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Cooking May Have Made Us Human

SpaceGhost writes “Anthropologist Richard Wrangham, author of Catching Fire: How Cooking Made Us Human believes that the discovery of cooked food led to evolutionary changes resulting in a smaller…
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Sep
25th
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Five Minutes Of Countless Horror Movie Phone Failures

I’d die first in a horror movie. You’d find me, alone, clutching an iPhone and a Blackberry. Or at least that’s what my nightmare will be after this compilation of phone failures in horror movies….
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AES explained by stick figures


If you’ve always wondered how AES — the Advanced Encryption Standard, the gold-standard for crypto — works, and if you enjoy explanations in stick-figure cartoon form, you are in luck, for…
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Sep
24th
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Flight Of The Conchords Gives Me An Excuse To Play Rock Band

I didn’t care about Rock Band. Not even when they announced the Beatles and Lego editions. But now that the Flight of the Conchords are coming—like Jermaine and Brett confirmed at the Emmy…
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Sep
23rd
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THIS JUST IN: “Mr. Manager”

Mr. Manager will see you now.

Mr. Manager is all: “boop boop boop beeep boop boop beep” on his computer

Mr. Manager WILL fire you if you don’t deliver on the Thompson account

mrmanager

Brisa E…
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Sep
18th
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QWERTY Is Obsolete

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More.
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This Axle Is Perfectly Fine

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Submitted By: Richard W
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Newspaper Fail


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For more news fails, check our Probably Bad News!

Picture by: nakedrich Submitted by: nakedrich via Fail Uploader
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Sep
15th
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Circle Of Strife

Me: “Hello, how may I help you?”

Customer: “Hi, I was just wondering what is currently showing at the moment?”

Me: “Well, the current production is Timon of Athens.”

Customer: “Oh? Is that…
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Sep
11th
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Tapping Tree Power

[bugloaf] tipped us off about this flower power hack. University of Washington researchers, [Babak], [Brian], and [Carlton] have developed very low power circuits to run directly off…
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Sep
10th
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They Might Be Giants: "Meet the Elements" music video (BB Video)

(Download / Watch on YouTube, video duration: 3:47.)

Today in Boing Boing Video: we proudly debut a new music video from They Might Be Giants. “Meet The Elements,” an…
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Sep
6th
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Arduino muon detector

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[Sebastian Tomczak] was borrowing a homeade muon detector from his friend, and managed to hook it up to his computer through an Arduino. The detector itself uses 3 fluorescent tubes to…
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Sep
4th
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Video: Electric folding YikeBike looks slightly ridiculous, totally practical (via feedly)

Electric folding YikeBike looks slightly ridiculous, totally practical
You know the opening sequence of The Jetsons where George’s flying car folds right up into a briefcase, then he goes inside and kicks his feet up at the desk of the future? Well, we may…
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Pin the Tail

Certainly colorful.

(originally posted at http://www.flickr.com/photos/sungazing/2956487525/)
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Aug
30th
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Lightning fast robot hand



Researchers from the Ishikawa Komuro Laboratory at the University of Tokyo presented this incredible video of a high-speed robotic hand at the 2009 IEEE International Conference on…
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