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Manning Found Not Guilty Of Aiding The Enemy

Wikileaks source Bradly Manning has been found guilty of five counts of espionage, but he managed to avoid the most serious charge, that of aiding the enemy. Combined, the charges could add up to 154 years imprisonment — a sentence that will be determined tomorrow. The 25-year old former intelligence analyst was working in Iraq…

The CW gives The Flash his own TV show, launched out of Arrow

Now that Arrow is a huge hit, The CW is still casting around for other superheroes to bring to the small screen. And with the Wonder Woman show Amazon on the back burner, the next choice is the Flash, the superhero who runs really fast. Does this mean no Flash movie? According to Deadline, The…

This Agricultural Breakthrough Makes Every Crop Self-Fertilizing

We’ve been using nitrogen fertilizers to bolster crop growth since the neolithic era. But producing enough food for nearly seven billion mouths requires intensive farming practices that demand heavy applications of fertilizers. And their overuse is taking a heavy toll on the environment—an estimated $91 billion to $428 billion worth of damage in Europe alone.…

Could Walter Mitty be the Eternal Sunshine fix we’ve been waiting for?

Ben Stiller is lost in a dreamworld in The Secret Life of Walter Mitty, adapted from James Thurber’s famous short story of the same name. Just a tiny glimpse of this movie created a ton of buzz at CinemaCon last spring. Fingers crossed this will be the next Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind. The…

Bradley Manning: Not guilty of aiding the enemy, guilty of espionage

The U.S. Army private accused of “aiding the enemy” for giving classified documents to WikiLeaks has been spared guilt on that charge, ending a three-year ordeal of solitary confinement and constant humiliation for Private First Class Bradley Manning. But he has been found guilty on five other counts. https://gizmodo.com/bradley-mannings-not-guilty-of-aiding-the-enemy-but-o-963034954

Scientists ruin Jurassic Park dinosaur dream

According to science, the whole idea behind the Jurassic Park movies is bogus. Those “preserved in amber” mosquitoes used to create living, tourist-eating dinosaurs? A new study proves this could not happen the way it did in the popular movies. If only Spielberg had changed one little detail …. https://gizmodo.com/the-entire-premise-of-jurassic-park-is-wrong-because-of-961667776

Bradley Manning’s Not Guilty of Aiding the Enemy (But Otherwise Guilty)

A military judge acquitted Bradley Manning of aiding the enemy and convicted him of multiple counts of violating the Espionage Act on Tuesday. The verdict marks the end of a three-year-long ordeal that began with Manning’s arrest in Iraq and subsequent detainment in Kuwait and Quantico, Virginia. Sentencing hearings begin on Wednesday morning to determine…

10 Tyrants Who Are a Better Choice Than the Rebels

We never get tired of reading stories about pure-hearted underdogs rebelling against a vast, evil empire. Except when we start to suspect that the rebels are just too dumb and incompetent to let them be in charge. Here are 10 evil tyrants who are actually better rulers than the rebels trying to replace them would…

The Chicago Tribune Has Made the Best Internet Mistake of the Day

It looks as though they’ve fixed it, but for a glorious 16 minutes this was the Chicago Tribune homepage. It is self-evidently wonderful, but let’s still talk about just how wonderful it is. Cat image. Test, test, test, test, test, test, test. Headline test. The cat is a kitten. The kitten is grey. Test, test,…

Mark Waid’s Thrillbent store lets you own the comics you buy online

The Thrillbent shop is open for business! The online store offers the titles from Waid’s Thrillbent comics label, including its flagship series Insufferable, but with a twist — when you buy these comics, you can get actually get the full file… DRM-free. This is of course in contrast to online comics distributors like Comixology, which…

See the magazine cover that Doctor Who was denied in 1963

In an alternate universe, the very first episode of Doctor Who was greeted by this awesome cover of the Radio Times, the BBC’s venerable weekly guide to television listings. But in our world, this cover was mocked up — and then canceled because of a belief that Doctor Who was just a fill-in show that…

Check Out How Much Better Twitter Could Look (and Work)

In the early days, Twitter was famous for its dead simple design: a box, some text, a button. But over the years, it’s gotten busier with the hashtags and the @ mentions and the retweets. Some might say say too busy. So why not just start over and rebuild this thing from the ground up?…

Scientists grow teeth from human urine because why the hell not

A new study shows that stem cells extracted from urine can be turned into rudimentary tooth-like structures. Oh, and the researchers did so by growing the teeth inside the kidneys of mice. To make the teeth, Duanqing Pei, who works at the Chinese Academy of Sciences in Guangzhou, mixed the stem cells with the connective…

Adorable forest bear can’t stop hugging this tree

Remote forest cameras capture all kinds of amazing animal video, and this footage from the parks department in Alberta, Canada, shows this one bear who cannot stop hugging this tree—when he’s not scratching his butt on it. https://deadspin.com/wildlife-camera-captures-bear-party-that-you-wish-youd-954301999

Expand your Wi-Fi network for free using an old router

You can easily use your old Wi-Fi router to expand the coverage of your wireless network so it can get to the garden or the café downstairs. It’s not hard if you follow this guide. https://lifehacker.com/how-to-extend-your-wi-fi-network-with-an-old-router-915783308

Here’s What Went Wrong With That Leaky NASA Spacesuit

During last week’s spacewalk aboard the ISS, astronaut Luca Parmitano suffered a slight—but terrifying—wardrobe malfunction: his helmet began filling with water. Today, astronaut Chris Cassidy shows us the suit in question and guides us through exactly how it failed. https://gizmodo.com/nasa-aborts-spacewalk-after-waters-found-in-astronauts-799319024 According to Cassidy, roughly a half liter of water had leaked into his ventilation system,…

Scientists Grow Teeth From Scratch in the Worst Imaginable Way

Sometimes, good oral hygiene just isn’t enough to keep your mouth full of pearly whites perfectly intact. That’s where science comes in (we’d hope). But the newest foray into fabricating teeth for when our bodies no longer can might be better left in the lab—or lavatory, as the case may be. Because scientists are now…

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Research concludes pollution won’t turn Earth into Venus—the sun will

A new research paper published in Nature Geocience claims “it’s likely impossible for human activity to induce a runaway greenhouse effect,” which is what turned Venus into a lifeless toxic hell. That would require “burning 10 times more” our fossil fuel reserves. The sun, however, will do it sooner than we thought. Of course, the…

The Wolverine: The Spoiler FAQ

The Wolverine was not the worst Wolverine movie ever made. So that’s something. But that doesn’t mean The Wolverine didn’t leave viewers with more than a few unanswered questions, but we’re here to help! Warning: This FAQ contains massive spoilers for The Wolverine (also, if you haven’t seen the movie, it probably won’t make a…