There are a lot of important courses that don't appear in the Hogwarts curriculum: math, science, history of the muggle world. But what about sexual education? What would happen if Professors Snape and McGonagall taught the young wizards and witches about birth control?
This is big news: HBO just announced it will launch a web-only service sometime next year. Meaning, you can get HBO with no cable subscription. Yay!
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Yesterday, a one-sentence aside in a Variety article sent rumors flying that The Jim Henson Company is working on a sequel to 1986's Labyrinth . Now, because life is cruel, it's looking like that may not be the case.
I'm finding it hard to do much else on this afternoon after learning earlier today that one of the greatest films of my childhood will, after 28 years, finally be getting a sequel. I'm talking, of course, about the 1986 movie Labyrinth.
How much ruin can a 6-year-old possibly wreak (assuming Calvin "represents the worst-case scenario in terms of the amount of damage a child can do")? One dedicated soul has read through the comic's entire run to find out.
Dothraki is a tricky language to speak — even the Khaleesi herself screws up her pronunciation. But you can speak it like a bloodrider! The Living Language school has just started offering Dothraki classes, and we have an exclusive video featuring the man who invented this thorny tongue, David Peterson.
Though Alton Brown taught us how to simply make our own delicious peanut butter at home, sometimes you just crave that store bought goop that reminds you of your childhood. Here's how that brown spread is made.
Have you seen the latest 3DS commercial, which is chock full cuteness ? More importantly, it features Bowser Dad. If you haven't, you should. Not only is it good, it is also inspiring awesome fan-art—like the picture above, which was drawn by Rico.
It doesn't come as much of a surprise that Disney has a whole division at its theme parks dedicated to making fairy tale weddings a reality. But what is surprising is the awesome technology those wedding planners have at their disposal, like wonderful projection-mapped cakes that make it look as if the frosting is magically animated.
Ice cream is a dish best served cold, but liberating it from its carton is an exercise in bent spoons and throbbing wrists. Kickstarter's Michael Chou spent years striving for the perfect solution, and here it is: The Midnight Scoop, shaped to engage your most powerful arm muscles in the quest for deliciousness.
The Pokémon Trading Card Game just showed up on Canada's iOS app store. This means that it's likely heading to other territories soon too. The Pokemon Company announced it during the Pokemon World Championships last month. For now it's iPad-only, but it syncs up with the long-running desktop version.
Web/iOS: If you aren't sure how to get between your home and your next travel spot, Rome2rio can help. It'll show you different transportation options, travel times, and price estimates.
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3D scanning and printing has changed the way medicine is practiced and businesses are run, but some of the less life-altering things it does are no less awesome. Take Tom Burtonwood's Folium, a book of printed "pages" that each contain a different piece of art you can actually feel with your hands.
If you somehow missed the Harry Potter boat and wanted to read all the books now, you'd have to flip through 4109 pages spread across 7 books. Or if you just want to catch up with the Harry Potter movies instead, you'd have to sit and stare for 19 hours and 38 minutes for all 8 movies. Or you could just read this comic.
Upgrading to the newest iPhone hardware means shelling out $200-$400 on contract. If you want to upgrade but don't have the cash, here's how to sell your old iPhone to cover the cost of the new one and then some.
Sure, Chrome's New Tab page is useful enough, and forged from the analysis of millions of user experience clicks, but why stick with what Google wants to serve up to you? There are several impressive extensions that can transform your New Tab page and provide some handy extra functionality.
Last year a company called Darkside Scientific wowed us with an electroluminescent paint known as LumiLor that was completely invisible under lights, but glowed with a bright intensity in the dark. And now the company has revealed an even cooler application of LumiLor: Giving a Tesla S \ an animated, glowing paint job.
Just like the early plane and tank concepts of Da Vinci, Iron Man's suit has tons of cogwheels, detailed parts and sidenotes on artist Axel Medellin's drawings.
Walt Disney Animation just posted the first clip from it's upcoming Big Hero 6. Like a lot of marketing for the film, it relies heavily on the adorable robot Baymax. And we're okay with that .
Netflix indecision is the worst , so from time to time you'll ask your friends what they're watching. And then you forget what they told you and you're back at square one. Now Netflix is making your life easier, by letting you recommend a show or movie to a friend directly from Netflix in a Facebook message.
Chrome: DashNotes snips and saves parts of the web in Google Chrome's New Tab page, so you can refer to them later. Plus, it looks pretty, like a little pinboard.
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iOS: For some reason, coins still exist. Most transactions will leave you with an arbitrary number of them either literally or digitally in your account. Acorns puts them to good use by rounding up your transactions and saving the difference.
If you're still learning how to dress a bit better , it can help to have some little "cheat sheets" on hand. This graphic from Slaters shows you what color shoes go with what color suits.
Oculus Rift's virtual reality is so awesome that it'll leave any generation slack-jawed. But it's especially satisfying to see old people get their minds blown. "So this is how far they've come," says one man. You have no idea dude.
If you combined the SkyMall catalog with the Christmas list of some spoiled rich kid you'd end up with Hammacher Schlemmer: an impossible menagerie of everything from shoe polishers, to talking scales, to this amazing set of underwater thrusters that you wear like a pair of Iron Man's pants. If there's a better way to spend $31,000 we haven't seen it.
The people at VR Coaster had a great idea: Create a 3D ride synchronized to a real world rollercoaster, put someone on the seat with an Oculus Rift headset, and let them freak the hell out as they fly through a fantastic landscape full of dragons and lava giants. Apparently, people say it's an amazing experience.
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In a study that even Sum 41 could get behind, scientists at the University of Illinois in Chicago are tripping senior citizens over, and over, and over again—all to save lives.
The deadly magnetic metal spheres known as Buckyballs may be officially banned, but they keep living in the homes and offices of rebels who keep making cool stuff with them. Like this massive cube assembled with 10,000 magnetic spheres—without a doubt the most satisfying video so far this month.
In a little over a decade, ATM skimmers have gone from urban myth to a wildly complex, ever-evolving suite of technologies that has the potential to be the worst nightmare of anyone with a bank account. Here's a look at how quickly skimmers have evolved—and why they're increasingly impossible to spot.
We've already gotten a look at the emotional characters who live in the mind of Riley, the star of Pixar's upcoming film Inside Out. But what about Riley herself? She pops up in the very first footage from the movie.
