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A gruesome forensics experiment that reveals why severed feet sometimes wash up on beaches
You may have read about mysterious cases of severed feet washing up on beaches in British Columbia. Now forensic scientists have done a simple experiment to show how these things happen. They put a pig carcass underwater and filmed it to demonstrate how quickly ocean life can strip a dead body of all its flesh … Continued
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Nearly Every Comment on Bloomberg’s Update Is a Kid Screaming That School Is Cancelled New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg is wrapping up a press conference updating storm victims on the status of the recovery. There was critical information about subway closures, the recovery of power, and the city’s response to the hurricane. But based … Continued
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Comcast Unlocks Its Wi-Fi Hotspots to Hurricane Sandy Survivors
Paywalls guarding the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal fell first. Now Comcast, one of the largest cable operators in the country, has announced that it will unlock thousands of Wi-Fi hotspots along the East Coast to help emergency responders and others affected by Hurricane Sandy. These hotspots, part of a 50,000-unit nationwide … Continued
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Why Can’t We Stop a Hurricane Before It Hits Us?
Hurricane Sandy has caused untold billions of dollars in damage and insane casualties. And we saw the “Frankenstorm” coming, for days in advance. We can send people into space and put vehicles on Mars – why can’t we stop a hurricane in its tracks, before it comes to our major population centers and starts rolling … Continued
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Limited Subway Service Restored!
Good news! Limited subway service in NYC is starting at TOMORROW MORNING. These are all the updates: R trains operate in BK btwn Jay St & 95th St making all local stops N trains operate btwn Ditmars Blvd. (Queens) & 34th St making all local stops F trains operate in 2 sections making all local … Continued
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Film’s Most Horrifying Homes Become Paper-Thin Art
Hacking and slashing may be the stuff horror movies are made of, but Marc Hagan-Guirey takes a much more delicate approach to the art of fright. With nothing more than a blade and an inhuman level of patience, this expert slicer has crafted 13 of the most iconic haunted houses in film out of paper. … Continued
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Facebook Is Fixing the Thing You Hate Most About Your Profile (Updated)
Timeline is the most beautiful thing to happen to Facebook, but it’s not without its detractors. Complaint numero uno: the double-column layout is confusing, causing users to panic, unable to discern when events in their lives happened. Why are these two things next to each other? Which happened first? Where am I? Who am I? … Continued
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Meet Deinosuchus, the “Terrible Crocodile” that even Tyrannosaurs feared
As apex predators of the Cretaceous period go, Tyrannosaurus Rex is pretty iconic. And yet, it’s likely even formidable tyrant-lizards would have watched their steps around Deinosuchus – North America’s so-called “terrible crocodile.” Dinosaur Tracking’s Brian Switek explains: During the heyday of Deinosuchus, adults of the aquatic ambush predator were among the largest carnivores in … Continued
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Here Are Criterion’s Scariest High-Brow Horror Films
Click to viewTraditionally, scary movies are very, very campy in the best of ways and not always considered brilliant without some sort of qualifier. Of course, many of the films in the Criterion Collection are classics, and that happens to include some horror films. As such, their film nerds put together a list of the … Continued
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Why Salt Water in the Subway Is So Extremely Dangerous
Hurricane Sandy’s storm surge, which bulged into New York Harbor on Monday night, inundated much of lower Manhattan, parts of Brooklyn, and the barrier islands like the Rockaways in Queens. The water got into some of the city’s subway, automobile, and electrical tunnels, and pumping the water out and bringing those tunnels back into working … Continued
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The First Book Ever Ordered from Amazon Is Equal Parts Appropriate and Unexpected
Above is the first book-and first packing slip-ever to leave Amazon’s online warehouse. Well, other than the ones employees bought on test runs, or beta users. It was purchased by computer scientist John Wainwright on April 3rd, 1995. It’s not a classic, nor was it on any bestseller list at the time. It’s the liner … Continued
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Florida man murdered for his Magic: The Gathering cards
In August, one of Pensacola, Florida’s most devoted Magic players was killed by two brothers who stole his $100,000 collection of cards and sold them throughout the southeast region. Sean Dugas, a longtime member of the Magic card playing community, was beaten to death in his home. Now, the alleged murderers have been identified. According … Continued
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6 Half-Assed Last-Minute Halloween Costumes for 2012
How the heck is it October 31st already? It doesn’t really matter why you don’t have a costume. Maybe Hurricane Sandy got in the way, or maybe you’re just a lazy waste of humanity in sunny California. The point is that you’ve got to put something together and fast. So get ready to lower your … Continued
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AMBER Alerts Show Up In Google Maps Now
God forbid a child go missing, but if it happens now there’s another place you’re going to hear about it, because Google has added AMBER Alerts to Google Maps. Now, on both mobile and the desktop, when you search for something in the area where the alert was issued, you’ll also see that alert. These … Continued
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What It Takes to Restore Cellular Service After a Hurricane
Hurricane Sandy and left an estimated eight million people without power. Plenty more have spotty cellular service-if they have any at all. But why do some people get a signal when others don’t? And what does it take to get a wireless service back online? As of yesterday, FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski estimated that 25 … Continued
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How Adam Savage turned Patton Oswalt into Doc Ock for Halloween
Patton Oswalt’s Halloween dream was to transform into the villainous Doc Ock – but he only had four hours to do it. Mythbuster Adam Savage was more than happy to oblige, and he created a mind-blowing costume in record time. Watch Savage create Doc Ock from inside his lair, and gain inspiration for your own … Continued
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Would You Put Your Life in the Hands of This Giant Pastel Magic 8-Ball?
Short of a subterranean mountain fortress, there’s nothing that will absolutely guarantee your safety in the event of a natural disaster. Everything else is a game of chance, which is maybe why the creators of the Life Armor designed this floating emergency life pod to look like a giant Magic 8 Ball. “Will this giant … Continued
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Disney’s new Star Wars movie will be all original
After a hefty amount of speculation on what inspirations Disney and Lucasfilm would use for the plot of Star Wars: Episode VII, the latest reports claim the new movie won’t be based on any existing source material. Forget Timothy Zahn’s Thrawn Trilogy , the video games and the graphic novels. The next Star Wars is … Continued
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How To Burn Off a Pound of Candy
If there is anything we learn in childhood, it’s that Halloween is when you get to cram your gaping maw with absurd amounts of candy. And, because we haven’t quite grown up, we still plan to do that tonight. We’re going to eat a pound of candy. With age, though, comes some awareness that a … Continued
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