Parts of Chile Moved More Than a Meter in the Illapel Earthquake

The Illapel earthquake that hit Chile in September shifted the ground by up to 1.4 meters. That’s awfully far to move the not-so-steady rock below our feet. Read more…

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Parts of Chile Moved More Than a Meter in the Illapel Earthquake

Article from 1975: The World Will Be Out of Oil by 2015

The idea of peak oil has haunted us for decades . I say haunt because the concept that sooner or later we’d run out of the stuff has contributed to some terrible public policy in the United States. Read more…

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Article from 1975: The World Will Be Out of Oil by 2015

The Most Popular Paid App in the App Store Is Gone

Marco Arment, internet pundit and creator of Instapaper, has decided to stop selling his wildly-popular ad blocker, Peace, for iOS 9. His reason? It “just doesn’t feel good.” But there’s more to it than that. Read more…

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The Most Popular Paid App in the App Store Is Gone

Guild Wars 2 Is Free To Play Starting Today

Since its release in August of 2012 playing the subscription-free PC MMORPG Guild Wars 2 has been a simple matter of purchasing the initial game. Starting today you don’t even have to do that. Read more…

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Guild Wars 2 Is Free To Play Starting Today

U.S. Builds First Giant Robo-Suit, Immediately Challenges Japan To Fight

Finally, after millennia of bullshit agriculture and metallurgy and revolutions industrial, political, cultural, whatever, shit’s finally getting good. That’s because there are now two giant, functional, manned robotic mecha-Gundam-Pacific Rim-giant-robot-whatever suits, and it looks like they’re gonna fight. Who will win? Everyone. Read more…

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U.S. Builds First Giant Robo-Suit, Immediately Challenges Japan To Fight