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Jezebel No, Your Adult Kids Don’t Have to Talk to You Whenever You Want Them...

Jezebel No, Your Adult Kids Don’t Have to Talk to You Whenever You Want Them To | Gizmodo Ruthlessly Efficient Trap Proves Mice Are Dumb | Gawker In Pointless Speech, Obama Reassures America That “We...

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Harrison Ford May Have Let Slip A Major Spoiler About The Force Awakens

The cast and crew of Doctor Who discuss plans for the next companion. Get a glimpse of Black Panther in action in Civil War. Supergirl casts another DC villain. Plus, looks at the midseason finales for...

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Revel in All the Amazing New Seconds of New Game of Thrones Footage

In HBO’s year-end “Look how awesome we were in 2015, we’ll also be awesome in 2016,” there are about four seconds of footage from season six of Game of Thrones. You can either skip to 2:15 in the video...

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An Even Better Look at Doctor Who's New Sonic Screwdriver

Last week, the BBC gave us a fleeting glimpse at the Doctor’s latest version of his favorite toy: the Sonic Screwdriver. But now that the device has made its grand debut during the show’s season...

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How Star Wars Helped Create President Reagan 

1. Star Wars starts out in the Wild West, the rough-hewn old frontier, and then it races upwards, soaring and expanding its scope, until at last it becomes World War II. It’s the story of drifters and...

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That Time Kojima Deceived Everyone About Metal Gear Solid 2's Main Character

Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty was one of the most anticipated games ever. 1998’s Metal Gear Solid blew everyone away with its attention to detail and imaginative world. The sequel, one of the...

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Adequate Man Hot Wiring A Car, And Other Tales Of The Worst Trouble You Ever...

Adequate Man Hot Wiring A Car, And Other Tales Of The Worst Trouble You Ever Got Into | Jezebel Video of Alleged Rape Posted in Florida A&M University Social Media Community | Field Guide 16 Hidden...

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An Unlikely Alliance Forms on Yet Another Awesome Episode of Ash vs Evil Dead

The deliciously blood-filled fight scenes in “The Killer of Killers” might be the series’ best yet—though it’s hard to declare anything the best on a show that has so much going for it. This week, the...

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Looks Like The Iron Fist TV Show Is Really Happening!

Everyone’s been wondering if Netflix is really going to make a TV show based on Iron Fist, the comic about a blond guy who goes to Asia and becomes a martial-arts master. While Daredevil and Jessica...

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This Week's TV: Mark Hamill Leads The Greatest Villain Team-Up In TV History!

Plus Robot Chicken is back with more weird superheroes! There are midseason finales of all your favorite shows. A killer is finally unmasked on Scream Queens! Neon Joe, Werewolf Hunter arrives in a...

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In The Librarians, a Classic Figure From Literature Goes Digital

This could just be me, but there was something missing from this week’s Librarians. It just didn’t seem as tightly packed and plotted as usual. The time between the team getting the assignment and...

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Unprecedented Image Shows a Dolphin's Echolocated Impression of a Submerged...

In a world’s first, researchers from the US and UK have created an impression of a submerged human as recorded by a dolphin’s echolocation.To do it, a team led by Jack Kassewitz of SpeakDolphin.com...

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No One Gives Christmas Presents Like The Last Man On Earth

Armed with a billion dollar spending limit, the characters on The Last Man on Earth spent the latest episode conducting a little “Secret Santa.” That just so happened to be the title of the episode,...

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Happy 100th Birthday to Leigh Brackett, the Queen of Space Opera!

In the Golden Age of science fiction, male authors far outnumbered their female counterparts. C.L. Moore was a notable break from the largely male-dominated field, but she wasn’t the only one to put...

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When Will We Finally Get To See Person of Interest Season 5?

Person of Interest is one of the best science fiction TV shows of the past decade—or of all time, really. So we’ve been waiting anxiously to see the fifth season, especially since we heard so much...

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10 Brilliant Science Fiction and Fantasy Stories That You Probably Haven't...

Nigerian author Wole Talabi has posted his list of the 10 best African science fiction and fantasy stories of 2015. They include Afro-cyberpunk, a reimagined fairy tale, magical realism, and far-future...

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Creepy, Beautiful, Helpful, Badass: Here Come Futuristic Robots From Japan

The four-day International Robot Exhibition just wrapped up in Japan over the weekend, and the wild machines introduced in Tokyo, one of the world’s biggest robot hubs, did not disappoint. The show...

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An Hour-Long Look At What Made Sam Raimi's Spider-Man Movies Great

In our current age of mega-Marvel machinations and decade-long transmedia story arcs, it’s easy to forget what it was like before the Avengers assembled. Way back at the turn of the century, we got a...

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The Social Dynamics of Penguin Huddles Are More Complex Than We Thought

Emperor penguins huddle together for warmth during those punishing Antarctic storms, taking turns being at the center of the huddle. The social dynamics behind those huddles turns out to more...

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This Philip K. Dick Tribute Is a Work of Mind-Fucking Greatness In Its Own Right

Philip K. Dick has had a huge influence on science fiction literature—but it’s pretty rare that you read a new book that manages to channel Dick’s paranoid, reality-warping mojo. So Black Hole by Bucky...

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