Watching a Hummingbird in Slow Motion Is Still Pretty Majestic

Slow motion was invented to capture every single thing in slow motion. Explosions, cheetahs, robots, people and of course, hummingbirds. The detail you see in slow motion is always better than real life. What's amazing though is that even when you slow down a hummingbird, those damn birds still seem fast. But…

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You Should Wear a Red Shirt on Your Online Dating Profile

If you want to improve your chance of getting a date on any online dating site, you should wear a red shirt. Slate took a look at various studies comparing the same person wearing different colored clothes and each time, red was the most successful color. Do it. Change your online profile now.

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The Hobbit: An Unexpected Masterclass in Why 48 FPS Fails

Peter Jackson, a terrifically talented film maker and pioneer of new cinema technology, has given the world of cinema a very important, and perhaps unintended, gift with his latest film "The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey," as we wrap the year 2012.

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Now's Your Chance to Get a RED Scarlet Camera for Pretty, Pretty Cheap

The RED Scarlet is one of the more respected cameras in the film industry (especially among independent filmmakers), and because the company had to unbox a few for a super secret project, they have a few "battle tested" cameras to offer up on the cheap.

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Is This the Last Thing the Human Race Will Ever See?

Astronomers at the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) observatory have observed something very surprising for the very first time: a weird tridimensional spiral structure inside of a dying star, one that is just like our very own Sun.

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This Huge Red Dust Devil Is the Weirdest Meteorological Phenomenon I've …

This is what happens when a (gigantic) dust devil forms over reddish orange soil and the light is just right: a red dust devil so vivid and tall that it looks like a cartoon. I wonder if the Tasmanian Devil is inside.

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HP Builds a Supercharged Video Editing Machine Worthy of RED Cameras

RED makes some of the most advanced and powerful video cameras in existence, which also means it needs a damn powerful computer to handle the massive video files. So it teamed up with HP to build the RED Z820 workstation, complete with 16 liquid-cooled CPU cores, custom RED Mag card readers and RED Rocket acceleration…

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Watch Ninjas Flip Out And Kill While Filmed by RED Epic Drone Copter

The internet is becoming ripe with production teams trying to outdo each other with amazing copter-camera rig videos. This one might take the cake. Not only does it feature a RED Epic camera and some skilled piloting, but it features Ninjas going berserk on each other in barren factory apocalypse land. That's just a …

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