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Doctors dream of helping the paralzyed walk through implants that stimulate their spinal cords, but current technology makes that impossible; these stiff, unnatural gadgets usually end up damaging or inflaming nervous tissue over time. Swiss research...

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Today, I was in the car with my 4-year-old sister and our puppy. Suddenly, she blurted out from the backseat, "I don't love you anymore." Shocked, I asked her to repeat herself. She looked me straight in the eye and said, "The puppy doesn't love you either." FML

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A study surveying the social media habits of 800 men confirmed with science what we've always known in our hearts—if you constantly take a bunch of selfies and post them online, you might have some mild psychological issues.

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If you've finally got a group together for a game night—or if it's family game time—and you have no idea what to play, this chart can help.

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Can I get some credible sources?

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Theology nerd side of Tumblr, reporting for duty!

There are roughly five and a half fucktillion extracanonical gospels out there. For the first couple centuries after Jesus bit it, his followers wrote a ridiculous amount of fanfic. There were a gajillion different headcanons floating around about exactly who and what he even was (God pretending to be human? human who got possessed by God at his baptism? human who got promoted to demigod after his death? simultaneously God and human all along??) and lots of early Christian communities ~conveniently~ discovered a Totally 100% Authentic Eyewitness Account that supported their pet theory (and also, proved that their fave disciple was clearly the best).

Big Name Fans argued about all the major disagreements, periodically throwing conventions specifically to bicker until they reached some sort of consensus (more or less – sometimes the hold-outs ended up saying “screw you guys, we’re gonna go form our own church!”) Toward the end of the second century, a guy named Irenaeus wrote a meta arguing that there were four fics worth reading – no more, no less – and they were ones that folks somewhere along the line started to claim were written by Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John. This idea caught on as a popular bit of fanon, and over the next couple of centuries it gained so much support that it was declared canon.

So, what’s the point of this Jesus fandom history lesson? Basically, that the discovery of yet another extracanonical text isn’t particularly earth-shattering. Headlines like “Ancient Bible changes everything! Pope freaking out!” are bullshit, but that’s how it’s always framed cause more accurate headlines like “Old manuscript discovered – Historians say ‘Ooh, nifty!’” aren’t very good click-bait.

The actual history and politics of the various gospel texts are really fascinating though (if you’re a huge fucking nerd, like me). In the Gospel of Judas, he’s the only disciple who really understands Jesus, who told Judas to “betray” him. Also, God’s a Glow Cloud. The Infancy Gospel of Thomas has kid!Jesus smite other kids for being little shits. The Gospel of Peter is hella anti-Jewish, but has one cool bit with a character that’s literally a walking, talking cross. There’s a whole book called “Q” which has never even been found, but scholars are pretty sure exists cause Matthew and Luke copied a lot from it.

Seriously, leaning about this stuff made me go “woah, this is freaking awesome – why the hell did my parents’ church make the Bible seem so damn boring??” Well, probably cause all those white upper middle class folks didn’t want us kiddies to dig too deep and find out what a radical, anti-establishment bamf Jesus really was, but that’s another rant for another time…

Reblogging because this is what I live for. As a medieval history major, I got taught first and foremost that we’d be spending four years reading lies and biased half-truths and mythologies. Our job was to find the places they agreed and work the rest out from there. “Do the edge pieces first, Maggie.” I took an entire seminar on forgeries, because so many of the sources historians use to piece together the past are known fakes, but the best they can do is read between the lines or have no lines at all. There’s a reason why medieval historians read farm reports featuring travel descriptions and saints’ lives involving demons-living-in-buckets with the same attention to detail. Every dry history text you’ve read in your life comes from a pile of sources like this, bits of maybe-truth cobbled together with toothpaste and narwhal horn dust.

The moral of the story is be curious, and look for the lies in truth and the truth in lies. It’s pretty great: hello, history, riddle me this.

There’s the kind of food experimentation that is based on aligning subtle flavor profiles and combining textures in complementary ways, and then there’s the “I wonder what X would taste like with a whole bunch of expensive stuff on top of it” experience. The latter is often just so much more fun than the former.

Such is the case for the dude at DudeFoods, Nick (he of the McEverything), who found himself with a cool $250 in gift card money to spend at William Sonoma, and no desire to buy any “overpriced” kitchen tools, “even with a gift card.”

Instead, his eye caught truffles for sale, and he joked with a friend about getting an ounce of white Italian truffles for $200 and just blow them all on one dish.

Going with the tack of combining luxury with economy, Nick and his pal decided to pair the truffles with a White Castle slider. From there, he says the idea to make the most expensive White Castle slider ever assembled “sort of just spiraled out of control from there” with the addition of “every other insanely expensive food I could think off.”

He included two pricy Wisconsin cheddars, “white Italian truffles, a couple ounces of prosciutto and then a slice of some duck foie gras and port wine pate bullshit thing that I picked up at a market near my work. Finishing off the slider was an ounce of Russian caviar and a fried quail egg. Oh, and I also sprinkled 24K gold flakes all over the entire thing just so it looked extra fancy. The only hipster food item that this thing was missing was morel mushrooms.”

The entire cost of the slider came out to exactly $400.

So what does all that money buy you? A mouthful of disgusting and the ruination of a perfectly good slider, Nick says, acknowledging that the included ingredients aren’t really meant to go together.

“In fact, the only thing that really made it any better were the two Wisconsin cheeses that I added to it,” he said, stating the obvious importance of cheese in all things. “Everything else just took away from the deliciousness that is the White Castle slider.”

When all is said and done, the thing was a “gigantic waste of money,” Nick admits, though it’s clear he enjoyed the effort overall.

“In retrospect though I probably should have just spent the $400 on 20 Crave Cases from White Castle, or in other words, 600 sliders,” he admits. “With how much I love White Castle that many sliders could have fed me for at least four or five days!”

Six hundred sliders in five days? Sounds like a challenge.

Razer loves to steal the show. Every CES, there's some crazy new project from the gaming hardware company. Apparently their longtime rival Mad Catz was having enough of that, because they pulled out all the freaking stops this year.

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Amidst the onslaught of bad news about antibiotic resistance, here is something good: Scientists have found a new class of antibiotics in soil bacteria, one whose mechanism could make it particularly resistant to resistance. More significant than this single new antibiotic, though, is how scientists found it.

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Time is not out there – "now" is a strange trick of the mind. The good news is that with training you can live in the moment for longer (full text available to subscribers)

The EdgeGamers Organization presents Arena: Respawn, a ladder-style tournament open to all TF2 players taking place January 23rd-25th, 2015!

Arena: Respawn is a modification of TF2's Arena gamemode developed as an alternative to sixes. The goal is to eliminate the enemy team as quickly as possible. There are no respawn timers, but players can capture the central control point to respawn the dead members of their teams.

It's time for a showdown! Think you have the skills to match up against some of the best in Arena Respawn? Form a five-man team and join the fray!

LOS ANGELES — In terms of pure revenue, The Interview is, without a doubt, one of the most successful video-on-demand releases in history. But don't let the raw numbers dazzle you.

Sony Pictures Entertainment on Tuesday updated its online sales figures for the cursed comedy, saying it's now up to $31 million-plus in revenues with more than 4.3 million downloads through Jan. 4. Add that to $5 million in theatrical revenue, and you're looking at something north of $36 million total so far.

Let's take a look at what that means:

The Interview made $15 million in its first four days on just a handful of platforms, then took an additional week to double that up, despite expanding to cable VOD and other services, which were unwilling to carry it at first for fear of becoming hacking victims. Read more...

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The George Foreman Grill is a great tool when it comes to low-effort cooking , but it can be a pain to clean. A little parchment paper can solve that problem.

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