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Nature’s Sneakiest Males, And How They Win Where Alpha Males Fail

Biologists used to believe that alpha males got all the ladies, thus proving that male domination of women was “natural.” But with a little more observation, they realized this wasn’t true. The craftiest males, known as “sneaker males,” get a surprising amount of sex from a surprisingly happy female population. Cunning, Hard Work, and Timing…

Gruesome Fairy Tale About A Man Who Removes His Skin For His Girlfriend

If you watch a short film called He Took His Skin Off for Me, you know you’re in for something messy. But the mess in this film isn’t just blood and gore — it’s also emotional. This short comes to us from director Ben Aston, who also made the wonderfully funny and sweet Russian Roulette.…

Juries Of The Future May View Crime Scenes Via “Forensic Holodecks” 

Is the Oculus Rift headset poised to become a game-changer in the courtroom, offering juries a way to evaluate evidence in greater detail than ever before? According to new research, “forensic holodecks” (yep, that’s a Star Trek reference) that reconstruct crime scenes could soon become valuable courtroom tools. New Scientist reports: Over the last few…

Don’t Buy What Neil Young Is Selling

Neil Young’s “high resolution” PonoPlayer goes on sale for $400 today. You shouldn’t buy it. The recalcitrant rocker isn’t wrong for wanting to reclaim audio quality in the digital age, but in the service of that goal he’s peddling junk science, and supporting expensive gear and music files you don’t need. For the last few…

More swooning over the Lego 24 Hour Race Car

Now that the Detective’s Office (10246) and Slave I (75060) have released, the next big model on my radar is the Technic 24 Hours Race Car (42039). Apparently, this set is already available in the UK and has been since December, though those of us in the United States will not get it until later…

Does Your Town Have A Science Fiction Bookstore On Wheels? Austin Does.

Yet another reason to wish you lived in Austin. Fifth Dimension Books is a science fiction bookstore in a bus, taking advantage of a new “mobile retailing” ordinance to set up shop next to the Hyde Park Bar & Grill. It’s described as “Austin’s Weird, Wandering Bookmobile.” According to the Austin Business Journal, owners Sukyi…

Watch this Lego RC Baja truck sling grass in true off-road fashion

I have learned that just about everything that Sariel makes is golden. His prowess in Technic builds is completely evident after just spending a few moments looking at all the great constructions that he’s done over the years. Armed with SBrick, a tiny RC receiver that lets you control Lego power functions from your tablet…

Just how do you go about finding debris in the ocean after a catastrophe? Describing the problem as like trying to find moving objects “equivalent to the width of a human hair” on a football field, NOAA has written a detailed report on all the methods we can use, from satellite monitoring to predictive models.

Beethoven’s music may have been “both figuratively and physically heartfelt.” New research by a team that included a cardiologist, a medical historian, and a musicologist suggests his unique rhythms may have been inspired by his own irregular heartbeat. It’s thought that the composer’s deafness likely heightened his awareness of the “arrhythmic patterns” of his own…

Amazon’s Magnetic Earbuds on Sale, Chromecast with Extras, More Deals

Amazon’s in-house magnetic earbuds are actually pretty great, and luckily, you don’t have to buy a Fire Phone to get them. Normally, they sell for $19, but today only, you can get a pair for $12, plus a $1 Amazon MP3 credit. These were one of the most popular items we listed last year. [Amazon…

Cowboy Bebop All-Time Low Price, Lord of the Rings, and More Deals

The must-own Cowboy Bebop Complete Series Blu-ray has dropped to a must-buy price level. It’s listed as temporarily out of stock, but you can still lock in the special price. [Cowboy Bebop, $34] Big Hero 6 was one of the year’s best movies, and you can lock in your preorder right now for $20. [preorder…

10 Things Everyone Gets Wrong About Intellectual Property Law

How well do you understand copyright and trademark law? When you travel about the Internet or make art, do you know what you are and aren’t allowed to do, or do you have intellectual property myths stuck in your brain. We take a few claims we’ve seen time and again, and compare them to the…

Dragon’s Avengers 2 Models Feature Badass Hulkbuster, Petrifying Ultron

Dragon have long been putting out Model kits for the Marvel movies – including this adorable dancing Groot – and now they’ve revealed their line for the upcoming Avengers: Age Of Ultron, including a ginormous Hulkbuster, and this creepy-as-hell Ultron. ROBOT TEETH! Dragon’s ‘Action Hero Vignette’ line of plug-and-display 1/9 models are pretty nifty, and…

Someone Claiming to Be ISIS Says They Hacked CENTCOM, Leaks Docs Online

U.S. Central Command’s Twitter and YouTube accounts just lit up in a bad way. It looks like somebody who’s claiming to be an ISIS affiliate called “CyberCaliphate” managed to gain access to the account and is currently tweeting images of documents, allegedly internal CENTCOM documents. The first tweet links to a Pastebin post with links…

Kids Can Control Holograms With Their Minds Using the Force Trainer II

There isn’t a kid on earth who doesn’t want to wield the power of the Force after seeing Star Wars for the first time, and Uncle Milton’s original mind-control Force Trainer was as close as any kid could get to being a Jedi. But now there’s a new version that introduces animated holograms courtesy of…

We’ve Been Wrong About Saturn’s Exact Location For Centuries

Looking at a map of our solar system, you might have felt comfortable saying that we know (and have known for sometime) exactly where Saturn is. But a brand new ultra-precise measure that tracks the location of the planet to its exact pinpoint in space shows that we’ve been off, by perhaps up to 100…

Tinder Around The World

Traveling around the world? Tinder can help you meet people. Obviously. But its easy intimacy can also help plug you into adventure. Here’s how it worked for us, along with some of the people we met through it during our travels. I arrived in Oslo, Norway from Copenhagen via bus on a cold, stormy September…

The First Photo Ever Taken Of An Oceanic Shark Giving Birth

Marine biologists working off the coast of the Philippines have captured an image of an incredibly elusive sight — a free-swimming oceanic shark giving birth. Along with colleague A. E. Bicskos Kaszo, the extraordinary photo was taken by Simon Oliver from the University of Chester, who told the BBC that this was “the first record…

8 Dumb Quotes About Science From New NASA Overseer Ted Cruz

The new Republican-led Congress is currently busy picking people to chair its many committees and subcommittees. Guess what! Tea Party hero Senator Ted Cruz is the new chair of the Subcommittee on Space, Science and Competitiveness. That means he will oversee NASA. Yep—the climate-denying Tea Party hero who tried to defund NASA is now in…

This Week’s TV: The Mind-Bending Time Travel Show You Must Watch

We have a couples beginnings this week with the premiere of the TV adaptation of Terry Gilliam’s 12 Monkeys (which we’re pretty optimistic about!) and the return of Helix — can its new island setting win us over? Plus, The Librarians closes its first season while Constantine and Grimm are back from vacation. Tonight It’s…