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Entertainment

"Do Not Be A Goddamned Liar", From Sh*t My Dad Says: The Book

2:00AM June 5, 2010 | Joel Johnson

“You have shamed the entire scientific community. Fucking Einstein, everybody. More »

Science

I Accidentally Invented Electronics In 1906

2:00AM June 1, 2010 | Nick Carr

Our modern media spring from a common source, an invention that is rarely mentioned today but that had as decisive a role in shaping society as the internal combustion engine or the incandescent lightbulb. The invention was called the Audion. More »

Cameras

Norman Rockwell: The Original King Of The Photoshop

3:20AM October 27, 2009 | Wilson Rothman

Back when Norman Rockwell ruled Saturday evenings, Adobe wasn’t even a gleam in some nerd’s eye, but a new book shows that the painter was, nevertheless, a Photoshop god. More »

Gadgets

Four Old Gadgets We Love (And Four We Hate)

6:20AM October 10, 2009 | Anna Jane Grossman

Anna Jane Grossman, author of Obsolete: An Encyclopedia of Once-Common Things Passing Us By, has compiled a special short list for Giz readers, four things we’ll really miss, and four we’re glad are gone. (She’s pictured below, not above.) More »