Here’s a tutorial on how to make your very own light-up foam Infinity Gauntlet! Cosplayer and artist Hendo made hers using a pair of Darth Vader gloves from Amazon. Check it out!
Here’s a tutorial on how to make your very own light-up foam Infinity Gauntlet! Cosplayer and artist Hendo made hers using a pair of Darth Vader gloves from Amazon. Check it out!
From the company that has resold you the same Mario game for 25 years, come an $80 box full of cardboard pianos, robots, and other cool things you won’t use – this is the Nintendo LABO!
Deadpool is NOT X-Men material for many reasons, but one of them, according to anti-hero himself, is that he’s not a virgin. Check out this new TV spot, which features some footage from the movie we haven’t seen before!
The researcher at Tale used a system they call BrainEx which involves hooking the disembodied brain up to a closed loop of tubes. Using pumps and heaters, the system carries oxygen around the brain in an artificial liquid that acts in a similar way to blood.
The idea is to give more time when researchers study the ways brain cells are connected. If the technique works as well on a human brain, the extra time could make it possible to explore some of the largest connections. In theory the brains could eventually be used for trying out cures and treatments for brain conditions where the risks are far too significant to test on a living patient.
The researchers say there’s no evidence any of the pig brains regained ‘consciousness’ in the sense of being aware what was happening. However, “billions of individual cells” were alive in the sense of being capable of their normal activity. In effect the brain was in a similar state to a human in a coma (with the obvious difference of not being attached to a body.)
It’s most likely the brains didn’t show any signs of responsiveness because they were irreversibly damaged by the period between the pig’s death and the brain being connected to the BrianEx system. However, the researchers can’t rule out that the brains would have regained ‘consciousness’ were it not for chemicals in the oxygen carrier that were designed to prevent swelling.
The researchers have now published a call for the scientific community to discuss the ethics that would (or will) be involved if the technique was applied to human brains, particularly if done so with the aim of restoring or maintaining consciousness. In particularl they highlight the issues of consent, ownership and the definition of death. They also want a debate on how existing guidelines for mixing tissue and other material between different species should apply to brains.
The debate brings to life a short story by Roald Dahl titled William and Mary which imagined a human brain being kept alive after the person had died.
From Screen Junkies:
You did it, because of your generosity towards our Movie Fights Extravaganza Benefiting Women In Film we are doing an Honest Trailer for Honest Trailers! But since there is no way for us to be impartial and really honest, we need some help – so we recruited a robot…sorta. With the aid of Botnik Labs, they created some magical computer program that analyzed every single Honest Trailer script and generated this masterpiece poking fun at all of our tropes, styles, and themes. It is odd. It is insane. It is amazing.
May the 4th is almost there, and for the occasion, Humble Bundle is offering some amazing deals on Star wars games such has Kotor, Lego Star Wars, The force Unleashed, and many, many more. Humble Bundle Monthly subscribers also get an extra 10% off!
Holy delicious-looking Death Star, Batman!
That’s no moon… it’s a giant maraschino cherries chocolate space station!
Make your own with these Death Star Silicone Molds!
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In this comic, Julia Lepetit from Dorky takes a look at 5 of the top worst feelings you can experience while playing a game.
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The oldest glue in the world is over 8,000 years old and comes from a cave near the Dead Sea. Today, we have enough types of tape and glue to build and repair almost anything. But what gives glue and tape their stickiness? And is one stronger than the other? Elizabeth Cox explores the world of adhesives.
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