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A New, Beastie Boys-Influenced Star Wars Alien Reminds Us How Much We Still...
When I think of how little we know about Star Wars: The Force Awakens, it kind of boggles my mind. All the toys are from the first third of the movie, and we haven’t seen most of the old characters And...
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We've Solved the Longstanding Mystery of These Spiky Ice Pillars
Penitentes are nature’s ice sculptures: snowy pillars that form high in the Andean glaciers, where the air is particularly dry. Now physicists have figured out not only how these pillars form, but also...
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Michael Moorcock's Pop-Art Superhero Like You've Never Seen Him Before
Michael Moorcock was known for warping the outer edges of genre—but no more so than in his four Jerry Cornelius novels, known as The Cornelius Quartet. These books are jam-packed with increasingly...
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WTF, HBO? Leaked Westworld Consent Form Makes Game of Thrones Look Like The...
HBO has received a lot of criticism for the insane sexual violence in Game of Thrones, especially the latest season. But the network seems determined to keep pushing the porn-envelope further, judging...
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A Mother’s Frantic Search for Her Son Led To a Savage Farmer With a Taste for...
On March 10, 1928, 9-year-old Walter Collins disappeared from his home in Los Angeles, California. His believed abduction triggered a massive manhunt—yet police were unable to find the boy. That is,...
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The League Of Legends Champion That Riot Almost Forgot
League of Legends’ most-neglected champion will be getting an update before the new year, the game’s developers have confirmed to Kotaku.The increasingly out of place champion Poppy will finally be...
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NYFF: Guy Maddin and Evan Johnson Talk Indulgence, Trash, Poppers, and Celine...
“We wanted viewers to feel like they were washed up, panting on another shore somewhere having just had a brush with drowning in a tempest of narrative,” is how Canadian director Guy Maddin described...
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Why You Should Be Incredibly Excited To Get More Black Mirror
Last week, Netflix revealed that Black Mirror, the dystopic British anthology series that takes a dark look at the future of technology, was coming to the streaming service with a whole new batch of...
View ArticleDonald Trump Is Running for President of Our Dystopian Future
It’s all well and good to make fun of Donald Trump’s presidential run, but it turns out that you can put his words in the mouths of the classiest fictional dictators, and it really works.Edited by:...
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New Robot Taxi Ad Highlights the Real Benefits of Driverless Cars
Self-driving cars are coming to a street near you. And their earliest customers might not be harried tech-savvy millennials in big cities, but rather their grandparents out on the farm.Tech titans like...
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How Sperm Cells Get Stripped Down And Ready To Race
Lots of human cells are specialized, but I can’t think of any that are as stripped down to a single purpose as spermatozoa. Sperm have just one job, and they’ll die doing it.Every single piece of a...
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Bask in the Glory of Charon, Pluto's Largest Moon
You didn’t have anything you wanted to do today, right? Good. It’s time for an even more detailed look at Charon, Pluto’s outrageously enormous moon with bizarrely complicated geology.Charon is Pluto’s...
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Should You Feel Bad For Liking Crappy Superhero Movies?
Greetings, my mail minions! This week we’re trying to figure out if the superhero movie genre could survive without nerds, a possible misstep in the Agents of SHIELD premiere, and what you absolutely...
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This Crazy Japanese Film Turns a Deadly Alien Invasion Into a Happy,...
In recent memory, I can’t think of a more bonkers premise for a movie than the Japanese film Assassination Classroom. Which proves I’m a little out of the loop. The film had its U.S. debut at Fantastic...
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This Is the Insane Metallic World NASA Wants to Explore Next
NASA announced the finalists for its next round of planetary explorations. There were the usual suspects—Venus, Jupiter’s asteroids—and, then, there was this: An asteroid, composed almost entirely of...
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All The Most Essential Science Fiction and Fantasy Books in October
You’d better clear your schedule—because October is just packed with amazing science fiction and fantasy books. Including George R.R. Martin’s tales of Westeros long before Game of Thrones. Plus Ann...
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There's a Reliable Therapy for Sex Offenders -- But Nobody Wants Them to Get It
In June of 1994, a convicted child molester named Charlie Taylor moved into a small apartment in downtown Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, across the street from a community center. He had no family. He had...
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What Killed the Dinosaurs Was More Devastating Than an Asteroid
For nearly forty years, paleontologists have argued over what really killed the dinosaurs. Was it an massive asteroid impact, or a spate of volcanic eruptions? Or what if a powerful impact ignited...
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This New Adventure Time Book Will Transport You To The Land of Ooo. For Real.
Having withdrawal symptoms from Adventure Time? You’re not alone. It’s been approximately 500 years since the last new episode. Good thing there’s a brand new book—which is actually two books in...
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