You've probably read about the average Joe or Jane dressing up in a superhero costume and spreading vigilante justice in their city -- sometimes sane and other times not so much. The film Kick-Ass was an example of this -- pitting a high school student against a drug lord. There's another brand of superhuman, too. These people don't need to wear a cape or a mask to channel their powers, however. Instead, they're like medical anomalies -- human beings with strange abilities that seem to defy science itself. Check out a few of these incredible superhumans, who appear as though they've been ripped from the pages of a comic book, below. The Incredible Brain Daniel Tammet can learn new languages in one week and calculate crazy math stats like nobody's...
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- 8/1/2011
- by Movies.com
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You've probably read about the average Joe or Jane dressing up in a superhero costume and spreading vigilante justice in their city -- sometimes sane and other times not so much. The film Kick-Ass was an example of this -- pitting a high school student against a drug lord. There's another brand of superhuman, too. These people don't need to wear a cape or a mask to channel their powers, however. Instead, they're like medical anomalies -- human beings with strange abilities that seem to defy science itself. Check out a few of these incredible superhumans, who appear as though they've been ripped from the pages of a comic book, below. The Incredible Brain Daniel Tammet can learn new languages in one week and calculate crazy math stats like nobody's...
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- 8/1/2011
- by Movies.com
- Movies.com
Every year, the world's greatest minds convene at the Ted conference to show off their best ideas. From robot cars to an organ-printing machine, Brian Ries recaps the most awe-inspiring displays.
Robot Cars!
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Surely everyone imagines, from time to time, that some day we'll have cars that easily drive themselves. Attendees of this weeks' Ted, however, have already peered into the future-and they saw Google. The search giant unveiled a car that needs no human to steer the wheel. Below, watch video of a Google-driven car "hauling ass," per the spectators in the video, as it near-recklessly zips around a roof in sunny California. Select attendees of the conference were given a rare demo of the robotic Prius, and the following video was published on industry blog Search Engine Land. Google's Sebastian Thrun introduced the project in a...
Robot Cars!
Related story on The Daily Beast: The Title IX Complaint Against Yale
Surely everyone imagines, from time to time, that some day we'll have cars that easily drive themselves. Attendees of this weeks' Ted, however, have already peered into the future-and they saw Google. The search giant unveiled a car that needs no human to steer the wheel. Below, watch video of a Google-driven car "hauling ass," per the spectators in the video, as it near-recklessly zips around a roof in sunny California. Select attendees of the conference were given a rare demo of the robotic Prius, and the following video was published on industry blog Search Engine Land. Google's Sebastian Thrun introduced the project in a...
- 3/5/2011
- by Brian Ries
- The Daily Beast
This week: Gay with Asperger's and guys who are curious about being bi-curious. Plus, he broke up with me, a day later I fooled around with someone else, and suddenly I'm the bad guy?!
A Note From the Author: Lots of advice columns claim to have “the answers” about life, but this one really does! How can I be so sure? Because these aren’t merely my opinions: they’re the actual wisdom of the universe, which I discern, like the mystics of old, by peering into a heaping pile of pigeon guts. But not to worry: these pigeon guts are gay, gay, gay.
Need gay-related advice about life? Contact me here (and be sure and include your city and state and/or country!)
Dear Pigeon Guts: Is Dan Savage right with his 'It Gets Better" campaign? Does it really get better? My initial reaction is to say, "Sure. Even when things get bad,...
A Note From the Author: Lots of advice columns claim to have “the answers” about life, but this one really does! How can I be so sure? Because these aren’t merely my opinions: they’re the actual wisdom of the universe, which I discern, like the mystics of old, by peering into a heaping pile of pigeon guts. But not to worry: these pigeon guts are gay, gay, gay.
Need gay-related advice about life? Contact me here (and be sure and include your city and state and/or country!)
Dear Pigeon Guts: Is Dan Savage right with his 'It Gets Better" campaign? Does it really get better? My initial reaction is to say, "Sure. Even when things get bad,...
- 10/21/2010
- by Brent Hartinger
- The Backlot
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