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By Drew Grant 9/19/12 8:45am

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A publicity photo for Tesla's Magnifying Transmitter. F- yeah, science!

Robots, Electricity Labs and a Big ‘F**k You’ to Thomas Edison: Your Tesla Museum Donations at Work

As we reported over at BetaBeat, awesome hipster scientist Nikola Tesla might soon be getting the recognition he deserves with a museum located at his old Long Island laboratory, Wardenclyffe Towers. This is all thanks to a joint web fundraising campaign from TheOatmeal.com’s Matthew Inman and the nonprofit Tesla Science Center at Wardenclyffe, which raised over a million dollars for the project in just 10 days.

But the fight’s not over yet. Read More

By Steve Huff 5/05/12 7:48pm

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Thank you, NASA. (screengrab)

Ready for the Non-Madness and Non-Mayhem of the Supermoon?

Tonight the moon will come 15,000 miles closer to the Earth and will be full. This combination of proximity and brightness results in a phenomenon known as the supermoon–by far the brightest and largest full moon we’ll see all year. As we are still primitive beasts loping madly across the plains and will surely be at each others’ throats as soon as the moon is closest to us (11:35 p.m. E.T.), the Associated Press has taken it upon themselves to soothe the cresting tides of madness to come–with science! Read More

By Drew Grant 12:08pm

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Chinatown Outlets Busted for Selling Rat Poison That Looks, Smells Like Cookies

We once saw a poster that said “Birds don’t have careers,” and it really made us stop and think because, you know, they really don’t. Unless they are carrier pigeons, or those parrots that live on pirates’ shoulders, or are part of a magician’s act. Otherwise nope: birds are more the freelancing, artsy type.

But if birds don’t have careers, cats definitely do, at least according to those highly toxic pesticides that the D.A. recently confiscated in Chinatown that read, “The Cat Can Be Unemployed.” Just a warning! Also, these products can kill you and your children. And they smell like cookies. Read More