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Chris McVeigh, a Canadian illustrator, captured these images of wild chipmunks in hilarious situations with action figures from the Star Wars films

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If you have ever wanted to watch evolution happen right before your eyes, this flash “game” does as good a job as any. The “moon buggy” iterates with every 20 cycles, choosing the versions that can travel the farthest. Put it on a computer that you are not using and let it run for a day or two. Great stuff.

Julian Sanchez of Ars Technica has deciphered a code embedded into the hit TV show Fringe. Bad Robot, the production company that created the Fox TV show, has been integrating puzzles and easter eggs into shows like Lost for years. Fringe, its freshman sci-fi/mystery, which airs Tuesday nights on Fox, presented a particular challenge to viewers. It integrates a series of visual clues before commercial breaks. Sanchez determined that these images represented a simple cipher, building up to a single word per episode tying into the theme of that show.

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Many people know that February is Black History Month. Some people even know that October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month. But, did you know that September is Library Card Sign-Up Month? Neither did I. I’ve compiled a list of “awareness months” that are hilarious and true. Take a look!

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First hinted at TrekMovie.com last June, it appears that it is now official that Paramount is in the works to make a sequel to the upcoming Star Trek movie. Trek’s “supreme court,” composed of Abrams, Burk, Kurtzman, Lindelof, & Orci, is said to be heading up the new deal. Variety broke the news Monday night, see below for the first details on on what would be the twelfth film in the Star Trek franchise. Read on!

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MoreNewMath.com is an awesome website that makes the equation: social commentary + math = hilarious awesomeness.

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Green energy is on a lot of people’s minds theses days, including my own, and that’s why the news about American Superconductor’s new gigantic wind turbines caught my eye. According to the designers, these new mondo wind turbines will crank out an epic 10 megawatts — that’s more than twice the power of some of the biggest turbines in operation today. General Electric, one of the largest manufactures of wind turbines in the world, currently makes turbines ranging from 1.5 MW to 3.6 MW.

American Superconductor said this week that it will work with the Department of Energy’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory and its National Wind Technology Center to look at the economics of building a 10-MW turbine. The Devens, Mass.-based company said it can get a bigger power punch but still keep the size and weight under control by using its high temperature superconductor wire, which it claims is lighter and more efficient than the copper wire traditionally used in wind turbines.