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A Chart Of The Most Commonly Used Keys Shows Our Actual Musical Tastes
Switching a song into a different key can entirely change the way that song feels. So what does this chart, which shows which musical keys are most commonly used, tell us about the way we actually like to listen to music? Spotify’s Kenny Ning put together this chart of the most commonly used song keys … Continued
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Marvel Confirms Scarlet Witch And Quicksilver Are No Longer Mutants
In the run-up to their appearance in Age of Ultron, much hubbub was made over the true origins of Pietro and Wanda Maximoff. At first the comics cast doubt on Magneto’s parentage of the mutant twins, and then Marvel’s own movie altered their origin once more. And now, it’s been retconned again. A new page … Continued
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Stars Get All Lopsided And Slosh Around Before Exploding
Stars may be spherical, but that doesn’t mean they explode in a symmetrical and uniform fashion. As a new study shows, stars dramatically writhe and contort before going supernova, blasting their cores in one direction and ejected material in another. Supernova 1987A (Credit: ESA/Hubble/NASA). The new study by astrophysicists from UC Berkeley and the California … Continued
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Dark Star Offers A Melancholy, Intimate Portrait Of Artist H.R. Giger
There’s a sadness running through Dark Star: H.R. Giger’s World — a portrait of the Swiss artist whose most famous creation was the title character in Alien. It comes from knowing that its subject died last year. But the mood suits this appreciative study of a man who counted fear and death among his muses. … Continued
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Some Worker Bees Are Secretly Asexual Double Agents
Worker bees are mindless, cooperative robots who stick to their hives their entire life… with one exception. One study of the large-earth bumblebee discovered worker bees were raising drones that somehow contained the genes of different hives. So where did they come from? Queen bees, after a mating flight, lay eggs that turn into mostly … Continued
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This GIF Party Cannot Be Stopped
No need to keep it to yourself, folks! There’s plenty of GIF party here for us all. What did you do this week? Did you go someplace exciting? Did you make a new friend? Did you finish a longstanding project or kick one off? Tell us all about it using our most truly universal language: … Continued
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Bird Strike Does Disturbing Damage To The Nose Of A 737
Looking at the caved-in nose of this Boeing 737-800, you’d think it flew into a flying water buffalo. But the damage was caused by a single bird — a potent reminder of what can happen when objects collide at high speed. The incident occurred earlier this week during Turkish Airlines flight TK2004 from Istanbul to … Continued
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The Strangest New Star Wars Rumor Isn’t Even About The Force Awakens
Kevin Feige discusses the Marvel universe post-Infinity War. Hugh Jackman says Wolverine 3 will be his last film as the character. The Arrow/Flash spinoff gets a name and synopsis. Plus casting news for Fear The Walking Dead, Shadowhunters, and the Annihilation movie. So many spoilers! Top image: Star Wars: The Force Awakens. Star Wars Episode … Continued
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Concept Art Gives Us the First Glimpse of Universal’s New King Kong Ride
If you happen to be visiting the Universal Orlando’s Islands of Adventure in Summer 2016, you can take a trip to Skull Island. And the 1930s. It very much sounds like Skull Island: Reign of Kong is a ride taking inspiration from Peter Jackson’s take on the giant gorilla story and will have less to … Continued
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These Star Wars Cosplayers Want You to Adopt Pets From a Shelter
The members of the 501st Legion: Capital City Garrison donated their time and costumes to a cuddly cause: the Ottawa Humane Society. It looks like cats, rabbits, dogs, and guinea pigs are on the side of the Empire and the Sand People. These are the pets you’re looking for. Image Credits: Rohit Saxena / flickr/ … Continued
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Agent Carter Renewed, Peggy’s Adventures Will Continue
ABC has done the right thing and renewed Agent Carter for a second season. This is all we really wanted from the giant pile of renewal announcements we’ve gotten so far. This means that next year’s schedule could have Agents of SHIELD, Agent Carter, the Agents of SHIELD spinoff (featuring Mockingbird and Lance Hunter), and … Continued
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Ebola Turned This Man’s Eye From Blue To Green
Last October, Dr. Ian Crozier was released from Emory University Hospital after nearly losing his life to Ebola. Months later, he began to experience pain and fading vision in his left eye. Within a few days, his iris, which is normally blue, had turned green. At The New York Times, Denise Grady has the details … Continued
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Vincenzo Natali To Adapt Stephen King And Joe Hill’s In The Tall Grass
Well this is a splendid matchup if ever there was Vincenzo Natali (of Splice) will adapt the work of Stephen King and Joe Hill into a movie. Splendid and downright horrifying. All of these gentlemen are capable of creating scary things alone, but together? Oh dear. Set in an abandoned rest stop, In The Tall … Continued
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Concept Art Writing Prompt: A Tour Down Mech Alley
In this week’s Concept Art Writing Prompt, by artist Ville Ericsson, we see a pair of armed fellows patrolling a city alley. But who are they? And what’s their relationship, if any, to the robot ahed of them? If you’ve been looking for writing inspiration, take a crack at our Concept Art Writing Prompt. See … Continued
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Ugh, Supernatural. You Really Didn’t Have To Go There.
Don’t watch this video unless you’ve already seen this week’s episode of Supernatural, since it’s mega-spoilery. And somewhat upsetting, as well. Why did Supernatural have to go down this road? Just… ugh. Spoilers ahead… So there’s a running debate over whether Supernatural kills off more female characters than male ones, and it’s easy to get … Continued
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The Only Reason Why Your Scotch Doesn’t Taste Like Meat And Bad Eggs
Your drink is the result of a battle between chemistry and biology. Lucky for you, chemistry won. That’s why your glass of scotch doesn’t taste like rotten eggs and stinky meat. Yeasts are hardy creatures. You can set them adrift on the air or plunge them in water. You can dry them up and cool … Continued
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CSI: Cyber and the Killer Internet Poker Pill Kingpin
A man buying coffee has a bad case of the dizzies, which honestly happens to me fairly regularly before I consume caffeine in the morning. But if you think he just needs his cup of morning java then hoo boy have you got the wrong show. This is CSI-Fucking:Cyber and we are about to witness … Continued
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These Prank Videos Prove That Human Nature Is Inherently Terrible
There are debates about the basic nature of humanity that have been raging for millennia. Are we decent? Are we nasty and brutish? These ontological questions can never be settled — unless you have hidden cameras and access to Youtube, that is. Then those questions can be settled easily, with video pranks. And the answers… … Continued