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Zombies, nukes and demon sheep: Scariest political ads of all time!

Why do elections always come right after Halloween? Maybe because politicians love to use zombies, demon sheep and apocalyptic imagery in their ads, so the scariest time of year works perfectly. Here’s a video compilation of our favorite horror/apocalyptic spots. Additional reporting by John Siegel and Chelsea Lo Pinto. Video edited by John Siegel.

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Learn how to pilot an Apollo moon lander by looking at your necktie

If you’re ever stuck flying an Apollo Program module, you’d better hope you’re wearing this necktie, which is silk-screened with schematics from NASA’s newly declassified Apollo Operations Handbook. It’s just one entrant in NASA’s new contest, in partnership with Etsy.com. The Apollo Progam module tie comes from Etsy user toybreaker, who explains: [It’s not] Rocket…

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Magnetar has magnetic fields that are mysteriously intense

Pulsars, or neutron stars, are the universe’s densest objects other than black holes. Special pulsars known as magnetars can have intense magnetic fields up to a trillion times stronger than our Sun…but one strange magnetar has been hiding its powers. All neutron stars are incredibly dense and incredibly magnetized – they pack the mass of…

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Guillermo del Toro is pitching a take for ABC’s new Hulk series

Looks like the major networks are ready to get back into the comic book business. Marvel just announced a whole slew of characters they’re cooking up TV shows for, including the Incredible Hulk, possibly with a Guillermo del Toro twist! THR is reporting that ABC and Marvel are teaming up to make their Hulk television…

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The supercomputer that folded a protein

The atoms of proteins move around in incredibly complicated ways, but modeling how all those moving parts fit together is vital to understanding biology. Now, thanks to a supercomputer, you can see every step of the process right here. The image below (you can click it for a larger view) reveals just a portion of…

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Community’s sappy space movie tribute had “The Right Stuff”

Last night, Community served up a spoof of sappy space movies that was just as great as its past tributes to action movies and Goodfellas. Here are our favorite moments. This week the gang was trapped inside a KFC-sponsored space flight simulator from the 80s. Here’s a few of our favorite moments. The top clip…

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5 times we almost nuked ourselves by accident

We spent the Cold War in perpetual fear that the U.S. and U.S.S.R. would start an intentional nuclear conflict. The truth is, we came far closer to blowing ourselves up with nuclear weapons than we ever came to WWIII. Nuclear incidents have a bunch of ominous military code names, like Broken Arrow, Faded Giant or…

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Fringe tells the truth about your fake relationships

Fringe took on a heavy legacy when it decided to name an episode after one of Philip K. Dick’s greatest novels. But last night’s spectacular episode actually delivered something approaching a PKD-level of insanity and neuron disruption. Spoilers ahead. So who’s having real emotions in the Fringe-verse, and who’s just pretending? Who’s a machine and…

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Mountain goats scramble up a near-vertical wall in Italy

Humans can erect walls hundreds of feet high, but they can’t keep the Alpine ibex from climbing over. Check out these insane pictures of the mountain-dwelling creatures scaling the Cingino Dam, licking salty minerals off the rock faces. These were taken in the mountainous Piedmont region of Italy, where local fauna treat massive industrial projects…

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Airplane food tastes bad because your brain can’t handle the noise

For as long as there have been hack comedians, humanity has pondered the question: “What’s the deal with airline food?” Well, science has figured it out: airplanes are just too damn loud for food to taste good. Generally speaking, it’s not just that airplane food tastes bad – most passengers, when asked, report that the…

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One of the best comic books of the 1990s is coming back at last

The mid-1990s was the heyday of Vertigo Comics, DC’s trippy, grown-up imprint. But one of the best Vertigo-esque comics appeared instead, almost unnoticed, on DC’s Milestone Imprint. And after 14 years, the unsettling supernatural nanotechnology tale XOMBI is coming back. XOMBI is definitely in my top 10 favorite comics ever, and might be in the…

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Why boomerangs come back

Here’s a guide to the physics of a boomerang’s mid-air turn. If you, like many others, have ever received a boomerang as a present, then you know its remarkable achievement; getting people to buy, throw, and then chase and retrieve sticks. I have never in my life thrown a boomerang in such a way that…

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Alec Baldwin is joining the Men in Black, plus Jon Hamm might (sort of) get to play Superman after all!

Jack Donaghy, a Bond Girl, a South African alien, a Pussycat Doll, and the reigning queen of internet memes all join the new Men in Black movie. Plus why Oz is the most Robert Downey, Jr. character ever. Spoiler alert! Spider-Man Reboot: Sony is offering no comment on whether the reports about Rhys Ifans playing…

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Disney is Selling Official Tron Hooker Shoes for $795

It’s not just hooker shoes, either. Disney’s also flogging a delightful $2,600 sterling-silver Tron necklace and $150 belt-buckle, just in time to get dressed for the movie’s December release. [Disney via Technabob via Kotaku] https://gizmodo.com/daft-punks-tron-soundtrack-out-on-november-22nd-5648663

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The Tech Support Call of Our Dreams

There’s a chick two phones over with a stuffed penguin doll and a poster of some bearded dude with swords. Tech support? Heck, I’d want to be transferred over to her for any call. What’s sad is I was genuinely excited for a stick figure in a comic. That’s how deep my longing for telephonic…

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Why the Singularity isn’t going to happen

I don’t believe in the Singularity for the same reason I don’t believe in Heaven. Once I met a Singularity zealot who claimed that eating potato chips after the Singularity would induce sublime ecstasy. Our senses would be so heightened that we could completely focus our whole attention on the ultimate chippiness of the chip.…

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Doctor Who’s youngest companion looks more like Harry Potter than ever

Harry, Hermione and Ron Luke, Rani and Clyde face the Nightmare Man, with super-dramatic speechifying. Remaking one of Voyager’s silliest episodes was a weird move for Doctor Who’s kid-friendly spin-off, but I defy you to watch that scene without squeeing. The Star Trek: Voyager episode, of course, was “The Thaw,” in which a campy clown…

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Watch the first 5 minutes of Megamind

Say goodbye to Will Ferrell’s blue-headed parents as they jettison him off their dying planet and onto Earth, to live in a prison full of evil geniuses. Check out the first five minutes of the CG-animated supervillain epic Megamind. MEGAMIND SNEAK PEEK Watch all your favorite shows on Nick MEGAMIND EpisodesMEGAMINDGames Megamind is in theaters…

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It’s J.G. Ballard’s future. We’re just living in it.

The good news is, we’re living in a science fiction novel. The bad news is, it was written by J. G. Ballard. When people complain that the Golden Age of science fiction never came true, they usually mean that the space programme has devolved to a series of uncrewed robot missions, or that we don’t…

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Zombies, nukes and demon sheep: Scariest political ads of all time!

Learn how to pilot an Apollo moon lander by looking at your necktie

Magnetar has magnetic fields that are mysteriously intense

Guillermo del Toro is pitching a take for ABC’s new Hulk series

The supercomputer that folded a protein

Community’s sappy space movie tribute had “The Right Stuff”

5 times we almost nuked ourselves by accident

Fringe tells the truth about your fake relationships

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Mountain goats scramble up a near-vertical wall in Italy

Airplane food tastes bad because your brain can’t handle the noise

One of the best comic books of the 1990s is coming back at last

Why boomerangs come back

Alec Baldwin is joining the Men in Black, plus Jon Hamm might (sort of) get to play Superman after all!

Disney is Selling Official Tron Hooker Shoes for $795

The Tech Support Call of Our Dreams

Why the Singularity isn’t going to happen

Doctor Who’s youngest companion looks more like Harry Potter than ever

Watch the first 5 minutes of Megamind

It’s J.G. Ballard’s future. We’re just living in it.

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