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Batman '66 Was A Shining, Joyous Beacon In The Dark World Of Batman Comics
Until recently, DC desperately avoided any sort of acknowledgement of the classic 1960s Batman TV show. Not only did it not represent who Batman was now—a layered, gritty character—it was viewed as an...
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Farmer Discovers Priceless Trove of Ancient Roman Coins While Removing a...
A cache of over 4,000 silver and bronze coins dating back to ancient Rome has been discovered by a Swiss farmer. Buried some 1,700 years ago, it’s one of the largest treasures of its kind ever found in...
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Video: An airplane fuselage gets transformed into a stunning interstellar...
Wow. PlayMID’s Porta Estel·lar is a trully stunning visual light show inside an old airplane fuselage. It mimics the concept of interstellar travel, “from departure and takeoff to the sighting of...
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Why You Should Resist the Overwhelming Urge to Torment Your Cat With a Cucumber
So you’ve probably seen that viral video showing cats having the bejeezus scared out of them by a particularly snake-like vegetable: the lowly cucumber. Hilarious, right? Sure—if you’re a human. As a...
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The New Adventure Time Miniseries Was an Amazing Meditation on Change
The theme song of the eight-part Adventure Time miniseries that just concluded, “Stakes,” is called “Everything Stays,” and it’s about how things remain where you left them. Sort of a fitting theme for...
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Natalie Dormer Makes a Viewmaster Scary in the Trailer for The Forest
Thanks to Game of Thrones and The Hunger Games, the world knows that Natalie Dormer is fantastic. She’s becoming a bigger star by the day, and now she’s the lead in a supernatural thriller called The...
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Rockstars are go!
Rockstars are go! For the 50th anniversary of the puppet adventure show Thunderbirds, Pulp frontman Jarvis Cocker is joining Portishead’s Adrian Utley and Goldfrapp’s Will Gregory for a ginormous...
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This Is How We Know a Supernova Is Coming in 2016
In early 2016, astronomers will be looking at a specific part of the sky, knowing with near certainty that a supernova will appear. How is it possible to predict such events? The answer has to do with...
View ArticleWe Made Victorian Condoms and It Was Much Grosser Than We Expected
Way back in September, our very own Esther Inglis-Arkell found a recipe for condoms from 1844. It was only two paragraphs long, so we thought, how hard can it be? Really hard, it turns out. Also gross...
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Celebrate Marceline With This Stunning Adventure Time Art
Tim Doyle’s work is always amazing, but he outdid himself with two variations on art starring Marceline for Galerie F and Cartoon Network’s Adventure Time miniseries. You can see more of Doyle’s work...
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The Choreographer of The Apple Really Thought He Was Going To Win an Oscar
The Apple is one of the most legendary cult movies of all time—this disco dystopia, in which a singing duo from Saskatchewan get perverted by the Satanic music industry, is a legendary study in excess....
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A New Sensor Can Sniff Out Gold Inside Space Rocks
There’s gold in them thar asteroids—if only we could find it. Well, and get to it, extract it, and haul it back to Earth. You know, details. But that first part just got easier, thanks to a clever new...
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The Weird, Sketchy History of Internet Cafes
Internet cafes started as coffee shops where you could check email. But over the years, people turned them into dens for sharing pirated music, hotspots for video game addiction, and even temporary...
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The Grisly, Goofy Starship Troopers Played Dumb To Make Hollywood Look Even...
The moment when you discover what Starship Troopers is really about is one of the great eureka moments in the life of any young movie dork. I’ve got vivid memories of staggering out of a suburban...
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The Bizarre Disappearance (And Bizarre Return) of Evangelist Aimee Semple...
Evangelist Aimee Semple McPherson became a superstar after founding her church in 1923 Los Angeles; her Foursquare Gospel teachings still have millions of followers today. But she made her mark on...
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One of the Biggest Sci-Fi Novels of the Fall is Coming to Theaters Thanks to...
If you get to see the brand-new novel Illuminae on the big screen at some point, thank Brad Pitt. His company Plan B just bought the rights to adapt the unique sci-fi story into a movie.Written by Amie...
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In this Dark Fairy Tale, a Sheltered Young Girl Seizes Control of Her Future
“In a family headed by a tyrannical father, the younger daughter will regain her freedom on her birthday.” It’s a simple synopsis, but Blood Ties, the dark fantasy film it describes, packs a lot of...
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A Swarm of Satellites Will Soon Keep Us Safe From Fires
The GIF above, created by NASA, may leave you wondering why our government is building a planetary shield. Something you’re not telling us, NASA? According to the space agency, NASA’s shield plan has...
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The Fingerprints of Water on Sand Are Like a Living Organism
Nature is filled with repeating patterns. Take this image of dried-up riverbeds in Oman, which could just as easily be the subterranean root structure of a giant tree, or the threadlike tendrils of a...
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