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The US government is mandating that all new DVD and Blu-ray discs prominently feature warnings and new copyright “education”. This means that all future discs will have two unskippable notices: the first being the standard FBI anti-piracy warning. The second is a notice from the National Intellectual Property Coordination...
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This week’s WTF moment comes to us from Newfield NJ (where else?) where a body piercer named Dave Hurban has shot and published a video of himself, embedding himself with four magnets into the wrist, in order to hold his beloved iPod nano. The video below, although not that...
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A worldwide study of the brain has found that the larger a person’s brain is, the more intelligent they tend to be. It was found that the those with a larger hippocampus (which controls memory) have greater retention and recall. The hippocampus tends to shrink with age, which explains...
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A graduate student at the London School of Economics has produced a study that states that the internet meme “LoLcats” make people (counter-intuitively) smarter. The internet anthropologist found that the online banality draws people closer together through its silliness. She believes that Lolcats were invaluable tool for creating connections...
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A new in vitro fertilization technique may be able to detect numerous illnesses as soon as five days after the conception of an embryo. Normal IVF treatments work by fertilizing many eggs in a laboratory setting and then implanting them in the mother; this allows for a much higher...
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Scientists at the ACME Ohio State University labs have reportedly developed a 500 trillion watt laser. 500,000,000,000,000 W To put that into perspective, it’s more watts than the US national debt in US Dollars. That’s a lot. Consider that a 5mW laser can blind most people at least momentarily and...
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An alternative method of burial is being offered to Australians – aquamation. The process puts the body into a stainless steel tank, then submerges it in a special liquid that aids in decomposition. The body is reduced to a slurry which can then be released into rivers or oceans,...
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Astronomers have discovered a monolith-shaped object on Mars. The structure juts out of the Martian landscape and has many scientists confused about its significance. The monolith appears to be completely rectangular and there is speculation as to whether it is an artificial construct or not. The camera which took...
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This one is straight out of the “what could go wrong?” chapter in the automotive world. An electric-car battery undergoing tests at a Warren, Mich., research center exploded, sending an employee to the hospital. The accident happened around 9AM on Wednesday morning at the Warren Michigan General Motors testing...
The US government is mandating that all new DVD and Blu-ray discs prominently feature warnings and new copyright “education”. This means that all future discs will have two unskippable notices: the first being the standard FBI anti-piracy warning. The second is a notice from the National Intellectual Property Coordination...
This week’s WTF moment comes to us from Newfield NJ (where else?) where a body piercer named Dave Hurban has shot and published a video of himself, embedding himself with four magnets into the wrist, in order to hold his beloved iPod nano. The video below, although not that...
A worldwide study of the brain has found that the larger a person’s brain is, the more intelligent they tend to be. It was found that the those with a larger hippocampus (which controls memory) have greater retention and recall. The hippocampus tends to shrink with age, which explains...
A graduate student at the London School of Economics has produced a study that states that the internet meme “LoLcats” make people (counter-intuitively) smarter. The internet anthropologist found that the online banality draws people closer together through its silliness. She believes that Lolcats were invaluable tool for creating connections...
A new in vitro fertilization technique may be able to detect numerous illnesses as soon as five days after the conception of an embryo. Normal IVF treatments work by fertilizing many eggs in a laboratory setting and then implanting them in the mother; this allows for a much higher...
Scientists at the ACME Ohio State University labs have reportedly developed a 500 trillion watt laser. 500,000,000,000,000 W To put that into perspective, it’s more watts than the US national debt in US Dollars. That’s a lot. Consider that a 5mW laser can blind most people at least momentarily and...
An alternative method of burial is being offered to Australians – aquamation. The process puts the body into a stainless steel tank, then submerges it in a special liquid that aids in decomposition. The body is reduced to a slurry which can then be released into rivers or oceans,...
Astronomers have discovered a monolith-shaped object on Mars. The structure juts out of the Martian landscape and has many scientists confused about its significance. The monolith appears to be completely rectangular and there is speculation as to whether it is an artificial construct or not. The camera which took...
This one is straight out of the “what could go wrong?” chapter in the automotive world. An electric-car battery undergoing tests at a Warren, Mich., research center exploded, sending an employee to the hospital. The accident happened around 9AM on Wednesday morning at the Warren Michigan General Motors testing...