Final X-Men: Days of Future Past Trailer Looks Absolutely Amazing

We’ve seen the grim future our X-Men must face, now see what happens when they send the Wolverine back in time to save them all. It’s time to get the band back together. Looks good, looks real good. Finger crossed for this one. X-Men: Days of Future Past hits theaters on May 23rd.

This Machine Folds Paper Planes, Then Flies Them Into The Recycling Bin

Humans have been rendered obsolete, at least where the paper airplane is concerned. This machine will fold a plane and launch it, sending it straight into the recycling bin. A team of folks at Neopost, a company that manufactures postage meters and other mailroom equipment, made this industrial airplane folder. Under the right conditions, you…

Salem Trailer Gives American Horror Story A Run For Its Money

Salem sees American Horror Story and raises it one blood-vomiting witch in a harness. This new supernatural historical drama looks really, really ridiculous. The new WGN series knows you like your witches: writhing, screaming and vomiting. And Salem is delivering — this is just a sampling of the weird shit I pulled from this latest…

Was Star Trek Ever Really Intelligent, Grown-Up Science Fiction?

Star Trek fans proclaim their favorite series to have been sophisticated and mature — and, above all, brimming with huge philosophical questions. But was Star Trek ever really that smart? A Trek fan asked over at TrekBBS, and the responses are illuminating. One thing about the exchange at TrekBBS: it may not convince you that…

What If Pixar Made A Marvel Babies Movie?

Inspired by the drawings of cartoonist Skottie Young, Luigi Monaldi imagines Baby Hulk, Baby Wolverine, and Baby Sue Storm, but as they might look in a CG-animated film. That would be one chaotic daycare. The Indestructibles by Luigi Monaldi [CG Society via GeekTyrant]

At Last, Hollywood Finds A Clever New Spin On Superhero Origins

Matthew Vaughn may be done with the X-Men, and Kick-Ass, but that doesn’t mean he’s done with comics movies. In fact, he’s producing the new movie adaptation of Mark Millar’s Superior — a story about a boy with multiple sclerosis who has the chance to become a superhero, if he gives up his soul. Heat…

What TV Shows For Kids Do You Still Want To Watch As An Adult?

Just because a television show is ostensibly for children doesn’t mean that the over-18 set should be forced to miss out. What are your favorite kids’ shows that keep you glued to the screen, regardless of age? In response to this review of an extremely regrettable episode of Avengers Assemble, a discussion began about the…

​What Is Smallvile‘s Clark Kent Doing With A Green Lantern Ring?

Why, he’s the new Green Lantern of Sector 2813, according to Smallville Season 11: Lantern #1! But how can Clark balance his duties as Superman with being a Lantern? Plus a brand-new Ultimate Fantastic Four debuts, Kurt Cobain’s alien obsession and more, in this week’s comics! New Issues Dark Horse: • The Star Wars #7:…

If These Proposed Skyscrapers Are Ever Built, Cities Will Be Insane

The super-skyscraper has been a dream of city planners for over a century. And these plans for mega-structures, if they ever come to fruition, would be some of the most awe-inspiring buildings the world has ever seen. Take a glimpse at the future of architecture in this gallery. The 13,000 ft (4,000 m) high, 800-story…

What Scalzi’s Old Man’s War Sounds Like In Chaucer’s Middle English

We’re used to hearing Geoffrey Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales translated into modern English, but what do modern stories sound like in Middle English? Medieval scholar Michael Livingston translates John Scalzi’s novel Old Man’s War into the language of Chaucer. Livingston took a section of Chapter Nine of Old Man’s War (or Old Mennes Werre by Iohannis…

The Sequel To That Sexy Bathroom Misunderstanding On Star-Crossed

Poor Taylor — she can’t help leading aliens on. She’s just constantly being misunderstood. First she’s trying to seduce Drake, and he thinks she’s a secret Trag agent and “let’s get naked in the bathroom” is code for “let’s unleash Black Cyber.” Now she tries to bond with Sophia, but Sophia thinks “bond” is code…

Everything Wrong With The Matrix (Just Kidding The Matrix Is Perfect)

Yes, this 12-minute video expertly dissects all of the inconsistencies, logical fallacies, and plot conveniences that plague 1999’s The Matrix. But what it fails to take into consideration is that The Matrix is perfect, and no amount of nitpicking will ever change that. Yes there are problem spots if you want to look at Neo’s…

The worst moment in the Transcendence trailer was never filmed. The bit in the Transcendence trailer where Morgan Freeman intones that the “the fate of mankind” is at stake? That was never in the film, says director Wally Pfister. “I’d never write something like that.” The marketing people recorded that line and added it.

A new study suggests it’s all downhill after our mid-twenties. By comparing the performance of 3,305 StarCraft 2 players aged 16 to 44, researchers say we reach the peak of our cognitive motor performance at the age of 24. On the positive side, they say older plays can still find ways to compensate. Image: StarCraft…

The Muppets’ Jesus Christ Superstar Is A Real Album That Someone Made

Here’s a question we never thought to ask: how would Andrew Lloyd Webber’s rock opera about the life of Jesus play with the Muppets? Now we know, thanks to the Muppet Christ Superstar album, with Kermit as Jesus, Gonzo as Judas, Miss Piggy as Mary Magdalene, and a chorus of clucking proto-Christian chickens. Christo Graham…

On Person of Interest Tonight, We’re Diving into the Decima Conspiracy

How is Reese going to get inside the secret plot to boot up the potentially evil Machine known as Samaritan? Find out, in this exclusive clip from tonight’s episode of Person of Interest on CBS. Yep, that’s our Reese. Pretending to be a Secret Service agent, but still managing to make snarky comments about how…

Enjoy this Delicious Web Series from Harvard About Science and Food

It’s not just the flavor of chocolate that appeals to the senses, it’s the texture. But how is that texture achieved? It’s as much a chemistry problem as a kitchen one. In this video, from Harvard’s Food & Science lectures, researchers take a look at the importance of carefully controlling temperatures, the formation of crystalline…

What’s The Absolute Worst Tie-In Video Game Of All Time?

Video games based on movies, TV shows and other media are notoriously terrible, as a rule. There’s just something about a game based on a story from another medium that befuddles game designers. Or maybe it’s the tight deadlines. But what’s the worst tie-in game ever released? Please include a picture, video clip, game cover…

Don’t Expect A Dark Ending To Warehouse 13‘s Saga

We didn’t realize how much we’d missed Warehouse 13 until it came back. And then we remembered: the previous season ended by hinting at some really dark stuff, leaving us expecting a season opener with some sharp edges. Instead, we got a return to the show’s usual warm fuzzy tone. Which is what we should…

These Sweet 3D Fitness Landscapes Show Evolution At Work

Fitness landscapes are an effective way of showing how well organisms are doing at reproducing. Traditionally, however, these models are static snapshots of processes that often take millennia to unfold. Now, computational biologists have created a video that visualizes these adaptive landscapes over time. Evolutionary biologist Sewall Wright came up with the idea of fitness…