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This is How Much the Ground Moved During Chile's Massive Earthquake

When Chile was hit by a magnitude 8.3 earthquake this week, the very ground shifted. By comparing images before and after the earthquake with an interferogram, geophysicists can measure just how much...

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Saturday's Best Deals: iPad Mini 3, Cheap GoPro, $5 Magazines, and More

Here are the best of today’s deals. Get every great deal every day on Kinja Deals, follow us on Facebook and Twitter to never miss a deal, join us on Kinja Gear to read about great products, and on...

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Fly Low Over Pluto in This Incredible Aerial Tour

NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft took hundreds of images of Pluto this summer, and we’ve been getting them all back in one of the most glorious data dumps astro nerds have ever borne witness to. But for...

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Telephone History Museum Destroyed in Recent California Wildfire

The JKL Museum of Telephony, dedicated to preserving the history of phones, was destroyed last week as one of the worst wildfires of the summer raged across the central valley of California.Located in...

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Brian Staveley Signs On For More Unhewn Throne Novels

We’re big fans of Brian Staveley’s soon-to-be-completed trilogy The Chronicles of the Unhewn Throne: his first two books have marked him as an author to watch. Now, he’s signed with Tor for an...

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Come For the Game Show. Stick Around For the Cosplay

Tokyo Game Show this year was packed with games and fans. And cosplay. Lots of cosplay.It’s the first public day of Tokyo Game Show, and the cosplay area was packed with people dressed up as their...

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Let's Assemble The Best Retro Geek Playlist To Rock Out To This Weekend!

I really love putting together playlists - my iTunes player has a ton of them, and I’m always tinkering with what I’m listening to. This weekend, let’s put together a playlist of videos that remind you...

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Doctor Who Shows Us The Doctor’s Arch-Enemies In A Whole New Light

Tonight’s Doctor Who season premiere is all about two of the show’s most iconic villains. We (and the Doctor) see them in a new light, and it’s enough to make you wonder if the show’s endless battle...

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New Satellite Images Show Just How Parched the Ground Is

It’s been a hot, thirsty, fire-ridden summer out West. But to really understand the severity of the drought, we need to look beneath the parched vegetation and deep into the ground. Spoilers: It’s...

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Meet The Crew Of Ares 3 In The Martian's Official Mission Guide

For each mission, NASA does a considerable amount of work publicizing their efforts to bring awareness of their mission to the general public. The same would be true for a manned Mars Mission, as the...

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Ernie Hudson Joins Ghostbusters On The Last Day Of Shooting

Ghostbusters wrapped its shoot yesterday and was joined by one of the remaining actors from the original movies: Ernie Hudson! Director Paul Feid tweeted out the news yesterday: Hudson, writing on his...

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Ghost in the Shell was Made for Virtual Reality

Ghost in the Shell has always been about futuristic stuff, so seeing it in 3D in a planetarium-like dome was rather fitting.At Production I.G’s booth at this year’s Tokyo Game Show is a mini theater...

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Pixar's SadLab Is Why You Cried So Hard During Inside Out

Internet Comedians Above Average have discovered the secret behind why each of Pixar’s films are a tearjerker: a cutting edge Sad lab that looks into all the best ways to make people cry. It makes...

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Sunday's Best Deals: iPad Air 2, Cheap Cookware, Limited Edition PS4, and More

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This is the Best Footage Yet of an Exoplanet Orbiting its Star

And...it’s literally six seconds of pixelated blob. But before you laugh, know this: Capturing that planetary transit you just witnessed was no easy task. You’re looking at Beta Pictoris b, a gas giant...

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The Doctor And His Companion Cross Road To Recreate Album Cover

London’s Abby Road has attracted just about every tourist visiting the city to recreate the iconic Abby Road album cover shot. Earlier this week, the Doctor decided to stop by and follow in the Beatles...

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Watch Doctor Who's Series 9 Premiere Online For Free 

Shows foreign to the United States are a continual source of frustration due to copyright and licensing restrictions, especially when there’s a long wait time. Fortunately, the latest episode of Doctor...

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What's the One Device You Need to Survive the Apocalypse?

The zombie horde is coming. The pandemic is spreading. An EMP just fried the grid. One way or another, you need to get out of this soon-to-be-godforsaken city. You gaze forlornly at your glorious pile...

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Little Giants Figures Are Heroes With Brains, Not Brawn

All those muscles meant he could defend Eternia, but put a pencil in He-Man’s hand and sit him down in front of the SATs and suddenly he’s not so heroic. And is that who you really want your kids...

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Anthophobia Is Your Dose Of Weird Horror For Today

I have a real love of Weird Horror fiction - the sort of stories with bizarre and surrealist imagery. Valentin Petit’s new short film, Anthophobia, hits all of the right buttons, and it’s impossible to...

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