Why You’re Alive

You probably don’t realize that these things you take for granted might be the reason you’re still around to take things for granted.

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Robots Are Taking All the Good Waiter Jobs

This video of the world’s first fully-automated restaurant is a few years old, but still really cool.

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Oh, This One Is So Watery

A few weeks ago I linked to an article about a restaurant getting attention for its 45-page water menu. Now, that establishment’s “water sommelier” sits down with Conan to talk and taste.

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Handheld Music Player

The Disney Research Lab is trying to develop a technology that allows you to play music through your fingertips.

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In the Eye of the Beholder

What is ugly? This exhibit examines that very thing.

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Let the Theft Begin

The massive map from the new Grand Theft Auto game has been leaked online.

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Drinking the Haterade

Sports fans, myself included, are typically packed to the brim with things about sports that they passionately dislike. Some of them are just weird and ridiculous, but some of them deserve their scorn.

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He Doesn’t Look A Day Over 130

Dhaqabo Ebba claims to have been born more than a century and a half ago.