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This Is How Video Artist Fabio Di Donato Made 'Around Saturn'
Around Saturn from fabio di donato on Vimeo. About two weeks ago, Fabio Di Donato’s video Around Saturn bolted across the internet like a meteor in the sky. Di Donato’s short film is compiled from...
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We're Halfway to Turning Coral Reefs into Submarine "Gravel Parking Lots"
Photo: NOAA/Flickr At the rate that carbon emissions are increasing, we could double today's 400 parts carbon dioxide per million–itself much higher than the 280 ppm at the start of the Industrial...
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Central Asia's Water Supply Is Disappearing with Himalaya's Glaciers
Photo: Anja Disseldorp/Flickr It's conventional climate-change wisdom at this point that as the planet warms, the glaciers of the Himalayas, which every spring feed water into rivers that supply some...
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The Five Most Underrated Sharks
A frilled shark, via Citron/Wikipedia The programmers of Shark Week has a tendency to focus on the big guns of the shark family, and who can blame them? Great whites, threshers, and assuredly extinct...
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Meet Paul Hellyer, the World's Highest Ranking Alien Believer
When I first heard that Paul Hellyer, Canada’s former minister of defence, had revealed he truly believes in extraterrestrial life, I was very, very happy. Paul made the biggest headlines regarding...
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Will Cutting the Price of the Chevy Volt Make More People Want It?
Chevrolet Volt and Nissan Leaf getting charged. Image via Wikimedia Commons After watching sales of the Nissan Leaf expand since it’s price was cut substantially earlier this year, General Motors...
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Hawaii's Restaurant Menus Have Chronicled the Decline of Its Coral Reefs
Photo: Flickr/szeke A taste for green sea turtle meat and eggs has led to the giant reptile becoming endangered, but don't blame restaurants in Hawaii, where many green turtles live. A study designed...
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Reddit Laughs in the Face of Death
Image: Flickr When an item reaches the top slot on Reddit, it is all but guaranteed that story, image, or video will receive at least a few hundred thousand page views, maybe more. Today, at time of...
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The Alleged Author of a NASA-Hacking Virus Will Be Extradited to the U.S.
So you don't have to pretend like you know where Latvia is, via Wikimedia Commons Latvia has agreed to extradite Deniss Calovskis, one of three alleged authors of the “Gozi virus,” to the United...
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For One Second, a Supercomputer Mimicked the Human Brain
Photo via RIKEN. Comparing the human brain to the fastest and most powerful computers in the world is a good way to fathom just how huge and complex it is. And the latest research shows, yet again,...
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The Sun's Magnetic Poles Are About to Flip
An artist's concept of what the heliospheric current sheet might do when the sun's magnetic field flips. Via Professor John Wilcox and Werner Heil The Sun may look stoic and unchanging from our...
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Wind Power, Not Natural Gas, Is Now the Fastest Growing Energy Source in the US
Photo via DIS Last year was a watershed year for renewable energy, which accounted for nearly half of all new energy capacity in the United States. Now, a pair of new Energy Department reports show...
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These High-Speed Snapshots of Water Droplets Are Nature's Kaleidoscope
Photos via Cornell If you could take a snapshot of a drop of water in motion after it splashes onto a surface, and deconstruct it into a series of intricate geometric patterns, the effect would be...
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Photos: "Brony" Culture Is Not What You Think It Is
All photos via the author. On the 99th anniversary of the Wuchang Uprising, animator Lauren Faust's reboot of the My Little Pony franchise premiered on the Hub network, enthralling critics, kids, and...
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This Drone Footage of a Quarry Demolition Is Pure, Unadulterated Destruction
It takes some serious stones to spin up a small-fry drone in 15-knot wind gusts, over a gaggle of local TV news crews, and in the midst of a controlled demolition to boot, which is exactly what we get...
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A Colorado Town Is Holding a Special Vote on Whether to Shoot Down Drones
Bears and drones and does eat oats... via Wikimedia Commons A small town in Colorado is going to have a town-wide vote on whether to issue hunting licenses for drones—with $100 rewards for shooting...
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Operation Decode San Francisco Will Hack the City's Legal Code
The city of San Francisco is set to be hacked tonight. Legally, of course. It's all part of the Operation Decode San Francisco effort, which will unwrap and simplify the city's dense, labyrinthine laws...
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Heroin Junkies Create the Most Depressing Instagrams
Image via Instagram Many friends of mine have had episodes with heroin. I never got around to shooting up myself, which supposedly was "the bomb," "ruled," and felt "better than being blown by Jesus."...
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Soldiers Looking for Hookups on Craigslist Are Being Warned of a Military...
Word has it there's a military sting operation to bust soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan who are using Craigslist to find casual hookups, and now troopers are being warned to keep their sexual exploits...
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When NASA and the Department of Defense Launched a Human Skull Into Space
The takeoff and landing of STS-28 (via). In the golden age of space flight, NASA was no stranger to sending all sorts of wacky shit into the void. It became a sort of wink 'n nod game for the agency,...
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