Casey Chan, Author at Gizmodo

Astronauts made a rare six hour spacewalk on Christmas Eve to fix ISS

For only the second time in NASA history, two astronauts made a spacewalk on Christmas Eve. Astronauts Rick Mastracchio and Michael Hopkins installed a new ammonia pump to fix the cooling loop on the ISS. You can’t beat that Christmas Eve, even if you’re Santa Claus. NASA has their livestream going of the spacewalk and…

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Awesome parents recreate famous movie scenes with their adorable baby

Aww. This is adorable. Lilly and Leon Mackie play dress up with their little kid Orson and turn him into baby versions of Luke Skywalker, baby Batman, baby Macaulay Culkin, baby Castaway and so forth so that they could recreate scenes from famous movies. You’ll see mom, dad and child pose for photos of baby…

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This amazing T-rex illusion is somehow moving its head to follow you

As far as tyrannosaurus rex replicas go, this one seems pretty cheery. Sure, it has sharp teeth and claws but they look playfully toothy. One thing scary about it though: the head and eyes seems to follow you wherever you go. Like the paper T-Rex is watching your every move. What’s scarier? It’s not actually…

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City lights are almost as beautiful as stars in this time lapse

It’s usually one or the other. If you live in a big city, you forgo nature and stars in the sky. And if you live under the starry night sky, you’re out in the boonies far away from civilization. But what if you can have both? In Los Angeles (I know), master time lapse maker…

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Whoa, this YouTube video will hurt you when you watch it

We’ve all heard about the placebo effect but what about the nocebo effect? That’s when you take something completely harmless but begin to think something harmful is happening to your body. This informative video by CGP Grey takes a deeper dive on it and reveals how some studies showed people gaining rashes from harmless injections…

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Let’s laugh at all these old ridiculous inventions we came up with

Visions of the future from the past always serve as an endless source of comedy. Look how dumb we were! Look how silly those people look! Look! Look! It’s completely true. Our imaginations of the future are rooted in the limits of today which typically makes it an awful thought exercise. So in a few…

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X-ray machines reveal the beautiful underworld of art

X-rays are usually the colorless bringer of bad news. Hey look there’s your broken hip. See that crack? That’s where it hurt. But if you look closer, the detail and image quality of x-rays can be pretty damn incredible. A radiation physicist Arie van’t Riet noticed that and has now used the machine to create…

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Super fun holiday Rube Goldberg machine is a Christmas miracle

Happy holidays everyone. Enjoy the time with your family and friends and the days off you might get. Here’s a holiday Rube Goldberg machine from Quirkology, it starts a little slow but then grows bigger and basically becomes a wonderful Christmas (or whatever holiday you celebrate) miracle. Have fun! Stay safe! SPLOID is a new…

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Movies are pretty corny when you only hear their punchline

You might not want to admit it but your favorite action movie is pretty corny. But it’s okay! Because they’re fun and they’re ridiculous and there are explosions and they’re quite wonderful at wasting two hours. But when you only see little bits of the movie? Especially just the punchline? It gets quite embarrassing. Just…

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What words were invented the year you were born?

As far as humans are concerned, the world didn’t exist until, well, they existed. That means anything that happened before you were born is mere fairy tales and make believe conversation. But what about those words that filled those tales and conversations? When did they start existing? When were those words born? Well, the Oxford…

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The map of the world if every country’s population matched its size

Here’s a fun way to look at the world. What if every country’s population actually matched its size? So more populous places like Japan and Vietnam that are cramped in tiny specks of land now get to stretch their feet a bit while uselessly big countries like Canada and Australia get their population booted to…

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The fish you’re eating might not actually be the fish you think

Think you’re eating grouper? Nope, it’s Vietnamese catfish. What about cod? Could be escolar. Can you tell the difference between red snapper and rockfish? Farm-raised salmon and wild? Here’s the thing with fish: once you fillet it and get rid of its characteristics, it can get kind of, sort of hard to tell what from…

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This animation explains history better than history class ever did

Maybe it’s the wonderful accent or maybe it’s the tidy timeline the video uses but I’m definitely more captivated with watching Kurzgesagt’s animation on the history of time and the future of everything than I ever was in history class. And I loved history class. The short is equal parts fascinating and revealing mixed with…

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So this is how Santa Claus delivers all those presents (in a F-16!)

It’s 2013. Of course Santa Claus has traded in his sleigh and reindeers for a fighter jet. That way he can zip around the world in the coolest rig possible. The US Air Force posted this picture of a pilot in a Santa costume for a bit of holiday cheer. Happy Holidays everybody! SPLOID is…

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Can you tell the difference between a digital picture and film?

Film is better! No question, right? Well Shanks FX wants you to take a closer look at pictures and footage taken on film versus images and footage taken with a digital camera. As much of a copout as it is to say, I think the answer is it depends. Shanks FX used a Canon 5d…

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Ants can incredibly flow like liquid or bunch together into a solid

The New York Times has a great little short about ants, specifically their ability to both flow like a liquid and become a solid ball. It’s kind of gross but also pretty awesome in how twisted the duality is. Look at it above. On the left, it’s a thick, syrupy liquid. On the right, it’s…

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Watch a skier zoom through a forest of trees at unreal speeds

If skiing isn’t enough of a thrill for you, why not up the ante and zoom through a whole forest? And if that’s still not enough for you, why not make it even scarier by going at warp freaking speed? That’s what Candide Thovex and Aziz Benkrich did. The GoPro footage from their latest ski…

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I wish all my clothes magically repelled liquid stains like this

Here’s something you will want in your closet: clothes that never stain. Hell, they never even get wet. This Silic T-shirt basically cleans itself with hydrophobic nanotechnology. That means no matter what you spill on it, it’ll never damage the shirt. It’s not exactly new technology but hydrophobic nanotechnology is something that always feels magical.…

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Every iPhone, Ranked

Buying an iPhone is not confusing. You have a 50% shot of getting it right (unlike the 100% success rate you’d had a few months ago). But if you still need help in deciding which iPhone is best, here’s how we would rank them all. 1. iPhone 5S Duh. 2. iPhone 5 UPSET! Why? Aluminum…

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Every Android Phone, Ranked

There are something like one million Android phones for every person on the planet right now (plus or minus one). Most of them suck. Many are great. Here’s the definitive list that tells you which is which. Here are the ground rules. Every Android phone available on the websites of the big four US carriers…

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Astronauts made a rare six hour spacewalk on Christmas Eve to fix ISS

Awesome parents recreate famous movie scenes with their adorable baby

This amazing T-rex illusion is somehow moving its head to follow you

City lights are almost as beautiful as stars in this time lapse

Whoa, this YouTube video will hurt you when you watch it

Let’s laugh at all these old ridiculous inventions we came up with

X-ray machines reveal the beautiful underworld of art

Super fun holiday Rube Goldberg machine is a Christmas miracle

Movies are pretty corny when you only hear their punchline

What words were invented the year you were born?

The map of the world if every country’s population matched its size

The fish you’re eating might not actually be the fish you think

This animation explains history better than history class ever did

So this is how Santa Claus delivers all those presents (in a F-16!)

Can you tell the difference between a digital picture and film?

Ants can incredibly flow like liquid or bunch together into a solid

Watch a skier zoom through a forest of trees at unreal speeds

I wish all my clothes magically repelled liquid stains like this

Every iPhone, Ranked

Every Android Phone, Ranked

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