Cosplay for a Cause Calendar [Gallery]

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‘ The earthquake, tsunami, and ensuing nuclear crisis in Japan earlier this year have stretched the Japanese Red Cross to its limits; while donations are coming in all the time, it’s still important to maintain support for the organization as Japan recovers from these events. To help bolster contributions to the JRC, Cosplay for a [...]

Deleted Video Game Scenes

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Sometimes the premise of a game is so absurd you have to have missed something. That, or designers were all, “Plot? Plausibility? I’m not even worried about that stuff. Hey, do we need more or less zombies?” Cracked asked readers to submit deleted scenes from video games that might help explain just exactly what’s going on. [...]

The Spinning Stingray Illusion [Video]

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You’ve likely seen the spinning dancer illusion, which tricks the brain into believing the dancer is spinning either way without actually changing rotation. Now, this new animation by psychophysiologist Marcel de Heer shows that a single moving image can appear to move in three different ways. It’s a little psychedelic, but strong visual contrast is [...]

Freaked-Out Lampreys Are Freaky [Video]

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How do you control an invasive species–especially a parasitic one–without having to physically remove every specimen from an area? It’s a good question, and a hard one to answer. The ramifications of controlling one animal almost always include serious decline in another, damage and contamination to a habitat and possible immunity in the case of [...]