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More than 1/3rd of Americans think that astrology is a science

A new study by the National Science Foundation shows that more than 40% of Americans think that astrology is a science, the highest levels since 1983. The NSF uses the question about astrology as a science as both an indicator of scientific understanding among the public and as a way of measuring “the public’s capacity…

Report: Google and Foxconn Building Roboticized Factories of the Future

The Wall Street Journal is reporting that Google and Foxconn are working together to create a new vision of roboticized factories. We already knew that Andy Rubin, head of Google’s fast-growing robotics wing, is interested in the future of manufacturing and retailing automation. But the Journal reports that he recently met with Foxconn CEO Terry…

A tiger in India has killed 10 people in six weeks

A female tiger has strayed from the confines of India’s Corbett Tiger Reserve — and she’s developed a taste for human meat. The big cat, who’s prowling an area spanning 80 miles, has started attacking humans because she’s not able to find enough natural prey. This past Sunday, February 9th, the tigress claimed its 10th…

Super early outline shows how Edgar Wright created The World’s End

Want to see how Edgar Wright, Simon Pegg and Nick Frost dreamed up the final installment of the Cornetto trilogy? Check out this very rough outline of The World’s End and see how this wacky alien invasion flick came to be. Actor Simon Pegg tweeted out a very close look at the very early stages…

​Bitten has all the hot werewolf vodka marketing action you can handle

As the Mutts’ onslaught of werewolf serial killers continues, we learn Elena’s secret werewolf origin. But who cares when the goddamn vodka marketing campaign Elena’s super-dull boyfriend is working on is actually coming back into play? Let’s start with the episode’s main plot, which is actually quite slow. That hunter that Clay tussled with is…

Flappy Bird Creator: I Pulled the Game Because It Was Too Addictive

Flappy Bird is dead. But Dong Ngueyn, the seemingly troubled developer of the game, has now explained, somewhat counter-intuitively, that he pulled the tortuous title because it was “an addictive product.” In an interview with Forbes, Nguyen explained that “it happened to become an addictive product. I think it has become a problem.” Despite the…

Akira‘s still happening! Plus Terminator‘s Kyle Reese is almost cast!

Zack Snyder explains how Frank Miller’s Dark Knight Returns will be incorporated into Batman Vs. Superman. Jurassic World will explain why the dino-nightmare keeps happening. Roberto Orci wants to put Ichabod on a plane in season 2 of Sleepy Hollow. Plus first looks at Sif on SHIELD and Rapunzel on Once Upon a Time. Spoilers…

The AP Deleted Fidel Castro Images Photoshopped to Remove a Hearing Aid

At 87, Fidel Castro is not as young as he used to be, so it shouldn’t come as a huge surprise that he wears a hearing aid—but that didn’t stop AP contributors photoshopping the device out of images of the ex-Cuban President. The Guardian reports that the Associated Press news agency has decided to remove…

Today Is the Day the Internet Fights Back to Protect Privacy

Mass surveillance of electronic communications is a vast, new, government intrusion on the privacy of innocent people worldwide. It is a violation of International human rights law. Without checks and balances, its use will continue to spread from country to country, corrupting democracies and empowering dictators. That’s why, today, on February 11th, around the world,…

Why Do We Cry?

Whether you’re happy to admit it or not, from time to time we all cry. But how? Why? And are all tears the same? In fact, no! You might be surprised to find out that there are in fact three different kinds of tears: basal, emotional and onion… no, just kidding, the final one is…

Chromecast can now play embedded YouTube videos on your TV—no need to mirror entire browser tabs any longer. Which is neat.

Virgin Atlantic Is Using Google Glass to Improve Check-Ins

Customer privacy be damned. Virgin Atlantic is kicking off a trial using Google Glass and Sony’s SmartWatch 2 to provide its employees with personalized data about its upper class passengers. The idea is to feed service staff custom data which will help them give travellers a more pleasant travel experience. In a rather breathy, enthusiastic…

Aphex Twin SAW2 Countdown: Track 4 (“Hankie”)

I am going to do this track-by-track countdown to the release, on February 13, 2014, the day prior to Valentine’s Day, of my book in the estimable 33 1/3 series. It is a love letter to Aphex Twin’s album Selected Ambient Works Volume II, which will mark its 20th anniversary this year, less than a…

The Weirdest Thing on the Internet Tonight: Death at Sea (NSFW)

Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day. Teach a man to fish and he’ll have to battle wicked seamen, monstrous fish, and one very pissed off rain cloud for the rest of his days so just give him the damn fish already.

Here’s a map that shows the location of every Disney and Pixar movie

They are home to your favorite stories, your favorite songs, your favorite characters. You know so much about the Disney movies that you grew up with and the Pixar movies you love now but do you know where they’re all located? No worries, this map by artist Eowyn Smith will show you. England sure gets…

Holy wow, this movie concept art is cosmically dazzling

Check out a blazingly awesome piece of newly revealed concept art from Star Trek Into Darkness, created by artist Victor Martinez. He recently created a website to showcase his work for Trek 2, Oz the Great and Powerful, and the never-made Fantastic Voyage and Captain Nemo films. We previously featured Martinez’s work on Real Steel,…

Watch a genius crow solve 8 complex puzzles in perfect order

Meet 007. Not Bond but the bird. But they might just be as smart as one another because the crow can use tools to figure out complex puzzles just as well as a spy. Here’s a crow taking one of the most complex tests for the animal mind ever created. If he succeeds, the BBC…

Get ready for Game of Thrones season 4 with this awesome HBO preview

HBO aired a special 15 minute preview for Game of Thrones Season 4 last night and it’s now up on YouTube to whet your appetite for dragons, swords, thrones, fantastic looking people, armor, dresses, politics, lengthy diatribes and general awesomeness. But as fun as it is to see a little bit of Game of Thrones…

I can’t believe this frighteningly realistic eyeball is not real

Wait for it. Wait for it. Wait for it. Boom. Holy hell. This is not a real eyeball. It’s a completely computer generated eyeball that looks realer than my own eyeball. A CG eyeball. It’s frightening, like they chopped half a human face for the eyeball. Actually, I’m not 100% sure they didn’t do that.…

“Galaxy Chic” eyeshadow will make your eyes glitter with stardust

The “Galaxy Chic” line of BH Cosmetics eyeshadow is inspired by space. Each little eyeshadow palate is styled to look like a star, or a planet. To quote Judy Jetson, these are “outer-galactic!” Thespace-themed line is almost too pretty to use, but if you want to see what they look like on human skin, head…