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Andrew Mayne LIVE Online Magic Lecture Saturday
SPONSORED POST If you could ask ONE question to one of the world’s most creative magicians, what would it be? If you’ve never been to a magic lecture, there’s never been a better time. Saturday June 16th at 7:00pm, we’re live-streaming...
Walking Dead Fan Favorite Returning to Show Almost Completely Makes Up for Season 2 [Opinion]
A fan favorite character is returning to the Walking Dead in the currently shooting third season. In the interest of spoilers, we will move the discussion and uncensored photo AFTER THE JUMP…
More Terracotta Warriors Discovered in Xi’an Dig-Site
The terracotta warriors of the Xi’an archaeology dig in north-west China have become icons of the dynasties of long ago. More than 8,000 of these warriors have been excavated over the years and just yesterday more were unearthed. The...
Clothing Made From Wine
A scientist, a winemaker and a fashion designer walk into a bar… No. Really. They all walk into a bar. The totally not funny but awesome punchline is something called Micro’be’. During a recent exploration of possible future fabrics and...
Human Ancestor Had Shark Head
Go ahead and take a gander back through the lineage of human history and you’re going to find some real nightmare fuel. One such grotesquerie? How about a human ancestor with a shark head. This now-extinct fish was among the first to split...
Podcast: The Moral Molecule
Brian and Andrew are joined by special guest Dr. Paul Zak, author of the new book The Moral Molecule. They discuss how much of the body needs to be replaced by machine parts before you are no longer considered human. Also, the likelihood...
Woman Publishes Fake Obituary for Brother to Play Hooky from Work
Who says people don’t read newspapers anymore? A Colorado woman lied to her employer when she told them she needed time off because her brother recently died. An icky, if not uncommon, crime. But she went too far when she tried to pad the...
A Vibrant, Beautiful Death for a Deadly Sea Creature
While it sounds like the last half of a Harry Potter book title, the Fire Urchin isn’t quite as fun. Fire Urchins, which are found off the coast of Maui, Hawaii, get their name not from their typically blazing colorations but from the...
Hell Gets a Theme Park!
Theme park. Fun, right? You probably just flash-backed to some awesome memories of going to a theme park with friends and family and having a really good time. You might start humming ‘It’s a Small World’. Well knock it off. There’s a...
The Popsicle Responsible for Miracles & Hallucinations All Over London
If you’ve never heard of ‘The Icecreamists’, a cutting edge ice cream lab/shop/parlor in Covent, London where owner Mark O’ Connor came under fire last year for his breastmilk ice cream. But breastmillk was SO last year. This year, O’...
70-Foot Japanese Dock Makes Landfall… in Oregon
Japan suffered a devastating tsunami in March of 2011. Typically after something like that occurs, an occasional piece of debris will wash up on the shores of other continents following the currents and tides. In the Pacific Northwest an...
This Ugly Blob is the Future of New Materials
That thing pictured over there to the right? That thing that looks like hair from your shower drain or a Giger-inspired coffee mug? It’s a living organism that just might be the future of how we harvest material for all of our tech needs....
Aww…Hail No! Insane Pictures of Hail Swamping Denver
Mama Nature is not happy lately…at all. On June 7th in Denver, Colorado a storm system moving through the area brought hail…a friggin’ massive, omg-worthy amount of hail. Weather Channel reporter Jim Cantore’s Twitter feed exploded with...
Robot Doctor Comforts You Until Your Last Breath in Creepy Art Installation
You’ve had a long life. It’s time to check out. It’s a peaceful time and you know it’s about to come to a quiet conclusion. Everything’s cool and right. You hear a calming voice, “Don’t be afraid. I am here to comfort you.” You sigh. “I am...
Lab Experiment Gone Wrong? Chinese Pig Dog Baffles Chinese Residents
Is this curious pig/dog hybrid creature a runaway from a lab experiment? A new cryptid? A beast of myth and fable? No to the first, probably to the second and hopefully to the third. As it turns out, this little fella is actually a very...
Bite a Face Off Guilt Free with These Bread Heads!
Ever want to experience what it might be to lash out and just bite into another person’s face without taking bath salts or actually biting another person’s face? Well now you can. But you’ll have to travel to Kittiwat Anarrom’s bakery in...
Boy Sits Up at Own Funeral, Asks for Water, Immediately Dies Again
No really…how many of you have been shopping the tool sections of your local hardware stores or hitting up your local big box store for supplies to combat the impending undead parade across the face of the earth? We’re right there with...
Can a Jumping Spider Hunt in Space?
The zebra spider is unique in that it jumps to kill prey instead of spinning a web. But what happens when you remove gravity. How will the spider adapt. Will it realize it now has amazing John Carter of Mars powers and jump all over the...
Insane High Definition Video of Venus Transit
Space seems to be the buzz word right now and if you’ve been following this site or its individual members for any length of time, you’ll know how much weight that word has around this place. On June 5th, the Solar Dynamic Observatory...
Video: Humanoid Robot Swims
Robots. They’re already everywhere just waiting for SkyNet to give the word. Up until now they’ve all been land-based future threats to humanity…up until now. Besides Bruce, the shark from the original Jaws movie, robots that take to water...