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‘Vampire’ Squirrel Has World’s Poofiest Tail, Reputed Taste For Blood

Researchers recently determined that tufted ground squirrel, Rheithrosciurus macrotis, a rarely seen inhabitant of the forests of Borneo, has the bushiest tail, relative to its body, of any mammal on Earth. It is also, according to Bornean lore, a bloodthirsty killer. Above, from left to right: Camera trap photos of Rheithrosciurus macrotis in Sarawak, Malaysia…

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This Week’s Top Comedy Video: Come Here

Dude! Get off that dumb computer and come check this thing out! Come here, dude. Seriously. Come here. For the rest of this week’s top comedy videos, head on over to SplitSider. Now for the news: Yahoo! resurrected Community at the last minute, ordering a 10-episode sixth season expected to premiere next year. Executives are…

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Watch Jamie Dornan Before He Gets Huge In ‘The Fall’

If you’re done binging on the incredible second season of Orange Is the New Black, then we’ve got the perfect dessert. Check out the first season of the BBC show The Fall, a spooky drama starring X-Files star Gillian Anderson and Fifty Shades of Grey frontman Jamie Dornan. After a series of murders scare the…

Tech News Jordan Valinsky

Paolo Nutini: Let Me Down Easy

To many of us, Paolo Nutini is synonymous with his 2006 song “New Shoes.” The feel-good hit instantly puts a smile on my face, entices me to throw a pair of squeaky clean new kicks on, and do something I rarely ever want to do, which is move. Now, nearly a decade later, the Scottish…

Tech News Jordan Valinsky

Show Us Your Crappiest Fireworks Pictures From Last Night

Let’s be honest: Your fireworks photos probably suck. You were likely crowded in a swarm of sweaty people that proved difficult to angle your phone to the heavens, so instead you were left with a blurry mess. Or, if you were like myself, you were probably miles away from the display, so what resulted was…

Tech News Jordan Valinsky

Stop Everything And Listen To This Amazing Cover Of The Akira Theme NOW

Between the Sailor Moon Crystal premiere and the news of a potential new Robotech series, it’s been an anime kind of day. So why not close it out with Player Piano‘s incredible cover of the iconic “Kaneda’s Theme” from the Akira soundtrack? Sonya Belousova is Player Piano’s piano player, Eru Matsumoto assisted on the electric…

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Daimler’s Self-Driving Truck Isn’t Good for Nervous Highway Drivers

Attention Google: Your self-driving car looks wimpy compared to this self-driving beast-turned-truck. On Thursday, German automaker Daimler demonstrated the Mercedes-Benz Future Truck 2025 (that’s when it hopes the vehicle will hit the marketplace) to spectators. The New York Times reports that it’s “capable of responding to traffic while driving completely autonomously down a freeway” reaching…

Tech News Jordan Valinsky

Maybe it’s Ducking Time to Get Rid of Autocorrect

Welcome to Reading List, Gizmodo’s Saturday afternoon collection of the best articles from around the web this week. What have we got today? Good stuff from Slate, The New Yorker, Outside Magazine, National Geographic, and more. Autocorrect: it’s great for putting apostrophes in the right place, but it’s a ducking pain when it garbles your…

Tech News Bob Sorokanich

Newest Batman V. Superman Rumor: All The Other Rumors Are LIES

According to the newest entrant out of the Batman V. Superman rumor mill, all the other rumors that have flooded the internet in the last few months? All lies. MovieWeb says they come from a fake BvS script written by Kevin Smith, which WB leaked to movie sites to throw us all off-track of the…

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Hospitals Are Using Credit Card Data To Predict People’s Health

So, this sounds creepy: Some hospitals are identifying high-risk patients by buying loads of consumer data (i.e. credit card purchases, store loyalty programs, etc.) and plugging it into algorithms so they can step in before the customer gets sick. According to Bloomberg Businessweek, it’s currently being used by Carolinas HealthCare System, which is using that…

Tech News Jordan Valinsky

Watch This Incredible “Transformers” Stop-Motion Movie Right Now

Save yourself the $12 (or whatever it costs these days) it takes to see the new Transformers movie and watch this instead. A clever YouTube user named Harris Loureiro created an awesome video that blends computer effects and stop-motion features to depict a fight between Optimus Prime and an army of Constructicons. The five-minute masterpiece…

Tech News Jordan Valinsky

Watch This New Flash TV Featurette And Just Try Not To Be Excited

We have many months until The Flash debuts on October 7th, but we can feel good about one thing: It looks like showrunner Marc Guggenheim and crew doing the show right, because this new behind-the-scenes featurette makes the series look fantastic. Grant Gustin is charming as hell, it’s clearly going to be action-packed, the suit…

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If the FDA Has Its Way, Drug Companies Could Soon Tweet Side Effects

Realizing that social media isn’t a passing fad, the Food and Drug Administration has finally laid out its highly anticipated guidelines for how drug companies should act on the Internet. The Wall Street Journal reports the agency has laid out tentative regulations, including a proposed rule that if a drug’s side effects and other information…

Tech News Jordan Valinsky

Boeing Fuselages Make A Splash In Montana River

A trio of Boeing fuselages wound up in the Clark Fork River this week, when a train carrying the aircraft derailed near Superior, Montana. Thankfully, no one was injured – but we can’t help but wonder what Boeing intends to do with these castoff parts. See more photos of the aftermath by Kyle Massick at…

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How to Brew Cannabis Tinctures (Eyedroppers Full of Happiness)

Now that you’re good and deafened from last night’s Independence Day celebrations, it’s time to do something productive with your recovery day—like, say, brewing alcohol-derived cannabis concentrates that will have you melting into your couch all day tomorrow. What is a Tincture? Unlike Cold Water Press or Bubble Hash, which respectively rely on cold temperature…

Tech News Andrew Tarantola

A Hypnotizing Timelapse Captures An Atmospheric Standing Wave

Lenticular clouds are the visible manifestation of an atmospheric standing wave. This hypnotizing timelapse captures the clouds pulsing and reforming in a fixed location in space, mountains of clouds mirroring the mountains of rock in the landscape below. Lenticular clouds form when moist air cools as it rises over a topographic obstruction (like a mountain),…

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Dubai Is Obviously Building the World’s Biggest Mall

Since building something that’s conventional is out of the question for Dubai, the second-largest United Arab Emirates city announced today that it’s breaking ground on the world’s largest shopping mall. In a grand announcement made by the emirate’s ruler Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid al-Maktoum, “substantial work” has begun on the aptly titled “Mall of the…

Tech News Jordan Valinsky

Oldest Confirmed Case Of Down’s Syndrome Suggests No Stigma In Death

Archaeologists have exhumed the remains of a child with Down’s syndrome who was buried some 1500 years ago in medieval France. Such cases are rare in the archaeological record. What’s more, the way the child was buried suggests the child was not stigmatized in death. A team led by University of Bordeaux researcher Maïté Rivollat…

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Michael Bay Movies, Or: Why Your Eyes Love What Your Brain Hates

We’re big fans of Tony Zhou’s cinematic analyses, but we’re especially fond of his recent breakdown of Michael Bay’s visual approach, which manages to acknowledge the director’s knack for spectacle while identifying him as a slave to his own system – a gratuitous, over-evolved action style we love to hate. The whole analysis is worth…

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Topographic Tables Mix Geology With Interior Design

‘Vampire’ Squirrel Has World’s Poofiest Tail, Reputed Taste For Blood

This Week’s Top Comedy Video: Come Here

Watch Jamie Dornan Before He Gets Huge In ‘The Fall’

Paolo Nutini: Let Me Down Easy

Show Us Your Crappiest Fireworks Pictures From Last Night

Stop Everything And Listen To This Amazing Cover Of The Akira Theme NOW

Daimler’s Self-Driving Truck Isn’t Good for Nervous Highway Drivers

Maybe it’s Ducking Time to Get Rid of Autocorrect

Newest Batman V. Superman Rumor: All The Other Rumors Are LIES

Hospitals Are Using Credit Card Data To Predict People’s Health

Watch This Incredible “Transformers” Stop-Motion Movie Right Now

Watch This New Flash TV Featurette And Just Try Not To Be Excited

If the FDA Has Its Way, Drug Companies Could Soon Tweet Side Effects

Boeing Fuselages Make A Splash In Montana River

How to Brew Cannabis Tinctures (Eyedroppers Full of Happiness)

A Hypnotizing Timelapse Captures An Atmospheric Standing Wave

Dubai Is Obviously Building the World’s Biggest Mall

Oldest Confirmed Case Of Down’s Syndrome Suggests No Stigma In Death

Michael Bay Movies, Or: Why Your Eyes Love What Your Brain Hates

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