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Faux-Toblerone

from EATER Toblerone in Chocolate War With UK Copycat Who Stole Original Design ‘Twin Peaks’ bars bear a striking resemblance to the classic Swiss chocolate by Greg Morabito Toblerone photo via Getty; Twin Peak photo via Facebook/Poundland A UK company is capitalizing on the near-disastrous redesign of the classic Toblerone bar by making an homage […]

Bitcoin Causing Global Warming

from grist Bitcoin could cost us our clean-energy future By Eric Holthaus If you’re like me, you’ve probably been ignoring the bitcoin phenomenon for years — because it seemed too complex, far-fetched, or maybe even too libertarian. But if you have any interest in a future where the world moves beyond fossil fuels, you and […]

Falcon Drones

from Bloomberg The Military Is Using Falcons to Build a Drone Killer A raptor’s approach to targeting prey may one day help protect soldiers and even airports, Air Force-funded research shows. By Justin Bachman Throughout history, humans have employed falcons as lethal hunters of other animals. Now those raptors are being sent after drones. It […]

EAT, BRAINS, LOVE Cast

from Deadline Jake Cannavale, Angelique Rivera To Star In ‘Eat, Brains, Love’ by Amanda N’Duka Rex/Shutterstock Jake Cannavale (Nurse Jackie), Angelique Rivera (American Crime), and Sarah Yarkin (American Horror Story) have been tapped to star in the indie comedy, Eat, Brains, Love, the Rodman Flender-directed film adaptation of Jeff Hart’s zombie road trip novel. In addition, Jim Titus, Patrick […]

Johnny Hallyday Gone

from BBC News Johnny Hallyday: France’s ‘Elvis Presley’ dies at 74 France’s biggest rock star Johnny Hallyday has died after a battle with lung cancer. He was 74. The singer sold about 100 million records and starred in a number of films in a career that began in 1960. He was made a Chevalier of […]

Quantum Reality Really

from Nautilus Is Quantum Theory About Reality or What We Know? BY JAMES OWEN WEATHERALL Physicists know how to use quantum theory—your phone and computer give plenty of evidence of that. But knowing how to use it is a far cry from fully understanding the world the theory describes—or even what the various mathematical devices […]

Up In Hudson

DIY Waffles

from The Atlanta Journal-Constitution Waffle House customer cooks his own meal after finding staff sleeping by Theresa Seiger WEST COLUMBIA, S.C. A hungry, slightly inebriated man knew just what to do when he stopped by a South Carolina Waffle House early Thursday only to find the restaurant’s staff snoozing: He cooked up his own meal, […]

It’s All In The Wiring

from StudyFinds A Smarter Person’s Brain Is Simply Wired Better, Study Finds by Daniel Steingold FRANKFURT, Germany — Brainiacs happen to have thinking organs that are physically designed to outperform, a new study finds. Researchers at Goethe University Frankfurt in Germany looked at brain scans of more than 300 participants, while simultaneously consulting graph theoretical network […]

India To Luna

from Business Insider India is preparing to land on the moon for the first time in the country’s history by Hilary Brueck The last time any country put boots or, rather, little metal feet, on the moon was in 2013, when China landed its Yutu rover there. Before that, you’d have to look back to the […]