Monthly Archives: July 2016

All the Best Shit to Buy at the RNC

By Ashley Feinberg on Gawker, shared by Katie Drummond to Gizmodo

CLEVELAND — The free market is alive and well here at the Republican National Convention. Because in addition to the official, RNC-sanctioned merchandise for sale within the arena, private vendors are making a killing selling Trump-themed refuse to freedom-loving, Hillary-hating passersby everywhere.

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Imagine Coming Face-to-Face With This Horrifying ‘Megaraptor’

By George Dvorsky

Despite their diminutive size, raptors were among the most terrifying dinosaurs to menace the Cretaceous Period. But as the discovery of a new dinosaur called Murusraptor shows, their plus-sized versions, aptly known as “megaraptors,” were considerably worse.

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These Nearby Earth-Sized Planets Are Looking More and More Habitable

By Ria Misra

Two months ago, researchers discovered that a nearby star system held at least three potentially habitable planets. Now, it turns out that at least two of those planets have even more potential for habitability than we initially thought.

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How Futurama Made Math and Science Funny

By Casey Chan on Sploid, shared by Casey Chan to Gizmodo

How Futurama Made Math and Science Funny

Futurama may not make me laugh as hard as other comedies, but its vision of the future and all the shenanigans that come with it have always been enjoyable to watch (throughout all its various cancellations and comebacks). …

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Solarman Is a Sharp Update to a Lame Stan Lee Superhero

By Evan Narcisse on io9, shared by Adam Clark Estes to Gizmodo

Despite spawning a hit TV show and appearances in DC Comics’ Teen Titans series, I have no idea when I’ll be getting a new Static series. Because the universe is cruel and uncaring, Milestone Media’s breakout character is in limbo until such time as he isn’t. Thankfully, a new series called Solarman exists to fill the Virgil Hawkins-shaped hole in my life.

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Grand Admiral Thrawn Joins Rebels and the New Star Wars Canon

By Rob Bricken on io9, shared by Rob Bricken to Gizmodo

Holy crap. Rebels has a new Big Bad, and it’s an old Big Bad—Grand Admiral Thrawn, the brilliant Imperial military commander who took over the remnants of the Empire in the old Expanded Universe, as revealed in the very first EU novel trilogy by Timothy Zahn.

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