Every day, you hear about security flaws, viruses, and evil hacker gangs that could leave you destitute — or, worse,…
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With the release of yet another time travel movie this week (Terminator Genisys), it’s time for us to look back at…
So I can actually use this source on my next report?
i love that Simpsons and Futurama throwaway jokes are more scientifically accurate than entire seasons or franchises of forensic tv shows like CSI or NCIS
Homer's equation:
Given the time it happened and, you know, that he's a cartoon, the answer is that Homer Simpson did come pretty…
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Deer aren’t the slim, graceful vegans we thought they were. Scientists using field cameras have caught deer preying…
I love this comic, but "correcthorsebatterystaple" is my go to when trying to guess passwords (after "password" and "password1234"). Mostly cause folks be sheep...
Science fiction and fantasy are full of great quotable phrases — but some are damn near irresistible. No matter…
Time travel, as presented to us by Back To The Future, is basically a good deal: You get a hoverboard! You get to…
Let's be fair; Nickolodeon's decision wasn't based on their leadership being misogynistic or anti-feminist or in any realm of imagination against women.
I don't need too much convincing. My son has been on a TLA kick through Netflix, and we're all really enjoying it. I certainly welcome more.
That Nickelodeon decided to just bury one of their most brilliant and female-centric shows on streaming rather than on the air speaks volumes to what's wrong with kids programming these days.
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The recent loss of flight 370 should be a stark reminder of how insanely hard it is to locate a signal using a semi-random search. I imagine the universe is teeming with life and we simply haven't had the luck of stumbling on any one of their technological fingerprints. Likewise, aliens probably can't see us either.…
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Or, they could be lifeforms so bizarre (and alien) that we wouldn't recognize them even if we had one specimen in front of us. The ending of that short story in the article, We're made out of meat (click on the link), explains it quite clearly. Even then, what is intelligent life? We think in human terms, and…
I thought Randall Munroe (xkcd.com) covered this pretty well, actually.
Most people take it for granted that we have yet to make contact with an extraterrestrial civilization. Trouble is,…