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And then he’s gone. Kubrick himself died just a few weeks after ‘finishing’ Eyes Wide Shut. A controversy revolving around the film’s orgy sequence and the insertion of digital figures to block certain sexual thrusts for American audiences kept his essence in the spotlight. And upon the film’s release, the voices of dissent and support [...]

While men reported feeling more content, sexually satisfied and confident after meaningless sex, women were more likely to worry about feeling used and “letting themselves down”.
Some of the their reasons for the encounters were because they felt there was the possibility of a longer term relationship.
Professor Anne Campbell, from Durham University, who carried out the [...]

Take him to a hardcore amusement park ride.

We basically have found what appears to be the requirements, the nutrients, to support life, whether past, present or future… It is the type of soil you would probably have in your back yard – you know, alkaline. You might be able to grow asparagus in it really well.
– Sam Kounaves, the Phoenix Mars Lander [...]

Too bad you can’t actually see her.

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{Mad: Iran is, like, soooo gay you can feel your pinkie tingle}

Researchers speculate that time travel can occur within a kind of feedback loop where backwards movement is possible, but only in a way that is “complementary” to the present.
In other words, you can pop back in time and have a look around, but you cannot do anything that will alter the present you left behind.
The [...]

This town is only big enough for one Batman.

A hilarious mashup of four Batman films.

Eve, Wall-E’s sleek love interest, has been designed by Jonathan Ive, the dude who created the iMac, iPod and iPhone. No wonder Eve looks uncannily familiar.

Also:

WALL-E is Pixar’s biggest gamble.

The 13 best movie robots, says somebody.

More robots we actually use.

“Bill Gates owns this book. He wants it. Give it back to him! He will tell you.”
– The “territorial marking” Bill had written years ago on his recently re-found book.

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An organization called Anima Naturalis ran this anti-fur campaign in Argentina, called “Without Skin.”

And oh, when they launched it, 50 people actually ran on streets in their underwear and covered in blood.

We’d still prefer the hot naked PETA chicks.

Diablo III. Need we say more?

The $250-million Armed Forces Institute of Regenerative Medicine (AFIRM), a consortium of 30 research institutions established in March by the U.S. Department of Defense, has been making awesome ways to literally repair damage to the human body — such as skin guns, organ printers that “print” new organ replacements, and limb regeneration shit and stuff.
Shown [...]

It seems unthinkable, but for the first time in human history, ice is on course to disappear entirely from the North Pole this year.
The disappearance of the Arctic sea ice, making it possible to reach the Pole sailing in a boat through open water, would be one of the most dramatic – and worrying – [...]

A way-too-cool Hagener (a Tjos warrior/tribesman from Mount Hagen, Papua New Guinea), sporting a nose piercing that his fellow tribesmen and BFFs (best friends forever) only describe as “soooo out there.”
From French photographer Eric Lafforque’s collection.
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{Mad: Bizarre foot-binding in China}