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How Will Smith Used Pulp Sci-Fi to Conquer the Box Office
Image: Screenshot, MIB 3 Will Smith is the king of modern cinematic science fiction, even though sci-fi diehards and Smith fans alike won't admit it. His latest vehicle, 'After Earth', opens today,...
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Does the RIAA Know When It's Been Beat?
Image: Andy Armstrong/Creative Commons The poor recording industry can't seem to cut a break. I'd even feel bad for it, if it wasn’t so moronic about piracy. Despite research continuing to suggest...
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This Plot To Turn Penn Station Into a Futuristic "City Within a City" Gets It...
Penn Station is a major intercity transport hub in New York and on Wednesday this week the Municipal Arts Society invited four firms to submit their proposals for its redesign. As well as creating a...
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Maybe Mainstream Jazz Isn't the Best Form for Deep-Space Sonification
Binary system/Christine Pulliam If some signal from the other side of the universe can be assigned a numerical value, it can be translated into sound. Even better is when a bunch of signals—radio...
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Brian Eno to Art: "I Just Want Things That Can Go On Forever"
Welp, it’s another Brian Eno thing, but a Brian Eno thing is still a thing about or by Brian Eno and, thus, almost certainly interesting and worth seven minutes of your time. This latest comes...
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Researchers Just 'Hacked' HIV with Supercomputer Help
Capsids/theoretical and Computational Biophysics Group, Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology, UIUC Figure this: in 1928, the biologist Alexander Fleming took a vacation, leaving...
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New Jersey's Silverball Pinball Museum Is My Everything
Pinball is pretty much all I care about. I make art and I write and I have friends and blah blah blah, but it's all just a means to get quarters and play pinball. The best place to play pinball on...
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Why Does It Take Going Hungry To Go Free?
Image: Alan Ireland In April, The New York Times published an unclassified telephone call between Samir Naji al Hasan Moqbel, a prisoner at Guantanamo Bay and his lawyers. It began, "One man here...
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Rational Thinking Is a Lot Less Rational Than You Thought
You and I both no doubt take some certain amount of pride in our abilities to think rationally. We can take a view of the world and apply objectivity to it, consider facts over emotions, and distrust...
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Dude Sweat Makes Other Dudes Nicer, Bro
Image: The Gender Society/Creative Commons That headline is the essence of the findings of a new study in the journal PLOS ONE. To be more specific, a suspected male pheromone called androstadienone...
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Scientists Have Sequenced the Genome of Cocoa to Make Better Tasting Chocolate
Image via Cliff/Flickr Chocoholics, rejoice: Science is trying to make your Mars bar taste better. Well, technically, Mars is trying to make your Mars bar taste better. Scientists at the company (and...
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Facebook Can Boost Your Self-Esteem, If You Use It Sparingly
Photo via tschundler/Flickr It might make you a narcissist, it makes you a worse employee and it could make you depressed, but dammit if it also doesn’t make you feel good. According to a new study,...
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The Next Five Years of Explosive Internet Growth, in Seven Graphs
This whole internet thing doesn't appear to be going away anytime soon, says a new Cisco report looking at growth trends in global traffic. According to the latest edition of the Cisco Visual...
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A Summer of Hurricane Hell Is Upon Us, and We're Firing Storm Forecasters
Image: Wikimedia Commons This summer is going to be a stormy hurricane-filled hell—climatologists are predicting more extreme activity this season than the last, and remember Frankenstorm Sandy? So...
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Turkish Prime Minister Calls Twitter a Menace to Society, Fails to Understand...
Twitter has been crucial to disseminating information from the protests and violence in Turkey, with graffiti already showing up to match. Image via @teasy THFC “There is now a scourge that is called...
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Why Is the Government Helping Amazon Build an E-Book Monopoly?
Publishers found refuge from Amazon's aggressive pricing model with Apple's own system. The e-commerce ecosystem is facing massive change, and for once it's not from movies or music. Instead, it's...
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Watching Strangers Watch a Beloved TV Character Die
Spoiler alerts, obviously. One of the few truly novel phenomena to stem from the rise of YouTube is the reaction-shot video. Ten years ago, the prospect of filming your buddy watching a twist in a...
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Money and Security Questions Are Keeping Science Behind the Paywall
Image via Andrew Smith/Flickr At the second annual global meeting of the Global Research Council in Berlin, a group of research-funding agencies called for increased public access to the studies they...
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America's First Extra Vehicular Activity Was an Extra-Curricular Activity
On June 3, 1965, Ed White stepped out above Hawaii and, for twenty minutes, became the first American human spaceship. He would have been up there longer if it hadn't been for the spoilsports down at...
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This Lensless Camera Never Needs Focusing, Has Already Taken Cat Pics
If you get annoyed when your pictures of your cat Mopsy end up out of focus, imagine how frustrating out of focus images are in situation that are actually important, like surveillance. Researchers at...
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