The Official, Disney-Approved, Frozen Wedding Dress Is Finally Here

You can never accuse the Disney corporation of missing a merchandising opportunity. Crashing the money trains of both Frozen and the wedding industry, tonight Disney and designer Alfred Angelo unveiled the latest line of princess-inspired wedding dresses. This is just the latest entry in the Disney/Angelo Fairy Tale Weddings Collection. You can see the other…

The Most Ill-Advised Moments From Mannequin 2: On The Move

Mannequin was a cute fantasy about a window designer in a department store, who discovers that one of the mannequins comes to life. Then someone decided to make a sequel, with none of the original cast except Meshach Taylor. What could go wrong? We’ll show you. Above is the scene where the mannequin, Jessie, goes…

The 2014 Nobel Prize for chemistry has been awarded for the development of super-resolution fluorescence microscopy. Also called nanoscopy, the technique allows scientists to visualize pathways of individual molecules inside living cells in real time, including those in the brain. The award goes out to German scientist Eric Betzig and Americans William Moerner and Stefan…

Hey, The All-Female Ghostbusters Reboot May Be The One That Gets Made

Good news! THR reports that Sony has hired a screenwriter for the rumored female reboot of the famous franchise. Don’t get your hopes up quite yet — many a Ghostbuster movie has gotten this far previously — but this is definitely the take we’re most excited about. In even more promising news, the writer hired…

Gorgeous Book Trailer For Cory Doctorow And Jen Wang’s In Real Life

Cory Doctorow’s gamer-girl graphic novel In Real Life, created with artist Jen Wang, comes out next week — but we’ve got the official book trailer right here, right now. Including some amazing artwork, and a glimpse at Doctorow’s shiny fictional MMO. Here’s the official synopsis for In Real Life: Anda loves Coarsegold Online, the massively-multiplayer…

Sexting May Be A ‘Normal’ Part Of Adolescent Sexual Development

The first study to examine the link between sexting and sexual activity over time has found no relationship between sexting and an increased likelihood of risky sexual behavior in adolescents. The researchers behind the study offer that sexting may constitute a “normal” part of sexual development. In the past, the link between sexting and risky…

Crowdfund These Games: Kaiju, Castles, Glorantha, Southlands and More

There are so many excellent tabletop gaming crowdfunding projects going on right now it’s hard to keep track. Check out these creator interviews, previews, and highlights from our favorites. 13th Age in Glorantha The award-winning 13th Age RPG is being adapted to the classic Glorantha RPG setting, a campaign world that dates back to the…

When Bears Fought Beside Mechs to Defend Warsaw

They always say that the mechs helped defeat the National Libertarian Army back in the 2120s, but that’s because they don’t remember the bears. The ursine forces were what finally drove those bastards out of Poland, with claw marks on their faces. Hamburg concept artist and illustrator Jakub Rozalski says that this image is his…

Holy Serpent Gods, This Is An Egyptian Coffin Made For A Snake

Ancient Egyptians didn’t prepare only human bodies for the afterlife; cats, baboons, crocodiles, canines, and birds have all been found mummified. But there’s something particularly delightful about this long and skinny coffin for snake. This coffin is part of the Brooklyn Museum’s collection and it’s dated 664-30 BCE, sometime during the Late Period to the…

Meet the New Underclass: People With Ph.D.s in Science

Once upon a time, newly-minted science Ph.D.s would get research jobs at a senior scientist’s laboratory, to train and hone the ideas they would explore at their own labs. But now the supply of post-doctoral students is outpacing demand, creating a new, hyper-educated underclass. Cartoon by Hal Mayforth As the Boston Globe reports: In the…

We’ve Spotted A Fatal Flaw In Hydra’s Secret Quest For World Domination

Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D’s primary foe, Hydra, may have gotten a lot scarier on this week’s episode, but we’ve got one pretty good reason to doubt whether their secret schemes will pan out. And, no, it’s not just because good always triumphs over evil in the end. For those who haven’t yet spotted the flaw themselves,…

Hand-Colored Photos Turn Early 20th Century Japan Into A Dream World

Nobukuni Enami, also known as T. Enami, was a photographer and studio owner in Yokohama from 1892 until his death in 1929. He made thousands of stereoviews, lantern-slides and postcards in his lifetime, which are essential in the pictorial history of the Meiji and Taishō eras. The resort village of Hakone on Lake Ashi Morning…

On Person of Interest, the Machine Gets Its Groove Back

I never thought I would be so glad to see a user interface as I was when I saw the Machine’s familiar dashed boxes around everybody’s heads on last night’s Person of Interest. Things are getting back to normal, despite Samaritan, and we even got to see Fusco and Finch playing against type for once.…

Which Tragically Flawed Hero Shouldn’t Have Believed Their Own Hype?

The greatest heroes (and villains) are fearless, and never stop believing in themselves. But that kind of self-confidence can also be your downfall. Which legendary hero (or epic villain) really shouldn’t have taken his or her own legend quite so seriously? Please include a picture, poster, clip, comics panel, book cover or other visual aid…

I don’t want Spider-Man in the MCU just yet

There were rumours abound yesterday with talk that Sony were potentially considering ‘loaning out’ Spider-Man to Marvel for appearances in their films. Not only does the rumour require a hefty dose of salt, it got me thinking – I don’t really want to see Spidey show up in the Marvel Cinematic Universe any time soon.…

Read Carl Sagan’s Compelling Pitch For An American TV Show About Drugs

The release of previously unpublished correspondence reveals that, in 1990, Carl Sagan sent a letter to the president of the Drug Policy Foundation with an idea for what, even today, sounds like an amazing television program about drug issues in America. It is now widely recognizedthat Sagan, while he was alive, not only smoked marijuana,…

Super Typhoon Vongfong Has Erupted Into The Biggest Storm Of 2014

Over the course of 24 hours, Typhoon Vongfong rapidly strengthened from a Category 3 to Category 5. With sustained winds approaching 170 mph (272 km/h), the storm is heading straight towards Japan — a country still reeling from Typhoon Phanfone. GIF: NOAA Vongfong is the strongest tropical cyclone of the year, and the strongest since…

You Be The Judge: Which Supernatural Karaoke Performance Is The Best?

Last night’s Supernatural 10th season premiere proved the show can still give us something new. Behold Dean Winchester’s incredible karaoke performance. And below, we’ve got his other turn at the mic, so you can decide: Which is the best “Musical Dean” moment? Spoilers ahead… Here’s the other one, which is more downbeat: The thing that…

How to Make Mathematically Precise Pancakes

So this is fun. For the past few months, “illustrator, math teacher, and professional dad” Nathan Shields has been perfecting the design on a pan-mounted apparatus that lets his family make spirographic pancakes (aka “spirocakes”). Shields has been documenting his incremental progress through photos and YouTube videos. Above and below are two recent updates. Via…

Haunting Cave Paintings in Indonesia Are the Oldest in the World

This stencil of a graceful, outstretched hand was discovered in a cave on an Indonesian island. And now we know that it’s more than 39,900 years old. That makes it the oldest painting in the world, at least so far, and shows that humans in Asia developed symbolic expression at the same time as humans…