May 18, 2012
In Hollywood movies, the smallest fender bender can trigger an inferno. But in the real world, a car doesn’t usually explode — even if you drive it off a cliff or shoot the gas tank. Blowing up a vehicle is deceptively difficult.
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[Source: Underwire]
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May 18, 2012
In Bakuman, the manga about making manga created by Tsugumi Ohba and Takeshi Obata, two teenage boys pursue their dreams to become professional manga creators. Over the course of 20 volumes, the teens become young men who toil over their drawing boards to reach their goal: to get a popular series featured in Weekly Shonen Jump magazine….Read Full Post
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May 18, 2012
Once upon a time, Cronenberg made really weird movies. Really, really weird movies.Like, making out with a TV in Videodrome …
or killing someone with your armpit penis in Rabid …IMAGE REMOVED BY REQUEST OF COMMON SENSE…
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May 18, 2012
Step through the doors of New York’s Park Avenue Armory and you’ll join a DIY expedition to Mars that’s part hard science, part Capricorn One. With new installation Space Program: Mars, sculptor Tom Sachs and his team of 13 astro-artists have crafted an otherworldly fantasy out of common materials, assembling the components of a space program out of readily available materials bought at hardware stores or salvaged from the streets.
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[Source: Underwire]
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May 17, 2012
Characters on Star Trek suffer frequent misadventures on the holodeck, a room that creates advanced holograms indistinguishable from reality. But now theoretical physicists such as Brian Greene, host of the recent PBS special The Fabric of the Cosmos, are starting to wonder if every object in the universe isn’t some sort of hologram. Greene talks physics and science fiction in this week’s episode of the Geek’s Guide to the Galaxy podcast. Hear it, or read the entire transcript, here.
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[Source: Underwire]
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May 17, 2012
People love to hate on minimalism, but this is pretty cool. (via mymodernmet.com ). 
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May 17, 2012
Scott Z. Burns (Contagion) has been tapped to work on the script for the sequel to ‘Rise of the Planet of the Apes’, which could begin production this summer. Read on for additional details.
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[Source: Screen Rant]
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