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Is the Dinosaur-Apocalypse Story Wrong?
66 million years ago, a six-mile-wide asteroid, larger than Mount Everest is tall, slammed our planet with the force of ten billion atomic bombs, unleashing giant fireballs, crushing tsunamis, continent-shaking earthquakes, and suffocating darkness. This was the cause of the Cretaceous–Paleogene extinction event, which drove the dinosaurs off the planet almost overnight. Or so we thought.
AC/DC’s Thunderstruck Performed by a Computer Hardware Orchestra [Video]
Watch as Paweł Zadrożniak’s Floppotron performs a cover of AC/DC’s Thunderstruck on a bunch of floppy disk readers, scanners and hard drives, and for the first time, a keyboard performance by the man himself.
The Empire Doesn’t Care About Your Stick Figure Family
Ridiculous [Comic]
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Wormholes Explained – Breaking Spacetime
Are wormholes real or are they just magic disguised as physics and maths? And if they are real how do they work and where can we find them? Find out in this episode of “In a Nutshell.”
DEAL: eBook Bestsellers for Just $2.99 (The Hobbit, The Little Prince, The Princess Bride, 1984, and More!)
If you’re looking for a few new awesome reads to end the summer, Amazon currently has a sale on some awesome bestsellers right now! Read The Hobbit, The little Prince, The Princess Bride and more for just $2.99 each!
additionally, they also have some great deals on science fiction and fantasy books right here!
“Weird Al” Yankovic And Weezer Perform Toto’s “Africa” [Video]
While Weezer was doing a show a few days ago, Weird Al Yankovic showed up on stage to perform Toto’s “Africa” along with them. Check it out below! (Weird Al only shows up about halfway through the song.)
Beautiful Apocalypse Princesses Fan Art [Pics]
These beautiful apocalyptic versions of Disney Princesses come from the mind of artist Tess Fowler, and if you think you’ve seen pictures of cosplayers wearing similar outfit online, you’re totally right! A lot of people have inspired themselves from this artist’s art to create their costumes!
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[Source: Tess Fowler]
Irrational Numbers Explained [Video]
Like many heroes of Greek myths, the philosopher Hippasus was rumored to have been mortally punished by the gods. But what was his crime? Did he murder guests or disrupt a sacred ritual? No, Hippasus’s transgression was mathematically proving the hitherto unprovable. Ganesh Pai describes the history and math behind irrational numbers.
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