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The ***Flawless Remix Is My Daily Affirmation

Whenever I need to light the fire under my own ass, I turn on the remix of Beyonce’s ***Flawless. There’s 100 percent more Nicki Minaj, and it’s 100 percent more awesome. It’s a motivational tool! Listen to these lyrics and tell me you they don’t affirm your life’s existence: I wake up lookin’ this good,…

If It Ever Happens, The Next Dredd Movie Would Be A Prequel

Most right-thinking people loved Karl Urban as Judge Dredd and want a second helping — but if we get another film, it won’t be a continuation of Dredd, showing the Judge upholding the law in Mega-City One. Instead, it’ll be a prequel, showing how the judges came to be. Urban was at Chicago Comic-Con recently,…

Is this the most amazing bathtub in the world? (Spoiler: Yes, yes it is)

It’s not a new image, but I just saw it popping again on my feed and I had the irresistible urge to get in there, to enjoy this bath during that sunset until I look like a California prune. If you are not familiar with this luxury condo skyscraper in Manhattan, it’s name is 432…

How an Iconic B-Movie Powerhouse Churned Out Its Godawful Effects

Ever wonder who’s responsible for the trove of cringeworthy, if classic, B-movies clogging up your Netflix queues? Electric Boogaloo: The Wild, Untold Story of Cannon Films, currently playing at the Toronto International Film Festival, is the inside story of the gonzo gusto of Menahem Golan and Yoram Globus, Israeli cousins who arrived in the U.S.…

Marching Band Transforms Into Giant TV Set And Plays Classic TV Tunes

The Ohio State University marching band performed a glorious, TV-inspired halftime show. The show includes classic tunes such as the theme songs from Batman, The Simpsons, The Addams Family, I Dream of Jeannie, Game of Thones, MASH, The Lone Ranger and much more. It’s just the best. [via Daily Pics and Flicks]

That New Utopia Show Is a Dumb Dystopia But Obviously That’s the Point

Throughout history, people have tried to build many different versions of Utopia. Sometimes it’s a charismatic leader ushering people toward a righteous path with a common goal. Other times, groups of like-minded people come together to democratically work toward a common goal. And sometimes it’s just a bunch of knuckleheads on a reality show. If…

Japan’s Spending $5 Billion to Fast Track Maglev Trains in the US

Come on guys. It’s just 40 miles. We’ll even go halfsies with you. Except, in this case, “halfsies” still amounts to $5 billion. Japan, in an effort to help DC build a maglev train that would cut travel time to Baltimore down to 15 minutes, is offering up half the cash to do it. The…

Which Movie Should Never, Ever Have A Sequel?

The wonderful thing about stories is that they end — and sometimes the ending is so perfect, you don’t want to break that seal and find out what happens next. And yet, these days every movie needs a sequel… right? So which movie do you hope never gets a continuation on the big screen? Please…

An 11-year-old Chinese boy has discovered a 3,000-year-old bronze sword in a river in Jiangsu Province. Archaeologists have dated the weapon to either the Shang or Zhou dynasties — the dawn of Chinese civilization. The 26 cm (10″) long sword appears to be of both decorative and practical use. A major dig is now planned…

New Sherlock box set comes with slightly creepy Holmes and Watson busts

Sherlock fans, ever looked at your mantlepiece and thought ‘Hmmm, it’s nice, but it could really do with some faux-bronze busts of Benedict Cumberbatch and Martin Freeman.’? If you have, imagine no longer – the BBC intend to make such thoughts reality with a new box set of all 3 series of the show. Due…

Deadpool Photobombs Classic Marvel Comic Book Covers

As part of Marvel Comics’ 75th anniversary celebration, Deadpool is hopping into classic covers from Marvel’s history and photobombing his fellow Marvel characters. Throughout October, Deadpool will be showing up in variant covers of various Marvel comics, covers that pay homage to classic Marvel covers. John Tyler Christopher drew the above Deadpool variant for Captain…

When These CMYK Coasters Are Stacked a Masterpiece Is Revealed

As newspapers, magazines, and books are slowly replaced with electronic alternatives, the art of CMYK printing is slowly dying alongside them. So now’s as good a time as any to grab a souvenir before the technical process becomes a forgotten art—and these CMYK coasters seem to fit the bill, especially if you’ve got wooden furniture…

Tamagotchi 2014 Review: My Pocket Friend Left Me Before I Could Kill Him

Remember Tamagotchis? Of course you do. They taught you about responsibility. They taught you about friendship. But most importantly, they taught you that friends don’t leave friends in rooms filled with their own feces. Now, it’s time to reopen those old, grief-stricken wounds. The Tamagotchi is back—and it is still hungry. What Is It? Tamagotchi…

The Clever Plan to Mine Lithium From Geothermal Power Plants’ Wastewater

Regardless what you think about the future of phones or wearables or cars, there is one thing nearly everyone can agree on: We will need more batteries. And for that, we’ll need more lithium. One startup has its eyes on a new source of lithium: the wastewater from geothermal power plants. The curious and clever…

What Would Make You Move To A Space Colony?

With it’s rising temperatures, declining energy resources, and rapidly filing landfills, the earth sometimes gets a bad rap. Still, it’s a pretty hard-to-beat combination of habitable oxygen-levels and replenishing food sources. So, what would make someone leave all that behind? Top image: Artist’s concept of a mission to Mars /JSC, NASA In response to an…

Google Play Movies & TV app for iOS, which was announced back in January, now supports offline playback. So you can watch your videos from Google Play on your iPad on a plane. Nifty.

Today’s Sole Source Of Happiness: DuckTales, Starring Actual Ducks

Life is a nightmare, a tragedy filled with pain whose only release is the grave. Still, it’s nice to know that it can still provide brief moments of joy, like this version of the classic cartoon DuckTales’ opening credits made with actual, adorable ducklings. Maybe a few chants of “Woo-oo” will keep the darkness at…

97 Scientists Are Devoting 97 Hours To Debunking Climate Change Denial

Skeptical Science invited 97 of the world’s top climate scientists to each write a short paragraph explaining why human-caused climate change is overwhelmingly accepted by the scientific community. It’s called “97 Hours of Consensus,” with a new statement going online every sixty minutes. The choice of “97,” of course, refers to the percentage of scientists…

These Newly-Discovered Titans Once Stomped Around Africa

Another week, another titanosaurian dinosaur. The latest discovery was made by Ohio University paleontologists who describe a large-bodied sauropod that lived in Africa during the late stages of the dinosaur era. Illustration by Mark Witton (University of Portsmouth) Say hello to Rukwatitan bisepultus. Its remains were lodged in a cliff wall in the Rukwa Rift…

These Stealth Knives Only Need Sharpening Every 25 Years

What good is a fancy set of kitchen knives if after deboning a few chickens and julienning a bunch of celery stalks it’s already too dull to handle a ripe tomato? You don’t want to spend your time in the kitchen toiling away on a sharpening stone, so the folks at TB Groupe designed a…