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I Want to Donate My Eggs to NASA for the Future of Humanity
This article originally ran on VICE.com.Ā I would like to donate my ova to NASA so that they can raise babies in a highly controlled environment, see how human physiology changes over time/in weird...
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Can We Stop Worshipping Cats, Because They're Evil as Hell
Twitter's new Vine service is rad, but it hadn't fully arrived until now. Yes, Vinecats.comĀ has arrived, as signals that Vine has been fully accepted by the internet because it can finally trade in...
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Will the Only Senator to Stand up to John Brennan Be the One Who Was Tortured?
Amid the commotion over Chuck Hagel's nomination to lead the defense department, Obama's pick for CIA director has received considerably less attention. But if John McCain's stance on torture and his...
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Free Tip for Elected Officials: Do Not Like 'Big Bootie Freaks' on Facebook
Rotund rump afficionado Charles Mainor. ImageĀ via NJ.com It feels like a no-brainer for all you social media native kids out there, but the generation that's currently running the country doesn't...
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Choose Your Own Adventure-Maker: Twine and the Art of Personal Games
One of the best video games I played in 2012 is set about two miles from my apartment. It's calledĀ Brooklyn Trash King,Ā and it informed me thatĀ raccoons are gaining control of the neighborhood.Ā It...
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ToƩ, the 'Witchcraft Plant' That's Spoiling Ayahuasca Tourism
Maybe you know it as the angel's trumpet, or Hell's bells, or simplyĀ Brugmansia, a genus of flowering plant with seven recognized species.Ā Whatever the case, toĆ© is notorious. Every part of the plant...
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Will Internet Poker Make a Comeback by Going Brick-and-Mortar?
The Atlantic Club, which online gambling consortium Rational Group wants to acquire. Via Groupon It's the most modern lament in retail: Brick-and-mortar shopping has gone the way of the dodo as...
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Why Do I Loathe My Phone So Much?
I was a little late to the smartphone party. Not too lateāI got an iPhone in 2009ābut back then was a different time for smartphones, one with fewer apps and slower downloads. I upgraded over the...
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Why Would You Want a Tacocopter When You Could Have a Cupcake Drone?
This has to be one of the most impractical uses of civilian drones I've ever seen. But let's be real. If the future of food delivery is in small unmanned drones, you better believe I want all my...
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The Keystone XL Protests Just Ignited the Climate Movement
It is the middle February. Along the East Coast, itās freezing outside, or at least it feels that way to us humans. But up in Greenland, the ice sheet is still melting, even though itās the dead of...
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No Wonder Apple Wants to Get into the Smartwatch Business
You can't dip one toe in the tech blog waters without getting bitten by an iWatch rumor these days. Apple is working on a smartwatchāeven fancy newspapers like The New York Times and The Wall Street...
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Don't Worry, but Radioactive Gas from North Korea Has Been Detected (Update:...
The cloud of xenon-133, as projected by regression models. Both images via ZAMG Kind of a big update here: I just received an email from Annika Thunborg, a spokeswoman for theĀ Comprehensive...
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To Protect Yourself from Chinese Hackers, Buy Solar Panels
Chinese hackers are infiltrating everything nowadays:Ā the New York Times, the State Department, your little sister's World of Warcraft account. But everybody from private security officials on up to...
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It's All Fun and Games Until the Hackers Go After Your MacBook
Everybody! Gather whatever belongings you can and head to the nearest fallout shelter, because hackers just broke into Apple Headquarters, and the evil code-clipping villains got Facebook, too. In...
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Watch a Chinese "Cyber Espionage Unit" Steal Files from an American Hard...
Chinese hackers are taking over, you know? They're the talk of the town today, thanks to this Mandiant report that the New York Times got its hands on. And, because we live in the future now, the...
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Rappers in Space
If you take southern hip hop music seriously, or have a fondness in your heart for the diamond-encrusted excesses of the Cash Money era, you probably appreciate the badly Photoshopped album covers...
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The Cosmic Reality Check of "Full Moon Silhouettes"
On the full moon, residents of Wellington, New Zealand climb to the top of Mount Victoria (196 meters, also a prominant Lord of the Rings location) to watch its breathtaking rise. Last month,...
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A Drone Attacking Innocent Americans (Harlem Shake Version)
For the past couple of weeks, I've been hearing this "Harlem Shake" phrase being passed around. I haven't seen what it is yet, the original video. I theoretically don't even know what it is. It was...
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When Old, Out-of-Copyright Art Becomes Free Art
All works of art eventually fall out of copyright. The laws surrounding the topic vary from country to country and case to case, but the symphonies of Beethoven, Brahms and Tchaikovsky, for example,...
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Ironically, a Man's Face Can Tell You If He's Likely to Act Racist
Not every face predicts racist behavior as strongly as this one. But some men's faces do in much subtler ways. Image via Southern Poverty Law Center What can we tell about a person from his or her...
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