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Scraping Decades of Grime, Car Exhaust, and Mold Off Rome's Colosseum

Dec 28, 5:00PM

Scraping Decades of Grime, Car Exhaust, and Mold Off Rome's Colosseum

The Colosseum in Rome is being cleansed of car exhaust that has built up over decades, ever since Mussolini's ill-advised decision to build a major road nearby.

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Christmas shipping snafus, the black market of stolen credit card numbers, Snowden claims "mission a

Dec 28, 4:00PM

Christmas shipping snafus, the black market of stolen credit card numbers, Snowden claims "mission accomplished," and more: it's this week's Tech Reads.

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Spend Your Weekend Gawking at Nearly 700 Old Maps of the U.S.

Dec 28, 3:00PM

Spend Your Weekend Gawking at Nearly 700 Old Maps of the U.S.

Okay, history buffs. We've got a challenge for you: Learn as much as you possibly can from the 700 odd maps just uploaded to the University of Richmond's Digital Scholarship Lab. Your brain will thank you later.

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Man in China Builds Giant Transformers Replica to Propose to Girlfriend

Dec 28, 2:00PM

Man in China Builds Giant Transformers Replica to Propose to Girlfriend

You know how when a guy courts a girl, sometimes the right move is a grand gesture? A bouquet of flowers to say you're sorry. A surprise weekend getaway to mark an anniversary. How about a giant Transformers replica to pop the question?

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The Weirdest Thing on the Internet Tonight: Bildundtonfabrik

Dec 28, 5:00AM

Check out this wildly animated history of, I think, human history? I dunno, my Spanish is pretty rusty.

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This helicopter lifting a giant cannon is not a video game still

Dec 28, 2:00AM

This helicopter lifting a giant cannon is not a video game still

It looks like Call of Duty. It's not. It looks like a movie. It's not. Instead it's an incredible photograph of a Marine Corps Super Stallion Helicopter taking off with a M777 howitzer in the California desert. In real life. What a powerful image. The helicopter is lugging the 7,500 pound 35 foot long monster of a weapon like it's nothing.

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Why do so many galaxies in space look like this?

Dec 28, 1:00AM

Why do so many galaxies in space look like this?

Flat. Like a streak across space. Thin. Stretched out. How come whenever we see galaxies, they always look like this? NASA has the answer. And it has something to do with how a ball of dough becomes pizza.

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A Band Called Death: Preemininent Punk Rockers, Forgotten Then Found

Dec 28, 1:00AM

A Band Called Death: Preemininent Punk Rockers, Forgotten Then Found

Discovering music is a way different game in the digital age, when new artists and tunes are a mere mouse click away. Before algorithms were responsible for instantly introducing new faves into the mix, recording demos and hustling for radio play was a key factor in building buzz and gaining new fans. A Band Called Death is an incredible documentary chronicling the raw punk sounds of trio of brothers trying to break into the biz in 1970s Detroit, the group's dissolution, and their subsequent, fortuitous rise to recognition and fame after three long decades.

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This animation sums up everything that happened in 2013 in one minute

Dec 28, 12:00AM

Christmas is over! The year is almost up! And in days like today when there's not much going on, it's always fun to look back at the year that was. Who did something stupid? What silly things happened? What do you remember? ADHD sums up the entire year of 2013 in under a minute in this animation video. Can you recognize everything?

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These Neon Lights Show The Growth Of Shanghai's Urban DNA

Dec 28, 12:00AM

These Neon Lights Show The Growth Of Shanghai's Urban DNA

Shanghai is, unfortunately, seeing record levels of smog lately, but there's no sign of dull toxic haze in this neon display by artist Lu Xinjian. "City Light" is a glowing part of I Love Shanghai, an exhibition at the local Art Labor gallery; here, pop stylings and primary colors actually show the real-life urban grid—with a Google Earth by way of Keith Haring vibe.

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How did a toy car magically appear behind these two pieces of paper?

Dec 27, 11:00PM

How did a toy car magically appear behind these two pieces of paper?

In this illusion, a toy car seemingly appears from no where. How is that possible? Well, the car was always there. Really. It's a simple but masterful trick, the toy car is programmed to travel along a designated route while the red cards are shown off as a distraction. As one card is shown to reveal nothing behind it, the other card is covering the moving toy car. What you're seeing is what you're allowed to see.

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Our Favorite Android, iOS, and Windows Phone Apps of the Week

Dec 27, 11:00PM

Our Favorite Android, iOS, and Windows Phone Apps of the Week

Well, one holiday week has drawn to a close, and another is nearly upon us. Frankly, that means a slow-ish week for apps. And yet! There were still some notable newbies to the app scene. Download these babies and let your phone feel as bloated as you do.

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Our Best Booze Articles of 2013

Dec 27, 10:00PM

Our Best Booze Articles of 2013

2013 was a good year for drinkin'. We investigated boozy superstition, we traveled the earth to see how your favorite spirits are made, and we drank cognac out of a bone. We had a great time, and we were glad you came with us. Here now are our favorite Happy Hour episodes from 2013, including some you might have missed.

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The best selfie ever is the one an astronaut takes from freaking space

Dec 27, 10:00PM

The best selfie ever is the one an astronaut takes from freaking space

Here's astronaut Mike Hopkins taking the selfie to end all selfies. It's over, you cant' beat it, give up, return your camera, become a horse jockey. Hopkins snapped a photo of himself in full astronaut suit outside of the ISS as he was spacewalking on Christmas Eve with the beautiful blue Earth in the background. And he didn't even need to use a filter.

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Jaywalking, Cinnamon, and Ruins: What's Ruining Our Cities This Week

Dec 27, 9:30PM

Jaywalking, Cinnamon, and Ruins: What's Ruining Our Cities This Week

Walkers are making L.A. unsafe for cars, a ban on a crucial spice won't be very nice for Denmark, and tourists flocking to Detroit's urban ruins are ruining Detroit even more. It's our final look at What's Ruining Our Cities this year!

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This Alpine House Looks Like It Was Beamed Down From Outer Space

Dec 27, 9:00PM

This Alpine House Looks Like It Was Beamed Down From Outer Space

Sure, the larch-wood cladding gives Ufogel a kind of rustic charm, but I'll be damned if this Austrian guest house doesn't really look like it just beamed down from a quaint corner of outer space.

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How the New York Botanical Garden Digitizes Nearly 300 Plants a Day

Dec 27, 8:30PM

How the New York Botanical Garden Digitizes Nearly 300 Plants a Day

The New York Botanical Garden is packed with over 7.3 million specimens from all over the world. And when you've got that many plants, you need to get a little creative when it's time to take their picture. It's a high tech affair.

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Ice climber impossibly survives a punishing fall from ice wall

Dec 27, 8:17PM

Ice climber impossibly survives a punishing fall from ice wall

Ouch. That has got to hurt. Ice climber Mark R. was climbing up a mountain when he was sent plummeting down by a piece of falling ice that hit him. He then basically avalanches down the mountain side and hits every rock down the way. It's like a scene from Game of Thrones but completely real. And even more insane because Mark R. survived.

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This Gorgeous Stained Glass Landscape Is Actually a Rice Field

Dec 27, 8:00PM

This Gorgeous Stained Glass Landscape Is Actually a Rice Field

Who knew growing rice on a mountain could be so beautiful? The Ailao Mountains in Yunnan, China, have been carved into thousands of gradual steps, each a paddy growing red rice. The rice terraces stretch out over some 400 square miles of mountains and valleys.

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Family Opens Beats Headphones on Christmas, Finds Tuna Instead

Dec 27, 7:30PM

Family Opens Beats Headphones on Christmas, Finds Tuna Instead

It's Christmas Day. You've carefully wrapped the Beats headphones your daughter's been dreaming of, and she's just about to see that dream become a reality. You look on with glee as she tears the paper from her brand new set of cans only to find that these cans were not the cans she was looking for. These cans, it seems, were filled with tuna.

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Stonehenge's New Visitor Center Looks Positively Neolithic

Dec 27, 7:00PM

Stonehenge's New Visitor Center Looks Positively Neolithic

The decrepit old visitor center at Stonehenge has been too small and too old for decades. In fact, it's been described with typical Brit candor as "disgraceful" and an "embarrassment" to England. Finally, this month, a new, $44 million visitors' center has opened—here's a look inside.

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The 10 Most-Pirated TV Shows of 2013

Dec 27, 6:30PM

The 10 Most-Pirated TV Shows of 2013

Another year comes to a close, and another year of gratuitous television show pirating is in the bag. Who wins the award for the most illicit views? According to numbers from TorrentFreak, Game of Thrones keeps the crown for the second year in a row by a hefty margin. At 5,900,000 downloads, it beats (fantastic) runner up Breaking Bad by almost two mil.

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The 18 Most Futuristic Predictions That Came True in 2013

Dec 27, 6:00PM

The 18 Most Futuristic Predictions That Came True in 2013

A lot can happen in a single year, especially in this era of accelerating technological and social change. Here are the most futuristic developments of 2013.

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A Ticket to the End of the World

Dec 27, 6:00PM

A Ticket to the End of the World

If you've watched with envy as the internet fills up with endless photo galleries of abandoned buildings in Detroit, perhaps now is your time to get in on the action: for the low, low price of only $45, you can buy a ticket and take locally-run "tours of abandoned factories, churches and schools." A Detroit ruin tour takes 3 hours, and taps into your inner J.M.W. Turner.

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Target Confirms That Encrypted PINs Were Swiped in Black Friday Hack

Dec 27, 5:55PM

Target Confirms That Encrypted PINs Were Swiped in Black Friday Hack

After admitting yesterday that some encrypted data had been pulled by the hack potentially affecting 40 million customers, Target has gone on to further confirm that the encrypted data stolen does in fact include PIN information. Whether or not the hackers will be able to extract the PINs from this data, though, remains to be seen.

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