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Kickstarter Pulls Tentacle Fetish Card Game, Fans Ensare Censorship Kerfuffle
Tentacle Bento, a MUCH spicier niche game than Magic: The Gathering or Yu-Gi-Oh, made its way onto the crowd-funding project site, Kickstarter. Within one week, Tentacle Bento rocketed past its $13,000 goal by over $17,000! The game’s...
Paralyzed Woman Just Drank a Bottle of Coffee With Her Mind
Dragging yourself to your morning coffee just got a whole lot easier. So did our baby steps toward becoming cyborgs. Two quadriplegic volunteers, a 66 year-old man and a 58 year-old woman, have been part of a study being conducted at Brown...
Low Levels of Prolonged Radiation Exposure Not Risky to Health
Turns out you can plop yourself amongst over 200 times the average level of background radiation for as long as you’d like, it’s probably not going to hurt you all that much. Despite popular thought that any radiation exposure increases...
Mystery Object Nearly Collides with Plane Over Denver
A corporate jet pilot nearly collided with what he said looked like a remote controlled vehicle over Denver Monday evening. But no one will take credit for the mysterious airborne menace. Law enforcement says their were no drones in the...
Video: 1 Armed Robot Juggles 2 Balls
The revolution is here. The machines have risen. And they can juggle. Chiba University presented the following this week at 2012 IEE International Conference on Robotics and Automatiion. The robot is equipped with a three-fingered hand,...
Gaydar Confirmed By Science
Gaydar, it’s not just a one liner from sassy friends in romantic comedies anymore. It’s science fact. A University of Washington study flashed faces for less than a blink of an eye and asked respondents to determine if the person was gay...
Killjoy Neighbors Won’t Let George Lucas Build a Studio, So He’s Building Affordable Housing
George Lucas wants to build a studio on some ranch property he owns. Sound familiar? It should, because he did it with Skywalker Ranch in the 1970s. Back then neighbors hemmed and hawed about how he would ruin property values by attracting...
Can You Spot the Tiny Chinese Space Station on the Face of the Sun?
Alright, it’s a little easier when someone puts a tiny circle around it. What you are seeing is China’s Tiangong-1 space station transiting the Sun. This is the handiwork of Astrophotographer Thierry Legault who had to time this perfectly...
Podcast: Dead Martian Walking
Fight! An epic battle ensues when Brian wonders aloud if everyone would be okay with sending a willing volunteer on a one way trip to Mars. Is it a bold, necessary step toward brining humanity beyond the stars? Or a gruesome galactic human...
Revealed: NASA Plan to Land Humans on Asteroid
It’s asteroid fever! Catch it. Folks are trying to mine ’em and now NASA is talking about landing on one. The Telegraph reveals today that the US space agency will reveal their plan next month. The mission will including the first British...
Black Magic Spell Causes Cheating Wife’s Lover to Become Stuck Inside Her
There are a lot of bad ways an affair with your friend’s wife can end. Some, like death or violent maiming, could be a little more permanent. But few are weirder than what went down in Kenya last week. A man cheating with his friends wife...
Revolutionary New Theory Suggest Supernovae Radically Affect Life on Earth
Are exploding supernovae guiding life on Earth? If a new ground breaking theory is to be believed, the answer is yes. According to the study by Henrik Svensmark published by the Royal Astronomy Society in London the explosions of stars...
Navy Gives the OK to Install Laser Weapons
Oh hell yeah. The most powerful Naval force in the history of the world is about to add the most coveted weapon in science fiction. Laser cannons. Although they won’t fire pulse blasts that explode enemy targets, the weaponized lasers can...
Sea Creature Mystery Video: Do You Have Any Idea What This Is?
A sentient bed sheet. That’s pretty much the only descriptor that comes to mind when looking at this video. In reality, this blob caught on a deep sea drilling camera off the coast of the UK is a massive jellyfish. Steven Haddock, a...
Helmet Cam Catches Alligator Attack
I’ve never been attacked by an alligator while fishing in the traquil marsh lands of central Florida, but if I was, it’s probably sound something like this. Thomas Swiader Jr. found himself on the business end of an angry gator who leapt...
Study: Chimp Attack Plans Evolving Against Zoo Visitors
Santino is sick of your gawking and he’s determined to gain sweet revenge by tagging your forehead with a rock. Santino is a chimp at Sweden’s Furuvik Zoo. He’d gained a reputation for throwing projectiles at particularly annoying visitors...
Creepy Smartphone Enabled Body Pillow Let’s You Feel “Heartbeat”
It’s called the Hugvie. You put your cell phone inside of it and then talk to whomever you might like to chat with. The vibrations from the voice simulate a heart beat so you can clutch your Hugvie to you like an inanimate baby while...
Man Takes Arrow to the Neck, Lives
So you are just minding your own business in Moscow. Walking along with your daughter when WHAP! Everyone starts shrieking, you reach up to scratch the sudden itch on your neck when you realize that someone shot you right through the neck...
Podcast: Meat Blobs Keep Falling On My Head
GUEST: Tom Merritt Brian and special guest Tom find themselves covered in meat after it rains from sky. Justin wonders aloud if the characters in Avengers are the mythic Gods of our modern era… except for Thor, who is kind of a God in...
Controversy Rages Over the Legality of Killing Bigfoot in Texas
Can you legally shoot Bigfoot right in his Bigfoot-y face while in the Lone Start State? One Oregon Sasquatch seeker thought to ask an expert at the Texas Parks and Wildlife department for a clarification on the rules. He received a very...