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07/02/2015

http://www.popsci.com/norwegian-researchers-invent-robots-can-adapt-produce-their-own-parts

But they could help out in emergencies or on distant planets

07/02/2015

Looking forward to Lev Grossman

Comic-Con has announced its first lineup of guests for the summer 2015 San Diego show today. Comic-Con 2015 will take place at the San Diego Convention Center from Thursday, July 9 through Sunday, July 12, 2015. The event is dedicated to celebrating comics...

07/02/2015

Geeks rejoice: After more than a decade, BattleBots is coming back to TV. The new show is slated to have a run of six episodes and will air on ABC summer 2015. BattleBots, a tournament in which competitors pit armed remote-control robots against each other...

08/12/2014

Just read this sci-fi novella and it blew me away. I don't normally promote anything on here, but this is worth your time if you're a fan of speculative fiction:

http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00O2R203C

The animals are gone. All of them. So why is there a parrot in a cage on my front porch? And why is it telling me I'm about to die? Eli Nixon's "Pretty Bird" is a novella of epic proportions, a thrill-a-minute ride through humanity's most bizarre future that will leave you guessing unti...

10/10/2014

We stumble on the bodies of the fallen, but we stand on the memory of their sacrifice.

If the Earth could tell a story, what would it say? This planet has seen 14,500 wars since 3500 B.C. and watched 3.5 billion human lives cut short...

16/06/2014

On July 9, 1962, the US launched a thermonuclear warhead into space from the Pacific Ocean. The resulting explosion turned the skies into a technicolor light show of nuclear fallout. In Hawaii, where the effects were most visible, hotels arranged "rainbow bomb parties" so their guests could have a r…

16/06/2014

Tesla Motors recently released all their patents to the public in the hopes that amateur designers will build---and improve on---their designs. Here they are: http://stks.freshpatents.com/Tesla-Motors-Inc-nm1.php

- Tesla Motors, Inc. patent applications

07/06/2014

Should we be doing this? What do you think?

Medical waste is a commonly used source of fuel for generating electricity that can be used to power and heat homes. Of course, this "medical waste" often contains, among other things, aborted fetuses. It's no surprise that a lot of people are outraged by the idea of "burning dead babies," as some have described the process, but when you sidestep the graphic language, it's not nearly as bad as it sounds.

The post How To Get Electricity From An Aborted Fetus appeared first on KnowledgeNuts.

29/05/2014

I don't normally post things that most people would consider "things that matter," but this quote from Bill Murray after crashing a bachelor party is spot on:

"If you have someone that you think is The One, don't just sort of think in your ordinary mind, 'Okay, let's pick a date. Let's plan this and make a party and get married.' Take that person and travel around the world. Buy a plane ticket for the two of you to travel all around the world, and go to places that are hard to go to and hard to get out of. And if when you come back to JFK, when you land in JFK, and you're still in love with that person, get married at the airport. "

When an older, wiser man offers you love advice, take it. Especially if that older, wiser man is Bill Murray. Murray crashed a bachelor party at a steakhouse in Charleston, South Carolina, over the Memorial Day Weekend in all his Bill Murray glor...

27/05/2014

It's all fun and games until someone eats your lung.

Friendly competition has been a human mainstay since the dawn of civilization, an innocent way to prove a skill without killing the other person at...

27/05/2014

Artist Bartholomäus Traubeck has built a record player that can play a cross-sectional slice of a tree trunk. Here's what the tree rings sound like.

23/05/2014

http://listverse.com/2014/05/22/10-beautiful-flowers-that-kill-in-horrifying-ways/

Flowers are nature's way of tricking insects into helping plants have s*x, and as a side effect, humans have something to make their gardens look prettier.