If you follow me on Twitter, you might have noticed that I’ve been changing the computer regime over here. It isn’t that I don’t love the shininess of my MacBook. It isn’t that, given the money and all that, I’d just go out and buy a top-of-the-line Mac… because, honestly, I’d consider it. As important […]
Researchers at the University of Maryland have discovered that the lung has similar bitter taste receptors to the tongue — and that this knowledge could help treat conditions such as asthma. Dr Stephen Liggett says his team found the taste receptors by accident during a previous study into muscle receptors. Unlike those in the tongue, […]
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In conjunction with the release of the Back to the Future trilogy on blu-ray, a re-enactment of the trilogy is happening on Twitter! Organized, written, & adapted for Twitter by Brian Harnish for the “We’re Going Back” project, this is the Back to the Future trilogy as you have never seen it before! Be sure […]
By Vectron’s kindly claws, you guys need to watch this right now! This has to be the most awesome music video I’ve seen in a long, long time. What else can I say? Daft Punk rocks the geek nation!
Mario’s been a hero for a long time. He’s been a jerk even longer. [Via]
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has funded some strange projects in its work to develop new technology for the United States military. But perhaps none quite so strange as using coffee grains to pick up an egg. DARPA provided some of the money for a newly published study involving researchers at universities in […]
Watch what unfolds as C-3PO and R2-D2 land on earth and decide to break in an electronics store.
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