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Yes, Cabin In the Woods is that f—king good
Do you miss the biting dialog and clever characters that filled the Whedonverse of Buffy, Firefly and Angel? Then Cabin In the Woods, which premiered at South by Southwest this past weekend, is the movie for you. Simply put, the whole movie feels like a very special Buffy episode. And in a genre that’s currently … Continued
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Watch the Fastest 3D Printer In the World Creating the Tiniest 3D F1 Car You Can Imagine
This is the London Bridge, St. Stephen’s Cathedral in Vienna, and the tiniest F1 formula car you can imagine, all printed by the fastest 3D printer in the world. Watch it in action in this video. Like other 3D printing processes, this one uses liquid resin, which gets hardened by tiny lasers. The process is … Continued
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10 Moons Every Person Should Know
Pretty much everyone can rattle off the names of our solar system’s eight (formerly nine) planets, but ask the average person to list some moons and you’ll be lucky if they can tell you more than two or three. Now, you obviously can’t expect people to remember the name of every single satellite in the … Continued
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The Jabra FREEWAY Bluetooth Speakerphone Is Your Hands-and-Maps-Free Deal of the Day
Bluetooth in a car used to be a joke to me. It was a meaningless bell and/or whistle. Now, it’s practically the only thing I care about when I rent a car. Does it have wheels and an engine? Who cares? Where’s my Bluetooth!? The reason for this shift in perspective is that smartphones and … Continued
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The Best Online NCAA March Madness Brackets
It’s March Madness time! Which means brackets. Brackets. They’re very fun! But a lot of work. Unless you enslave a basketball-tracking robot on the internet to keep track of them for you. To make the process as simple as possible, here’s our ranking of the best online March Madness brackets. 5. FOX FOX is pretty … Continued
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According to a 1918 science magazine, the Earth would transform into a pyramid
In the May 1918 issue of the youth science and current events periodical My Magazine, an unnamed author played it particularly fast and loose with geophysics when he declared that the planet was slowly becoming a pyramid. “What sort of people will live on the tetrahedron?” screamed the author in the headline, somewhat accusatorially. The … Continued
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2012 Tiptree Award Winner Announced!
Every year, the Tiptree Award celebrates one unusual novel that “explores and expands gender roles.” And this year’s winner is Redwood and Wildfire by Andrea Hairston, a story of a “hoodoo woman” at the turn of the 20th century. Here’s the skinny, from the press release: Redwood and Wildfire was a favorite of the jurors … Continued
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Microsoft Can Make Your Voice Speak Foreign Languages
Ever wonder what you’d sound like speaking German? Or maybe Mandarin? Microsoft Research has a new technology they’re cooking up which will take the sound of your voice and synthesize it as part a spoken language translator. According to MIT’s Technology Review, the system in it’s current form requires an hour of training (which, presumably, … Continued
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Eating Vegetables Makes Your Skin More Attractive
If your mother always used to nag you to eat your greens, good on her! New research suggests that not only are vegetables good for you, they also make your skin more attractive to the opposite sex. The research, carried out at the University of St. Andrews in Scotland, studied the effects of fruit and … Continued
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How to use vegetables as mood lighting
You can set a pickle aglow. All you need is a couple of wires, a fixture, a pickle, and a devil-may-care attitude towards the electrical integrity of your house. Pickles serve so many functions in this society. They’re a primary food source, condiment, term of endearment, common cat’s name, and inherently funny food. Dare we … Continued
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What the F*ck Is This Full-Body Horse Suit From Hell?
If you are a rich race horse, I got great news for you! If you aren’t a horse, you’re going to freak out looking at this image: a horse in a full body suit. Why in hell does a horse need a suit? For the same reasons athletes need compression leggings, the inventors say. Called … Continued
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Accidental Facebook Overshares: Send Us Your Best
Facebook’s so-called frictionless sharing means that the apps you use auto-report your activity to your friends’ news feeds. Which means you can have inadvertently embarrassing activities showing up without even knowing it. How wonderful! Apps like Rdio and Spotify are constantly tattling on our sometimes shameful musical choices. But the really embarrassing stuff is often … Continued
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Watch This RC Top Gun Pilot His Helicopter Through Impossible Maneuvers
Carl Groover is the Maverick of RC helicopters. He does things with a miniature chopper that seem to defy the laws of gravity and physics. It will seriously blow your mind, and not just because you lost an hour of sleep this weekend. Carl is helping Smarter Every Day with a series of videos that … Continued
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Kony 2012 Is the “Most Viral” Video of All Time
Kony 2012 was unleashed on the internet just six days ago, and it has already been viewed more than 100 million times. By some accounts that makes it the most rapidly spreading video ever, beating out the likes of Justin Bieber, Lady Gaga, Rebecca Black, Beyoncé, and Miley Cyrus. No matter how you feel about … Continued
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Earth’s twin could be hiding in a thick dust cloud
Our solar system is pretty sparkling clean when it comes to dust. That isn’t necessarily the case elsewhere, as many other stars are surrounded by thick disks of debris. These might actually be the perfect places to find Earth-like planets. That’s the finding of astrophysicist Sean Raymond of France’s Observatory of Bordeaux. He has run … Continued
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NSFW: Breast-Crazed Hacker Steals Naked Phone Photos of Christina Hendricks and Olivia Munn Glee Star
What a way to start the week! Body-worshipped Hollywood TV brass Christina Hendricks (of Mad Men fame) and Olivia Munn (of, uh, yeah…) Heather Morris (of Glee cheerleader fame) has had her body posted across the internet due to unwanted cellphone prying. Yes, it happened, again. The images—grainy and certainly phone-birthed—range from salacious to full … Continued
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120-year-old legal papers could shed light on Lizzie Borden murders
Though she was found innocent, and preferred to go by the name Lizbeth, the world will always remember her as Lizzie Borden, the woman who gave her father and stepmother “forty whacks” with an axe. Now, the Fall River Historical Society in Massachusetts has acquired papers from an attorney who worked for the Borden family, … Continued
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The First 3D Model of DNA Looks Like a Spinning Beach Ball of Life
Scientists have created the first 3D model of DNA, thanks to a new software buit by a young Harvard scientist. Depicting the way DNA packs itself inside a cell, we couldn’t help but see it as a beach ball of life. The fancy scientists call it a “fractal globule.” No matter what you call it, … Continued
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Credit Card-Thin Batteries Could Power a Display On Your Visa
NEC has been dabbling in ultra-thin flexible batteries for a while now, but the latest version of its ORB, or organic radical battery, measures in at a mere 0.3mm thick. Making it thin enough to be used even in a credit card. The ORB technology results in batteries that outperform even lithium-ions, and since they … Continued
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Is this the plot of Iron Man 3?
As shooting for Shane Black’s Iron Man 3 nears the horizon, everyone is buzzing about how The Avengers will impact the third installment of Tony Stark’s saga. And we think we finally have the answer. According to Latino Review, an anonymous source from an early screening for The Avengers says the plot for Iron Man … Continued