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These Kids Have No Idea Their Teachers Are Videobombing Them

Ugh, when you’re 16, adults are just the lamest. But these high schoolers have no idea just how cool their teachers are. Seriously, the kids are completely oblivious— as they’re interviewed on camera, their instructors are dancing around behind them. And who cares what the students are saying because some of these educators are really…

Tech News Leslie Horn

10 Best Time Travel Movies of All Timelines

Some day, people from the distant future will travel back to our era and inform us that science has conclusively identified the best movies about time travel. Until then, though, we’re forced to make our own judgements. Luckily, there are a few time-travel movies that have rocked our space/time continuums more than any others. In…

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What’s the Mailing Address of the International Space Station?

One day, when the price is low enough, we would be able to send actual letters and packages to space. But what would a mail address look like? Example: what’s the street and zip code of the Internation Space Station? Expedition 31 Flight Engineer Don Pettit asked himself that very same question during his stay…

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How do we measure the vast distances of the Universe?

Space, as we all know, is big. In fact, it’s more than big; it’s vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly big. But how big is that, exactly, and how do we go about assigning actual, quantifiable distances between planets, nebulae, and other cosmic entities? In this beautifully animated video, produced by the Royal Observatory Greenwich, astrophysicist Olivia Johnson…

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The first footage from Do No Harm, NBC’s Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde show

Oh man, Do No Harm looks ridiculous in an awesomely cheeseball way. NBC has revamped the classic horror tale of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde with kind, good-looking Dr. Jason Cole, who hides a sex maniac named Ian Price inside of him. I mean this guy loves sex, just take it from the synopsis! Every…

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Brilliant Thieves Steal $500,000 In Medical Equipment Loaded With Flesh-Eating Bacteria

Some criminal masterminds in Florida thought that stealing equipment from the Florida Hospital Center for Diagnostic Pathology was a brilliant idea. Now they have $500,000 in medical machines—loaded with flesh eating bacteria everywhere. The thieves loaded the biohazardous machines in a trailer pulled by a pickup truck, according to police spokesman Sgt. Vince Ogburn. Some…

Tech News Jesus Diaz

How Yahoo Killed Flickr and Lost the Internet

Web startups are made out of two things: people and code. The people make the code, and the code makes the people rich. Code is like a poem; it has to follow certain structural requirements, and yet out of that structure can come art. But code is art that does something. It is the assembly…

Social Media Mat Honan

Paralyzed Man Can Move Hand Again after Having Nerves ‘Rewired’

A 71-year-old man who was paralyzed in a 2008 car accident has regained motor function in his hands thanks to Washington University doctors who rewired his nerves to bypass the damaged ones. Though the patient could move his arms, he had lost the ability to pinch and grab with his fingers. Until now, that is.…

Tech News Adrian Covert

Giant Paperclips Turn Any Slab of Wood Into a Sturdy Table

Whether it’s an old door, a shelf you no longer need, or maybe even a section of floorboards, anything flat and broad can become a functional sturdy table with a set of these Tick table legs. They’re basically furniture-making paperclips. Made from a strategically bent piece of metal rod, the Tick leg clamps onto each…

Gadgets Andrew Liszewski

Mark Zuckerberg Betrayed Facebook’s Cofounder in This Email

According to that movie from 2010, Justin Timberlake persuaded Mark Zuckerberg to screw his college friend (and Facebook cofounder) Eduardo Saverin out of the company. Here’s the cutthroat email fact behind the movie fiction. SAI acquired emails between Zuckerberg and his lawyer from “a well-placed source,” discussing the consequences of unceremoniously booting Saverin out of…

Social Media Sam Biddle

Why Women Date Assholes

It’s well known that women find sexy, rebellious rogues attractive. Duh. But until now it’s not really been clear why women choose to turn that attraction into long-term relationships, when they know they stand a high chance of getting burned. New research, however, reveals that the secret lies in the hormones. Sure, a woman might…

Tech News Jamie Condliffe

In the Mood for a TV Marathon? All 13 Episodes of Battleground Are Available Right Now on Hulu

Everyone heads to Hulu to watch the best of network and cable TV wherever and whenever. But sometimes you’re in that mood where nothing appeals to you more than the thought of a serious TV marathon. This is where Battleground—Hulu’s original series about a group of under-30 small-town Wisconsin pundits working around the clock to…

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Dirtbag Racist Firefighter Demoted For Idiotic Facebook Rant About Travyon Martin

Usually we get pretty upset when someone gets in trouble at work or school for a status update or tweet. But this Florida firefighter got what he deserved after posting a racist rant on Facebook about Travyon Martin’s parents. Miami-Dade Fire Captain Brian Beckmann was demoted to the lowly rank of Firefighter after posting a…

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The curious case of the vulgar C-3PO trading card

The Star Wars films have become such cultural touchstones that even the most arcane background minutiae are subjected to intense fan scrutiny. https://gizmodo.com/is-darth-vaders-armor-proof-that-hes-secretly-jewish-5895340 Ditto goes for Star Wars paraphernalia, such as a 1977 Topps trading card, on which a stray piece of costuming made C-3PO look incredibly enthused to be aiding the Rebel cause. Just…

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Spork Chops Are the Perfect Secret Agent Utensil for Those Who Suck At Using Chopsticks

You’re in a Japanese restaurant. Or a Chinese restaurant. Or a Korean restaurant. Or to avoid being racist, any restaurant that uses chopsticks as its main conduit for food. It smells so good! But you’re sweating, your hands are shaking, you’re starving because you can only get one rice morsel at a time with those…

Tech News Casey Chan

A Nerd-Sexy Bikini Made from Old Electronics, and More from TreeHugger

This week we talk about how to return to a low-tech life to keep your sanity, 11 awesome modular gadget designs, a wheatgrass-growing “bio computer” and more! 1. Top 10 Tech Stories This Week: Brilliant Alarm Clock, Solar iPad Covers, Modular Gadgets, Low-Tech Reading and More Let’s start off with a collection of stories you…

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Help the New York Times find a better superpower metaphor

Over the weekend, New York Times tech reporter Nick Bilton posted an article about how Facebook can use its deep integration with other sites and apps (through Facebook Connect, the Open Graph developer platform, and Like buttons) to detect what’s happening on the Internet before anyone else. “Facebook is more tapped into the pulse of…

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A Puppy Might Be the Best Spot To Mount Your GoPro

You could mount your GoPro to your helmet on your next snowboarding trip, but placing it on a puppy is a more wonderful way to use it. Because who doesn’t love puppies? People who have withered black hearts, that’s who. Besides, spending a minute out of your day seeing the world through the eyes of…

Tech News Leslie Horn

This photograph of a truck isn’t what it seems

This is not a truck. Adam Makarenko creates slightly paranormal stories using photographs of meticulously-crafted miniatures. Here you’re peeking at part of a tale that dreamily evokes a beehive’s life. First, the bees are stacked in their boxes on the back of a truck — transported to a new home. Later, they join the ecosystem…

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Report: Google Glasses Will Be Lamer Than Promised

Remember the incredible Google Glasses promo video? The one promising us an ultra-futuristic augmented reality UI for our everyday lives? Science fiction cum reality! Well, it’s not going to be as cool as we were promised. Le sigh. https://gizmodo.com/google-glasses-first-look-would-you-wear-these-augment-5899091 CNET paid a visit to Google only to find that Google’s initial promo video may have…

Tech News Mario Aguilar

These Kids Have No Idea Their Teachers Are Videobombing Them

10 Best Time Travel Movies of All Timelines

What’s the Mailing Address of the International Space Station?

How do we measure the vast distances of the Universe?

The first footage from Do No Harm, NBC’s Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde show

Brilliant Thieves Steal $500,000 In Medical Equipment Loaded With Flesh-Eating Bacteria

How Yahoo Killed Flickr and Lost the Internet

Paralyzed Man Can Move Hand Again after Having Nerves ‘Rewired’

Giant Paperclips Turn Any Slab of Wood Into a Sturdy Table

Mark Zuckerberg Betrayed Facebook’s Cofounder in This Email

Why Women Date Assholes

In the Mood for a TV Marathon? All 13 Episodes of Battleground Are Available Right Now on Hulu

Dirtbag Racist Firefighter Demoted For Idiotic Facebook Rant About Travyon Martin

The curious case of the vulgar C-3PO trading card

Spork Chops Are the Perfect Secret Agent Utensil for Those Who Suck At Using Chopsticks

A Nerd-Sexy Bikini Made from Old Electronics, and More from TreeHugger

Help the New York Times find a better superpower metaphor

A Puppy Might Be the Best Spot To Mount Your GoPro

This photograph of a truck isn’t what it seems

Report: Google Glasses Will Be Lamer Than Promised

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