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Can fast food restaurants actually make burgers that look like the ads?

Jun 17, 12:45AM

Can fast food restaurants actually make burgers that look like the ads?

Most humans have accepted that fast food burgers will never look as good in real life as they do in commercials and advertisements. Those puffed up buns, saliva inducing patties, perfectly melted cheese, wonderfully dressed greens, etc. are all disgustingly limp in real life. But we eat them anyway! But what if you asked the fast food restaurants to try a little harder? Could they make a burger look like the advertisements?

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Breaking Bad Is Now Streaming in 4K on Netflix

Jun 17, 12:01AM

Breaking Bad Is Now Streaming in 4K on Netflix

What's better than watching Walter White mix meth and scheme his sinister schemes? Watching Walter White mix meth and scheme his sinister schemes in Ultra HD, that's what. And now you can, because Netflix is streaming Breaking Bad in 4K starting right now.

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Here's why Martin Scorsese is such a fantastic director

Jun 16, 11:32PM

Here's why Martin Scorsese is such a fantastic director

If you watch any Martin Scorsese flick you'd know how perfectly he marries music with his movies. But it's his masterful use of silence that makes some of his scenes hit even harder. The absence of sound can be even more powerful than the perfect song.

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The Coolest Trampoline On Earth Is Suspended Inside a Huge Cavern

Jun 16, 11:20PM

The Coolest Trampoline On Earth Is Suspended Inside a Huge Cavern

You've jumped on one trampoline, you jumped on them all, right? Wrong, you cynical sad sack. The mother of all trampolines is currently being readied for its public unveiling inside a series of caverns in Wales. Yep: It's a network of trampolines hung from the walls of an old slate mine.

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Tupac: Changes

Jun 16, 11:00PM

Today would have been Tupac's 46th birthday, so what better time than tonight to post the classic "Changes"?

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Why Hexagons Are The Best Building Block For Bees and Their Hives

Jun 16, 10:40PM

Why Hexagons Are The Best Building Block For Bees and Their Hives

Honeycomb is hexagonal. Not circular. Not square. Not triangular. Why did bees settle on that particular shape? It was no accident; like many of their compatriots in the animal kingdom, it turns out the lil' insects are excellent mathematicians and stellar architects . The repeated pattern makes perfect sense when you take a closer look at the logistics of those alternatives.

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Jalopnik The Painful Truth About NASA's Warp Drive Spaceship From A Physicist| Kotaku The Real Probl

Jun 16, 10:33PM

Jalopnik The Painful Truth About NASA's Warp Drive Spaceship From A Physicist| Kotaku The Real Problem With Sex Workers In Video Games | Gawker Hundreds of New Emoji Coming to Replace More Words | Jezebel Everything Wrong With New York Magazine's Terry Richardson Cover Story | Kinja Popular Posts

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This is what would happen if Earth stopped spinning right now

Jun 16, 10:32PM

This is what would happen if Earth stopped spinning right now

Have you ever asked yourself what would happen if the Earth stopped spinning right now? For you it would be like being in a car at 1000 miles per hour and stopping dead in your tracks—you would die instantly. But, believe it or not, it gets even worse after that, as this video explains.

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The Origami Wheels on These Robots Change Shape As They Roll

Jun 16, 10:20PM

The Origami Wheels on These Robots Change Shape As They Roll

If you thought origami was just a delicate, ornamental art, then come meet these robots. These (deliberately) deformable little wheelers can climb over obstacles, squeeze under crevasses, and basically change gears automatically.

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Real-Time Waste Water Analysis Can Show Who's On What Drugs, and Where

Jun 16, 10:02PM

Real-Time Waste Water Analysis Can Show Who's On What Drugs, and Where

After a hard night of partying, the metabolized chemical remnants of whatever you snorted, smoked, sucked, or injected are expelled through your urine. While authorities have long been able to detect these metabolites through direct urine tests , monitoring drug use in any given geographic region has been far less precise—until now, that is.

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The Galaxy S5 (and Other Android Phones) Are Easier to Root Than Ever

Jun 16, 9:45PM

The Galaxy S5 (and Other Android Phones) Are Easier to Root Than Ever

Famed hacker Geohot has released a tool called Towelroot that will allow you to root your Galaxy S5, along with a number of other prominent Android devices.

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Tiny Sensors Powered By Passing Cars Could Monitor Our Aging Roads

Jun 16, 9:40PM

Tiny Sensors Powered By Passing Cars Could Monitor Our Aging Roads

Between rush hour traffic and 18-wheelers, our roads take a real beating over time. Tiny sensors in the asphalt could give us a real time map of stress on aging roads, but then how do you keep embedded sensors powered for years? By harnessing the very motion of the cars whizzing by.

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Ocean lifts guy several feet up in the air, smashes him against beach

Jun 16, 9:34PM

Ocean lifts guy several feet up in the air, smashes him against beach

That guy being lifted by the ocean several feet up in the air and then smashed down against the beach is bodyboarder Alex Johnston. It's like the ocean is alive and Poseidon is saying "would you stop being clowns and GET OFF MY LAWN?"

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What Xbox One Games Gain And Lose With The New Kinect-Free Option

Jun 16, 9:30PM

What Xbox One Games Gain And Lose With The New Kinect-Free Option

Microsoft recently said that game developers will be able to get a little more power out of the Xbox One to make their games more visually impressive if they choose to forgo some Kinect features. What's the actual trade-off?

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The Mystery Man In Those 445 Photobooth Pics Has Finally Been Identified

Jun 16, 9:20PM

The Mystery Man In Those 445 Photobooth Pics Has Finally Been Identified

For years, no one knew the identity of this mystery man who, from the 1930s to the 1960s, took hundreds of photobooth pics of himself. Once his image stash became the main attraction at a portraiture exhibition, however, he became an internet sensation and, whaddya know—someone online recognized his friendly face. Meet Uncle Franklyn!

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Everything a Camp Cook Could Need Fits Inside This Nesting Doll Pot

Jun 16, 9:00PM

Everything a Camp Cook Could Need Fits Inside This Nesting Doll Pot

It's easy to overpack when you're heading out into the woods for some weekend camping, but when it comes to supplies for cooking meals, MSR's Flex 4 System packs pretty much everything you could need into a compact single pot.

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These Revolutionary Optics Could Make Battlefield Lasers a Reality

Jun 16, 8:20PM

These Revolutionary Optics Could Make Battlefield Lasers a Reality

Weapons that shoot light rather than bullets are quickly becoming a reality, however their huge bulk and even larger energy consumption still demand that they be mounted on vehicles such as battleships and tractor trailers . But thanks to this newly developed optics system from the US Army Research Lab, tomorrow's battlefields could soon be crowded with light guns.

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The World Cup should be played with 6-foot helium-filled soccer balls

Jun 16, 8:13PM

The World Cup should be played with 6-foot helium-filled soccer balls

Most Americans just don't have the same zeal for soccer—or football—as the rest of the world does. But if a giant six-foot wide helium-filled soccer ball were used instead of those regulation balls , maybe more people would tune in here to watch the World Cup .

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What's the Best Chef's Knife?

Jun 16, 8:00PM

What's the Best Chef's Knife?

You can do almost anything with a good kitchen knife. You have plenty of options but which one is the best? We want to hear from you.

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Match.com Will Use Facial Recognition to Find People Like Your Ex

Jun 16, 7:45PM

Match.com Will Use Facial Recognition to Find People Like Your Ex

Match.com recently announced a partnership with Three Day Rule, a personalized matchmaking service that will find you a date that looks like your ex. You simply send them some pictures, and they find a match. The service costs $5,000 for six month membership. And it's creepy as hell.

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A giant dragon just emerged from the Sun

Jun 16, 7:42PM

A giant dragon just emerged from the Sun

Holy Mother of Dragons, a stream of plasma in the shape of a dragon flying at full speed has emerged from the Sun. According to NASA, the "eruption [tens of thousands miles long] was minor" and "most of it fell back into the sun." NASA, I love you, but you have no imagination.

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Genetically-Modified Orange Bananas Are Ready for Human Testing

Jun 16, 7:20PM

Genetically-Modified Orange Bananas Are Ready for Human Testing

It's been nearly a decade in development, but a genetically modified breed of bananas that's designed to combat starvation will soon enter human testing. The bananas are rich in beta-carotene which turns into vitamin A in the body. For the children in Africa suffering from vitamin A deficiencies, this is a godsend. Also these banana are orange.

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Was This The First In-Flight Movie?

Jun 16, 7:15PM

Was This The First In-Flight Movie?

The photo above, taken on April 6, 1925, shows a movie projector being loaded into an Imperial Airways airplane for the first in-flight movie ever. And the photo below shows the screen and interior set-up for this historical feat. But was it really the first in-flight film ever shown? Technically, no.

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Head Injuries Actually Went Down In Cities With Bike Share Programs

Jun 16, 7:00PM

Head Injuries Actually Went Down In Cities With Bike Share Programs

Last week, the internet was aflutter with news of a study showing how head injuries rose in cities with bike share—at least according to the media. But it turns out that most of us were making a major error in interpreting the data, as CityLab explains today. In fact, head injuries actually went down overall.

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The F-35 Fleet Was Grounded Again for the Bajillionth Time

Jun 16, 6:36PM

The F-35 Fleet Was Grounded Again for the Bajillionth Time

The Pentagon grounded its very expensive and very problematic F-35 fleet over the weekend due to an apparent engine oil leak. Within a day or so, the military inspected all 104 of the jets, three of which did not pass the tests. The rest are now back in the air.

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