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Cities Need to Look Beyond Their Borders When Fighting Climate Change

When you’re in a major city, it can be easy to forget about the outside world. But city life is not a hermetic experience—in fact, the environmental footprints of cities can stretch around the world. A new study shows that cities are overlooking a major source of emissions as they craft policies to transition toward…

Climate Change Ari Phillips Nov 8 '17

Just How Fucked Is Snapchat?

Snap is fucked. Following an earnings call on Tuesday, a fifth of the company’s value disappeared in after-hours trading, Mark Zuckerberg is eating its lunch, Snap Spectacles are in the toilet. Yes, things are bad. But are they Vine-levels of bad? Or Twitter-bad? Trick question, Twitter’s very fucked! https://gizmodo.com/it-sounds-like-snap-spectacles-turned-into-a-massive-bo-1819769426 It’s only been eight months since…

Tech News Rhett Jones Nov 8 '17

This Little Box Can Make Even the Junkiest Laptop a Gaming PC

You are probably surrounded by more computers than you know what to do with, whether it’s the phone in your pocket, the old clunker at home, or the sleek little ultraportable you got from work. And while they are more than enough for everyday tasks, when it comes to real graphics prowess, I’m talking about…

Gaming Sam Rutherford Nov 8 '17

Riverdale‘s Jughead Is a Shitty Writer

Riverdale is a delightful mess of a show. Absolutely none of it should work, and yet season one was a confounding combination of high school soap opera theatrics and over-the-top drama, the likes of which we’ve never seen before. And yet, right up there with Archie’s music career, is the bewildering choice to frame the…

Television Katharine Trendacosta Nov 8 '17

Apparently These Sheep Can Recognize Emma Watson and Barack Obama

Sheep seemed to recognize the faces of Barack Obama, Emma Watson, and even Jake Gyllenhaal in a new study. And you thought you were so special, human. Recognizing human faces is a skill you may take for granted—but you’re also a human. Can you tell fish or bird faces apart? Past research has shown that…

Biology Ryan F. Mandelbaum Nov 8 '17

This Week’s Squirrel Girl Comic Has One of the Cleverest Stories About Loki You’ll Ever Read

The Unbeatable Squirrel Girl is a frequently smart and delightful comic, and this week’s issue, a zine-style anthology of stories that actually barely features Squirrel Girl herself, is no exception. But its best short story is all about Loki—and strikes at the duplicitous heart of the character in a really fun way. Unbeatable Squirrel Girl…

Books & Comics James Whitbrook Nov 8 '17

Coral Bleaching Has Ravaged Half of Hawaii’s Reefs

Last week, scientists reported that half of Hawaii’s coral reefs suffered serious bleaching in 2014 and 2015 as part of an ongoing, three-year global bleaching event that researchers are still trying to get a handle on. Hawaii is home to some of the most spectacular reefs in the U.S., which bring in around $800 million…

Earther Brian Kahn Nov 8 '17

Greta Van Susteren Made an App Or Something—Really We Have No Clue What She Is Talking About

Have you been wondering what Greta Van Susteren has been up to since she ended her brief stint as a MSNBC host? Well regardless, she’s been working on a nutty app that appears to be called Sorry. The anchor-turned-developer announced Sorry this morning in a long, bizarre, stream-of-consciousness Facebook post filled with random capitalizations and…

Tech News Jennings Brown Nov 8 '17

Google Is Mapping California’s Air Pollution in Mesmerizing Detail

Residents across the country sometimes see Google Street Cars driving down their blocks. In California, these vehicles are gathering air quality data block by block, which could ultimately help shape local policy to benefit people’s health. Google released video footage Tuesday showing how the Golden State is doing when it comes to nitrogen dioxide, a…

Environmental Justice Yessenia Funes Nov 8 '17

American Horror Story: Cult Finally Revealed Its Villain’s Ridiculous Motivation

It’s been a trying season of American Horror Story, overloaded with smugly on-the-nose commentary about the Trump era, gratuitous re-enactments of cults throughout history, and characters you wish would just die already. Last night’s penultimate episode revealed the sketchy motivation of alt-right fuckboy Kai Anderson (Evan Peters). But at this point, why should we care?…

Television Cheryl Eddy Nov 8 '17

The End Credit Scene of Thor: Ragnarok Could Have Been Something Very, Very Different

By now you probably know that Thor: Ragnarok has two end credit scenes. The first is the big one that ties into the larger Marvel Cinematic Universe. The second, which is much more appropriate to the film, is a funny little aside and director Taika Waititi revealed it was one of just many choices he…

Movies Germain Lussier Nov 8 '17

US Air Force Wants to Put Lasers on Fighter Jets By 2021

The US Air Force’s scientific research wing is giving Lockheed Martin $26.3 million “for the design, development, and production of a high power fiber laser,” which it expects to start testing on a tactical fighter jet in four years. Sounds cool and certainly futuristic, but the jury’s still out on whether these weapons have any…

Tech News George Dvorsky Nov 8 '17

Chadwick Boseman Chose His Black Panther Accent to Make a Point About White Supremacy

The whole point of Wakanda is that it is a truly isolated nation—isolated by its people’s own choosing, turning itself into a technological utopia away from the influence of people beyond its borders. That isolation became crucial to Chadwick Boseman’s portrayal of Black Panther, because he wanted the hero to speak “without colonialism tainting it.”…

Movies James Whitbrook Nov 8 '17

Remarkable New Supernova Discovery Is Unlike Anything Seen Before

Astronomers have spotted something truly baffling: a new light 500 million light years away that looked exactly like a supernova…but acted like no supernova observed before. The new discovery and its spectral lines (the colors of light it sent our way) allowed scientists to classify it as a typical Type IIa supernova, the kind from…

Space & Spaceflight Ryan F. Mandelbaum Nov 8 '17

Gene Therapy Restores Seven-Year-Old Boy’s Skin in ‘Major Biomedical Triumph’

Junctional epidermolysis bullosa is the sort of rare disease you are probably lucky to have never heard of. An often lethal genetic condition, from infancy it plagues its victim with painful blisters all over the body that causes the skin to become extremely fragile. In a major medical breakthrough, on Wednesday Italian researchers announced that…

Health Kristen V. Brown Nov 8 '17

Equifax and Yahoo Complain They Are Helpless Against State-Sponsored Hacks

Former and current Equifax and Yahoo executives appeared on Capitol Hill on Wednesday to testify about the major consumer data breaches that occurred under their watch. An executive at Verizon, which acquired Yahoo this summer, was also called as a witness. The hearing took place this morning before the Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee.…

Privacy & Security Dell Cameron Nov 8 '17

See How a Slimy Sex Alien Was Created For One of This Year’s Sneakiest Scifi Films

Chances are you’ve never heard of The Untamed. It was quietly released this summer and just hit Blu-ray this week. But once you see this behind the scenes clip, we think that’ll change. The Untamed (which we reviewed here and you can see the trailer for here) is about a group of people going through…

Movies Germain Lussier Nov 8 '17

Thor: Ragnarok‘s Valkyrie Shows How Far We’ve Got to Go for LGBTQ Representation on the Big Screen

Thor: Ragnarok is a great movie—but one area where it falters is with Valkyrie. Not because of characterization, because she’s just as great, kickass, and engaging as the rest of the cast. But Ragnarok’s Valkyrie was meant to be bisexual, and the erasure of that identity in the film is profoundly disappointing. A few weeks…

Movies James Whitbrook Nov 8 '17

In the New Early Man Trailer, the Stone Age Strikes Back in the Goofiest Way

It’s only apt that not only does Aardman animation’s latest stop-motion movie look absolutely gorgeous, it seems like it’s going to be a downright hoot, too. Set during the transition period between the Stone Age and the Bronze Age, Early Man follows the adventures of Dug the Caveman (Fantastic Beasts’ Eddie Redmayne) as his tribe…

Trailers James Whitbrook Nov 8 '17

North Atlantic Right Whales Can’t Handle More Years Like 2017, Scientists Warn

North Atlantic right whales had very a rough year, and they can’t take many more years like it. A new study warns that if we don’t enact tougher and more flexible conservation policies in the face of climate change, the species may be doomed. After centuries of commercial whaling, there are only about 500 North…

Conservation Maddie Stone Nov 8 '17

Cities Need to Look Beyond Their Borders When Fighting Climate Change

Just How Fucked Is Snapchat?

This Little Box Can Make Even the Junkiest Laptop a Gaming PC

Riverdale‘s Jughead Is a Shitty Writer

Apparently These Sheep Can Recognize Emma Watson and Barack Obama

This Week’s Squirrel Girl Comic Has One of the Cleverest Stories About Loki You’ll Ever Read

Coral Bleaching Has Ravaged Half of Hawaii’s Reefs

Greta Van Susteren Made an App Or Something—Really We Have No Clue What She Is Talking About

Google Is Mapping California’s Air Pollution in Mesmerizing Detail

American Horror Story: Cult Finally Revealed Its Villain’s Ridiculous Motivation

The End Credit Scene of Thor: Ragnarok Could Have Been Something Very, Very Different

US Air Force Wants to Put Lasers on Fighter Jets By 2021

Chadwick Boseman Chose His Black Panther Accent to Make a Point About White Supremacy

Remarkable New Supernova Discovery Is Unlike Anything Seen Before

Gene Therapy Restores Seven-Year-Old Boy’s Skin in ‘Major Biomedical Triumph’

Equifax and Yahoo Complain They Are Helpless Against State-Sponsored Hacks

See How a Slimy Sex Alien Was Created For One of This Year’s Sneakiest Scifi Films

Thor: Ragnarok‘s Valkyrie Shows How Far We’ve Got to Go for LGBTQ Representation on the Big Screen

In the New Early Man Trailer, the Stone Age Strikes Back in the Goofiest Way

North Atlantic Right Whales Can’t Handle More Years Like 2017, Scientists Warn

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