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Office Chairs…of Death!

BusinessWeek points out what’s probably obvious: sitting on your ass all day is bad for you. Doctors and hippies agree that we didn’t evolve to sit. What to do? Accept your lot and prepare to die slowly and painfully. [BusinessWeek] The data back him up. Older people who move around have half the mortality rate…

Study Shows that Listening to Prayer Halts Brain Activity

A team of Danish researchers have found that when listening to a well-spoken person who claims to have divine healing powers, the regions of the brain responsible for skepticism and vigilance become less active. Using an MRI machine, Uffe Schjødt of Aarhus University in Denmark scanned the brains of 20 Pentecostal Christians and 20 non-believers…

An ABC iPad App That Streams Lost Over 3G Is Almost Here [UPDATED]

ABC’s iPad app was one of the few we tested that flat-out didn’t play video over 3G—unlike Netflix and YouTube, which play degraded video—but Business Insider hears a 3G-compatible version has already been submitted to the App Store. https://gizmodo.com/ipad-3g-test-notes-5528240 This is one of the cases that people using an iPad plus a Verizon MiFi for…

What Inspired Brad Meltzer’s Superpowered Sex In Buffy Season 8?

During bestselling writer Brad Meltzer’s run on the Buffy The Vampire Slayer comic, Buffy discovered the shocking identity of supervillain Twilight — and had an even more shocking hook-up. We talked to Meltzer about his contributions to the Buffyverse. Spoilers… Novelist Brad Meltzer is no stranger to comics – indeed, he’s penned DC’s Identity Crisis…

Beware of the Great Dimple Fraud

She smiled back. You’d hoped she would actually laugh, but those two charming dimples more than made up for her tepid response. Those two beautiful dimples… WROUGHT BY STEEL. [Modern Mechanix via Vintage Ads via Copyranter]

Child’s Final Superheroic Wish Is The Greatest Thing You’ll Read Today

The Make-A-Wish Foundation made 13-year-old Erik Martin’s superhero dream a reality with a giant city-wide role playing scenario that incorporated all of Seattle. With the help of the Seattle Sounders, Spider-Man and a DeLorean, Electron Boy saved the day. Martin, who is living with liver cancer, always wanted to be a superhero, and the people…

Gadget Deals of the Day

Another day, another dollar saved. Dealzmodo is back to kick off the start of the week, the start of the May, and hopefully, the start of good weather. Grab the latest gadget deals and enjoy the best of Spring. Top Deals: • 55″ Vizio VF551XVT 1080p 240Hz LED TV for $1,599.00 plus free shipping (normally…

Are These Leaked Lost Script Pages For Real?

An Italian site has uploaded six precious pages from the final episode of Lost, and it seems like a lot’s changed between now and then. Are they for real? Inside sources say yes. So what’s going to happen? Spoilers ahead… To be fair, we’re not 100 percent sure these script pages are for real. For…

Frog Watch or Boob Watch, I Like It Just the Same

304 components made of grade 5 titanium, blue 22K gold rotor, three-dimensional horological engine, hour and minutes information transmitted via ceramic ball bearings to rotating aluminium domes covered with 0.28mm-thick sapphire crystal. They call it the HM3 Frog. MB&F HM3 Frog is a limited edition outside the budget of most mortals (the price is not…

Tell Us What These Post-Rapture Humans Are Saying And Win A Free Book

At long last, author Jim Munroe and illustrator Shannon Gerard are releasing Sword of My Mouth, the sequel to post-rapture graphic novel Therefore Repent! Now you can win a free copy by telling us what these guys are saying. Give us some dialogue for Gerard’s illustration in comments, and the top ten (as chosen by…

The Real Problem with 3DTV: There’s Nothing to Watch… Yet

Panasonic and Samsung have launched the first models in an onslaught of 3DTV. But the big problem isn’t their quality, silly glasses or price—it’s that, even if you wanted to attain 3D media, you can’t. https://gizmodo.com/the-best-3dtv-samsung-un55c7000-vs-panasonic-tc-p50vt2-5501900 Remember when HDTV came out and there was barely anything to watch in HD? Or maybe you bought a…

Run iPhone Apps on iPad Without Pixel Doubling

I hate pixel doubling except for arcade games emulators. On the iPad, the 2x video scaling for iPhone apps seems lazy and looks terrible, especially the text. So bad, in fact, that it gives me headaches. But there’s a fix. It requires to jailbreak the iPad (really easy to do using the free Spirit software).…

Scientists Discover Giant Asteroid Covered In Ice

24 Themis is one of the largest asteroids in the asteroid belt, and researchers recently discovered that it’s entirely coated in a thin layer of ice. It may be a remnant of the frozen space rocks that created Earth’s oceans. Last week, two articles in Nature described the discovery of water ice on 24 Themis.…

NYC’s Terror-Spotting Spycams Stuck in Traffic

The NYPD may have caught the attempted Times Square car bomber on tape-and is hoping a $24m phalanx of cameras can stop future attacks. But the track record of large, metropolitan surveillance networks pre-empting terrorists is weak, at best. “NYC is a high risk area,” New York officials note in a homeland security grant request,…

Full Piranha 3D Trailer Is A Bloody Beach Blanket Massacre

We can’t wait for Piranha 3-D’s ancient carnivores to start ripping the faces off unsuspecting Spring Breakers. Bring on the wet t-shirt contest, Eli Roth — you’re doomed. The full-length trailer also explains how 2-million-year-old piranhas resurfaced in Lake Victoria. Piranha 3-D will be released into the waters on August 27, 2010. [via Yahoo]

Resurrected Mammoth Blood: Welcome to Pliocene Park

A team of scientists from around the world have recreated mammoth hemoglobin. The discovery reveals more about the beast than fossil records ever could; it’s as though we’ve traveled 40,000 years into the past and taken a blood sample. The researchers converted mammoth hemoglobin DNA sequences—taken from the bones of long-extinct Siberian mammoths—into RNA, which…

Why Literary Mavens Love Science-Fictional Ideas

What sort of speculative fiction content appeals to literary writers and editors? Clarkesworld’s Ryan Britt talked to editors at lit-mags Conjunctions and Opium, and a few literary authors. The key? Taking the speculative elements seriously, without too much earnestness. [Clarkesworld]

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