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This Week’s Top Web Comedy Video: Are Men Funny?

Gender roles! Fun to talk about, even more fun to reverse, and extra super duper fun to argue about until you pass out from exhaustion. So let’s do all three! The rest of this weeks top comedy videos, including a new restaurant, Bob Dylan’s Titanic, and BIG TRUCKS! can be fond over at Splitsider. Other…

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Bond-Style Yacht, Vintage Speakers, Courtyard Gondola, and More

Relax at the end of your long work week and take a moment to check out these lovely things. From a versatile fan-like wall shelf, to a yacht meant for a super villain, these are the most beautiful items of the week. https://gizmodo.com/delightful-vintage-speakers-resurrected-for-your-music-5929583 Delightful Vintage Speakers Resurrected for Your Music Player If you walk into…

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Scientists use light to control monkey brains

Optogenetics, a brand new field of research in which living, cortical neurons and other cells can be manipulated or controlled with optical technology (namely fiber optic cables), has been heralded as the next big thing for treating such things as heart conditions, paralysis, and even diabetes. https://gizmodo.com/tomorrows-pacemakers-could-be-powered-by-light-5831503 https://gizmodo.com/a-few-tiny-leds-could-help-paralyzed-people-move-their-5651805 https://gizmodo.com/blue-light-could-cure-diabetes-5815340 Up until now, however, they’ve only…

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Pentathlon: You Win the Gold Medal or You Die

DOLPH LUNDGREN. COMMUNISTS. STEROIDS. OLYMPICS. There’s really nothing else I feel like I need to say about this film, except that it was a wonderful piece of Olympic-themed, paranoid propaganda from the mid-’90s, seemingly hellbent on rubbing it in the face of the fallen communist regimes of Europe. After you watch all the goodwill being…

Tech News Adrian Covert

Why do so many “unhealthy” people live to see 100?

Planning on living to see 100? It’s probably a good idea to eat right and exercise. But then again, maybe you don’t have to. What about those people who eat, smoke and drink their sedentary asses into their 80s, 90s, 100s and beyond? SciAm’s Katherine Harmon gives you the lowdown on why, when it comes…

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Prince “Alter Ego” Scans

The opening page. Prince is back in Minneapolis! Alert the citizenry! Prince rides a purple motorcycle, which later gets blown up after a dramatic motorcycle chase sequence with Gemini. There is music in Minneapolis, and only Prince can hear it. Is that Lake Minnetonka? You probably have to take your clothes off before Prince will…

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Spot the nods to Paul Verhoeven’s original in these 5 Total Recall clips

Can’t decide if the Total Recall reboot is an abomination or a great idea? Watch these five clips, and decide. Plus see if you can spot all the little winks to Paul Verhoeven’s original movie, starting with the lady in mustard.

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3 Million Suckers Still Pay For AOL Dial-Up

Remember the whimsical sounds your 56k modem made as it connected to AOL? BADONG-BADONG! Then a semi-officious voice announced you were online, “Welcome!” Yeah, that was in the 90’s. Well according to the company’s latest earnings report there are three million fools who are still paying for AOL dial-up Internet. WHHHHHHY? According to Dan Frommer…

Tech News Mario Aguilar

Rare photographs of atomic bomb testing at Bikini Atoll

When io9 reader Chris Carey’s grandfather, a WWII veteran, passed away, he took it upon himself to assemble a slideshow for the funeral. While searching through a dusty photo album that he’d found in the attic, Carey made an incredible find: numerous photographs of the atomic bomb testing conducted at Bikini Atoll. Carey recounted his…

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You’ve Got to Be Crafty to Take Down the Empire With this LEGO Star Wars Chess Set

This whole rebellion business could have been handled with much more savvy than just blowing up home planets and Deathstars. Both sides could have sat down to a friendly no-holds-barred, all-or-nothing chess match with the fate of the galaxy on the line like civilized people. This Star Wars: Return of the Jedi chess set from…

Tech News Andrew Tarantola

Today’s pop music really does all sound the same — and science can prove it

Music snobs, take heed. Detailed analysis of songs produced between 1955 and 2010 confirms what you’ve always known in your heart to be true: modern pop music really has gotten louder, and it all sounds exactly the same. All aboard the train to smug-town! Your vindication comes in the form of a peer-reviewed study, published…

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The Best Science Fiction Writer You Didn’t Know You’d Read, Part 2

Last month, we took a look at the comic novels of Fredric Brown — the greatest science fiction writer that everybody’s read without realizing it. Now, let’s take a look at his three more serious novels. https://gizmodo.com/the-best-science-fiction-writer-you-didnt-know-youd-rea-5918638 In between his classic comic SF novels What Mad Universe and Martians Go Home!, Fredric Brown came out…

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The Hobbit’s Thorin Oakenshield tells us what happens when you get a dwarf drunk

The Hobbit’s Richard Armitage plays the stoic Thorin Oakenshield, the leader of the dwarves and a very strong presence throughout The Hobbit. But how will this lofty, Lordly character play with today’s movie audiences? We asked, and Armitage answered — plus find out what other songs we’ll be hearing from Armitage in the movie! Is…

io9 Meredith Woerner

Flock, Chameleon Clock, and More

There’s plenty of awesomeness in this edition of the best iPhone apps. Whether it’s a way to convince your kids to do their chores, or a beautiful way to check the weather, you’ll have plenty of new titles to add to your iPhone. Chameleon Clock: Careful. If you don’t look closely enough you might miss…

Tech News Leslie Horn

The Walking Dead, Anatomy and Physiology, and More

You need a strong stomach for this week’s best iPad apps. We’re giving you a zombie-fighting game, an anatomy reference, and more. Hope you don’t lose your lunch! Dr. Seuss’s The Cat in the Hat Color & Create: Who wasn’t a Dr. Seuss fan as a kid? Now little ones can enjoy the classics on…

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Final Fantasy, IntelliRing, and More

This week’s batch of Android is full of guilty pleasures. Between a gluttonous new titles and your old favorite video game, you’re phone will have plenty of new ways to kill time. Out of Milk: Like many of us here at Gizmodo, you probably forget to buy groceries. And often. This app will let you…

Tech News Leslie Horn

Who Does Military Overkill Sports Flyovers Better: USA vs UK

The opening ceremony of the Olympics is happening right now, kicked off by a giant, colored-smoke flyover by the Royal Air Force’s Red Arrows squadron. Pretty cool! Your pounds at work! But does it beat… The Super Bowl? Those RAF boys just dropped thick ropes of red white and blue (no, not that kind) over…

Tech News Sam Biddle

How Top 10‘s Zander Cannon fell in love with science

Zander Cannon is best known for his stellar artwork for Alan Moore’s Top 10, the story of a superhero police force handling day to day problems in Neopolis, where everyone has super powers. But over the years, Cannon has become involved with creating graphic novels about factual science subjects. Cannon and longtime collaborator Kevin Cannon…

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Why do we hate seeing photos of ourselves?

You know what I’m talking about. There you are, clicking through your friend’s Facebook album, when suddenly you happen upon a picture of yourself — or rather, a slightly less attractive version of yourself. The “real” you appears to have been abducted, replaced with some second-rate knock off. What gives? you ask yourself. Is that…

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What shameful weakness causes dimples?

What causes those adorable dimples in people’s cheeks? A terrible muscular deficiency. That’s right — every time someone smiles and shows off dimples, they’re actually revealing their ultimate weakness. Or a little genetic quirk. Whichever. Dimples are especially common in the face, because the muscles pull the skin on the face around, instead of just…

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This Week’s Top Web Comedy Video: Are Men Funny?

Bond-Style Yacht, Vintage Speakers, Courtyard Gondola, and More

Scientists use light to control monkey brains

Pentathlon: You Win the Gold Medal or You Die

Why do so many “unhealthy” people live to see 100?

Prince “Alter Ego” Scans

Spot the nods to Paul Verhoeven’s original in these 5 Total Recall clips

3 Million Suckers Still Pay For AOL Dial-Up

Rare photographs of atomic bomb testing at Bikini Atoll

You’ve Got to Be Crafty to Take Down the Empire With this LEGO Star Wars Chess Set

Today’s pop music really does all sound the same — and science can prove it

The Best Science Fiction Writer You Didn’t Know You’d Read, Part 2

The Hobbit’s Thorin Oakenshield tells us what happens when you get a dwarf drunk

Flock, Chameleon Clock, and More

The Walking Dead, Anatomy and Physiology, and More

Final Fantasy, IntelliRing, and More

Who Does Military Overkill Sports Flyovers Better: USA vs UK

How Top 10‘s Zander Cannon fell in love with science

Why do we hate seeing photos of ourselves?

What shameful weakness causes dimples?

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