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The big DC relaunch, summarized as a diagram

Joe Stone previously created family trees for the X-Men, Avengers, and Fantastic Four. Now he’s created a diagram depicting the DC relaunch books from most-to-least obscure. Sadly, some of those comics on the periphery may be the first to go. https://gizmodo.com/x-men-family-tree-breaks-down-mutant-mating-habits-with-5735116 https://gizmodo.com/avengers-family-tree-explains-how-iron-man-is-connected-5783776 https://gizmodo.com/fantastic-four-family-tree-teaches-that-all-roads-lead-5765591 [Joe Stone via iFanboy]

Could Hulu Selling Itself Actually Be Good for Content?

Both CNBC and Wall Street journal reporters have sources telling them Hulu received an offer to be bought out, and now they’re considering it. The main consequence of such a sale would would revolve around network and cable television content on the site. Hulu is co-owned by Disney, News Corp and NBC, who run the…

Neuromarketers Using MRIs to Predict the Next Teenie-Bopper Sensation

If Rebecca Black’s Friday was so gawd-awful, why does everybody know the lyrics? New research from Emory University suggests our our brains may like certain tunes even if we don’t consciously realize it. https://gizmodo.com/katy-perry-covers-rebecca-blacks-friday-5797286 Scientists and marketers alike have spent years searching for the mind’s “buy button,” the area of the brain that influences purchasing…

Nearly 50 U.S. Nuclear Power Plants Are Leaking Radioactive Tritium

Somewhere around 75 percent of U.S. nuclear power plants have been found leaking the radioactive element Tritium into the ground to various extents. Corroded piping buried underground seems to be the main problem, and a problem that can affect groundwater if ignored. According to the AP, the leaks have mostly been limited to areas inside…

Hmmm, iCloud Dude Leaves Apple

Make of this what you will: Senior product manager for iCloud, John Herbold, has left Apple—a third major exec to exit recently(ish) notes 9to5Mac, following Apple Store creator Ron Johnson and OS X godfather Bertrand Serlet. [9to5mac] https://gizmodo.com/fortunes-inside-apple-shows-apples-inner-workings-5799649

The oldest art in the Americas depicts a 13,000 year old mammoth

There are European cave paintings that are 30000 years old, but the art of the ancient Americas remains a mystery. This bone fragment features an engraving of either a mammoth or a mastodon, and is at least 13000 years old. This bone was discovered in Florida by fossil hunter James Kennedy, who discovered the inscription…

2D Glasses: 3D’s Reign of Terror Ends Now

There were better movies playing Sunday afternoon. Super 8, X-Men: First Class. Midnight in Paris. But I bustled past all of those. I headed to theater 7, foul den of Green Lantern 3D. Armed with a superpower of my own. Plusses Even if you think 3D is bad, you have no idea how bad it…

Now You Can Own the Taliban Chess Set

It’s too late for Father’s Day, but surely you can find a reason to give someone the Taliban chess set, from Canadian toy company Hedwig & Sergeant Major. Fight the “Good War” from the comfort of your own home! For just $250, you can choose a set, such as America vs. Taliban, or Britain vs.…

Why Red Wine Is So Good For You

We’ve all grown up hearing that red wine is sooo good for us. Was it a lie parents told us so they could drink more? Nope, they were right. So what’s red wine’s little secret? The answer lies in a polyphenol compound known as resveratrol. Though much more studies need to be done to get…

Why Torchwood Still Rules Television

With just five episodes in the summer of 2009, Torchwood went from a mildly diverting Doctor Who spinoff to a show that could stand alongside Twin Peaks, Fringe and The Prisoner as one of television’s great insane rides. Now, after a two-year break, Torchwood is finally coming back, with Torchwood: Miracle Day. And just like…

Build Your Next House Out of Reclaimed, Boeing Factory Lumber

An old Boeing factory in Seattle is being cleared out to make room for a strip mall (or something to that effect, I’m sure). But what’s noteworthy is that the factory lumber is being salvaged to build homes with. According to Inhabitat, the Duluth Timber Company are the ones reclaiming the wood from the 1.7…

Everything You Need to Know About Final Cut Pro X

You don’t say? [Apple via Daring Fireball]

The M9-P Is the Full-Frame Leica for Street Ninjas

The Leica M9-P is just like the original M9—still the world’s smallest full-frame digital camera and still absurdly expensive—but with one major difference: (Almost) nobody will know it’s a Leica. https://gizmodo.com/leica-debuts-18-megapixel-full-frame-m9-rangefinder-x1-5355482 The iconic red dot is gone, the design rendered more muted and minimalist for stealth mode powers. The body is also wrapped in vulcanite…

The Best Deal of the Day

I’ve always wondered if I moved into a new apartment what ‘thing’ I would need first. I’m going to assume that there’s a bathroom and kitchen already (complete with toilet and fridge). With that, I think my number one pick would be a laptop. I’d sleep on the floor before I had to go laptop-less.…

You Might Need a Snow Leopard Disc to Do a Clean Install of Lion

OS X Lion’s only available through the Mac App Store. But without a DeeVeeDee, how are obsessive nerds supposed to do a clean install? Reinstall Snow Leopaard [sic], says the latest purported Steve Jobs email. Potentially annoying, if true. [MacRumors] https://gizmodo.com/os-x-lion-will-be-downloadable-through-the-mac-app-stor-5798679

Our eyes are theoretically capable of sensing magnetic fields

Birds, bees, and turtles all possess the ability to navigate by the Earth’s magnetic field. Humans might actually possess the exact same magnetism-sensing hardware as these other creatures, as a light-sensitive protein taken from the human eye gave flies magnetovision. Researchers at the University of Massachusetts in Worcester looked at cryptochromes in the human eye.…

Evolution Continues To Divide Aspiring Beauty Queens

This year’s Miss USA pageant featured some very polarizing subject matter for our bevy of beautiful lasses to contend with. Like what they thought of evolution. The results were at least only kind of sad. Some of the girls’ trepidation is probably due to not wanting to wind up like Carrie Prejean did back in…

Is This the LulzSec/Anon Warrior’s Handbook?

Operation AntiSec is in action, having taken down the UK’s organized crime investigatory wing and claiming a seizure of the entire 2011 UK Census. So how are they doing it? Possibly with this hacker handbook, provided by Anon: https://gizmodo.com/lulzsec-and-anonymous-declare-open-war-against-all-gove-5813560 The document, entitled “The OpNewblood Super Secret Security Handbook” covers a variety of mundane software setup…

Watch This Little Termite Robot Build Itself Some Stairs

In the future, these swarm bots won’t destroy your front stairs, they’ll build them. IEEE Spectrum discusses the technology behind Harvard’s Termes Project. Swarms of robots might not always seem like the friendliest things to have in your life, but next time you need a tiny stairway, this hard-working little robot named Kali and a…