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- Apparently some spiders hunt in packs. You've been warned. (video) (9 comments)
- Tamron Hall Ends Tim Carney's Spin Doctoring By Tossing Him Off Her Show | Crooks and Liars (4 comments)
- Man pulled over for being radioactive (4 comments)
- Phineas Gage Brain Map Study Spotlights Neuroscience's Most Celebrated Case (1 comment)
- Every single new scifi and fantasy show announced for next season! (5 comments)
Phineas Gage Brain Map Study Spotlights Neuroscience's Most Celebrated Case
Seeded on Fri May 18, 2012 11:12 PM EDT (The Huffington Post)
It's easy enough to understand the ghastly accident that befell poor Phineas Gage in Cavendish, Vermont on Sept. 13, 1848: the 25-year-old railroad worker was using an iron rod to tamp down blasting powder when the stuff exploded, sending the 43-inch-long, 13-pound rod through …
The Creepy, Sexy Drifter Who Knows When and How You'll Die
Seeded on Fri May 18, 2012 12:10 PM EDT (io9)
In Chuck Wendig's new novel Blackbirds, protagonist Miriam Black is a young woman with a superpower. Only, it's a terrible superpower – when she touches someone, she can see the exact date, time and method of their death, in a vivid and morbid vision. And there's nothing …
Every single new scifi and fantasy show announced for next season!
Seeded on Fri May 18, 2012 12:04 PM EDT (io9)
Now that the week of television upfronts are coming to a close, it's time to take a look back at all the new TV we've been promised (and what we missed out on). It's going to be a great Fall for sc-fi and fantasy TV fans! Here's just one of many:
Meet the sarcastic fringehead, an oddly named fish who looks like the Predator
Seeded on Thu May 17, 2012 7:02 PM EDT (io9)
The sarcastic fringehead (Neoclinus blanchardi) is a footlong fish that lives off the Pacific coast of North America. When unthreatened, the fringehead's visage is fairly unremarkable. But if a marine predator (or stray human hand) attempts to dislodge a fringehead from its cre …
Apparently some spiders hunt in packs. You've been warned. (video)
Seeded on Tue May 15, 2012 3:42 PM EDT (io9)
Arachnophobes can usually take comfort in the fact that spiders are solitary creatures. The vast majority of the almost 40,000 known arachnid species have pretty miserable social skills, so they tend keep mostly to themselves.
Tamron Hall Ends Tim Carney's Spin Doctoring By Tossing Him Off Her Show | Crooks and Liars
Seeded on Tue May 15, 2012 1:59 AM EDT (Crooks and Liars)
Tamron Hall lost her temper at the right wingers who tried really hard to distract everyone from Mitt Romney's bullying ways and more importantly, his disingenous denials and half-apologies.
Darwin’s Creepiest Experiment Brought Back to Life
Seeded on Mon May 14, 2012 12:59 PM EDT (Wired News)
Charles Darwin liked to freak out his friends—for science. Guests visiting the famed naturalist in 1868 were shown a set of “ghoulish” photos of a guy being prodded in the face with an electrical current. Darwin then asked his guests-cum-guinea pigs to describ …
Man pulled over for being radioactive
Seeded on Mon May 14, 2012 12:36 PM EDT (io9)
Last Wednesday, Mike Apatow was getting on to Interstate 84 in Newtown, CT, when police stopped him for no reason he could determine. When the cop told him that his car had set off his radioactivity detectors, it started making sense: Apatow was most certainly radioactive.
An incisive design solution: The spider's venomous fang
Seeded on Sat May 12, 2012 6:23 PM EDT (Science Daily)
Among the factors that make spiders successful predators is the ingeniously composed and structured material of their fangs. Although their armour consists of the same material as their predator's fangs, flies, grasshoppers and other insects that are the usual prey of spiders …
10 Ridiculously Unsettling Old-Timey Robots
Seeded on Thu May 10, 2012 1:04 AM EDT (io9)
Nowadays everyone hems and haws about the uncanny valley, but we don't realize how good we have it in the 21st century. Decades ago, anthropomorphic machines and animal-like automata straddled the line between goofy and "I did not sign up for this." Here's some irrefutable proo …
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