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Harry Potter Diary Inspired Bloody Invention that Could Save Your Life
You are involved in horrible car accident. Paramedics buzz around to make sure you make it to the hospital alive. You’re losing blood. If you don’t get more of the right time in you soon, things could take a turn for the worse. But the...
Scientists Recover World Oldest Blood Cells from Iceman Mummy
He lived. He ate deer meat. He took an arrow to the shoulder and died. That was roughly 5,300 years ago for the corpse they call Ötzi. Hikers found his body in the Alps in 1991. But only now did scientists realize he brought us an amazing...
Blue Origin Ready for Next Step
Blue Origin, the space exploration company founded by Amazon billionaire Jeff Bezos is ready for it’s close up. Although notoriously secretive in comparison to companies like SpaceX, May is a huge month for Blue and now they’re ready to...
Super Villain Calls Out Phoenix Jones in Hilarious YouTube Video
His name is Red Velvet. He is sick of the antics of Phoenix Jones, Seattle’s real life super hero who recently was forced to unmask under threat after a legal snafu. It’s not quite clear what Velvet wants, but the video is awesome....
Meet the Avengers of Science: Earth’s Mightiest Brains Assembled (Also Ashton Kutcher)
They meet at school. Singularity University to be exact. A who’s who of future makers with a collected resume that would make Alexander the Great offer to bus tables in their presence. Musk. Page. Aldrin. Cerf. Valley start-up...
Podcast: Reality Television Death Races Of Atlantis
GUEST: Scott Sigler Brian and Scott are approached by a wizened trucker who offers them a deadly new opportunity on reality television. A frantic scientist in the ancient civilization of Atlantis opens up a hole in space and time to warn...
UK Government Might Put a Missile Launcher on Your Roof this Summer
In many apartment buildings throughout big cities around the world, roof access is off limits. But only in London this summer, will it be because they might be firing a missile off of it to destroy an airborne terrorist attack. The British...
We Aren’t Allowed to Dream About the Future Until NASA Gives Us Permission
The future seems closer today than it did yesterday. People are talking about mining asteroids that contain more platinum than we’ve ever dug up on Earth and finding water that could be the key to permanent space habitation and long...
Wired interview with Elon Musk About SpaceX’s ISS Mission
SpaceX founder and CEO, Elon Musk talks to WIRED magazine’s Jason Paur about the upcoming mission to the International Space Station. (Thanks to Daniel Connors for the link)
Read the Short Story Hunger Games AND Battle Royale Ripped Off
Okay, that’s a deliberately provocative headline, I apologize. But after all I’ve read pushing back on the popularity of the Hunger Games film and book series while citing the 1999 novel and 2000 film Battle Royale as the originator of the...
Who’s Next: Is the Volcano that Buried Atlantis Reawakening?
The volcano that, by legend, damned the civilization of Atlantis to a watery grave could be reawakening. Investigators had installed a GPS monitoring system in the area in 2006. These sensors keep track of their location in space, and can...
A 3 Minute Explanation of Planetary Resources in Their Own Words
Still confused about all that asteroid mining talk yesterday? Here is a really simple explanation on the whole announcement from the folks making it happen. [Planetary Resources]
Have You Seen This Führer? Hitler’s Possible Disguises Revealed
You are the United States military. Your intelligence unit is preparing to capture the most notorious war criminal in the history of modern civilization. But Adolf Hitler’s infamous, iconic, look could also lead to tremendous confusion...
Podcast: Jet-Lagged Were-Hookers
Andrew is fresh off a plane from Italy and still loopy, what better time to discuss the future of mining asteroids?! The boys chat about the team of modern superheroes uniting to bring trillions of dollars to the global economy while...
Seven Awesome Facts Learned in the Planetary Resources Press Conference
One average asteroid, half the size of the conference room they made their announcement in, can contain enough resources to power every space flight in the history of the NASA space program When asked during Q and A how many resources can...
Silicon Valley Billionaire Starts Fund for Development of 6 Insane Projects
Peter Thiel has long been a heavy hitter in Silicon Valley. He was a co-founder and CEO of PayPal and made an early stage development in Facebook, even earning himself the “honor” of being portrayed in The Social Network film about the...
Is Asteroid Mining Ready to Take Off?
Space blog superstar Phil “Bad Astronomer” Plait has a prediction about a news conference set to take place next Tuesday. It will feature Peter Diamandis, leading commercial space entrepreneur Eric Anderson, former NASA Mars mission...
Podcast: Raising Arizona Demon Killers
Three lovely young ladies are patrolling Arizona with murder on their minds. Who are they trying to kill and how do they plan on doing it? Andrew blows Brian’s mind with the concept of a blimp to space. But does the new hotness spell doom...
Brazilian Cannibals Sell Human Meat Empanada to Neighbors
Say, can I borrow that recipe? File that under things you don’t want to say if you ever find yourself living next to a Brazilian cannibal couple accused of cooking human flesh empanada and selling the savory treats to their neighbors. A...
Is the Turing Test Ready to Tumble?
Long the unmatched standard for artificial intelligence, it looks like the Turing Test might be ready to crack. According to a new essay in the April 12th edition of Science, a cognitive scientist at the French National Center for...