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A Brief Tour of the Biggest, Baddest, Most Depressing Day in American...
Photo via Flickr / CC. Here's a long-shot planetary alignment to grind through your high-frequency algorithms, you svelte quant, you: In the annals of Great American Money Shots, today, July 8, is...
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The "Dark Seoul" Hackers Were After South Korean Military Secrets
New light has been shed on the major cyberattack that wiped out tens of thousands of computers in South Korea in March. According to a new report from security firm McAfee Labs, the hackers weren’t...
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Canada Is Running 280 Times More Oil Trains This Year, and Some of Them Just...
Image: Jessica Dostie, Twitter A northbound train carrying seventy-three oil tanker cars derailed last night, for reasons still unclear. Those cars slid like steel death sleds seven miles down a...
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Backyard Farmers Keep Abandoning Their Old Chickens
A typical hen's blank, psycho stare. Via You As A Machine/Flickr As much as having fresh eggs every morning sounds awesome, backyard chicken farmers are apparently facing reality en masse: Urban animal...
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You Probably Inhaled the NYPD's Subway Gas Mapper on Your Morning Commute
Image: Wikimedia If you rode the Subway today in New York City on your way to work you probably inhaled a little more than your usual cocktail of bacteria and fungi. The NYPD is beginning an...
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The 'Southland Tales' That Never End: An Interview With Richard Kelly
Photos by Joshua Shultz After the success of his indie phenomenon Donnie Darko in 2001, writer/director Richard Kelly set out to make his magnum opus. A sprawling, apocalyptic sci-fi thriller/satire...
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Technology, Global Conspiracy, and Your Smartphone Collide in 'Deus Ex: The...
Back in 2000, Ion Storm's Deus Ex revolutionized gaming by blending various types of genres (RPG, adventure, etc.) and environments, drawing heavily on cyberpunk and dystopian imagery in crafting its...
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Solar Impulse Is Slower Than the First Airplane to Cross America
With a slow and steady landing Saturday night at JFK, the Solar Impulse completed the first solar-powered transcontinental flight. Some—on this very website—have called the Solar Impulse’s journey an...
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Why South Africa's Proposed Rhino Horn Auction Won't Work As Advertised
A southern white rhino hanging out in Kruger National Park, via Sheree/Flickr The South African government is reportedly preparing for a massive rhino horn auction that could see thousands of pounds of...
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Carbon Capture Works, But Not Everywhere
Weyburn-Midale's carbon capture center. Photo via Petroleum Technology Research Centre Capturing carbon dioxide at its source and piping it back into the Earth is one of the better methods we've got...
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State Department Says It Doesn't Know Keystone XL Pipeline's Exact Route
Photo: Shannon Ramos/Flickr Yet the latest example of the absurdity surrounding the proposed Keystone XL tar sands pipeline: It seems that the US State Department doesn't even know the exact route...
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Solar Headphones and Bikinis Will Power Your Gadgets
Image: Solar Coterie Thus far, most wearable solar panels have been a joke. Solar backpacks, solar handbags, and solar shirts have all looked undeniably tacky in that loud and special sort of way that...
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Now You Can Turn Anything Into a 'Drone'
Who doesn't want their own drone? No, not for engaging military special ops, endless gazing, or shadow warfare, but because it's cool when benign objects go airborne without a human on board. Sure,...
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Wooden Legs and Duck Feet: A Brief History of Prosthetic Innovation
It's not often you see a duck with a prosthesis, but one Buttercup the duck has a new foot. Buttercup, whose mobility was hindered by a foot deformity, can now swim and waddle without discomfort...
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The Invasive Tiger Mosquito and West Nile Virus Are New Yorkers Now
Photo via the CDC Last year when I lived above the tire shop, I got in the habit of scanning my bedroom ceiling and walls—hunting for tigers, armed with just a magazine. Thanks to ill-fitting window...
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Should We Be Making Bank Off Our Own Personal Data?
As any savvy consumer knows, there’s big money to be made off our personal data. I'm talking gobs upon gobs of cash, potentially. You needn't look any further than Facebook’s newly launched Graph...
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Your Twitter Behavior Is More Predictable Than a Bot's
This guy's got more randomness than you could ever hope to have. No matter what kind of personality a company's corporate Twitter account has, or how well a bot is programmed, tweet timing alone can be...
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Beyond the Rift: How the Oculus Kick-Started a New DIY Virtual Reality Movement
Image: MTBS3D On his website, Rod Furlan describes himself as an artificial intelligence researcher, a quantitative analyst, and an alumnus of the Singularity University. He also makes things: personal...
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Scientists Used Liquid Metal to 3D Print Antlers on Bugs
Watch your back, soldering irons; you and your lead smoke are about to be disruptively innovated to oblivion. Researchers at North Carolina State demonstrated a new 3D printing method for shaping...
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China's Coal Addiction Is Cutting Years Off Lives
Photo: Chris Tse/Flickr China's economic rise, powered in the most part by prodigious consumption of coal, has a dark counterweight in the rampant environmental degradation that accompanied it—a...
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