Though you may turn up your nose at the very thought of basketball, and would much rather dive into things that piss off Alan Moore, or control a robot made in 2012 with a 1983 computer, the NBA playoffs are in full swing, and wouldn’t you know it, there’s a bunch of science going on.

Though Diablo III only released less than twenty-four hours ago, you can imagine that after waiting twelve years for Blizzard’s next clicktastic, hack-and-slash crawler, fans went hard in the paint. Like with new World of Warcraft level caps, there are always people who try to get to the “end” first, whatever the end is in any scenario. So, it’s probably no surprise that reports are surfacing around the web that multiple groups have already beaten Diablo III, and not very long after the 3 AM EST release time. The most compelling reports state that a single player beat the entire campaign in twelve hours and twenty-nine minutes, and two multiplayer groups, one of which comprised of four players, each have tackled the campaign in seven hours.

If you don’t think the casual gaming market is, unfortunately, the wave of gaming’s future, Rovio has something to say about that. Their suicidal bird franchise, Angry Birds, has now been downloaded over one billion times. To put some perspective on that number, the human population was estimated to finally hit seven billion. Rovio made a little cartoon for everyone saying thanks, which you can view after the break.

We all know the Large Hadron Collider is going to bring about the end of the world some day by opening a portal to a hostile alien dimension, and will probably manage that before it manages to locate the Higgs boson. If you aren’t a huge LHC fan wearing a big LHC foam hand, you probably only know the general gist of the LHC: It accelerators particles and smashes them together. However, if you wanted a better explanation that is more easily digestible than reading walls of text on your favorite wiki, you should check out this explanatory video that is ready and willing to teach. Foam hand optional.

Though Geekosystem editor Max Eddy touched on it in his excellent piece regarding the implications of the Tupac hologram that “performed” at Coachella, you may want a more easily digestible explanation of how the illusion actually worked. Luckily for the Internet or anyone who might want to create freaky holograms of dead celebrities on their own time, Roxanne Palmer created this fairly simple graphic to better explain how the performance took place.

Not too long ago, the Daily Dot wrote an article describing how to spot a spammer on Pinterest. They focused on a user named final-fantas07, and not too long after the article went up, the very same user contacted the Daily Dot and divulged interesting details regarding his operation, including that he makes around $1,000 a day spamming Pinterest, and expects that number to jump to $2,000 to $2,500 soon.

According to Dr. Raymond M. Soneira, creator of Display Mate, who created a fairly in-depth report regarding the new third generation iPad, the battery isn’t actually full when the display says it is, and still charges for up to an hour after the display says the battery is 100% charged.

Particle accelerators look like donuts, so why not use donuts to explain particle accelerators? That was the thinking by Harriet Bailey and Alice Lighton who use donuts, Kit-Kats, Twizzlers, some kind of strudel-like thing, and far less edible ball bearings to explain what a synchrotron does. By the end of the video, you’ll be a little bit smarter. Probably also hungry.

Located in New York, the Geekosystem team has been wondering why this winter doesn’t seem very wintery. It has only snowed once in New York City so far this year, at an oddly early time toward the end of October, compared to this time last year when it literally snowed in 49 states. Right now, it is 45 degrees outside in New York City in the middle of January, with a high of 52. That’s not very cold considering what happened in New Jersey a little over one year ago. Last year around this time, snow cover was at 50% across the country, compared to a measly 19% now. Why is it so not cold this year? Wunderground meteorologist Jeff Masters explains it has to do with an unusual jet stream over the last few months.

Some people would see Martin Lawrence’s dress-up comedy series Big Momma’s House as just another dress-up comedy. Others, however, view the series as the shining triumph of the film industry, because hey, he dresses up as a grandma then does stuff. Regardless of your point of view, you absolutely need the answer to the question “How much sass does Big Momma’s House contain?” For science, you know? Redditor brickhanson and company took one for the team, and watched all three movies while recording how many instances of sass — and what type — occurred. We salute you, brickhanson and company. You guys are modern day heroes.