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The 7 Geekiest Moments Of The 2015 Rio Carneval
This year the European Organisation for Nuclear Research (aka CERN) made a surprising appearance at the Rio Carnival, held at Rio de Janiero’s Sambadrome. Two hundred people from the Unidos da Tijuca, last year’s winning samba school, represented CERN’s particle accelerators crossing the border between France and Switzerland. And this was not the only beautifully…
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The Top 6 Fictional Robot Fights We’d Definitely Want To Watch
For near a decade, humanity’s thirst for gladiatorial robot fighting went unsatiated when BattleBots went off the air. But with this month’s joyous announcement that BattleBots would be returning to television in the US, those memories of robot-on-robot violence came flooding back. So, I asked a simple question — what awesome robot fight would you…
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10 Cold War-Era Board Games About Spies And Secret Agents
Americans were obsessed with spy culture during the Cold War. I mean, who didn’t love James Bond? Communists, that’s who. The gosh darn Communits. Spying seeped into every aspect of pop culture in the 1960s and ’70s — from TV and movies to comic books and even board games.
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The Radical Hanging Bridges That Time Forgot
It’s easy to think of technology as a constant forward march, a smooth catenary arch towards the present. But some technologies don’t make it. Sometimes, grand visions of the future only last for a few years — or maybe a few decades.