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Rick and Morty‘s Justin Roiland is here to answer your questions!
Justin Roiland, the co-creator of Rick and Morty, is here to answer your questions! Ask him whatever you want about the show, scifi animation, and being the voice of both Rick and Morty. Co-creator of the show along with Community’s Dan Harmon, Roiland also supplies the voice of Lemongrab to Adventure Time and works with … Continued
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12 Heroes and Villains Who Kicked the Incredible Hulk’s Green Ass
The Hulk is Incredible, Indestructible, Rampaging, the Strongest one there is, and a noted smashing enthusiastic. What he is not, however, is undefeated. Before his current insane level of strength, where he can basically punch other dimensions, a variety of heroes and even a villain or two have managed to beat the jade giant into … Continued
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The only way to win more oxygen in this game is to kill your opponent
In the short film Project Skyborn, a man wakes on a snowy planet with a gun and a voice in his ear telling him he will run out of oxygen—unless he can kill the person who is trying to kill him. But who is he really fighting? And what is the prize if he manages … Continued
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314 Videos to Celebrate Pi Day JUST KIDDING THAT WOULD TAKE HOURS
Exactly one year ago today, I set out to collect 314 pi-related YouTube videos in honor of Pi Day. I got to 22 before I gave up in disgust. Here is that post, untouched since March 14, 2013. Happy Pi Day Pi Day Song (Lose Yourself in the Digits) Friday Pi Day Pi Is (Still) … Continued
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Video proof that the jellyfish apocalypse is all but upon us
The South Pacific Island of Palau is famous for its Jellyfish Lake, but this year’s crop is unlike anything we’ve ever seen. Yes, I know what you’re thinking: Jellyfish have stingers and you’d have to be absolutely nuts to swim through swarms of them like this. But this particular species, the golden jellyfish, has been … Continued
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In-Car Facial Recognition Detects Angry Drivers To Prevent Road Rage
Passengers in a car can help calm an angry driver when another vehicle cuts them off. But when a driver is alone, that anger can easily turn into road rage which puts everyone at risk. So researchers at École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne—or EPFL for short—are working on an in-car facial recognition system that knows … Continued
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Get ready to fall in love with Veronica Mars all over again
Veronica Mars was a teen sleuth whose superpower was storytelling. She was adroit at making up clever lies and crafting fake identities, but it was always in the service of piecing together the truth — which was another story she constructed. Now she’s starring in a big crowd-funded movie, which turns out to be about … Continued
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Leaked Controller Suggests Amazon’s Set-Top-Box Will Be a Gaming Machine
Zatz Not Funny just posted images of an Amazon-branded gaming controller that supposedly found its way to the world through an overseas regulatory agency. If real, the controller suggests that Amazon could be planning to use gaming to differentiate its long-rumored set-top-box from the Apple TVs and Rokus of the world. Following the success of … Continued
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Yes, women can give one another HIV
It sounds like a no-brainer, but the transmission of HIV from one woman to another is very uncommon, and so usually overlooked. But the recent case of two Texas women, reported yesterday by the CDC, “offers the strongest evidence to date that HIV transmission between women, although rare, is possible.” Above: An SEM microcraph of … Continued
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WSJ: Microsoft and Google Are Crushing the Dual-OS Dream
A report by the Wall Street Journal claims that Intel’s grand plans to stuff Android and Windows into the same tablet have hit a brick wall: neither Google nor Microsoft want hardware to sport the competitor’s OS alongside their own. The Journal reports that the Asus Transformer Book Duet—a hybrid laptop-cum-tablet capable of switching between … Continued
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Russian scientists: We have a “high chance” of cloning a wooly mammoth
An exquisitely preserved wooly mammoth is currently undergoing an autopsy in Siberia. Some experts believe they’ll be able to extract high quality DNA and cells from the remains which could conceivably be used to clone the extinct mammal. The question now is, should we? Back in May of last year, Russian scientists discovered the remains … Continued
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The Internet’s Biggest Enemies
Reporters Without Borders (RSF) released its annual “Enemies of the Internet” index this week—a ranking first launched in 2006 intended to track countries that repress online speech, intimidate and arrest bloggers, and conduct surveillance of their citizens.Some countries have been mainstays on the annual index, while others have been able to work their way off … Continued
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Trailer for Enormous pushes humans to the bottom of the food chain
Based off of the kaiju-centric, post-apocalyptic graphic novel by Image Comics, Enormous (the webseries) shows what happens when humans become meat for monsters. After the planet is destroyed by a plague, the remaining humans celebrate their survival by dodging the hungry mouths of gigantic monsters. The comic was created by Tim Daniel and artist Mehdi … Continued
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This Is Where Time Comes From
Your mobile phone, car navigation systems, bank trading platforms, internet infrastructure and even military devices all share one thing in common: the time they use originates from the U.S. Naval Observatory’s Time Services. In this video from The Atlantic, Dr. Demetrios Matsakis—Chief Scientist for the USNO’s Time Services—gives a guided tour of the atomic clocks … Continued
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This Atomic Tank survived a nuclear test, then went to war
In August of 1953, a British-built Centurion tank drove through the brutal desert terrain of South Australia, its destination a parking spot a few hundred yards from an atomic bomb test. That was just the beginning of this tank’s amazing, and perhaps tragic, operational life. The Centurion tank was developed by the British at the … Continued
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Why the Speed of Ships Is Measured in Knots
How fast you’re going while out floating on the big blue can be notoriously tricky to judge if you’re just eyeballing it. One method used to get around this issue was introduced in the sixteenth century using a “chip log” or “log-line.” In a nutshell, this method used a plank of wood (usually wedge shaped … Continued
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Black Widow is kicking ass and jiggling boobs in the Avengers anime
The Studio Madhouse-made Avengers Confidential anime movie comes out on March 25th, and unlike a lot of the recent Marvel anime series, the animation looks top-notch, and features Black Widow kicking super-villain butt. I just wish she weren’t displaying her butt to the camera so much. From the very first character shot of the trailer, … Continued
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God Help Us: There’s Now a Dedicated Selfie Section in the App Store
Just in case you were feeling a little too happy with humanity, here’s something to change your tune: Apple now has a dedicated Selfie section in the iOS App Store. Full of the likes of 1 Second Every Day, Snapchat, Frontback and all those other vital selfie sharing apps that we all need and use … Continued