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The Drinkable Book – Its Water Filtering Pages Could Save Billions

Image Source: DesignBoom A new invention nicknamed the “drinkable book” may be a cheap way to bring clean drinking water to the people ...

By Patrick Sklar Legacy AuthorAugust 17, 2015

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Scientists Agree: Octopuses Are Intelligent, and Might Think Like Us

Image Source: Discovery The octopus’ genome has been fully sequenced by a team based at the University of Chicago, and the discoveries therein ...

By Patrick Sklar Legacy AuthorAugust 15, 2015

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Witness! Shiny and Algebraic, Mad Max Meets Adventure Time

Image Source: Youtube Finally, it’s the epic mash-up you didn’t know you were waiting for: Adventure Time meets Mad Max in this fan-made ...

By Patrick Sklar Legacy AuthorAugust 12, 2015

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Astronaut Chris Hadfield to Release First Album Recorded in Space

Image Source: Chris Hadfield Having achieved astronomical success with his in-orbit cover of David Bowie’s ‘Space Oddity,’ Chris Hadfield prepares to release an ...

By Patrick Sklar Legacy AuthorAugust 10, 2015

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Attack on Titan‘s Live Action Trailer is People-Nomming Nightmare Fuel

As the movie opens in Japan, the latest trailer for Attack on Titan has surfaced, and it’s a gory piece of film – ...

By Patrick Sklar Legacy AuthorAugust 10, 2015

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Why Are Goats’ Eyes That Terrifying Shape?

Image Source: NY Times New research from the University of Berkeley hopes to finally illuminate why different animals develop a variety of eye ...

By Patrick Sklar Legacy AuthorAugust 10, 2015

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On Tonight’s Menu: The First Salad Grown in Outer Space

Image Source: NASA Astronauts aboard the International Space Station are preparing to reap the fruits of their labor on Monday, when they will ...

By Patrick Sklar Legacy AuthorAugust 8, 2015

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Scientist Discovers First-Ever Venomous Frog the Hard Way

Image Source: CBC.ca It has been discovered that a Brazilian species is the world’s first venomous frog. The man who made this discovery ...

By Patrick Sklar Legacy AuthorAugust 8, 2015

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Just the Moon, Stopping By For an Epic Photobomb

Image Source: NASA An unintentional benefit of NASA’s DSCOVR satellite has been the amazing photos of Earth it has taken, but this time ...

By Patrick Sklar Legacy AuthorAugust 6, 2015

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Kneel Before Space Peanut! Video of Funky Asteroid’s Flyby

Image Source: JPL.NASA.gov The peanut shaped asteroid known as 1999 JD6 was captured on video by NASA recently, as it swung close by ...

By Patrick Sklar Legacy AuthorAugust 4, 2015

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Harley Quinn’s Frozen Parody: “Do You Wanna Kill the Batman?”

Youtuber Michael Smith has been animating a parody of [i]Frozen[/s]’s second-best song – only this one stars Harley Quinn. It looks like Anna ...

By Patrick Sklar Legacy AuthorAugust 3, 2015

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Alas, Poor Hitchbot: “Bad Things Happen to Good Robots.”

Image Source: m.hitchbot.me Hitchbot, which was designed to test whether robots could trust humans, met an abrupt end to its journey across the ...

By Patrick Sklar Legacy AuthorAugust 3, 2015

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