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Next Fab Studio in Philly…

NextFab Studio is a membership-based, high-tech workshop and prototyping center- it’s Philadelphia’s “gym for innovators”. Located in the University City…

I am a big fan of the works Berlin based Julian Oliver (see Fijuu2, levelHead & q3apd) so I am very pleased to see his latest work, The Artvertiser, come to life at the recent…

Primeval may have made it back from the dead thanks to international funding, but that doesn’t mean that it’s the same show it used to be. The new season will be going in a different…

If you love Futurama, then you’ll certainly appreciate these adorably gross brain slug cupcakes. Just hope they don’t take over your mind after you eat them.

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Anyone who has experienced trauma, such as war veterans, may suffer from post-traumatic stress disorder, which includes flashbacks, nightmares, and stress. PTSD has always been considered a…

If you find yourself in a position of needing or wanting to commit long passages of text to memory, webapp Memorize Now can help.

Memorize Now allows you enter text and then use a variety of…

Just in time for A year after the Proposition 8 vote, woulda-been First Lady Cindy McCain has lent her support, and image, to the No H8 Campaign, a pro-marriage equality group. Timely as it…

Listen, I don’t know much about guns except for the fact that mine just ripped through my Snuggie’s sleeves again, but apparently the US military is pissed after discovering some of the…

Photo via Renew Outreach In the stream of goods that are pouring in to aid the relief effort in Haiti, one will certainly stand out—a solar powered audio Bible. Instead of food, water, or…

Sometimes, instead of asking “why,” it’s better just to say “woah.” This piece by New York artist Naoko Ito is one of those times.

The project, entitled Ubiquitous, dissects a single…

Sometimes the best way to find behavior patterns is to plot them out on a graph. Yawnlog helps identify your sleep problems by displaying your snooze data in chart-form.

To get started with…

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Cornucopia: Digital Gastronomy is a project by two grad students working in MIT’s Fluid Interfaces Group. The goal: a consumer-friendly machine that prints food. (Spork not…

ABC has released the trailer for Jamie Oliver’s new TV show, Food Revolution, about his quest to transform “the most unhealthy town in America” (Huntington, West Virginia) into some sort of…

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Printing all your important documents in human blood will save you almost half the dough as HP ink. Plus, you’ll earn the respect of your coworkers, particularly IF YOU USE THE BLOOD OF…

In the chronologically later Star Trek series, Starfleet officers rarely worried about overindulging thanks to synthehol, a substance that mimicked alcohol’s effects without the drunkeness…

Coca-Cola© succeeds in what most NGO’s try to achieve: getting the goods to the poor in the 3rd world Africa. For most people there, a Coke is easier to get and cheaper than a bottle of…

Dubai’s futuristic buildings get sent back in time thanks to an 1857 view camera. Photographer Martin Becka points his 19th century camera at a 21st century to create an anachronistic vision of…

In a provocative New Republic article, Noam Scheiber proposes that the collapse of American manufacturing is due to a general shift in management to people who have MBAs, and to a shift in MBA…

NOTE: No real spoilers. Thinking about going to see Avatar this weekend but don’t feel up to climbing the basement stairs? I’m with you. Thankfully, this five-panel comic sums up the…

Co-worker Audrey Leczinsky has forwarded me what will likely overtake tiny plush hamsters as Richard Gere’s* America’s #1 Most Requested Christmas Accessory:

It’s Snookie: The Blanket that…

The internet is, like, big. So’s this infographic showing just how crazy huge it is, and what 210 billion emails, 3 million Flickr images, 43 million gigabytes (on phones) sent on an average…

The internet is, like, big. So’s this infographic showing just how crazy huge it is, and what 210 billion emails, 3 million Flickr images, 43 million gigabytes (on phones) sent on an average…

2009 will be remembered for one reason only: as the year that Burger King-themed “Kingons” attacked people’s nipples to steal their Star Trek glasses. But those Trek glasses are puny,…

Images: Screen capture from Youtube video (see below) The Only Thing Missing is “V for Vendetta” Masks
A few sources are reporting that men were arrested yesterday for trying to re-paint a…

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You can get them in Torrent and pirated VHS tapes, but Hulu is playing Mystery Science Theater 3000 online now. Only five full episodes—from seasons 4, 5, and 6—are available, however:

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One evening a few years ago, our measly little Trenitalia train limped into Venice’s Santa Lucia station. At the track opposite ours sat a slick black train, with the words “Compagnie…

“The Rotating Kitchen” is an art installation by Zeger Reyers that began slowing rotating at the December opening of the “Eating the Universe” exhibtion at the Kunsthalle…

The 9th Annual No Pants! Subway Ride will take place on Sunday, January 10 in New York City. More info with the meeting point and start time will be posted to this site in early…

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Swan Fungus of WFMU’s Beware of The Blog writes about a strange CD-r he found while hiking in Joshua Tree a couple of years ago. He writes, “I have played this CD for…

James Lipton is a national treasure, most especially when it comes to helping kids make the right choice about sending photos of their genitalia to others. [Adfreak]

Iron Man may have seemed as polished as fresh power-armor, but the movie actually had no screenplay at all, says Jeff Bridges. The chaos freaked him out, until he decided to think of it as…

Saul Griffith is an inventor and entrepreneur. He did his PhD at MIT in programmable matter, exploring the relationship between bits and atoms, or information and materials. Since…

Saul Griffith is an inventor and entrepreneur. He did his PhD at MIT in programmable matter, exploring the relationship between bits and atoms, or information and materials. Since…

Some meat fresh from the lab. Photo via the Telegraph The prospect has always been intriguing, to say the least: producing meat without having to raise, feed, or butcher animals. It could…

Dolphins aren’t the only aquatic mammals fighting human battles. The US Navy has long been training sea lions as equipment retrievers and underwater sentries. Now they plan to outfit a naval…

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(AP) — A Canadian woman on long-term sick leave for depression says she lost her benefits because her insurance agent found photos of her on Facebook in which she appeared to be having fun.