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The Onewheel is a self-balancing electric skateboard that will make you feel like you’re gliding on top of the ground. The project is currently seeking funding via kickstarter but has already reached its initial funding goal of $100,000.

[Onewheel on Kickstarter]

Telling you it's a good time to be a comic book fan is like telling you oxygen is a helpful thing to inhale. You know this already. It's just a fact. We've been treated to some of the best, most thoughtful, and most fun comics of all time over the last several years, and that's clearly not going to stop in 2014. Here are a ton of series that you need to be on the lookout for every time you hit the comic store this year.

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Los Angeles-based video artist Zach King has made a name for himself with his "quick cut"-style Vines, even making it to the semi-official Best Vines of 2013 compilation clip. But until recently, his work wasn't compiled into a single video.

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When a man looks at his wife and four (!) children, what he really sees is the black iron prison surrounding him. How does he break out? In the case of Utah dad Ken Sullivan, the answer is the same red planet that has inspired humanity throughout history. Mars!

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In 1994, monster movie maker Roger Corman made a $2 million adaptation of The Fantastic Four, was never released in theaters for obvious reasons. But now the documentary DOOMED! The Untold Story of Roger Corman's The Fantastic Four will show you the lunacy that is this creation, and all the bananas behind-the-scenes goings on. Watch the trailer now.

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Biophysicists theorize that plants tap into the eerie world of quantum entanglement during photosynthesis. But the evidence to date has been purely circumstantial. Now, scientists have discovered a feature of plants that cannot be explained by classical physics alone — but which quantum mechanics answers quite nicely.

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Let's watch some porn. In 4K, "Ultra" HD. Where your eyes can affix to every booty goosebump, every spelunking booger, every little smudge of unmentionable matter at every slope and crack of the human anatomy.

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It’s here, geeks! Enjoy!

Game of Thrones Season 4 premieres April 6 at 9PM!

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The UT system Board of Regents has signed off on a $5 million annual contract for new football coach Charlie Strong.  Under the terms of the contract, Strong will receive an annual raise of $100,000 and could earna  $250,000 bonus for winning a national Championship.  UT will also buy-out Strong contract with Louisville.

According to the UT System:

The University Of Texas System Board Of Regent has authorized The University of Texas at Austin President Bill Powers to conclude negotiations and execute an employment contract for Charles R. Strong as the new head football coach for UT Austin.

The regents’ unanimous vote came during a special telephone conference call meeting Monday morning in Austin.

Although Strong, the former University of Louisville head football coach, accepted the job offer two weeks ago, the terms of the contract must be approved by the Board of Regents. Athletic contracts that exceed $ 250,000 per year must receive Board approval according to Regents’ Rules.

The term sheet approved by Regents is available here.

In what may be the first discovery of its kind, scientists working in Mexico's Laguna Ojo de Liebre discovered the remains of recently deceased conjoined gray whale calves.

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These Radiation Protection posters were produced at Oak Ridge National Laboratory in the late 1940s, where the most of the work was done on the Manhattan Project. Before the Cold War was in full effect, these posters warned of dangers that would come to define a generation.

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It will be very expensive. Could the highway be placed above the city?

That's the question being asked by Chuck Lokey, the owner of Encore Records, a small music & video store on E. 6th St. at I-35.

"Well, I'm sure it'll hurt, because any time there's construction, people avoid the area," Lokey said. "Maybe when it's done, it will help."

Lokey says he's been through construction before, and says people will go away and not go around to a business while construction is going on.

"I'd like to see them move cars out of here, instead of into here. Find a way to move more cars through, is what they want to do," he adds.

The city of Austin has commissioned a study to determine the cost feasibility of the cut & cap proposal, which would effectively create a tunnel for I-35 between Cesar Chavez and MLK.

If you can read this sentence, you are alive, which is one thing Anne Hathaway almost was not on Wednesday. The actress had to be rescued by a surfer after nearly drowning off the coast of Oahu, Hawaii.

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Last week we reported on how dolphins like to get high by ingesting the nerve toxin released by puffer fish — but there was no video. The BBC has now released the footage, and it's just as awesome as we hoped.

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For years, we've marveled at the amazingly creepy design brilliance of H.R. Giger's Giger Bars in Switzerland, along with the now-defunct one in Tokyo. And now, it looks like we might be getting a Giger Bar right here in the United States!

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It's been a long time since the little green monsters of Gremlins have appeared anywhere — too long — so thanks to the Mars company for giving them a chance in their newest Snickers bar commercial, airing in the U.K. and France. And extra credit for using an old-school latex puppet instead of CG!

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Last month, a 19-year-old college student reportedly stabbed his mother before slicing off his own penis while high on a synthetic drug called mephedrone, better known to the kids as "Meow Meow." Police found the teenager with his penis, or what was left of it, dangling out a window, spraying blood everywhere.

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There are worse ways to go, but there are not many: An Oklahoma man died on Tuesday after his stepson allegedly gave him an "atomic wedgie" so severe that the man suffocated inside his own underwear.

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