Given Chilean-French filmmaker and artist Alejandro Jodorowsky's storied history with adaptation attempts of Frank Herbert's Dune, it's natural to want to know what he thinks of the trailer to Denis Villeneuve's much-anticipated version of the story. He told French's Premier magazine: "I saw the trailer. It's very well done," Jodorowsky said. "We can see that [&]

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Stanislaw Mayakovsky — a fictional character from the 1992 comic book series Aliens: Hive — was a Russian sociobiologist and artificial life expert from the 22nd century who made a tiny autonomous robotic ant and placed it in an ant colony to study social insect behavior. He wrote a book about it, called Cyberantics (published in 2172). In 1992, Dark [&]

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Jimmy Senda was strolling along a beach in Racine, Wisconsin when he found a package wrapped in aluminum foil with a pink rubber band around it. "Curiosity got to me, so I popped it open and it looked like a chicken breast  kind of," he told Fox 6 Now. "It took a little bit [&]

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This astonishing video of a magical castle appearing in the clouds reportedly above Jinan, eastern China, has apparently gone viral on Chinese social media. Skeptics insist it's a Fata Morgana, but we know the truth. The Fata Morgana phenomenon is named after the Arthurian sorceress Morgan le Fay as her castle was said to hover [&]

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My first exposure to Dune was the David Lynch movie, and then I read the first 4 books in middle school. Being the precocious kid I was, I definitely understood all of the nuances that were going on there, like how the Fremen were obviously an allegory for Native Americans and the coveted spice melange [&]

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While "Stayin' Alive" (1978) and the Saturday Night Fever soundtrack was the pinnacle of the Bee Gees' mainstream success, real heads know that before they became disco icons, the brothers Gibb were an excellent psych-pop band and, before that, were teen rock 'n' roll celebs in their native Australia, opening for the likes of Chubby [&]

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Zackrydz Rodzi, a student in Batu Pahat, Malaysia, woke up on Saturday to find his mobile phone missing. He finally located it the following day after hearing it ring in a jungle area behind his home. Zackrydz's uncle joked that perhaps there was a photo of the thief on the phone. Turns out, he was [&]

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Few programming languages and web frameworks are also intuitive and user-friendly for beginners as Ruby on Rails. Even 15 years after its rollout, a virtual lifetime (or two) in tech terms, Ruby and its most popular framework Rails are still vital and energetic players in the programming world. And with over a million websites built [&]

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This nighttime demonstration with tracer bullets in an AR-15 shows why it's a bad idea to shoot a gun at water. This is why it's one of the first things they tell students not to do in middle school hunting safety class. Image: YouTube / DoSomethings

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Biometric technology is doing more than opening your iPhone. In fact, the process of digitally identifying individuals from physical characteristics like fingerprints is opening up whole new areas of innovation.  Earlier this month, the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) announced that it would start testing biometric recognition software to process air passengers faster. Meanwhile, the FBI [&]

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For years, whenever I'd see a seriously creepy and cool old house, I'd post it to Facebook and say something like: "Gothic retirement home and artist colony! Who's with me?" The idea of living in a haunted fixer-upper has always appealed to me, but it's something I would never actually do. A group house? The [&]

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Hangnails bother me so much that when I get one, I can't think of anything else until I get rid of it. I will even bite it off if I am without clippers (this doesn't work well and usually results in blood being drawn). The Tweezerman hangnail clipper was designed to cleanly cut off a hangnail. The [&]

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A few days ago, this video of Hendrix performing "Voodoo Child" on Maui in 1970 was loaded to YouTube. This is part of an upcoming November release of the legendary Maui concert that Hendrix did as part of the psychedelic train wreck of a film known as Rainbow Bridge. As far as I know, the [&]

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You can laugh all you want at someone wearing a headlamp when they're out hiking or camping or spelunking. Of course, the only thing sillier than wearing a headlamp is being stuck somewhere in the dark without one. The truth is that emergencies and other situations come up all the time when you're out and [&]

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JK Rowling continues to beat her awful transphobic drum. Vanity Fair: According to an early review in The Telegraph, Troubled Blood—the fifth installment in Rowling's Cormoran Strike series written under the pen name Robert Galbraith—deals with the cold case of a woman who disappeared in 1974 and is believed to be the victim of Dennis [&]

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[UPDATE: Read Lizard of Oz's comment about Colin Turnbull's disputed book, The Mountain People] Doug Belshaw recently read the book  The Collapse of Complex Societies by Joseph A. Tainter, and shared an interesting excerpt. He writes on his website Open Tinkering: In the first chapter of the book, Tainter gives numerous examples of societal collapse, which [&]

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I can not wait the October 2nd release of Star Wars Squadrons. Since X-Wing Vs TIE Fighter I have been waiting for this game.

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A man cut down a tree. It fell onto the house. He said some bad words.

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You've probably seen some of the clips in this montage of Trump talking about his sexual interest in girls (speculating on the breast size of his infant daughter, bragging about barging into the dressing room of Miss Teen USA, telling a child on an escalator that he'll be dating her in ten years, etc.). But [&]

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One of the best times I have had hooning around was in a red 1971 Corvette Convertible. It liked to spin out in Topanga Canyon. There is something awesome about huge amounts of power and a really crappy suspension. Bring A Trailer: This 1971 Chevrolet Corvette convertible is powered by a fuel-injected 350ci ZZ4 V8 [&]

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