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Why Reindeer Have Red Noses
Here's something that might just blow your ever-loving mind: Rudolph may not be the only reindeer with a red nose. Thanks to research published today, it appears that reindeer noses are redder than...
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The World's Fastest-Growing Cause of Death Is Pollution from Car Exhaust
Cars, once again, are killing us. They're killing us in crashes and accidents, yes, and they're encouraging us to grow obese and then killing us a little more slowly. But, more than ever before,...
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Duel Analog: Spacewar! vs. Angry Birds
The modern videogame as we know it was born in 1962 thanks to a team of student engineers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. It was on ancient, bulky and expensive computers--the PDP-1,...
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Baseball Pitchers Might Soon Wear Helmets
Unequal's padded kevlar pitcher's hat liner Pitchers have it the worst. Not only does the fate of the game rest heavily on their shoulders, but they're the closest and largest targets in the batters'...
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Instagram Clearly Hates You, So Quit (Update!)
Instagram, probably with the weight of the $1 billion that Facebook gave it earlier this year sitting on its head, has finally figured out that it needs to make a lot of money, fast. With that need,...
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Spaced Out: Open Source Outer Space: How a Couple of Guys Are Building a...
Episode seven of Spaced Out, Motherboard's space show on VICE's YouTube station. Anyone with enough brains and balls can build their own rocket and fly it to space. Or at least that’s what the...
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Does Britain Still Love Drugs?
Ask anyone in Britain's Home Office--even David Cameron himself--whether the specter of clench-toothed, pilled-up, and strung-out raving masses is finally a thing of the past, and you'll get a fairly...
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The U.S. Forest Service Predicts a Dry, Deforested America in 2060
The U.S. Forest Service just peered into the future, and it's kind of freaking out. It released its Future of America's Forests and Rangelands Report (pdf) today, and, surprise, it brings some grim...
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Capitalism Is Winning the Apple-Samsung Patent War
The seemingly never-ending patent war between Apple and Samsung came a little bit closer to a conclusion this week. But that doesn't mean either company is coming out as a winner. After nearly two...
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Astronomers Discover Three Habitable Planets, So When Can We Visit?
Remember when we didn't know how the dinosaurs died? Or when the solar system only had nine planets? How about the time everyone thought that Earth was the only planet in the universe? My how far...
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Sweden's Arctic North Might Be the Next Spaceport
Sweden draws in tourists with its picturesque but frigid Arctic winters, its culture, and its pop culture claim to fame as the site of Stieg Larsson’s The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo. But there might...
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Just a Drone, Landing
Call it What a Drone Looks Like From a Drone. It's a quiet, almost graceful companion photo to Dronestagram, James Bridle's deceptively grim Google Maps-inspired mission to map the blast sites that...
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China Made a Trailer to Hype the City It Will Build in the Ashes of 700...
Say you're a central planner, and you want to blow up 700 or so mountains in order to build a shiny new city near a place where 3.6 million people already live. What might you do to take your...
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Improbable Truths: Searching for Meaning in the Sandy Hook Conspiracy Theories
“In the presence of death,” wrote author Ambrose Bierce, “reason and philosophy are silent.” Bierce knew from whence he spoke. Aside from being a great writer, he was a soldier for the entirety of the...
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What the Republican Governor's Gun Veto Says (and Doesn't Say) About...
The entire country is talking guns, and certain parts of it are buying more of them. But Michigan governor Rick Snyder became one of the first politicians to take action yesterday, vetoing a bill that...
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World's Most Ironic Coal Museum Is Powered by Hundreds of Solar Panels
Coal power is a dinosaur. And there's no better proof that the energy source is outmoded than this: a coal museum in Britain is now getting its power from 400 solar panels that were recently installed...
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Instagram "Slut" Account Triggers a Swedish Teenage Riot
So much inane gibberish gets spouted about the power of social media to "harness crowds for good" and so forth that I almost selfishly relish any opportunity to debunk its halo. Especially if said...
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Could an International Migrants' Bill of Rights Actually Work?
An immigrant rights demonstration in NYC in 2010, via Getty Images The unending debate over immigration in the US isn't going to be solved with political rhetoric, as evidenced by the long stalling of...
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Using Drones to Simulate Landing Robots on the Moon
Prototype lunar lander at Moon Express proving groud (via) Humans haven't set foot on lunar soil in 30 years, which is pretty sad. But with the dawn of privatized space flight and exploration...
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The Eagle-Snatching-Baby Video Is Insane, But It's Also Fake (Update!)
I knew we were all in for an epic display of virality (sorry) last night when I saw about a dozen unrelated people share the same video last night, a video that features a toddler in Montreal, one...
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