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Once hipsters start collecting social security, how will all those ironic t-shirts and QR code tattoos hold up? Will the future elderly tell their grandchildren about their nebulous community manager jobs and funny cat videos? This video stares 50 years into the future, when aging hipster remember the golden age of the Internet. More »
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Imagine that you're coral at the bottom of the sea — a thrilling fantasy, we know. You're minding your own coral business when suddenly some obnoxious scuba diver ungraciously dumps sediment on you. How do you free yourself from this sand trap? More »
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Yesterday, President Obama hosted over 100 students at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue for the second annual White House Science Fair. Young scientists of all ages showed off projects in subjects ranging from robots, to rocketry, to energy conservation. Fourteen-year-old Joey Hudy even brought an air cannon capable of launching marshmallows upwards of 175 feet. More »
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Readers who grew up in the Seventies may remember the British television program Bod, which featured a bald, abstract humanoid going on adventures set to upbeat jazz. YouTuber HappyToaster discovered this unofficial sequel to Bod starring Mega-City One's premier lawman. Here's his story: More »
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Nebraska's Hastings Museum recently commissioned Staab Studios to build a model of a bony prehistoric predator from the genus Xiphactinus. Staab helpfully recorded their progress sculpting this beast in silent repose. If you ever need to build an extinct underwater horror for your rumpus room, this video is a good place to start. More »
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Cameraman Hjörtur Kjerúlf captured this video of the Lagarfljótsormurinn (or Lagarfljóts Worm) wending its way through its home in Lake Lagarfljót. More »
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If the Avengers are Earth's mightiest heroes, and Adventure Time's Jake and Finn are the bravest adventurers of the post-apocalypse, what happens when they meet face to animated face? In this segment from Cartoon Network's Mad animated sketch show, the Avengers travel through their cartoon history until they're suddenly thrust into the surreal Land of Ooo. More »
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With dairy-based powers far beyond that of a mortal man, Milk Man is a surprisingly effective crimefighter. But you may want to politely decline his projectile milk-spewing aid if you have a delicate gag reflex. [via Laughing Squid] More »
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Kick off your weekend with some cathartic superhero-on-Nazi ultraviolence. This video, by ForestFire Films, merges Lego stop-animation with Play-Doh blood to send plastic Captain America on a gory action sequence. More violent movies should be filmed in Lego. More »
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Big cats have the ability to roar, but what about purring like a tabby? When they're not giving Siberian tigers catnip, the folks at the Big Cat Rescue sanctuary are making informative videos on feline vocalization. More »
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Last month, photographer Alex Cherney photographed aurora australis igniting the Australian night. This breathtaking red aurora was caused by particles from January's solar storms exciting oxygen in the Earth's upper atmosphere. Explains Cherney of the shooting conditions: More »
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Should you visit Tokyo's Takashimaya department store by Valentine's Day, you can greet Professor Hiroshi Ishiguro's Geminoid-F android, who's engaged in a curiously forlorn bit of street theater. More »
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If you haven't heard of Space Exploration Technologies (aka SpaceX) yet, chances are you will soon. The space transport company is leading the charge to privatize space flight in the wake of the U.S.'s decommissioned space program, and later this year will begin making delivery runs to and from the ISS with its unmanned Dragon spacecraft. More »
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The quadrotors of the University of Pennsylvania's GRASP Laboratory are all sorts of amazing (even when they're crashing). But this new footage of these futuristic bots hearkens back to something more retro — the pixelated shooters of arcades yore. More »
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Domesticated sheep have the propensity to follow each other into downright dangerous situations and be herded by the most innocuous of shepherds, so it's no surprise these sheep formed an ovine circle of death around one unlucky automobile. They do have plenty of reasons to hate humans, after all. More »
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Rumor has it Daniel Radcliffe's new ghost picture The Woman In Black is exceptionally stylish, but one question still remains — is it scary? Here are three spirit-filled clips to help you decide. The Woman in Black hits theaters this Friday.

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Last night, the first ever teaser trailer for the fifth season of True Blood aired. While not much is shown, it's important to note that the entire video is a tease for something (or someone) returning out of the ground. More »
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Scenes from the upcoming Avatar: The Legend of Korra are coming out in dribs and drabs — take a look here if you haven't seen them — but we're never ones to complain. More »
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When you're living a nomadic lifestyle, you need to travel light. But that doesn't mean you can't have a deluxe roof above your head. Here, videographer Dan Grossman filmed Shagdarsuren Herelchuluun's family punching out a multiperson ger (or yurt) outside of northern Mongolia's Lake Hovsgol. The whole process took give or take 67 minutes, but here's the instant house's construction in two. More »
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Disney's Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs was the first full-length cel-animated feature to appear on the big screen. But if things had gone a little differently, that honor might have gone to John Carter of Mars, which MGM was developing with legendary animator Bob Clampett. We do, however, have some remains of the failed project in the form of Clampett's test animation. More »
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Those Portal turrets really aren't such bad robots. After all, it's not their fault that they're programmed to shoot you in the face. Everyone's favorite guilt-tripping sentinels get into the gleeful spirit with "This is Aperture," an ode to the puzzle-filled test facility sung to the tune of The Nightmare Before Christmas's "This is Halloween." [via Metafilter] More »
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German teacher and YouTuber Sillysparrowness had a simple goal — to build a transportable TARDIS for daily usage. She succeeded in building a full-scale police box that can be assembled in under 10 minutes. More than enough time for an alacritous getaway! More »
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This cape — which required four years, one-million Malagasy golden orb spiders, and eighty workers to catch and release the two-inch arachnids daily — was commissioned by Nicholas Godley and fabric researcher Simon Peers. Every day, weavers would extract up to 40 yards of silk from a single spider before returning it to the wild. This cloak may not deflect bullets, but it's still a sight to behold. Watch how it was made.

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What you're seeing here is a hibernating dormouse filmed by Dave Williams of the Surrey Wildlife Trust Mammal Project. Despite his log-sawing, this slumbering little guy isn't in any trouble — he's just an unusually stentorian sleeper. More »
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Journey 2: The Mysterious Island includes The Rock flexing his biceps while fighting off a giant electric eel and screaming, "Show me that 1,000 Watt Smile!" Watch six new clips — including Michael Caine acting like a lunatic and Josh Hutcherson channeling the sex appeal of a child's teddy bear. This could pose a severe challenge to Nic Cage's Ghost Rider 2 for "most ludicrous sequel of 2012." More »
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Last week I was a little hard on Grimm. It's just frustrating seeing fairy tale monster after monster get tossed into the plot grinder. I just don't feel invested in these characters' lives, except for the consistently great Pilates Wolf. More »
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There are few things more disturbing in the natural world than waterfowl reproduction. This video tutorial on how to procure semen from a grey goose only adds to my waxing apprehension of all things Anatidae. A hearty thanks goes out to Improbable Research for teaching us that geese are a David Cronenberg flick waiting to happen. A Lifehacker splice is pending, but I can't promise anything. More »
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Yesterday, we saw hundreds of skittering spiders and one very adorable bat. Today is Sunday, which we all know is just Bizarro Saturday, so we'll naturally be observing several hundred of these buggers losing their guano. More »
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It's the alternate, terrible ending to Charlotte's Web, in which Charlotte's babies, instead of flying off on the breeze, burst forth in the midst of a human-spider battle in a spectacular explosion of scuttling little legs. Warning: may cause spontaneous arachnophobia. More »
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Remember Lil' Drac the motherless baby bat who was nursed back to health? Well, the folks at Bat World Sanctuary have sent io9 an update of his progress, and the little guy turned out alright. Watch above as he takes flight and discovers the joys of solid food. More »
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Here's a new candidate for the world's most precarious school commute. Sorry, two-day Chinese mountaineering expedition. More »
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Talk show host Andy Cohen (the man who can make big name celebrities do anything) just made all the Harry Potter fetishists' dreams come true. When Ralph Fiennes stopped by the Watch What Happens Live pajama party, Cohen made Voldemort read a little bit of Potter fanfic. It's utterly glorious. More »
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Has crowd-sourcing ever created anything cooler than Star Wars: Uncut? If so, it's hard to imagine. The entirety of the original Star Wars has been recreated in 15-second segments, filmed or animated by fans. The result is actually intensely trippy, especially when Han Solo and Obi-Wan Kenobi burst into song randomly. Or turn into puppets. Or whatever. You can watch the whole thing online for free, right here. [via CinemaBlend] More »
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The Marine Mammal Center is an organization in California that looks after injured and sick marine mammals and returns them to the ocean. Sometimes the marine life is not so eager to go. Check out Leopico, a rescued sea lion, try to charge between volunteers before being driven out to the sea. More »
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For this year's Toy Fair, a 280-kilogram, 2-meter-tall plastic Dalek will be unveiled to strike fear into patrons' hearts. This project required four people, 328 hours (almost two weeks) of effort, and 157,460 separate Character Building bricks. Woe be to us if this deadly creation commandeers the LEGO Apollo 11. Hat tip to Bluehinter! More »
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In the spirit of such Earth-shattering news as Thor's cameo on Google Maps and the Dalek Christ log, Princess Di has now been found haunting a Glaswegian church. She's freaking out confused tourists, given that the afterlife's a crashing bore. More »
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While compiling our list of fan campaigns that saved TV shows, we stumbled across a group of Quantum Leap fanatics known as "The Leapers." And they ruled. More »
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The latest Symphony of Science track is out, and it is a doozy. Listen to David Attenborough, Richard Dawkins and Bill Nye get their rave on for evolution. Who knew synths intermingled with amoebas on the Tree of Life? Hat tip to Krakenstein2! More »
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Crime never sleeps, but it does jump forwards in time. At least, that's the premise of Alcatraz, the latest J.J. Abrams head trip that debuted on Fox last night. Present-day San Francisco is in for an invasion of escaped convicts, bringing their brutal 1960s ways to our more civilized namby-pamby era. Because the Kennedy era did serial killers and vengeful wackos right. More »
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Oren Peli's new ABC horror series The River, is still the Best TV Pilot We've Seen in Years. Here's a trio of clips showcasing Joe Anderson, a.k.a. our favorite nutjob deputy from The Crazies. Watch what happens when a disjointed family goes searching for their missing TV explorer father down the Amazon. The River premieres February 7 on ABC. More »
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