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Diplomats Plagued by ‘Sonic Weapon’ in Cuba Reported to Suffer From Traumatic Brain Injury

The bizarre reports of a “sonic weapon” allegedly turned on American and Canadian diplomats in Havana, Cuba, are getting more and more curious, if not disturbing, by the day. Medical files reviewed by CBS News revealed a slew of physical symptoms associated with the mysterious “covert sonic device” that reportedly operates outside the range of…

Tech News Dell Cameron

London Tower Survivors Are Being Forced to Compete for New Homes

British prime minister Teresa May said on Wednesday that the tenants management organization responsible for the Grenfell Estate, where a violent tower fire killed at least 80 people in June, will be stripped of their responsibilities. Why? Turns out they’ve done a terrible job managing the aftermath of that disaster. In fact, it sounds like…

Tech News Adam Clark Estes

These Reimagined X-Men Designs Are the Future of Superhero Costumes

One of the best ways to get a strong sense of how tastes within the comic book industry have changed over the years is to simply look at the costumes that heroes and villains have worn over the years. Fashion, like all forms of art, is a living reflection of the times. For instance, the…

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It Turns Out That Knowing More About Science Doesn’t Correct Misbelief

When Kevin Esvelt, an evolutionary biologist at MIT, started thinking about using genetically engineered mice to fight Lyme disease, among his first stops was a community meeting in the small Martha’s Vineyard town of Chilmark. Esvelt makes regular field trips to talk to the public about his work. If the potential of tools like CRISPR…

Climate Change Kristen V. Brown

Help Elon Musk Sell Teslas And He’ll Reward You By Letting You Dig a Tunnel for Him

Tesla’s referral program has proven to be one of the company’s most effective tools for selling cars. By rewarding referrals with event invites, private tours, and car upgrades, the company has fueled the cult of Tesla and turned Tesla drivers into an army of brand ambassadors. As program members refer more people, they can unlock…

Tech News Jennings Brown

What’s With Star Wars and the Name ‘Kira’?

Buried in the news of Michael K. Williams’s departure from the Han Solo movie was the possible name of Emilia Clarke’s character. And it’s a name we’ve heard a bunch of times in the Star Wars universe. A Vanity Fair article interviewing Williams quotes him as describing his former character as “a link between Han…

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This Epic Rube Goldberg Machine Includes a Gravity-Defying Whiteboard Flip

As someone who still struggles to string a bunch of words together into cohesive sentences, I can’t even begin to wrap my brain around the thought processes required to plan and execute an elaborate Rube Goldberg machine like this. That whiteboard flip is at least worth a nomination for a Nobel Prize. It takes almost…

Sploid Andrew Liszewski

Cult Slasher Series Hatchet Returns to the Gore-Soaked Swamp For a Surprise Fourth Film

Since you can’t keep a ghastly, swamp-lurking, supernaturally resilient killer down for long, the world of horror has been graced by a new Hatchet movie, named after the series’ terrifying villain, Victor Crowley. Writer-director Adam Green recently shared more details—and a teaser—for his surprise release. As this brief clip suggests, the movie picks up 10…

Trailers Cheryl Eddy

The Surprising Way a Confederate Submarine Crew Died at the Hands of Its Own Weapon

During the latter stages of the American Civil War, the H.L. Hunley made history by becoming the first combat submarine to sink an enemy ship. The Confederate crew never returned from its mission, sparking a mystery that’s lasted for over 130 years. An exhaustive new analysis suggests these pioneering submariners didn’t drown or suffocate as…

Tech News George Dvorsky

Calexit Is a Bloody, Dystopian Vision of Trump’s America and the People Bold Enough To Resist It

Less than a year into his presidency, Donald Trump has repeatedly defended white supremacists and self-identified Nazis, toyed with the idea of going to war with North Korea, and stood by cluelessly as the Republican congress fought to rob millions of Americans of their healthcare. Objectively, these are dark times. When we talk about how…

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State Department Science Envoy Resigns With Letter Containing Hidden Message

It is no secret that the screaming Twitter man in charge of the United States and scientists do not get along. Everyone knows this. As if scientists weren’t angry enough from Trump’s rejecting evidence-based facts, they also happen to be human beings, human beings who do not like the fact that the President of the…

Tech News Ryan F. Mandelbaum

Jessica Jones’ Best Putdowns on Her Teammates in The Defenders

One of the most enjoyable things about The Defenders wasn’t just seeing years of Netflix plans come together in a four-hero adventure—it was the return Marvel’s unrivalled queen of snark, Jessica Jones, ready and more than willing to dunk on her fellow superheroes. And boy howdy, did she dunk. By the end of Defenders Jessica…

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Gravitational Waves Reveal the Unexpectedly Weird Behavior of Distant Black Holes

Last year’s gravitational wave discovery may have felt like the end of an era—a momentous occasion in which a precise experiment finally ended a hundred-year search to confirm a baffling prediction made by Albert Einstein. The discovery, instead, spawned an entirely new field of astronomy, and the results are finally starting to trickle in. And…

Tech News Ryan F. Mandelbaum

Here’s How Much the Note 8 Costs Since Samsung Didn’t Say [Update: Samsung Said]

As expected, today Samsung announced the Galaxy Note 8, its follow up to the catastrophic Galaxy Note 7. It looks pretty sweet! The company was noticeably mum about pricing at the launch extravaganza, and told us nothing of price in briefings leading up to the event. Why? Well, it might have to do with that…

Gadgets Mario Aguilar

The Romans Could Have Been Poisoned by Something Deadlier Than Lead

There are very few absolutely true things in this life, but one of them is you shouldn’t drink lead. Historians have long believed that ancient Romans learned this the hard way—it’s been said that lead used in water pipes and cooking materials could have poisoned Romans and contributed to their downfall. Now, new research has…

Health Rae Paoletta

Putting Two Thors Together Shows the Human Side of the Gods of Thunder

So far, Marvel’s Generations series has been thrusting together multiple iterations of its classic characters for some fun adventures. The latest issue, featuring Jane Foster and the Odinson, is much the same—but also offers an important lesson for each character that lays the groundwork for what’s to come for the God of Thunder. Written by…

io9 James Whitbrook

The Tick Brilliantly Deconstructs Our Modern-Day Superhero Obsession

I thought I knew what to expect after seeing the pilot and, months later, the second episode of Amazon’s re-imagined Tick TV show. But, having now seen the initial six chapters of the series’ first season, the show still amazed me with how cleverly it cuts into the hyperdense muscle of superhero genre conventions. The…

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Former CIA Director Assures Us He Did Not Just Tweet His Password, Reminds Us to Drink Our Ovaltine

It sure looked like Michael Hayden, the former head of the Central Intelligence Agency, accidentally tweeted his password Wednesday morning. But rest assured, Hayden says he did not just pull a Sean Spicer. “Certainly not a password. Can you pocket tweet?” Hayden told Gizmodo over email, adding in a follow up: “But, as someone suggested,…

Tech News Dell Cameron

Puberty Is a Literal Monster in Netflix’s Big Mouth

Netflix’s latest animated series boasts an incredible comedic voice cast (John Mulaney, Maya Rudolph Jason Mantzoukas, Jordan Peele, Fred Armisen, Jenny Slate, and Jessi Klein) and yet the two clips that have been released have left me more confused than anything. Big Mouth described by Netflix as a “half-hour edgy adult animated comedy from real-life…

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Exxon Acknowledged Climate Change Internally But Still Spread Denialist Propaganda

A Harvard study released Tuesday analyzed 40 years worth of documents from Exxon Mobil, concluding that the fossil fuel titan has, since 1979, internally acknowledged that carbon emissions are responsible for climate change, even as it has spent thousands over the years publicly denying the global consensus. As internal findings from peer-reviewed research grew more…

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Diplomats Plagued by ‘Sonic Weapon’ in Cuba Reported to Suffer From Traumatic Brain Injury

London Tower Survivors Are Being Forced to Compete for New Homes

These Reimagined X-Men Designs Are the Future of Superhero Costumes

It Turns Out That Knowing More About Science Doesn’t Correct Misbelief

Help Elon Musk Sell Teslas And He’ll Reward You By Letting You Dig a Tunnel for Him

What’s With Star Wars and the Name ‘Kira’?

This Epic Rube Goldberg Machine Includes a Gravity-Defying Whiteboard Flip

Cult Slasher Series Hatchet Returns to the Gore-Soaked Swamp For a Surprise Fourth Film

The Surprising Way a Confederate Submarine Crew Died at the Hands of Its Own Weapon

Calexit Is a Bloody, Dystopian Vision of Trump’s America and the People Bold Enough To Resist It

State Department Science Envoy Resigns With Letter Containing Hidden Message

Jessica Jones’ Best Putdowns on Her Teammates in The Defenders

Gravitational Waves Reveal the Unexpectedly Weird Behavior of Distant Black Holes

Here’s How Much the Note 8 Costs Since Samsung Didn’t Say [Update: Samsung Said]

The Romans Could Have Been Poisoned by Something Deadlier Than Lead

Putting Two Thors Together Shows the Human Side of the Gods of Thunder

The Tick Brilliantly Deconstructs Our Modern-Day Superhero Obsession

Former CIA Director Assures Us He Did Not Just Tweet His Password, Reminds Us to Drink Our Ovaltine

Puberty Is a Literal Monster in Netflix’s Big Mouth

Exxon Acknowledged Climate Change Internally But Still Spread Denialist Propaganda

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