A Federal Circuit Court judge in Sydney, Australia granted an injunction forbidding a 20-year-old woman from breastfeeding her son because she got a tattoo.

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Legendary Sega game series Shenmue is to receive a third installment thanks to a $3m-and-rising Kickstarter campaign. But now we find out that Sony is a 'partner' in the game, investing an 'undisclosed budget' despite no mention on the game's pleas for crowdfunding.

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Welcome to the risk-averse, ersatz world of heroic characterization when hundreds of millions of dollars are on the line. Read the rest

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In 2007 a 16-month-old toddler swallowed candy-colored Aqua Dots beads and lapsed into a coma. It turned out the beads were manufactured with a coating that dissolves into GHB, an illegal drug in many countries.

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The company objected to being mentioned in a story about SteamVR, a virtual reality project by Valve. So it ordered them to take the post down. Read the rest

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The Snowflake’s smooth maneuvers, flawless 4-way flips, and 360

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The battery-powered LED cloud is handmade in Australia and projects a moon and stars on the ceiling above. (more…)

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Saipancakes (previously) shows how far he's come in progressing the art of carbohydrate illustration with these amazing, unbelievable, eye-popping Harry Potter pancakes -- and the video documents his build-process.

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Telecoms will be given wider latitude to block nuisance messages to their customers, reports the Wall Street Journal. Read the rest

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Steven Spielberg's Jaws (1975) was released 40 years ago Saturday. Enjoy this "best of" montage. "The score was clearly responsible for half of the success of that movie," Spielberg once said. (more…)

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Finally, Nintendo's popular anthropomorphic town games will allow you to be something besides whiteor tan. Read the rest

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Heinz let a domain name expire, whereupon the URL fell into new ownership and the link printed on ketchup bottles began sending customers to porn.

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This game's too easy! Who created it?

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In honor of the Hubble Space Telescope's 25th anniversary, NPR celebrates the iconic space craft with a little help from Iggy Azalea's “Trouble.”

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The Ryhthmicon was the world's first drum machine, built in the 1930s by Leon Theremin (of Theremin fame) for avant grade composer Henry Cowell. Read the rest

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NPR’s Science Tumblr Skunk Bear created this cool data visualization based on a study of the rise of partisanship in the U.S. House of Representatives:

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Engineer Yassmin Abdel-Magied gave an awesome TED Talk about the danger of unconscious bias. (more…)

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One of the events at our upcoming Weekend of Wonder event (September 18-20 in Southern California) is a recreational lock picking workshop!

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This fine Velociraptor Claw could really level up your wunderkammer. It's just $12,500. (more…)

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Search "haunted" on eBay and you'll find a slew of junk that its owners claim is spooked in some way. Usually, that invisible something extra will significantly bump up the asking price. Read the rest

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