First discovered in the 1920s at the dawning of the era of aerial photographs, these mysterious stone structures throughout the Middle East are called simply "the Big Circles" by archaeologists. We now know roughly how old they are, but we still don't know who made them, and why there are so many.
We fell in love at first alien encounter with Natasha Allegri's animated short Bee and PuppyCat, and now it's an ongoing animated webseries. Two new episodes have arrived, giving us another of the duo's space temp jobs.
Things are looking a bit, well, surreal in this week's Concept Art Writing Prompt. What sort of story can you spin about these group of strange creatures?
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The folks at Chop Shop are crowdfunding a series of posters dedicated to three of NASA's most awe-inspiring interplanetary robotic space missions: Voyager, Cassini/Huygens, and Curiosity.
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Our favorite stories can come in from any time period, from our own to the long, long ago to the not-so-distant future all the way to the very far future. So what makes 50 years or so such a popular benchmark for us to look towards?
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We're already seeing awesome holiday deals come in, and we're expecting that trend to continue as we get closer to the Black Friday/Cyber Monday Week. Here are a few things you can do to be ready to take advantage of those deals, and get the biggest discounts possible.
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This is an 11-minute title sequence for the fake TV show Too Many Cooks. I watched the entire sequence and at the end, God spoke to me and said, "Turn this into a real show or I'll flood the planet again."
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American Horror Story: Freak Show returns from its epic two-part Halloween story and brings us an episode that is absolutely all over the place. But it still managed to deliver dark horror.
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In this exclusive clip from next week's episode of Person of Interest, we get a rare glimpse of Shaw's new life as a thief ... and a slightly terrifying look at her sex life.
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You thought the House Targaryen lineage was complicated? You haven't seen anything until you check out this family tree, which combines every single House from A Song of Ice and Fire, from the Arryns to the Westerlings, in one immense graphic. All hail El-Daddy for making it!
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Yeah, so the adults on The 100 are no better at that "establishing a stable society on Earth" business than their kids are. But while they're trying to figure out the basics of crime and punishment, the kids are starting to piece together the details of a threat much larger than the Grounders.
Artist James Kerr, better known as Scorpion Dagger, creates utterly bonkers animated collages out of Renaissance paintings. They remind us of Terry Gilliam's Monty Python animations in the best way possible.
The next time you call someone (or something) your "spirit animal," consider this. The phrase became common only recently, and it went from Indian myth to internet meme in just a few years. The history of its sudden explosion in popularity is fascinating ... and Megan Garber tells you the whole story at The Atlantic.
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The long-in-development movie remake of the classic TV series The Six Million Dollar Man has officially hired Mark Wahlberg as a man who is given incredibly advanced bionics after suffering a catastrophic accident, except now it's 100 times more expensive. Please insert Obamacare joke here.
It's one of the pitfalls of great fantasy stories. Sometimes they just degenerate into cheesiness, no matter how epic and badass they are. What's the best example of a great fantasy story that floated on a giant river of cheese?
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Experiments at the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory in the U.S. have taken us a step forward in developing a technology that could significantly reduce the size of particle accelerators and allow scientists to accelerate particles more rapidly than conventional accelerators at a much smaller size.
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Here it is, the very first look at The Simpsons/Futurama crossover episode. Watch how a visit from the Planet Express crew will change The Simpsons opening couch gag. Spoiler alert: Hedonismbot makes things sexy.
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Laura Aydelotte, a scholar of rare books, creates striking animations from sketches and artwork appearing in medieval manuscripts. And each one has a unique story to tell.
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It's been a quarter of a century since the Berlin Wall was torn down, and the city is still marked by the architectural remains from a generation of Soviet occupation. A new study of the city's residents suggests that east and west Berlin remain culturally divided too — though they are still happy with their lives…
