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Syrian President Now on Instagram, Because Sure, Why Not
What do you do when you’re a leader who wants to communicate to the world that you’re a hip, in-touch dictator? Get on Instagram, naturally. Syrian president Bashar al-Assad is showing off his...
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The Old Reader Will Stay Open Thanks To Unidentified Benefactor
RSS users who switched from the deceased Google Reader to The Old Reader had reason to be worried. The Old Reader threatened to shut out newer users or close altogether. However, it’s just been...
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ABC Gives Us A New Hope For A Live-Action Star Wars TV Series
Good news, Star Wars fans, the live-action TV series might be back on! Or maybe bad news, since we’ve been both looking forward to and dreading every development since Disney acquired Star Wars from...
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150-Gigapixel Panorama Makes Tokyo – And Your Head – Spin
Take a look at one of the largest digital images ever created, a panoramic view of Tokyo from high atop Tokyo Tower. Photographer Jeffrey Martin, who runs the blog 360Cities, has outdone himself with...
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John Carmack Joins Oculus Rift Maker As CTO
John Carmack, the co-founder of id Software who pioneered 3D graphics and the first-person shooter with Wolfenstein 3D, Doom, and Quake, is moving on to a new level of first-person gaming. It’s just...
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Harrison Ford Will Be In The Expendables 3, But Bruce Willis Won’t Be
If you’re not following Sylvester Stallone’s Twitter then you have a problem, because tweets sound amazing if you read them in Sylvester Stallone’s voice. But more than that, Stallone revealed some...
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Edward Snowden Masks Donned By Brazilian Protesters And Senators
Move over, Guy Fawkes. The new face of resistance to government authority is NSA leaker Edward Snowden, and we have the creepy masks to prove it. In Brazil, activists opposed to the NSA’s spying...
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Internet Response League to Crowdsource Disaster Relief From Online Gamers
Ding! Level up, you’ve just gained 5000 experience points for coordinating disaster relief efforts. That’s the goal of the Internet Response League, a group that hopes to harness the multitude of...
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Scientists Make Electrical Activity In Fruit Flies’ Brain Cells Light Up
We know that electricity drives neural impulses in the brain, forming complex networks of neurons, but it’s still difficult to trace the electrical activity of the nervous system. Scientists at the...
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Here’s How Scientists Track Interplanetary Dust From Meteor Showers
The Perseid meteor shower will peak August 11 and 12, but while you’re wishing on a shooting star, do you ever wonder what happens to the remains of the meteors that are burning up due to intense...
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We’re Anxiously Awaiting Elon Musk’s Hyperloop Announcement
PayPal, Tesla, and SpaceX founder Elon Musk is going to lay out his latest futurist idea today at 1:30 PDT (4:30 Eastern). It’s called the Hyperloop, and it’s a transit system that can go between San...
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Research Suggests No Link Between Cell Phone Use and Car Crashes
A new statistical study of cell phone use has come up with results that surprised the researchers: they found no correlation between a documented rise in cell phone usage and the number of car...
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Luigi Rides The Chicago “L” Train For Nintendo Promotional Event
Mario might have pioneered the platformer game genre, but today his brother Luigi’s on a different platform: he’s riding a special train on Chicago’s Brown Line. Nintendo is promoting New Super Luigi...
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Catch the Leaked X-Men: Days of Future Past Trailer While It’s Still Leaked
A leaked trailer for X-Men: Days of Future Past from the Fantasia International Film Festival is floating around. We found a link that works (for now!) Take a look before it’s taken down by the...
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Faster Than A Speeding Bullet: Elon Musk Reveals the Hyperloop
Well, it’s here. So here’s what’s new with Elon Musk’s Hyperloop scheme for building a high-speed maglev transit system, which he calls “a new mode of transport – a fifth mode after planes, trains,...
View ArticleWatch Thorested Development Work Out Some Asgardian Family Issues [VIDEO]
There’s just one Odinson who can keep the Norse pantheon together. This great mashup, featuring scenes from the trailers for Thor: The Dark World and tropes and gags from Arrested Development, reminds...
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Science Finally Proves That Lumberjacking Is More Manly Than Sports
It seems the popular association between testosterone, the hormone associated with masculinity, and competition, may be overstated. Scientists studying an isolated population in Bolivia found that men...
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Slimy Biofilms Formed In Space Are Tougher, Thicker, And Display New Structures
We’re not alone in space… because of the microorganisms we take with us. In space, bacteria builds up and forms biofilms that pose a threat to health and hygiene for spaceflight, so it’s important we...
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Proposed Internet Error 451 Would Warn Users of Government Censorship
Government censorship of the Internet is becoming more and more common, and in many cases blocked sites are indistinguishable from those that are just not working. That’s why the Open Rights Group is...
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What’s in a Name? The Wizard/Sorcerer Split In Dungeons & Dragons
The latest playtest for the upcoming fifth edition of Dungeons & Dragons, known as D&D Next, made a minor but significant change to the Wizard class: its name. It’s now the Mage. Aside from...
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