A Gallery of Mind-Bending Norwegian Science Fiction Book Covers
Perhaps this isn’t the best thing to post this early in the morning, but just make sure it’s not the last thing you see before you go to bed tonight. From Gojira2012 (via io9) come…
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Happy Memorial Day
We’ll be back tomorrow. Hope you are enjoying the long weekend and remembering why it exists.
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Real Life Slow Motion Kung-Fu with Shaolin Monks
We’ve all seen kung-fu fighting in slow motion across countless films ever since such cameras were invented, but rarely do we see such fighting skills recording at this high of speeds without the aid of…
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5 Harryhausen Creations That Kicked My Childhood’s Ass
How do you properly pay tribute to a man whose work defines your childhood? On top of that, how do you write an interesting article about someone so influential that there is almost nothing left…
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Living in the Future: The Lamborghini Egoista
Fun fact: A long, long time ago, one of my first internet writing gigs was working for an automotive website. I used to be REALLY into cars, and was thinking about a career in automotive…
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Famous Book Covers Changed to “Appeal to Women”
There’s an author named Maureen Johnson who recently ran into a rather odd problem with her books. Guys liked to read them, but they wrote her saying they wished they didn’t have such girly covers,…
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“Arya” the Fastest Rising Name for Girls This Year
I swear I was having this exact conversation during Game of Thrones last week. “We should name one of our kids Tyrion. That’s a badass name” “No, but I’d maybe name a girl Arya.” Turns…
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The Good, The Bad, and The Insane: Delving Into the Brilliant, Horrifying Realm of Harry Potter Fanfiction
Fanfiction, as a whole, does not have the best reputation. Name any two characters from any work of fiction, and I guarantee you there is some ridiculously smutty and terribly written fanfiction of them as…
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NASA’s Solar Whip Image: I Hope the Icarus 2 is Okay
What’s that? We’re talking about SCIENCE here? Get out of town. Yes we are, but mostly because…fun fact, the Unreality logo is actually based on a NASA picture of the sun like this one, but…