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15 Gene Hackman Quotes for His 85th Birthday

List

15 Gene Hackman Quotes for His 85th Birthday

Friday Happy Hour

What Now-Defunct Technology Did You Enthusiastically Embrace?

Friday Happy Hour

What Now-Defunct Technology Did You Enthusiastically Embrace?

Missing Links

Behind the Scenes with Penn & Teller

Missing Links

Behind the Scenes with Penn & Teller

Videos

See This Adorable Baby Acquire Sign Language Through Rhythm And Rhyme

Videos

See This Adorable Baby Acquire Sign Language Through Rhythm And Rhyme

Animals

10 Handy Facts About Deinocheirus

Animals

10 Handy Facts About Deinocheirus

Sports

21 Super Facts About the Seattle Seahawks

Sports

21 Super Facts About the Seattle Seahawks

Sports

21 Super Facts About the New England Patriots

Sports

21 Super Facts About the New England Patriots

Videos

Watch People Fly a Brain-Controlled Helicopter

Videos

Watch People Fly a Brain-Controlled Helicopter

Miss Cellania

The Weird Week in Review

Miss Cellania

The Weird Week in Review

Comics

Interview: Scott McCloud On The Sculptor and Balancing Art and Life

Comics

Interview: Scott McCloud On The Sculptor and Balancing Art and Life

Quizzes

Name the Largest U.S. Cities by Timezone: Pacific

Quizzes

Name the Largest U.S. Cities by Timezone: Pacific

Pod City

Reply All, Fugitive Waves, and More of the Week’s Best Podcasts

Pod City

Reply All, Fugitive Waves, and More of the Week’s Best Podcasts

Movies

12 Facts About 101 Dalmatians

Movies

12 Facts About 101 Dalmatians

Contest!

Win a Shakespearean Star Wars Triology of Books

Contest!

Win a Shakespearean Star Wars Triology of Books

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15 Things You Probably Didn’t Know About Vegas Vacation

Sean Hutchinson
25 Things We Learned in the First Issue of Nintendo Power
Rare Color Footage of Depression-Era New York
10 Photos of Celebrities Jumping
17 Overly Optimistic Book Titles

Morning Cup of Links: Lord of the Rings Trivia

Miss Cellania
25 Things We Learned in the First Issue of Nintendo Power
Rare Color Footage of Depression-Era New York
10 Photos of Celebrities Jumping
17 Overly Optimistic Book Titles

Clico: The Story of Franz Taaibosch

Miss Cellania
25 Things We Learned in the First Issue of Nintendo Power
Rare Color Footage of Depression-Era New York
10 Photos of Celebrities Jumping
17 Overly Optimistic Book Titles

Minecraft + "Game of Thrones" = WesterosCraft

Chris Higgins

Winter is coming...to Minecraft.

25 Things We Learned in the First Issue of Nintendo Power
Rare Color Footage of Depression-Era New York
10 Photos of Celebrities Jumping
17 Overly Optimistic Book Titles

Weekend Links: Rallying for Dwarf Planets

Roma Panganiban
25 Things We Learned in the First Issue of Nintendo Power
Rare Color Footage of Depression-Era New York
10 Photos of Celebrities Jumping
17 Overly Optimistic Book Titles

Explaining the Magic Yellow First-Down Line

Ethan Trex

If you attend a Super Bowl party on Sunday, you’ll probably hear at least one casual football viewer ask, “How do they get that yellow first-down line on the field?” While “magic” is a fine answer in

25 Things We Learned in the First Issue of Nintendo Power
Rare Color Footage of Depression-Era New York
10 Photos of Celebrities Jumping
17 Overly Optimistic Book Titles

Profiles in Scourges: Pablo Escobar

Erik Sass

In the 1980s, Pablo Escobar's Medellin Cartel was spending $2,500 a month on rubber bands just to hold all their cash.

25 Things We Learned in the First Issue of Nintendo Power
Rare Color Footage of Depression-Era New York
10 Photos of Celebrities Jumping
17 Overly Optimistic Book Titles

What's the Correct Pronunciation of February?

Arika Okrent

In the United States, the most common pronunciation is feb-yoo-air-ee.

25 Things We Learned in the First Issue of Nintendo Power
Rare Color Footage of Depression-Era New York
10 Photos of Celebrities Jumping
17 Overly Optimistic Book Titles

4 Real Life Dinos Used to Make Jurassic World's Hybrid

Mark Mancini
25 Things We Learned in the First Issue of Nintendo Power
Rare Color Footage of Depression-Era New York
10 Photos of Celebrities Jumping
17 Overly Optimistic Book Titles

Fall of the South: Congress Passes Thirteenth Amendment

Erik Sass

For the next few months, we'll be covering the end of the Civil War, exactly 150 years later. This is the first installment of this series.

25 Things We Learned in the First Issue of Nintendo Power
Rare Color Footage of Depression-Era New York
10 Photos of Celebrities Jumping
17 Overly Optimistic Book Titles

Grace Hopper, The Queen of Code

Chris Higgins
25 Things We Learned in the First Issue of Nintendo Power
Rare Color Footage of Depression-Era New York
10 Photos of Celebrities Jumping
17 Overly Optimistic Book Titles

Weekend Links: Cooking—For Men!

Roma Panganiban
25 Things We Learned in the First Issue of Nintendo Power
Rare Color Footage of Depression-Era New York
10 Photos of Celebrities Jumping
17 Overly Optimistic Book Titles

Watch People Fly a Brain-Controlled Helicopter

Alvin Ward

Use your head.

25 Things We Learned in the First Issue of Nintendo Power
Rare Color Footage of Depression-Era New York
10 Photos of Celebrities Jumping
17 Overly Optimistic Book Titles

7 Things You Didn’t Know About Canadian Whisky

Clair McLafferty
25 Things We Learned in the First Issue of Nintendo Power
Rare Color Footage of Depression-Era New York
10 Photos of Celebrities Jumping
17 Overly Optimistic Book Titles

17 Things You Can Watch Instead of the Super Bowl

Stacy Conradt

Even though 111.5 million viewers tuned in to watch the Super Bowl last year, not everyone is interested in the super-hyped spectacle.

25 Things We Learned in the First Issue of Nintendo Power
Rare Color Footage of Depression-Era New York
10 Photos of Celebrities Jumping
17 Overly Optimistic Book Titles

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