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This Electric Fence Could Safely Segregate Swimmers and Sharks

Shark netting strung up in coastal waters to protect swimmers from the ocean’s apex predators has not worked nearly as well as we had hoped. But where these knotted nylon lines have failed, one Australian company hopes an electric field will succeed. For more than half a century, bathers and swimmers in the KwaZulu-Natal region…

It’s Great We’re Getting A Captain Marvel Movie. It’s Also Not Enough.

When Marvel announced that its next round of movies would include a Captain Marvel movie, we were thrilled. Yes, a major Marvel movie featuring a popular and wonderful female superhero. But amidst that celebration, let’s not forget there are still tons of worthy female superheroes who would make excellent movie stars. We’re at a point…

Read A Totally Addictive Excerpt From The New YA Novel Stranger

Lately, the best young-adult novels have felt like perfect action-adventure stories, with characters who run from danger… into even greater danger. Case in point: Here’s the first chapter of Stranger by Sherwood Smith and Rachel Manija Brown, which hits the ground running, and just keeps getting more exciting. We covered Stranger a couple years ago,…

Lego Statler and Waldorf will heckle all other builds

Any build that features a Muppet is worth looking at. This build, by grubaluk, features two of the best Muppets, Statler and Waldorf, the lovable haters in the balcony. You’re reading Leg Godt, the blog with the latest Lego news and the best sets in the web. Follow us on Twitter or Facebook.

A Stunning Alt-History Map Showing A Completely Uncolonized Africa

Amap created by Swedish artist Nikolaj Cyon shows what Africa would have looked like had it not been colonized by Europeans. Shown upside down to skew the Eurocentric bias, it was compiled using historical, linguistic, and ethnographic data. Cyon even created an alternative historical timeline to make it work. Check out BigThink’s fantastic feature about…

How To Make Diamonds Out Of Peanut Butter

Diamonds are not rare. Relative to other gemstones, they’re actually pretty common. Scientists have even found ways to make them in the lab from all manner of carbon-containing matter. Like carbon dioxide, or various foodstuffs. Foodstuffs like peanut butter. Photo Credit: Anna via flickr | CC BY-NC-SA 2.0 Geologist Dan Frost of Bayerisches Geoinstitut in…

The Wind Rises, Discounted Digital Credit, and More Deals

The Wind Rises, the preorder price falls. [The Wind Rises] Code CPLAY10 is going to grant you some pretty awesome prices. Let’s go through them. Brings this Super Mario 3D World Wii U Bundle down to $260 and no tax. This is likely to be the best Wii U deal prior to Smash Bros. Wii…

I Let My Keyboard Suggestions Write This Post

I am going to be a little late On Wed Jan the office of the most interesting and I will be there for a while I wrote a good wtfriday about flight 666 to hell that did not have to go to bed at night and day out of the box and the other keeps…

One Famous Technique That Doesn’t Solve Jet-Lag, And One That Does

Traveling this holiday season? Here’s how to prepare your body for the crushing exhaustion that comes from switching time zones. Photo Credit: Jeff Sheldon | CC0 1.0 Before we look at surefire ways to address travel fatigue, let’s look at a myth that, while almost certainly ineffective, is actually kind of instructive about the whole…

Amazon and Hachette Finally Make Nice Over E-Book Pricing

Amazon and Hachette, two companies that have been in an e-book price battle since May, ended their heated feud today. The new terms are part of a multiyear agreement between the publisher and the online retailer for e-book and print sales in the US. Amazon executive David Naggar says he’s “pleased with the new agreement”…

Schönstaub’s astronomy rugs using Hubble Space Telescope images are back, and this time the company has a new line of astronomy towels, too.

Darkseid, Guy Gardner & A Bunch Of Bizarros Star In DC’s New Lego Movie

Lego DC Comics Super Heroes: Justice League Vs. Bizarro League is kind of an overstuffed title, but watch this first trailer for the upcoming straight-to-DVD/Blu-ray movie and tell me it doesn’t look awesome. An entire Bizarro League! Darkseid! Guy Gardner! Bizarro Guy Gardner!!! Holy crap, guys. The movie doesn’t hit until February 10th, 2015, but…

The Smithsonian’s Fantastic Plan to Transform the National Mall

There’s no better way to get peoples’ attention than by calling a national landmark “a completely overblown toilet.” That’s how the Danish architect Bjarke Ingels put it last year, describing part of the Smithsonian campus at the southern end of the mall. Today, the architect revealed his plan to fix the area. Ingels’ comment was…

Behold The Terrifying Real-Life South Park From Last Night’s Episode

Last night, South Park used Oculus Rift and The Matrix to fall into a virtual reality hole where nothing was what it seemed. And everyone was being told that their reality “wasn’t real”—over and over, until we ended up just as lost as the kids. And then there was a twist. Warning: spoilers in this…

The Ultimate Redshirt Is Getting A Whole Book In Which He Dies. A Lot.

Some fictional characters have all the luck, and others… well, they just can’t catch a break. For years, authors of various Baen Books titles have worked in an in-joke, involving a minor character named Joe Buckley who always dies in the most horrible fashion. And now, he’s finally getting the spotlight. The military science fiction…

IBM’s Watson Will Give You Personalized Health Advice Based on Your DNA

IBM wants its supercomputer Watson to help you get healthy—by analyzing your genes. A startup called Pathway Genomics is teaming up with IBM to create a fitness and diet tracking app that uses DNA sequencing and Watson’s intelligence to give custom health recommendations. The app is called Pathway Panorama and it’ll take the gene sequencing…

This Age of Ultron mashup just makes me miss Earth’s Mightiest Heroes

Another day, another delightful mashup for the Avengers: Age of Ultron trailer – we’ve got another 6 months of this before the movie’s out! However, this one is all the more mournful thanks to it using footage from the dearly missed Avengers: Earth’s Mightiest Heroes cartoon. God, I miss EMH. The trailer mashup comes courtesy…

Scientists reveal amazing pictures inside mysterious Siberian hole

The Siberian Times just published these new amazing pictures of an expedition of scientist who descended inside the mysterious crater on the Yamal Peninsula, northern Siberia. They are collecting data because its origin remains a mystery but, believe it or not, there may be a Bermuda Triangle connection. According to the Russian scientist Igor Yeltsov—deputy…

A Flying RC Car That’s as Easy To Pilot as It Is To Drive

There was once a time when flying an RC plane cost thousands of dollars and required months of practice to avoid accidentally destroying your investment. That’s no longer the case, because for just $60 Hot Wheels’ new Street Hawk puts you at the controls of a bona-fide remote control plane that’s surprisingly easy to fly,…

Walmart Will Start Price-Matching Amazon at Its 5000 Stores

You’ll now be able to get Amazon’s bargain prices at your local Walmart, as the company embraces price-matching with online retailers. Reuters reports that Walmart told managers at its roughly 5000 stores that they’ll officially be able to offer customers the often cheaper prices available online. In the past, stores typically only matched published prices…