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10 Ultra-Weird Science Fiction Novels that Became Required Reading
You want a really weird ride? A science fiction or fantasy epic that stretches your brain like taffy and ties it into strange irregular shapes? Forget television or movies: books are where the really...
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Beautiful footage of jellyfish reveal why they're so awesome
Jellyfish don’t have a brain or a heart or blood and can’t see or hear and yet they’ve managed to stick around in our oceans for 600 million years and have survived five mass extinctions. These...
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Why The Nazis Believed They Could Win the Battle of Britain
This year marks the 75th anniversary of the Battle of Britain, the first time in history that one nation tried to defeat another using airstrikes. Here’s how the Nazis thought they could do it—and how...
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Drive Director Nicolas Winding Refn Explains How The Best Movie Posters Tell...
Nicolas Winding Refn doesn’t collect movie posters. And yet, he’s about to release a book of movie posters. It’s a typical curiosity from the director of Drive and Bronson, who was at Fantastic Fest in...
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Read an Excerpt from the Biography of D&D Creator Gary Gygax, Empire of...
He wasn’t a fighter, a thief, or even a wizard, but Gary Gygax was still a hero of nerd culture. As the creator of Dungeons & Dragons and the father of virtually all role-playing games, he had a...
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Will Our Long National Cucumber Nightmare Ever End?
There was a massive cucumber recall—so why are people still getting sick from them? Cucumbers, you see, are as patient as they are ruthless. The number of cases of Salmonella linked to tainted...
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Destiny: The Taken King: The Kotaku Review
For most of last year, Destiny players have been spurred by hope and riled by impatience. We held out hope that this flawed but promising game would draw closer to its potential, despite our impatience...
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Getting Stuck Inside This Tiny Ball Was Part of Each NASA Astronaut's Training
This ball is a ridiculous Health and Safety mockup, that never actually made it off-planet. It’s basically the worst-shaped spacesuit that was ever invented.1980: Margaret Rhea Seddon, Kathryn D....
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Not Much Happens on Scream Queens, But it Sure Is Fond of Itself Anyway
This week’s Scream Queens was titled “Chainsaw” as a nod to the killer’s (or killers’, ahem) new weapon of choice—and, just maybe, to acknowledge that this is perhaps the shrillest, most broadly-hewn...
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What Are the Best Stories of the Year So Far? (September 2015 Edition)
What were the summer’s best short stories? The ones you read and couldn’t stop thinking about, long after you closed the tab or turned the page? I have a few ideas about that...Every week, I boost my...
View ArticleOlympic-Level Troll Hijacks HLN Segment on Edward Snowden to Defend Edward...
Today is a really great day. In this video, HLN anchor Yasmin Vossoughian dials up Jon Hendren, known by his Twitter handle @fart, for a segment on America’s best top fugitive Edward Snowden’s recent...
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How A Pharmacist Named F. C. Achard Doomed Us All
One present to the King of Prussia launched an industry that, if current experts are to be believed, will kill us all. Learn how a pharmacist started a factory that has caused the destruction of many,...
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What's the Greatest Sense of Wonder You've Ever Experienced?
Science fiction and fantasy are all about imagining other worlds and offering other ways of seeing our own reality. But they also offer a huge, beautiful dose of wonder and amazement. What’s the...
View ArticleDeadspin Root For The Mets In The Playoffs | Gawker Cops: Two Pre-Med...
Deadspin Root For The Mets In The Playoffs | Gawker Cops: Two Pre-Med Students Murdered a UCLA Sorority Girl and Used a Snuggie to Cover Up Their Crime | Gizmodo The Best Ways to Get to Work, According...
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The Best Ways to Get to Work, According to Science
Commuting affects your mental health, your physical health, and even the way you think about other people. And these changes are more profound than you might think.The average commuter spends about an...
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Lost for 70 Years, These Drawings Show Germany's Sneakiest World War II...
The chocolate bomb intended to kill Winston Churchill became the stuff of wartime legend. But depictions of the device and other cleverly concealed explosives were only recently rediscovered. During...
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This Avengers: Age of Ultron Poster Perfectly Represents That Manic Marvel Movie
Love it or hate it, there’s one thing everyone can agree on when it comes to Avengers: Age of Ultron. It’s absolutely packed. Packed full of plot, heroes, villains and that style is perfectly fitted to...
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Something Odd Is Happening on Ceres and this Map Could be the Key to...
Our fly-by of Ceres continues to give us things to wonder over, like this topographic map which has revealed something quite strange about the dwarf planet—actually a couple of things.One of the odd...
View ArticleCheck Out the Ghost Shark!
The ghost shark is creepy as hell. It floats around the darkest part of the ocean looking like a fallen angel that just clawed its way out of hell. It’s not entirely a shark. It’s more like a shark’s...
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Video: Making a handmade glass bottle from sand is so hard
The concept is easy enough to follow: find sand, melt the crap out of it at over 2000 degrees Fahrenheit, and then watch sand turn into glass. But when you want to do something with that molten glass...
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