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Remote-Controlled Helicopter Kills 19-Year-Old In Brooklyn
The Helicopter Responsiblevia TwitterThe Wall Street Journal's Metropolis blog is reporting that a 19-year-old man was killed today when the remote-controlled helicopter he was flying struck him in the...
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Why Futurama Was The Greatest Show About The Future Ever Aired
Futurama's Fry20th TelevisionR.I.P. Futurama, we'll miss ya The first time I saw Futurama, the long-running (but off-and-on) animated series from Simpsons creator Matt Groening, I was a kid watching it...
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Ride This: An SUV-Size Insectoid Robot
Custom kicksDenton initially shod the Mantis in modified go-kart tires. "They worked out really well," he notes, "but they weren't very grippy." So he fabricated custom rubber feet, modeling the...
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What The Myers-Briggs Personality Test Says About Your Favorite Subway Line
London UndergroundThe Waterloo & City line is in aqua at the bottom right.Transport For LondonThere's so much fun to be had with a public transportation Twitter account. The famous Myers-Briggs...
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Big Pic: NASA Lunar Satellite Undergoes Spin Testing Before Tonight's Big Flight
NASA's Lunar Atmosphere and Dust Environment Explorer Undergoes Spin TestingNASAPlus, inside: Maps of where on the East Coast the spacecraft will be visible NASA is launching a lunar mission tonight...
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NSA Has Secretly Been Hacking, Cracking, And Circumventing Encryption For Years
Fairly Secure, Actuallyvia Creative Commons SearchIf you're using encryption with an American company, you might as well forget about any actual privacy. Newly disclosed documents from...
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Did I Participate In A Pyramid Scheme?
Money money moneyJesse LenzHow college students like me get recruited into multi-level marketing, which seems to defy the laws of mathematics People dressed in business suits, many of them about my...
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Earth's Largest Volcano Found
The base is nearly as big as New Mexico! A megavolcano found at the bottom of the Pacific Ocean is being reported as the largest single volcano on Earth. Tamu Massif, as the megavolcano is called, may...
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Global Warming Update: Record Heat Is 4 Times More Likely Now Than In...
DroughtNOAA via Wikimedia CommonsUgh, global warming. Here's your latest global warming update: It's still happening. Intense heat is now four times more likely to strike in the U.S. than it was in...
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A GPS-Tracked Prairie Chicken Has Wandered 1,180 Miles Since April
Male Prairie Chickens In KansasGreg Kramos via Wikimedia CommonsThe winding journeys of prairie chicken No. 112 make your Fitbit step count look like chump change. A female prairie chicken is putting...
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A Quick Primer On America's Spaceports
Sea Launch at SeaHere is Launch Platform Odyssey sending an Italian satellite into orbit.Wikimedia CommonsEverything you need to know about U.S. portals to space Going to space is getting easier all...
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Check Out Elon Musk's Crazy Gesture-Controlled Rocket-Designing Machine
Spin your hands, and the rocket spins, too. In 3-D. After promising on Twitter recently to show off an Iron Man-style 3-D interface for designing rocket engines, SpaceX and Tesla Motors...
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Spot Exoplanets With Your Home Telescope, Using Free NASA Software
Artist's Concept of a Gas Giant ExoplanetNASA/ESA/G. Bacon (STScI)The new software measures varying light phenomena, accounting for distortions from the Earth's atmosphere and any stray clouds. Well,...
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Human Babies Are Hard-Wired To Pay Attention To Lemurs
Blue-Eyed Black Lemurvia FlickrDoes this mean we can have lemur babysitters?????? (Answer: no. Do not do that, please.) A new study indicates that human babies are born with an innate preference for...
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A Skull Made Of Cocaine And Other Amazing Images From This Week
A Cocaine SkullArtist Diddo made a skull out of cocaine and gelatin because... I'm not sure. But here it is.Diddo via GeekologiePlus a remote-controlled dog, a bridge in disguise, and more Ā Ā Ā Ā
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Trace Any U.S. Waterway Upstream, Downstream, Sidestream
StreamerScreenshot via nationalatlas.govJust kidding, sidestream isn't a thing. But the first two will keep you plenty busy. Remember this map of all the waterways in the U.S. from earlier this summer?...
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What Happens When You Make Someone God Of A Video Game?
Godus22Cans"Milkshake party, clearly." Late last year, gamers started chipping away at a digital cube. The creator of this cube, designer Peter Molyneux, promised a "life-changing" gift to the person...
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The Week In Numbers: A 3-D Printed Invisibility Cloak, Skyscrapers That...
20 Fenchurch StreetLandSecurities/Canary Wharf Group PLCĀ£946: the money the developers of a curved glass building in London paid to Martin Lindsay after reflected light from the skyscraper melted his...
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How To Stop A Plague In 4 Easy Steps
MosquitoesLarry West/Getty ImagesVaccinating mosquitoes can ward off malaria. It's not the mosquito's fault. Malaria is actually caused by the Plasmodium family of parasites, which is carried...
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Why Can't Firefighters Hear Alarms In A Burning Building?
A Cool FirefighterWikimedia CommonsFirefighters are equipped with super-loud emergency buttons if they get in trouble. But they can't hear them. Here's why. Researchers at the University of Texas at...
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