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Decorate Your Home With the Work of This Celebrated Wildlife Artist

You might not know the name Charley Harper, but it’s possible that the midcentury artist’s colorful work introduced you to many wonders of the natural world. Now many of his pieces are available as furniture to bring Harper’s flora and fauna into your living room. Harper’s beautiful illustrations of the animal kingdom appeared in a…

This Company is Making an Epi-Pen That Fits in a Wallet

AdrenaCard is meant to help people who are both unfortunate enough to need an epinephrine injection for serious allergic reactions—and human enough that they regularly forget their “epi-pen” when they’re going out. It’s a small epinephrine injector that fits inside a wallet. Most people with serious allergies have had an encounter with epinephrine. When the…

Batman v Superman: Spoiler FAQ of Justice

Given its massive box office, you likely saw Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice this weekend. And whether you loved it or hated it, chances are you had some questions about the portion of the movie you managed to stay awake for. As always, our patented Spoiler FAQ has the answers you seek! What is…

How a Street Artist Secretly Painted an Urban-Scale Mural in Cairo

All over the world street artists have become famous by surreptitiously adding swabs of paint or wheatpaste to city walls. But the most remarkable thing about a new mural in Cairo is not only its size—it covers about 50 buildings—it’s that the artist managed to do it in a place that’s not known for encouraging…

Robot Anesthesiologists Lose Their Jobs Because of Humans

A robot anesthesiologist designed by Johnson & Johnson is going off the market. Only three years after approval, the company has stopped production on the Sedasys machine due to poor sales. The Sedasys machine was designed to provide anesthetic to patients undergoing routine surgeries. The American Society of Anesthesiologists was especially alarmed because anesthesiology is…

How to Make Chocolate from the Fruit to the Candy Bar

Do you know where chocolate comes from? Apparently, not from the checkout line at grocery stores! How to Make Everything shows how to make chocolate from scratch, from the fruit of the cacao tree to the fermentation to the sun drying process to making sugar and cocoa butter to the grinding and tempering and molding…

Vintage Mechanical Calculator Shows Why It’s a Bad Idea To Divide by Zero

Everyone learns in grade school that you can’t divide by zero, but few of us ever learn (or fully understand) why. The stock answer is that it gives you an answer of infinity. The truth is a bit more nuanced than that, and an old mechanical calculator offers the perfect illustration. Try to divide a…

This Anti-Trump Grandma With a Meme Is Our Only Hope

The Republicans have tried everything to stop Trump. But every time they attack Stubs* he only seems to grow stronger. Allow me to humbly suggest that we’ve finally found Trump’s kryptonite: This elderly Wisconsin woman holding up a meme she printed off the internet. Today groups of protesters gathered in places like Janesville, Wisconsin to…

Please Let the ‘Darker and More Grounded’ Tick Show Be a Joke

Hello friends, did you like The Tick? With its surreal parodies of superheroes? Well then do we have a quote from creator Ben Edlund for you! Amazon’s greenlit a new live-action version of The Tick, a reboot if you will. In what we can only hope is a parody of grim and gritty reboots, Edlund…

A CNBC Columnist Asked Readers For Their Passwords. That Was a Mistake.

I like a good strong password just as much as anyone else. But CNBC’s stunty idea for a tool that tested the strength of people’s passwords is one of the stupidest things I’ve seen in days—possibly weeks! A columnist for CNBC’s The Big Crunch tried to make a misguided point about the FBI’s iPhone situation…

Hell Yeah I’d Live Inside a Box in San Francisco for $400 Per Month

Peter Berkowitz is my new favorite guy. The 25-year-old illustrator recently moved to San Francisco and instead of settling for some landlord’s price-gouging, he found some other cool kids who let him build a box in their living room. Peter’s rent is just $400 a month. That sounds good to me! The median rent for…

Here Are the Most Ridiculous Things That Happened on This Week’s Damien

Nearly everything that happens on Damien is utterly ridiculous. But we’ve narrowed it down to the three most WTF-did-that-just-happen moments. Par for the course when you’re dealing with the Antichrist, the type of guy who can inspire spontaneous self-castration among those in his midst. Yeah. That totally went down, in the police station, no less,…

Why You Should Care About The FCC Spectrum Auction

Today, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) begins the laborious process of making our mobile internet even faster and better. The government is buying underused TV airwaves and selling it to mobile carriers for billions of dollars. These radio waves—also known as spectrum—will shape mobile US connectivity as streaming video continues to swallow up bandwidth across…

5 Brilliant Movie Scenes That Revealed So Much in the Tiny Details

It’s the little things that matter. Here’s an in-depth look from CineFix about the little visual cues and tiny details that directors use to influence what we’re watching on the screen. The scenes from movies like Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, Inglourious Basterds, and others show how directors like Ang Lee and Quentin Tarantino shape a…

China’s ‘Historic’ Drop in Coal Use Is Baloney 

Like a smoker who keeps trying to quit but sneaks a drag when he thinks nobody’s looking, China is slowly weaning itself off coal. Last winter, the Chinese government released preliminary statistics showing that its coal consumption had dropped 2.9 percent in 2014. But that number may be obfuscating the truth about China’s coal use—and…

The Unstoppable Aliette de Bodard Smashes the British Science Fiction Awards

Aliette de Bodard just became the first person to win both the fiction categories at the British Science Fiction Awards. She won Best Novel for her book House of Shattered Wings, and also won Best Short Story for her story “Three Cups of Grief, by Starlight.” The Guardian’s writeup of her unprecedented sweep includes a…

The New Electra Woman and Dyna Girl Are Ready to Kick Butt and Sell Out

The new adaptation/reboot/whatever of Sid and Marty Krofft’s extra-cult classic superhero series Electra Woman & Dyna Girl is looking pretty fun, if a bit formulaic: Small-town superheroes come to the big city, get too big for their spandex, break up, only to then make up to save the day. But that doesn’t mean they can’t…

Doug Liman will still direct Channing Tatum in Gambit—but the script needed some rewrites, so instead of beginning production this quarter, the X-Men adaptation won’t start filming until the end of this year. With some unexpected room open in his schedule, Liman’s next project will likely be sniper thriller The Wall, for Amazon Studios.

Hijack Pics or It Didn’t Happen

Why is this man on the right, identified as a 26-year-old British hostage named Ben Innes, posing with Seifedeen Mustafa, the man who hijacked an EgyptAir flight today? Nobody knows yet. But if it weren’t for the fake suicide belt, this looks like it’d be a pretty funny buddy comedy. Mustafa’s “suicide belt” turned out…

Google Wants to Make Landlines Relevant Again with Its New Fiber Phone

If you’re living with high-speed internet in one of Google’s Fiber cities, your landline telephone might yet live to see another day. Today, Google announced Fiber Phone, a cloud-based phone number you can use from any tablet, laptop, or phone—including a landline. It’s like Google Voice on bad steroids. The proposition is fairly straightforward. You…