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Study Says Gamers Can’t Tell “Adaptive AI” From a Placebo

Don’t Starve. The first time, the players were told that the game’s map would be randomly generated. During their second playthrough, however, the ...

By Patrick Sklar Legacy AuthorOctober 14, 2015

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Red Panda VS Dracula Fish! Over 200 Strange New Species Found in Himalayas

Scientists and conservationists conducting an ecological survey of the Eastern Himalayas found over 200 new species of fish, frog, snake, bird and monkey. ...

By Patrick Sklar Legacy AuthorOctober 8, 2015

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Visit Sunny Chernobyl – We Have Wolves Now!

Image Source: KissingItBetter A long-term study of wildlife in the irradiated wasteland of Chernobyl has revealed it has become a haven for animals ...

By Patrick Sklar Legacy AuthorOctober 6, 2015

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Let’s Nuke Mars! Says Elon Musk

Image Source: HPlusMagazine SpaceX and Tesla CEO Elon Musk said last month that the perfect way to heat Mars for human habitation is ...

By Patrick Sklar Legacy AuthorOctober 5, 2015

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Kobold Press Is About to Unleash the Tome of Beasts into Dungeons & Dragons

Kobold Press has launched the Kickstarter for Tome of Beasts, a third-party monster manual filled with over 300 new baddies for Dungeons & ...

By Patrick Sklar Legacy AuthorOctober 5, 2015

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Ten Thousand Moon Photos Shot By Apollo Astronauts Uploaded to Flickr

Image Source: Flickr The Project Apollo Archive has uploaded nearly ten thousand photos taken by Apollo astronauts during lunar missions to the website ...

By Patrick Sklar Legacy AuthorOctober 3, 2015

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The Name of the Wind to Become a Movie, TV Show, And Game, All At Once

Image Source: Wikipedia The rights to Patrick Rothfuss’ Kingkiller Chronicles book series has been won by Lionsgate. The books will become a movie, ...

By Patrick Sklar Legacy AuthorOctober 2, 2015

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Action Figure Mikasa Kicks Butt in This Stop Motion Attack on Titan Fan Film

Youtuber Jordan Tseng has brought Attack on Titan to life in stop-motion animation starring, an action-figure Mikasa. With reactions to the big-budget, live-action ...

By Patrick Sklar Legacy AuthorOctober 2, 2015

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War Forces Us To Make First Withdrawal Ever From Doomsday Seed Vault

Image Source: Doktorsblog Scientists have requested the first ever withdrawal from the Svalbard Global Seed Vault in order to restock a supply damaged ...

By Patrick Sklar Legacy AuthorOctober 1, 2015

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Say Good Bye To Greenland? NASA Says It’s Melting Much Too Fast

Image Source: NASA NASA scientists studying the ice covering Greenland is melting much, much faster than previously thought. There has been just a ...

By Patrick Sklar Legacy AuthorSeptember 30, 2015

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Darkest Dungeon Gets Deep With Latest Watery Update

Image Source: Darkest Dungeon Early Access game Darkest Dungeon adds its long-awaited fourth module, The Cove, in its latest update. It’s no secret ...

By Patrick Sklar Legacy AuthorSeptember 29, 2015

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Breaking: NASA Says Water Flows on Mars – Update

Image Source: Wikipedia Ahead of NASA’s upcoming big announcement about the red planet, a paper published by the European Planetary Science Congress might ...

By Patrick Sklar Legacy AuthorSeptember 28, 2015

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