If you?ve seen The Hunger Games, you?re familiar with the three fingered salute from District 12. The gesture appeared in the story by Suzanne Collins in the first book and film after Katniss Everdeen volunteers as tribute for the Hunger Games. Katniss explains the meaning of the sign in the book:
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This animation shows the June 4th coronal mass ejection. NASA Space Weather Research Center

Planet Earth is taking a hit today from back-to-back solar eruptions. No need to brace for impact: At worst this combined eruption will mess up radio and GPS signals for a few hours on the planet?s sunny s…

When it comes to 2015, no one can deny it?s going to be the year of franchise cinema. Avengers, Fantastic Four, James Bond, Terminator, Star Wars, Taken, Fifty Shades of Grey, Fast & Furious?

Elon Musk. Photo: Ariel Zambelich/WIRED

Much like Tony Stark, Elon Musk likes to do the impossible. Electric cars, spaceships and now ? patents?
Tesla CEO Elon Musk announced today that his company will not ?initiate patent lawsuits against anyone who, in good faith, wants to use our technology.?…

A resting banshee, from Thomas Crofton Croker?s Fairy Legends and Traditions of the South of Ireland (1834). Flying around people?s houses and screaming at all hours of the night, it turns out, is hard work. And that castle over there has a ridiculous perimeter to cover. Source

In Monty Python?s T…