Photos Of Teddy Bears Turned Inside Out Are The Stuff Of Nightmares

Sure, teddy bears are all cute and cuddly when you see them with their fur on the outside, but just like human beings, they look a bit disturbing when flipped inside out. These photographs depict teddy bears with their pelts on the wrong way as they stare out the backs of their eyes. These are…

Disney-Themed Tarot Cards Predict That The Future Will Be Adorable

In our show-and-tell thread today, in which commenters share the frankly pretty impressive side and primary projects they’ve been working on, commenter Suisei-ojii-sama shared this set of tarot cards re-worked to feature classic Disney-movie characters. Check out some of the range of cards that have been put up so far — featuring, among others, Snow…

Game Of Thrones‘ Pycelle Stars In This Film About A Wicked Parlor Game

Julian Glover, who plays Grand Maester Pycelle on Game of Thrones, gets creepy in this short film. At a holiday party in a country manor in Edwardian England, Glover’s character is challenged to amuse the guests with a parlor game, and promises them a terrible piece of black magic. Exit, directed by Daniel Zimbler, is…

The Hellraiser Reboot Will Focus On The Creator Of Pinhead’s Box

Clive Barker is rebooting his classic horror series Hellraiser, and now we finally have an idea what this new series will center around. In a long, wonderful interview with Entertainment Weekly about the Blu-Ray release of Nightbreed, Barker spilled the beans on his idea for a new, new Hellraiser (which Barker is writing himself): “I…

Timeless Portraits Created On Obsolete Floppy Disks And Film

Floppy disks and film negatives get a second life as the canvases for British artist Nick Gentry’s portraits. While his materials may consist of obsolete technology, the results are haunting and often curiously futuristic. Infinite Echoes, 2009 Navigator, 2010 Auto Emotion, 2010 History, 2010 Status, 2010 Time Machine, 2011 Residual Memory, 2011 Lucid heart, 2011…

Grant Morrison Kindle Comics for $1, Shadow of Mordor, and More Deals

We’re ramping up our comics coverage: Kindle Comics by Grant Morrison are Only $1 Each at Amazon Angel & Spike Comics in the Kindle Store ar Deeply Discounted Today Vertigo Comics – Fables Vol. 20: Camelot [paperback] ($13) | Amazon Star Wars: Clone Wars Vol. 1 The Defense of Kamino Trade Paperback (nick & dent)…

Star Wars Rebels Goes Inside The Stormtroopers’ Training Academy

Star Wars Rebels finally feels like it has settled in with this episode, focusing less on Ezra’s adjustments and more on an actual spy job. And when Ezra goes undercover at the Imperial Academy, we learn how the Empire is training its soldiers—and are reminded that Stormtroopers were all kids once. So Ezra is out…

​We Finally Know What That Weird Cloud Is At The Center Of Our Galaxy

For years, astronomers have been fascinated and perplexed by what appears to be a massive cloud of gas and dust hurtling towards the black hole at the center of the galaxy. A team from UCLA now say they’ve finally figured out what it is. The object, when it was first discovered in 2002, appeared to…

You Can Own Your Very Own Life-Size T-Rex Skeleton Replica For $100K

No home is complete without its own life-size replica of a Tyrannosaur skeleton. And now you can have one for the totally reasonable price of $ 100,000. Hammacher Schlemmer is selling a gigantic T-rex skeleton (officially spanning 40 feet from snout to tail). The replica is a mimic of Stan, a T-Rex who was discovered…

Marvel Comics Is Ending Something Or Other

Marvel Comics is ending… something. The newest promo in its relentless series of teases is an empty page bearing the words “Everything Ends” due spring 2015 — prior to summer 2015, when all those other rebooted/revisited series such as Planet Hulk, Armor Wars, etc. are supposed to hit. Some people are speculating this heralds a…

​How One Soviet Submarine Commander Averted World War III

On October 27, 1962, the captain of a Soviet submarine ordered a torpedo with a ten-kiloton nuclear warhead to be launched at a U.S. aircraft carrier. One man’s decision prevented that order from being carried out—and his story is a cautionary tale about what could still happen in today’s world. Image: Arkhipov family album (via…

Here Is What Real Online Civil Disobedience Looks Like

Internet politics aren’t just about trolling and doxxing. In new book The Coming Swarm, internet researcher Molly Sauter takes us into the secret history of civil disobedience online, and reveals a world where people fight for justice, without hashtags or personal glory. These activists do it because they believe in something bigger than themselves. Excerpt…

A Reject Robot Learns To Be Cool in Neill Blomkamp’s Chappie Trailer

This is the trailer for Chappie, an upcoming sci-fi/adventure flick from writer/director Neill Blomkamp (Elysium, District 9) about a childlike robot who’s kidnapped by criminals, must learn how to be cool, and at some point figure out the difference between right and wrong. Just like high school! The movie is out March 6, and it…

Get Pelted Every Day With Particles That Confirm Special Relativity

Go outside and you will be showered, every day, with proof of the theory of special relativity. This proof comes in the form of muons, so you won’t actually see it, but we’ll tell you why the presence of these particles proves Einstein right. The theory of special relativity isn’t controversial anymore. It’s no surprise…

E. O. Wilson’s Radical Plan To Save The Planet

Esteemed evolutionary biologist E. O. Wilson believes the only way we can avoid a catastrophic mass extinction is to set aside half of the planet in permanently protected areas for the 10 million other species who live on Earth. Wilson calls the concept “Half Earth” — and he says its not as outlandish as it…

In This Image, Two Photons Interact. Here’s Why It’s Groundbreaking.

Normally, photons want nothing to do with one another. Light waves just pass through each other like ghosts. But now, for the first time ever, scientists at the University of Vienna have coaxed a strong interaction between two single photons. It’s an achievement that opens up radical new possibilities for a number of quantum technologies.…

The site on which Rosetta’s Philae lander will touch down on in just over a week’s time, has gotten its name — and its an old one. ESA chose the name Agilkia out of more than 8,000 options. It took its name from another historic port: The home of Temple of Isis, Agilkia Island in…

In New Book, Architecture Photography Is More Than Pretty Buildings

When Nicephore Niepce created the first ever photograph of the world in 1826, he chose to point his camera at a building. Architecture has been an iconic subject of photography from the very beginning, and Phaidon’s new book, Shooting Space, surveys how artists new and established are looking at man-made structures. For me, a book…

What Would Seinfeld Be Like In A Post-Apocalyptic World?

While the particular incidents that happened during Seinfeld’s run are specific to its modern setting, the main characters would be petty and selfish in any situation. So what would the plot of a post-apocalyptic episode of Seinfeld look like? That’s the question that googledhowtobehuman posed to the r/AskReddit subreddit, and the replies are, as you…

A Legal Challenge To The Ebola Quarantine Would Probably Fail

On Monday, the state of Maine reached a settlement with a nurse who’s been fighting the quarantine restrictions being placed on medical workers who have had contact with ebola patients. With quarantine all over the news these days, could a legal challenge to the practice actually succeed? Probably not. Image Credit: Adam Gregor/Shutterstock The Power…