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Mythbusters Hosts Will Produce, Judge a Rube Goldberg Competition Show

by Jamie Frevele | 4:16 pm, January 20th

If you like Jamie Hyneman and Adam Savage, you’re going to be very happy about this: the Mythbusters hosts have announced that they’ll be producing a new show for Discovery called Unchained Reaction. The duo will serve as judges on the new show, which will pit two teams against each other while they build the most awesome Rube Goldberg device. And it looks like … yes. Yes, I read that right: there might be guillotines.

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Oregon Man Arrested After Attacking Toys ‘R’ Us Customers With His Lightsaber

by Jamie Frevele | 1:57 pm, December 16th

For seemingly no rhyme or reason (or perhaps, sadly, a mental health reason), an unidentified 33-year-old man in Portland, Oregon was arrested after attacking Toys ‘R’ Us shoppers with a blue lightsaber. (Actual lightsaber not pictured above.) After swinging the toy weapon at people inside the store, he exited the store and headed into the parking lot, where cops met him … and where they were then attacked by a lightsaber. The holidays are getting to everyone, they are!

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Superman Saves Pedestrian… Er, Surgeon Dressed As Superman Saves Pedestrian

by Susana Polo | 4:16 pm, December 9th

Heng Khuen Cheok, an Australian ER doctor, happened to be coming home from his own bachelor party when he witnessed a pedestrian “skittling,” which Urban Dictionary assures me is slang for “getting knocked over.” In this case, by a car. Cheok did not, as depicted above, teach the car a good lesson by slamming it into a rock. Instead he ran to the side of the pedestrian, being tended to by friends, to see if there was anything he could do to help. There was just one problem:

He was dressed as Superman.

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Mythbusters Accidentally Bust Up Someone’s House And Car With A Cannonball

by Jill Pantozzi | 2:04 pm, December 7th

The Mythbusters crew recently busted something other than a myth. The Discovery Channel show had one of their experiments go awry in Dublin, California recently leaving a cannonball-sized hole in someone’s house and another in a mini-van. Woops. 

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Watch the Incredible Hulk Throw an Ewok. WARNING: Contains Hulk-on-Ewok Violence [Video]

by Jamie Frevele | 5:44 pm, November 4th

We will not keep you very long in today’s final video. But we will warn you that an Ewok — perhaps Wicket — is being thrown into the air by the Incredible Hulk. Or — IS IT? Nub nub nuuuuubbbbbbb …

(via Nerdcore)

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Best Chemistry Teacher Ever Carves a Pumpkin By Blowing It Up From the Inside [Video]

by Jamie Frevele | 5:44 pm, October 31st

Don’t stop us, we’re just going to say it: We’re ending our Halloween posts with a bang. Chemistry teacher Chris Bergmann at Kinard Middle School ran this loud little experiment two years ago, showing his students a one-step way to give a pumpkin a face from the inside out.

(via Laughing Squid)

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Petoskey Batman Sentenced to Probation, Can’t Wear Batman Costume for Six Months

by Susana Polo | 1:57 pm, October 19th

Mark Wayne Williams was found hanging off the roof of a building in downtown Petoskey, Michigan this May, wearing a Batman costume and carrying a baton, a kind of defensive chemical spray, and weighted gloves, presumably for all the punching. Officers dragged him back onto the roof, which he had fled to in order to evade the group of people he was being chased by so as not to have to “deal with the harassment.”

He was charged with an impressive list of concealed weapons related offenses, most of which carried jail time or fines, but his actual sentence has been recently commuted to a six-month period of probation during which he is not allowed to wear a costume. Any costume.

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Real Life Spider-Woman Climbs Castle To Avoid Admission Fee

by Jill Pantozzi | 2:01 pm, October 11th

I love a castle as much as the next girl (probably a bit more) but this woman is willing to do a lot more than I am to get into one. Even when it’s not necessary. 

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Moral of the Day: If You Live in Gotham City, Don’t Dress Like A Clown

by Susana Polo | 1:43 pm, September 20th

Man, Batman is a jerk, but I think my favorite part of this is that the Joker just. Wants. To tell his story.

Poor Joker.

(via Blastr.)

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Science: Glow-in-the-Dark Kittens Might Help Us Fight AIDS [UPDATED]

by Jamie Frevele | 11:48 am, September 12th

Okay, so, there’s a glowing kitten. Right there. Why, you might ask, is that kitten glowing and what does it have to do with finding a cure for AIDS? Well, I’ll tell you! Before that kitten became a kitten zygote, the egg that was eventually fertilized was injected with two things: a rhesus macaque gene that blocks cell infection by the feline version of HIV and a jellyfish gene that causes the glowing — for tracking purposes. Science is adorable and freakish, and possibly life-saving! ETA: Why the glow-worm effect?

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