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Famous Literary Critic Stanley Fish Explains Why You’re Wrong to Care About Spoilers

Stanley Fish is perhaps most famous for chipping away at the idea that texts have real meanings and moral principles matter, with all his deconstruction-y lit-crittery. But now he’s causing a new stir, by claiming that spoilers don’t matter, and people who complain about spoilers aren’t really enjoying texts the right way. At least, that’s…

Movies Charlie Jane Anders

There’s a Ridiculous Traffic Jam of People Trying to Climb Mount Everest

Even though four people died trying to climb Mount Everest last weekend and even if reaching the summit costs more than a Porsche, it’s not stopping people from attempting to scale the highest point on Earth. In fact, there’s so many people trying to climb Mount Everest that it’s causing a human traffic jam. https://gizmodo.com/how-much-does-it-cost-to-climb-mount-everest-more-than-5887413…

Tech News Casey Chan

Everything You Need to Remote Control Your Life

We’re all still pretty shook up at the passing of Eugene J. Polley, the inventor of one of the most important devices in the past 50 years: the wireless TV remote. https://gizmodo.com/eugene-polley-inventor-of-the-first-wireless-tv-remote-5912204 But now is not the time for sorrow. Instead, it’s a time to remember all of the other great remote control devices that…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski

These 100-foot phallic sculptures are not manmade

You can call them whatever you want — hoodoos, fairy chimneys, earth pyramids — but good luck changing people’s focus away from what the rock structures of Turkey’s coyly named “Love Valley” really look like. Your eyes do not deceive you; those are penises. Or, rather, natural geological features that look like penises. These undeniably…

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This Adorable Nanotech Shark Will Swallow Your Puppy Whole

It’s tough being a dog the size of a cat. Not only do you have “toy” in your title, people try to carry you around like a purse—which is just demeaning. On the other hand, as a small dog, only you can fit in this awesome self-cleaning shark bed. The Japanese Nanotechnology Pet Bed from…

Tech News Andrew Tarantola

In 1929, the most important article in the history of zoology was published

This honor goes to the above blurb from Modern Mechanics magazine (click to enlarge), wherein naturalist Harry C. Ostrander foisted blatant pro-Babar propaganda upon an unsuspecting audience. Duplicitous trunked pretender! For more old-school taxonomic comedy, see J.W. Buel’s biological tableaus of humans being disemboweled by fauna of fin and foot. https://gizmodo.com/this-gruesome-1889-biology-book-outlined-the-many-ways-5907479 [Via Modern Mechanix]

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Please Don’t Tweet that You’re Carrying the Olympic Torch While You’re Carrying the Olympic Torch

Not to be outdone by Usher’s SNL misstep last week, Will.I.Am took advantage of his free hand while carrying the Olympic torch to live tweet the moment. https://gizmodo.com/etiquette-dont-text-if-youre-co-hosting-snl-5910183 Granted, Will.I.Am is quite the technophile. He recently revealed to USA Today that he believes, “‘my instrument is the computer. When I make the beat, I write…

Tech News Andrew Tarantola

Meet a Guy Who Started a Startup from His Smartphone

John Eaton, co-founder, member of the Board of Directors, and advisor at SocialChorus, took the company from a straight-up startup to an established digital social marketing business with clients like Fortune 500 brands Pepsi Co., Intel, and Toyota (to name a few). How did he build his brainchild? With a BlackBerry. Most days, John has…

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Woman Who Claimed She Was Surgically Implanted with a Device Disrupts Flight Headed to America

There was a big scare earlier this afternoon when US Airways Flight 787 was re-directed from Charlotte, North Carolina to Bangor, Maine because a passenger was “acting suspiciously”. F-15 fighter jets raced at maximum subsonic speed to intercept the plane and had the pilot force-land in Maine. It was because a woman claimed she was…

Tech News Casey Chan

This 5-minute film was made in 48 hours, and tells a better story than most features

Every year the Sci-Fi London Film Festival issues a challenge to filmmakers. They hand out bags full of props, a movie title, and theme prompts to filmmakers, and then give them 48 hours to produce a 5-minute film. A group of judges choose the winner, who will get backing to make a feature film. This…

Movies Annalee Newitz

Why Airplanes Still Have Ashtrays in the Bathrooms

You can’t smoke on airplanes. For many reasons—both social and safety-related—that’s a great idea, even if it does make some people a little cranky over long flights. So why the hell do they install ashtrays in the toilets? You might think that they’re a hangover, from more liberal days, on planes yet to be replaced—but…

Tech News Jamie Condliffe

This foamy snake demonstrates why blood bubbles under disinfectant

Ever cut yourself, have someone put a dab of hydrogen peroxide on the cut, watch the entire area fizz like something that would turn you into the Joker, and wonder, “How is this good for me?” A simple chemistry demonstration that you can do at home explains it all. Take a look at foam snakes.…

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First Gorgeous Trailer for P.T. Anderson’s Scientology Movie The Master

Joaquin Phoenix is amazingly deranged and sparky in the first trailer for The Master, Paul Thomas Anderson’s troubled-but-fascinating movie that’s at least loosely based on Scientology. You can already see from this brief teaser that Phoenix’s character is going to have impulse control issues as well as a flawed memory. (Although Jeremy Renner still might…

Trailers Charlie Jane Anders

Now you can buy Ronald Reagan’s blood for $15,000

Or at least $15,000 for the time being — who knows how high this auction for the Gipper’s dried hemoglobin will go? Indeed, someone is selling a sample of Ronald Reagan’s blood collected after John Hinckley Jr.’s 1981 assassination attempt. According to the owner of the blood-stained vial, his deceased mother worked at the laboratory…

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There Is No Tree of Life But a Networked Web of Life

RSA Animates takes a look, as only they can do, at our networked world. Manuel Lima, a senior UX designer at Microsoft, discusses the power of networks, how it corresponds to nature and debunks the ‘ol tree of life. It’s a fascinating watch. Visually, the animation is expertly done with marker and white board (like…

Tech News Casey Chan

Hook’s Rufio is getting his own movie. Let’s hope it’s called Bangarang

Bangarang! Remember the angry crop-top wearing leader of the lost boys, from Robin Williams’ slightly creepy take on the Peter Pan fairytale, Hook? Now Rufio is getting a movie prequel of his own, and it’s taking us behind the red and black mohawk. In an interview with Crave actor Dante Basco revealed the plans to…

Movies Meredith Woerner

This Kindle Is Your I-Can’t-Believe-It’s-Not-Paper Deal of the Day

I end pretty much every day the same way, reading a book until I drift off. It’s the perfect cap to any day. I highly recommend it, except for one caveat. Expect to drop your book almost everytime. You’ll lose your page, making it nearly impossible to quickly find out whether or not Leah shot…

Tech News Andrew James

Why I Write “Strong Female Characters”

Greg Rucka has rocked the worlds of comics and novels for years, including memorable Batman writing, plus the Queen and Country series and the Atticus Kodiak books. But he might be best known for being a man who writes a lot of “strong female characters.” People always ask Rucka why he chooses to write so…

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This Incredible Analog Synth Google Doodle Celebrates Pioneer Robert Moog

Google just turned its Doodle in Japan into a fully functioning analog synth attached to an old-fashioned reel-to-reel tape machine. Right now, it’s tomorrow in Japan, and tomorrow is Robert Moog’s birthday. OH MY GOD, this is incredible. There goes my day. Bob Moog (b. May 23, 1934) is more responsible for pioneering the sound…

Tech News Mario Aguilar

The Curious Case of the Upside Down Apple Logo

Joe Moreno spent nine years working at Apple during the Steve Jobs era. Today, he writes about something that bothered Steve Jobs for a long time: the problem of the upside down Apple logo. Sometimes, even the science and studies can be wrong. Not because of an error, but because you didn’t dig deep enough.…

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Famous Literary Critic Stanley Fish Explains Why You’re Wrong to Care About Spoilers

There’s a Ridiculous Traffic Jam of People Trying to Climb Mount Everest

Everything You Need to Remote Control Your Life

These 100-foot phallic sculptures are not manmade

This Adorable Nanotech Shark Will Swallow Your Puppy Whole

In 1929, the most important article in the history of zoology was published

Please Don’t Tweet that You’re Carrying the Olympic Torch While You’re Carrying the Olympic Torch

Meet a Guy Who Started a Startup from His Smartphone

Woman Who Claimed She Was Surgically Implanted with a Device Disrupts Flight Headed to America

This 5-minute film was made in 48 hours, and tells a better story than most features

Why Airplanes Still Have Ashtrays in the Bathrooms

This foamy snake demonstrates why blood bubbles under disinfectant

First Gorgeous Trailer for P.T. Anderson’s Scientology Movie The Master

Now you can buy Ronald Reagan’s blood for $15,000

There Is No Tree of Life But a Networked Web of Life

Hook’s Rufio is getting his own movie. Let’s hope it’s called Bangarang

This Kindle Is Your I-Can’t-Believe-It’s-Not-Paper Deal of the Day

Why I Write “Strong Female Characters”

This Incredible Analog Synth Google Doodle Celebrates Pioneer Robert Moog

The Curious Case of the Upside Down Apple Logo

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