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Share Your Sex Memories With All Your Coworkers

Whenever someone urges you to do something dumb in the name of science, it's always a good idea to stop and ponder. That's the important takeaway message in this clip from 1983's Brainstorm, the second movie from Silent Running director Douglas Trumbull. Scientists invent a new method for recording experiences, thoughts and even sensations, for later playback. So of course one of the first uses someone puts it to is seducing a blonde in a stripey polo shirt, so every sleazebag around the office can share in her connubial experience. (Clip is probably work-safe, although the guys are very skeezy.) More »

2:46 PM on Fri Mar 28 2008
By Charlie Jane Anders
5,389 views, 24 comments

Latest by null: Comment on Share Your Sex Memories With All Your Coworkers Yep, the guy sets up a loop of an orgasm and just plays it over and over again - after the experience he's totally useless having stimulated his more »

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Top 5 Ways to Hack the Surface of the Earth

It's another installment of Entropist, a scifi culture column by futurist design maven Geoff Manaugh, author of BLDG BLOG. If we can hack Wiis and iPods and old Segas, make garage door openers into mobile phones and cause elevators to run backwards — or turn upside-down, or do whatever it is that elevator hacks are supposed to do — then could we also hack the surface of the earth? Could we hack geology? Could we use plate tectonics to re-direct whole island chains, color rocks, print cities out of magma, and build mountains where mountains have no right to be? Here are the Entropist's top five ways to change the surface of the earth. More »

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9:00 AM on Fri Feb 15 2008
By Geoff Manaugh
23,151 views, 18 comments

Latest by Habu: Oh sure, sounds great! Let's angrily poke Gaia with more sharp sticks, see what happens. We've never really screwed up the environment before, right? Who cares? There are plenty of other habitable planets nearby..........oh.............wait....... more »