This Crazy, Reckless Stunt Will Make You Absolutely Nauseous

Russian daredevil and photographer Kirill Oreshkin is known for taking selfies from some of the most extreme locations. But this latest stunt — in which he hangs from a high-rise building by just his fingertips — is beyond words. Here’s the video by Vocativ (the insanity starts at 1:45): You can check out his gallery…

10 Terrible Trailers for Great Movies

Sometimes trailers can be a tad misleading. We’ve all seen trailers that got us all pumped up for films that turned out to be kind of weak. But the opposite happens too: Sometimes a great movie has a horrible, no-good trailer. Here are 10 amazing movies whose trailers made them look dreadful. https://gizmodo.com/whats-the-worst-movie-with-the-best-trailer-1511929755 Top image:…

What Do You See In This Quantum Mechanics Class’ Chalkboard?

According to artist Alejandro Guijarro and his Momentum project, what you end up doing is just seeing a graphic of line and color. But some people are definitely going to use what knowledge they have to try to figure out the subject of the lecture that day. Guijarro spent three years going into classrooms right…

The New Big Bang Evidence Explained With Just A Towel!

After reading about the ground-breaking new evidence for the Big Bang this week you may have been left with a question: Just what are gravitational waves anyway? This video, using just a towel, an apple, and a ping pong ball, explains. https://gizmodo.com/have-physicists-detected-gravitational-waves-yes-1545591865 The video from The New Scientist uses a towel to represent space-time and,…

Latest Game Of Thrones Trailer Reveals New Plots And New Problems

The fourth trailer for season 4 of Game of Thrones is jam-packed with new footage (including a breath-takingly awesome shot of Daenerys and Drogon) but it’s the new stories the trailer presents that are most intriguing. Since this is the point where showrunners Dan Benioff and D.B. Weirs have to generate new story material to…

New Evidence Emerges In Support Of Double Asteroid Impact Theory

Nearly 15% of all asteroids travel in pairs, yet very few impact craters on Earth have been identified as “doublets” — dual craters arising from sudden back-to-back impacts. But a new analysis has identified a potential candidate in Sweden, the product of a binary pair striking the Earth some 458 million years ago. Top image:…

Ivan Reitman Will Not Be Directing Ghostbusters 3

Shortly after the passing of the great Harlold Ramis, it became apparent that Hollywood hadn’t given up the ghost on Ghostbusters 3. The silver lining on this news was always the attachment of the Ghostbusters’ original director Ivan Reitman, but now he’s abandoning the long-awaited sequel. https://gizmodo.com/r-i-p-harold-ramis-the-man-who-gave-us-ghostbusters-a-1529839951 In a long and rumor smashing interview with…

Daylight Savings Time Makes You Happier, At Least On Facebook

Facebook has taken a look at their post Daylight Savings Time data and found, unsurprisingly, that losing an hour of sleep made people sleepier. There was, however, one surprise: losing that hour may make us tired, but it also seems to make us feel happier. On the Monday following the switch over to DST, people…

​Who Would Be The Worst Green Lantern In The Universe?

Greetings, all! You know I’m writing to you guys from the future, right? I don’t know how it works, since I’m a fake mailman and not a quantum physicist. Doesn’t matter. What matters is could one of you maybe bury a big box of booze, guns, and porn by the oak tree three miles north…

Woman Develops Remarkable Ability To Draw After Suffering Brain Injury

Two years ago, Pip Taylor suffered serious bruising to her brain after tripping and cracking her head on a flight of stairs — an injury that now appears to have endowed her with an incredible ability to draw. Pip Taylor, a 49-year old woman from England’s Liverpool, claims she used to be “terrible” at drawing…

First Trailer For The Giver Is Absolutely Filled With Famous People

Jeff Bridges, Meryl Streep, Katie Holmes, Alexander Skarsgård and yes, even Taylor Swift are all in the Hollywood adaptation of The Giver, which gives junior high school kids one less book they will actually have to read for school. It’s pretty jarring to see all these famous faces in this exceptionally familiar work. That being…

The Final Amazing Spider-Man 2 Trailer Brings On The Bad Guys

Not all of the footage in this final Amazing Spider-Man 2 trailer is new, but the new footage is pretty great: more Rhino, more Electro, and most importantly, way more Green Goblin and his throwdown with Spidey. So I’m guessing the Rhino is the opening fight, Spider-Man tussles with Electro for the bulk of the…

Which Jurassic Park Character Will Definitely Be In Jurassic World?

We now know how long the gap is between Return of the Jedi and Episode VII. How can you affect the direction of Captain America 3? George R.R. Martin offers solutions to the problem of Game of Thrones catching up to his books. Watch a new Godzilla trailer, and take a look Gotham’s Oswald Cobblepot.…

The oldest known incidence of cancer in a human has been found in a 3,000-year-old skeleton. Analysis of the remains, which were found in a tomb in what used to be ancient Nubia, revealed metastatic carcinoma — a form of cancer that spreads to other parts of the body. The discovery shows that the disease…

Could This Be The Silliest “Earthman Hits On Alien Babe” Scene Ever?

Or at least, it’s a strong contender. William Shatner would be embarassed by this amateurish seduction of an alien. In this clip, you’ll see: 1) An alien in a jumpsuit with pom-poms sewn onto her breasts. 2) The alien randomly stripping behind a screen for no reason. 3) Perry Rhodan clumsily putting his moves on…

All The Avengers 2 Awesomeness From Tonight’s Marvel Special (Updated)

Care to see what Marvel has in store for Avengers 2: Age of Ultron? You know, besides this awesome concept art of Hulk fighting Iron Man in his Hulkbuster armor? Plus Ant-Man, Guardians of the Galaxy, and the first 11 minutes of Captain America: The Winter Soldier! There really wasn’t much new in Marvel’s Assembling…

Cross-Stitched Microbes Let You Hang Your Favorite Germs on the Wall

If you admire the spiral of syphilis or the spidery shape of the T-4 bacteriophage, then these cross-stitched microbes are looking for a spot on your living room wall. Alicia Watkins has dozens of embroidered germs—from gangrene to gonorrhea—for sale at her Etsy shop so that you can proudly display your favorite viruses and bacteria.…

If you gave up on Tomorrow People, now’s the time to try it again

The Tomorrow People got off to a somewhat rocky start — but the past few episodes have been ridiculously fun. And last night’s episode, in which we learn that Russell inspired a whole slew of superheroes, would make a great jumping-back-on point for people who’ve given up on the show. Seriously, this show is finally…

Pluto Rises Over the Mountains of Charon

Justinas Vitkus imagines the landscape of Pluto’s moon Charon, with the dwarf planet looming in the sky. We’ll see how it compares to the real thing when NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft reaches Pluto next summer. Charon [JustV23 on deviantART]

​The All-New Ghost Rider Has A Need For Speed And A Need For Vengeance

There’s a new spirit of vengeance in the Marvel universe, and he has a sweet new ride. Plus Buffy Season 10, the end of Animal Man, the next chapter of Saga, and more! New Issues Dark Horse: • Buffy the Vampire Slayer Season 10 #1: Buffy gets back to basics: slaying vampires. • The Witcher…