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Doctor Who's Most Controversial Character Just Got Even More Confounding
River Song is arguably the most divisive character to come to Doctor Who in the past five years. She’s a swashbuckling archeologist who outwits almost everybody, and an unabashedly sexy older woman....
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The Best Day-After-Christmas Deals: Battery Packs, Dash Mounts, 4K Display,...
A hugely popular battery pack, one of your favorite smartphone dash mounts, and a (relatively) cheap 4K monitor highlight todya’s best deals. Bookmark Kinja Deals and follow us on Twitter to never miss...
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Hoverboards Are Ruining Christmas
Plenty of people opened up a gift to find a hoverboard this year. A hearty chunk of that group has already crashed them. Combining a combustible gimmick-toy with a day filled with alcoholic beverages...
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This Hundred-Year-Old Industrial Gem is Like Jabba's Real Life Palace
The Óbuda Gas Works produced city gas from 1914 to 1984 in the 3rd district of Budapest, on the right bank of River Danube. When it opened, it was not just the most advanced gas producing plant in the...
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Watch How Stormtroopers Changed Over Three Trilogies
The stormtrooper is one of the iconic images of the Star Wars film saga, and this gif takes you through the three major variations between the prequel, original and sequel trilogies. [Original...
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How The Legend of Zelda Changed For U.S. Shores
Did you know that Pols, the rabbit-looking things in the original Legend of Zelda, are meant to be destroyed not with arrows but by talking into a microphone? And that the Japanese version of the Zelda...
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Open Channel: What Cool Stuff Did You Get For The Holidays?
Christmas is now over along with most of the big holidays. So, now that the big day is over, what cool stuff did you get for the holidays? I got a book by Tim Parks: Where I’m Reading From: The...
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These Freezing Drops of Oil Are Hypnotically Beautiful
An international team of researchers has shown that specially treated drops of oily chemicals can take on bizarre shapes and structures during the freezing process. These insights could allow us to...
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No, Disney Infinity Is Not Spoiling Star Wars Episode VIII Secrets
Yesterday saw some Star Wars excitement as a video circulated suggesting one of The Force Awakens’ biggest unanswered questions was actually answered in Disney Infinity’s movie play set. Nah. Didn’t...
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RIP George Clayton Johnson, The Man Who Started Star Trek On Its Epic Voyage
Yesterday, science fiction author and screenwriter George Clayton Johnson passed away at the age of 86. He’s best known for novels such as Logan’s Run and shows such as The Twilight Zone and Star...
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Gaze Deeply Into the Eyes of This Soul-Eating Owl
Owls are a popular trope in the mythologies of many cultures, some of which believed that these nocturnal creatures were harbingers of impending death, with a mission to collect wayward souls. But...
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Radiohead Recorded The Original Theme Song For The Lateset James Bond Film,...
This is ... unexpected. Radiohead had been asked to write the theme song for the latest James Bond film, Specre. According to the band, it didn’t work out, but they recorded it anyway, and released it...
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These Guys Swing Lightsabers Around Like They're Using The Force
It’s just a teensy bit goofy to be swinging lightsabers around in the forest dressed as Jedi and Sith but it’s also a helluva lot of fun because these guys are so good at handling the lightsabers that...
View ArticleCheck Out The First Creepy Teaser For Orphan Black's Fourth Season
The next season of Orphan Black drops in April 2016, but BBC America has just released the first, super creepy teaser for it. There’s not much there, but it certainly does set the tone, doesn’t it?[BBC...
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What an Earthrise Looks Like from the Surface of the Moon
Wow. A million wows, really. Here’s a truly spectacular image from NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter that shows Earth in all its glory from the perspective of being on the surface of the Moon. It’s...
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Go To Mars With These Fantastic Scenes From Kim Stanley Robinson's Red Mars
Artist Travis Smith is a big fan of Kim Stanley Robinson’s Mars trilogy, and inspired by the recent news that there will be a television show, he went and illustrated several scenes from the first...
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Will Barnes And Noble Save Itself By Selling Alcohol?
Barnes and Noble hasn’t been doing so hot this year. The book retailer has struggled in the face of stiff competition and recently began looking into getting liquor licenses for a location in New York:...
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U.S. Nuclear Weapons Target List From The Cold War Declassified For The First...
The National Security Archive has published what is said to be the most comprehensive and detailed list of nuclear weapons targets and applied weapons strategy that has ever been declassified. The...
View ArticleLiu Cixin’s novel, The Three Body Problem earned the Hugo Award for Best...
Liu Cixin’s novel, The Three Body Problem earned the Hugo Award for Best Novel earlier this year. It was a triumphant moment for Chinese SF, which has enjoyed its own incredible history over the 20th...
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Fahey's Top 10 Games Of 2015
It’s late December with just days to go until the clock strikes the new year, which makes it the perfect time for Kotaku’s various editors to list their favorite games of 2015. I’ll go first, for I...
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