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The Leftovers Hits a Season High With a Totally Depressing Episode
Talk about harrowing. We finally spend more than a scene or two with the Jamiesons—which means a lot of heavy lifting for Christopher Eccleston’s determined reverend—and in a season that’s been all...
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The Curse of Kiseki: How One Of Japan's Biggest RPGs Barely Made It To America
One day in March of last year, video game writer Andrew Dice wrote out a check for all of his company’s money. He stuck it in the doorframe at his business partner’s apartment in Portland, Oregon, then...
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Y: The Last Man Producer Explains How She Won Brian K. Vaughan Over
Hollywood tried very hard to make Brian K. Vaughan’s classic comic Y :The Last Man into a movie but, finally, everyone gave up. The story was just too epic and too risky to condense into that form. TV...
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Amazon's Taking $30 Off the Kindle Paperwhite and Voyage, for Prime Members Only
For a limited time, Amazon’s taking $30 off the sticker price of the two best e-ink Kindles, making for the best deal we’ve seen on the new, 300ppi Kindle Paperwhite, and the first discount ever on the...
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11 of the Most Constipated-Looking Action Figures Ever Released
As action figures have become more detailed, toy fans have been treated to some amazing-looking figures over the years. But not that long ago, when sculpting techniques were less advanced, toy...
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Fossil With Preserved Tail Feathers and Skin Reveals Dinosaur Plumage Patterns
An undergraduate student from the University of Alberta has uncovered the fossilized remains of an Ornithomimus dinosaur with preserved tail feathers and soft tissue. The remarkable specimen is...
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Mark Wahlberg's Six Billion Dollar Man Movie Is Officially Happening
Cross The Six Million Dollar Man off the list of classic TV shows that had yet to get a big screen adaptation. After a several months of development, an updated version called The Six Billion Dollar...
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Cyclone Chapala Still Looking Nasty as it Advances on Yemen
Yemen is in for a mess as last week’s rapidly-growing Cyclone Chapala continues to hold it together while approaching the dry desert air. If it makes landfall, it’s anticipated to be the largest storm...
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This Week's TV: Constantine Is Back!
What does this week’s TV have in store? TWO Star Wars shows! THREE zombie shows! And FOUR DC Comics superhero shows! Plus the first episode of the mysterious Agent X, and Doctor Who’s wildest...
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A Harrowing Account of What It’s Like to Die From a Snakebite
In 1957, American herpetologist Karl P. Schmidt was bitten by a poisonous boomslang snake. With no anti-venom available—and mistakenly believing he hadn’t received a fatal dose—he proceeded to do what...
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Gawker How to Fix iMessage’s Read Receipts: A Proposal | Jezebel Why, Exactly, Are We So Into Policing What Pregnant Women Eat? | Gizmodo Awesome Slow Motion Footage of Bullets Piercing Random Objects...
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How Pixar Rescued The Good Dinosaur From Creative Extinction
It’s kind of amazing that The Good Dinosaur is hitting theaters in a few weeks. And it actually looks great. Just a couple of years ago, we kept hearing The Good Dinosaur was in the midst of a huge...
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When Should The New Star Trek TV Series Take Place?
Today’s news of a new Star Trek TV show hit the world like a phaser set to stun. CBS is creating a brand new Trek show for January 2017—but what does this mean?The Star Trek universe is so big and has...
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The Melting Antarctic Ice Sheet Is Heading Towards Irreversible Collapse
Computer models suggest that the melting West Antarctic Ice Sheet (WAIS) is melting at a rapidly accelerating rate. A new computer simulation shows that at current melting rates, the ice sheet will hit...
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Inside Out Nearly Had A Lot More Emotions As Characters
Inside Out’s refreshing look at the human psyche focused on the personification of 5 main emotions: Joy, Sadness, Fear, Anger, and Disgust. But the movie began with quite a few extra emotions running...
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Believe It: Fox Confirms The Greatest American Hero Reboot
The theme song’s going to be stuck in your head for the rest of the day, but: The Greatest American Hero, the ‘80s superhero cult classic, is being revived for twenty first-century audiences on Fox.In...
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Holy Crap, We've Been Living in Space for 15 Years!
One minute you’re fooling around in a couple of short-lived space stations that stumble into the atmosphere and burn up, the next you’ve spent a decade and a half with continuous habitation of a major...
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How Rice Built the World As We Know It
Rice: It’s not just delicious, it’s also the building block of a large percentage of the world’s diet. But rice—and how we finally figured out how to domesticate it—is responsible for shaping a lot...
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Nicole Kidman Joins the New DC Universe With A Role In Wonder Woman
Fans can’t read the scripts for big, anticipated movies beforehand so sometimes we rely on other means to pre-judge their quality. For example, if a good actor comes on board, it’s usually a good sign....
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Is it Still a Launch if the Main Engine Never Fires?
What happens to a space shuttle if the main engine never fires during launch? NASA researchers tested for that in this scale-model test May 1988. The answer? It’s not exactly catastrophic, but it sure...
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