Are you a living creature? Then, congratulations! You have DNA! That microscopic little building block of life that makes us all the same, but grants us with distinct differences. But for as common as DNA is, it can be a though subject to understand. Below are some of the facts to help you better understand [...]
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Hey, it looks like that pug we recently featured whose only skill was to bark “BATMAN!” has finally landed his dream job: singing the Batman theme from somewhere in dog heaven (because apparently, he’s dead.) Check it out:
From Black Holes to Blood Suckers I couldn’t help but notice some trends in yesterday’s post about black holes in our geek lives. Not only did we see some interesting omissions in people’s geeky educations, but there were also quite a few confessions. (Really, people, not reading The Lord of the Rings? And you call [...]
R136a1 may sound like a lame attempt to create a more secure webmail password, but it’s actually the star with the largest mass ever discovered. The British astronomers who found it said this week that though it’s currently 265 times more massive than our Sun, it may well have been as much as 320 times [...]
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First, there was the original double rainbow video, then, there was the song, and now, here’s the inevitable parody. Enjoy!
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Being in charge of network security can be a daunting task, especially when threats mutate on a daily basis. There are loads of tools out there that help with these tasks, and one more tool has been added to the security toolkit: NetWitness Visualize. Using the enterprise full packet capture of NetWitness, it is now [...]
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So, it’s no secret that geek culture, in many ways, is bolstered around the concept of cred. Geek cred. You know what I mean. You don’t sit down at an RPG table for the first time with a new group without mentioning your experience playing various editions and classes. You don’t go to a Jonathan [...]
The History of Nikola Tesla – a Short Story was created in honor of Tesla’s 154th birthday. The whole thing was written, voiced, animated, drawn, and completed by vimeo user Jeremiah Warren in under 36 hours. Enjoy!
