feel romantically attracted to. You can put all kinds of info on a dating website profile, but even if you and someone like similar movies, books or have a similar sense of humor, it can be the smell of someone that makes the difference. But can you start off with smell and go from there?[[MORE]]
Some singles are moving from online...
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San Francisco PD's brand new cop computer system...
It’s the 21st century. If you’ve got a smartphone, you’ve got an incredible amount of information in your pocket, yet most police departments in the US are sadly lagging in technology. Many departments don’t have department-wide email and any information that goes into the system still has to be filled out on paper forms then hand-delivered to clerks who input the...
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WatchShort film of the day: “Get Wild”
We are four students from ArtFX, a french visual effects school, and we just finished our graduation movie, “Get Wild”, which required a whole year of work.
It depicts the transformation of a bleak city into a retro and colorful world. We hope that we successfully convied all the innocence and happiness that characterize the...
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The Pyro's dream Balloonicorn is now a real thing...
Not just a couple days after Valve released the TF2 “Meet the Pyro” video, Thinkgeek, in cooperation with Valve, now have the Pyro’s balloonicorns for sale. Now you can have these cute creatures bouncing all about your house whilst you set people ablaze.[[MORE]]
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June 2012
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Stunning map of all known earthquakes since 1898
f you’ve ever wondered where and why earthquakes happen the most, look no further than a new map, which plots more than a century’s worth of nearly every recorded earthquake strong enough to at least rattle the bookshelves. The map shows earthquakes of magnitude 4.0 or greater since 1898; each is marked in a lightning-bug hue that glows brighter with increasing magnitude.
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Anonymous asked: Do you know anything about fridges? I moved into this shitty old house a few months ago and we've been through 3 of them since we got here. They all work for a couple weeks and then they take a shit, so we have to run out and look for another and it's getting expensive. I've tried defrosting them, switching outlets and recharging the freon and nothing seems to work. All of our other...
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Disappointed with Prometheus, Tyler Perry is...
In addition to being an expert on dressing like an old woman, Tyler Perry is also a pretty big fan of sci-fi. And apparently, after he was disappointed with Prometheus, he’s decided that he wants to work on his own sci-fi movie. A movie that probably isn’t related to Madea. God, I hope not.[[MORE]]
In an interview with Blackfilm, Perry revealed that he wasn’t thrilled with...
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Spray-on battery could change everything about...
The history of electronic devices and their design has had a lot to do with the batteries that charge them. Whether it’s been clunky C-cell or even smaller AA batteries or more modern flat alloy batteries, your gadgets can’t be any smaller than their batteries. Now, a team of researchers at Rice University in Houston, Texas have developed a spray-on battery paint.[[MORE]]
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Amazing art from the Pokemon Battle Royal Art Show
151 artists have each selected and created original works of art inspired by each of the original 151 Pokémon.
See the rest here
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Another use for graphene: It's a quick and easy...
Whether it’s conducting cheap electricity or making super strong nanotubes, graphene is the stuff that just keep bringing amazing new uses. And one of those uses is using a single atom thick sheet of graphene to filter salt out of seawater, resulting in only pure drinkable water. [[MORE]]
Graphene is a combination of different forms of carbon – charcoal, graphite, carbon nanotubes, and...
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Friday graffiti pics aren't having the best day...
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Japanese politicians want to build a real, working...
There have been a few Gundam bot statues erected in Japan over the last few years, but Japanese politicians now want to claim their pre-ordained role in being the first nation to have actual working Gundams. For reals and shit.[[MORE]]
In an upcoming broadcast on Japanese video platform Nico Nico Live, members of Japan’s Liberal Democratic Party are apparently going to discuss the idea...
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Disney's first Marvel animated film will be 'Big...
People have been speculating for years on when or if Disney might do a Marvel animated feature film. The answer now is yes, but the choice for the film is an odd one, considering that the series ‘Big Hero 6’ is not very well known.[[MORE]]
Walt Disney Animation‘s upcoming “Big Hero 6,” about a heroic superhero team, is currently an open writing assignment, with no...
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mustang6771 asked: Did you know that on your site, over on the right under the title "Most Popular This Week," the link to 1. The year 2000 as envisioned in the year 1910 [Retro Future] come up pretty often, this has been going on for a while now.
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Beloved children's book author Maurice Sendak once...
Maurice Sendak was an amazing person, an amazing storyteller and illustrator. But he also had a bit of a temper and could sometimes be a bit irrational. As revealed in an interview right before his passing, Sendak said that he once seriously considered how he might be able to assassinate both George W. Bush and Dick Cheney.[[MORE]]
In one of the children’s book author’s last interviews before...
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Fridays are Sexy: Lucky you, it's lingerie time
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“I wonder if “May your vagina never go dry” is a blessing on Wonder...”
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Anonymous asked: Has anyone here got the Nike fuel band or the Nike GPS TomTom watch? How do you like it? Since I got my watch, I can't stop running. It's like a video game to me, I can't stop trying to raise my levels. Anyone else jump on the bandwagon too?
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Scientists invent particles that let you live...
Live without breathing? What sort of evil magic is this? Scientists at Boston Children’s Hospital have invented tiny oxygen-carrying particles, that when injected into the bloodstream, can provide sufficient oxygen to your body for as long as fifteen minutes in case of major respiratory failure.[[MORE]]
The particles are composed of oxygen gas pocketed in a layer of lipids, a natural...
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Daily Discussion: Your favorite fictional...
Who is your favorite fictional detective? Batman? One of the many variations of the Sherlock Holmes character? Colombo? Leave your answer in a cigarette box near the oldest tree in Central Park. Come alone.
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IHC After Dark: Japanese face painting gives me...
There’s face painting and then there’s realistically painting additional face parts onto your face, and the latter is fucking frightening as hell.[[MORE]]
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And Marvel's "secret" movie for 2014 is......
While we’ve heard rumors of a Guardians of the Galaxy movie before, when Marvel released its slate of movies for the next couple years, there was a “???” in the summer 2014 spot, leading to a lot of speculation about all kinds of crazy shit. But now it looks like that summer 2014 movie will be Guardians of the Galaxy.
And since Thanos plays into Guardians of the Galaxy and...
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WatchHaving fun fucking with New York City subway commuters
While it’s fun to fuck with people’s muscle memory and assumption of stair height, it’s lucky no one busted their forehead open here.
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Anonymous asked: Guild Wars 2 finally has a release date :D any one want to start a chaos guild with me?
