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How Space Shuttle Endeavour [Sic] Got Its Name
Space Shuttle Endeavour, the replacement for Space Shuttle Challenger after its explosion in 1986, and the last addition to NASA's orbiter fleet, is set to launch this morning on its last mission. But how many of the estimated 100,000 people watching...
ALEX PASTERNACK
5.16.11
Motherboard Blog

David Eagleman: Science + Uncertainties = Possibilianism!
At last year's edition of the ideas conference PopTech, "neuroscientist David Eagleman":http://poptech.org/david_eagleman outlined a concept he calls Possibilianism. Here's how he "described it":http://papercuts.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/07/10/stray...
PopTech .
5.16.11
Motherboard Blog

The Cruelest Real Life Internet Prank
4chan’s latest prank: poking fun at internet daters
ALEX PASTERNACK
5.16.11
The Cute Show!

Red Pandas!
For this very furry episode of The Cute Show, we travelled all the way to China to fawn over one of the top ten cutest (and laziest) creatures on the planet: red pandas!
VICE Staff
5.16.11
The Creators Project

Meet Ludovic Houplain H5
Ludovic Houplain co-founded the design collective H5 just as multimedia artists found at-home accessibility to groundbreaking technology.
VICE Staff
5.16.11
Noisey Blog

Beat This, Hardcore Fans: OFF! Is Playing With Scream In DC. Let's Party Like It's 1981!
Ezra Morris
5.16.11
Motherboard Blog

How To Scream Doomsday In the Internet Age
The whole Harold Camping / Family Radio / end-of-days thing is probably more fascinating than it should be, at least to me. I imagine that this doesn’t have much saturation outside of the U.S., so here’s a quick recap:
Michael Byrne
5.15.11
Motherboard Blog

The Science of Getting People To Do Stuff
My dog would probably jump out of a plane with me because he thinks I'm awesome and I give him food. He also seems to enjoy it when I say things like "good dog" or, like, his name. People though--people are harder. People have a much better faculty for...
Michael Byrne
5.15.11
Motherboard Blog

Breakup Science: Being Rejected Hurts Worse Than You Think
In _Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind_, mind-erasing researchers try to perish the heartbroken thoughts of a jilted lover using mementos from his former relationship. Recently, at a lab at the University of Michigan, scientists also asked test...
ALEX PASTERNACK
5.15.11
Motherboard Blog

The McGurk Effect, or How We Hear With Our Eyes
Nope, you can't always believe your ears, especially when your eyes get to have some say. Just watch that video above.
The hypothesis of "visual dominance":http://motorchauvinist.blogspot.com/2010/06/visual-dominance-is-unreliable.html says that...
ALEX PASTERNACK
5.14.11
Motherboard Blog

According To My “Tax Receipt,” I Spent $16 on Science in 2010
*. . . and that is not OK.*
I know I just gave away my weak-ass barely-making-it income, but I ran my “tax reciept” thing "at the":http://www.whitehouse.gov/issues/taxes White House website—which breaks down your tax money into where it's actually...
Michael Byrne
5.14.11
Stuff

Forever Alone Involuntary Flashmob
One night in New York, a group of (presumably) single guys gathered by a couple of phone boxes in Times Square. On the face of it, there's nothing too remarkable about that, right?
BRAYDEN OLSON
5.14.11
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