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9 Reasons to Be Excited About Pop Culture in 2016

War. Racism. Global warming. Donald Trump. There are so many reasons to fear the future, but there are also a few reasons to continue getting out of bed in the morning for the next 12 months— they all just happen to be pop culture events. We’ve been discussing 2016’s best movies, TV shows and more…

Movies Rob Bricken

Columbia Just Digitized a Bestselling Anatomy Flipbook From the 1610s

People in the past were as interested in how the world worked as we are. Authors and illustrated produced works to cater to that interest—including an incredibly bizarre “flap book” that shows what human insides look like. Now you can look at the whole thing online. In 1613 Johann Remmelin published a book, Catoptrum Microcosmicum,…

Tech News Esther Inglis-Arkell

Diabolical Falcons Trap Living Birds in Rocks For Future Meals

A team of ornithologists were working on a small Moroccan island when they observed some rather bizarre behavior in adult falcons. The raptors appeared to be imprisoning tiny birds in the crevasses of rocks in an effort to keep them fresh for a later meal. As reported in New Scientist, University of Rabat ornithologist Abdeljebbar…

Tech News George Dvorsky

The US Government Needs a National Policy on Self-Driving Cars

In the same way that only a handful of American cities are seriously preparing for self-driving vehicles, it seems the federal government isn’t thinking ahead either. Secretary of Transportation Anthony Foxx revealed yesterday that his department has no plans for national regulations around autonomous cars. That’s very troubling, and it needs to change. Although the…

Tech News Alissa Walker

SpaceX Wants to Land a Rocket on an Ocean Barge, Yet Again

What’s next for a company that just made spaceflight history by sending a rocket into orbit and safely landing it back on Earth? Why, doing it again, of course—but this time, on an ocean platform. That’s the latest bold challenge SpaceX plans to take on, according to an NBC News report verified by Gizmodo. The…

Tech News Maddie Stone

Marvel’s New Falcon Is a Latino Falcon Man-Hybrid

Ever since Sam Wilson took on the mantle of Captain America, his former superhero alter ego of the Falcon has lain dormant. That is, until next week, when The Falcon returns… as Joaquin Torres, a man who is literally part-falcon. Torres has played a role throughout Nick Spencer and Daniel Acuña’s Sam Wilson: Captain America…

Books & Comics James Whitbrook

Campbell’s Promise to Label GMO Foods Is Not a Victory

Today Campbell’s became the first large food company to announce that it would begin labeling all their foods that use GMO-ingredients. Should GMO labeling advocates start celebrating? Nope, and here’s why. Campbell’s is one of the world’s largest food companies, with foods ranging from SpaghettiOs to an array of soups and cookies, that show up…

Tech News Ria Misra

Can You Spot the Imposter Bug?

Redditor muppaphone was forced to do a double take earlier this week while browsing through the insect collection at the Cleveland Museum of Natural History. We see what they did there. Apparently this is a thing. As a number of Reddit commenters have pointed out, clever museum gags like this one are quite common. [Laughing…

Tech News George Dvorsky

FCC Says Internet Providers Still Fail at Fast Broadband

Broadband access in America still stinks, according to a new report from the Federal Communications Commission (FCC). How much does it stink? Around 34 million Americans don’t have fast enough internet. The FCC wants US internet providers to give customers benchmark speeds of 25 Mbps for downloads, and 3 Mpbs for uploads. Apparently, about ten-percent…

Tech News Bryan Lufkin

Video: Exploring the Arctic Is Beautifully Difficult

It’s cold. It’s lonely. It’s really cold. It’s really lonely. It’s unfathomably cold. And it’s lonely. That’s what this mere glimpse of life on an Arctic expedition looks like. The visuals are jarring: the ship looks like it’s parked on land, the mustaches are frozen, the research looks difficult. But it also must be so…

Sploid Casey Chan

Sandia’s New Thor Accelerator Will Wield a Mighty Hammer

Sandia National Laboratories is building a shiny new accelerator to study how materials behave at extreme pressures. And they’ve named the new machine after Thor, Norse god of thunder, wielder of the mighty hammer Mjolnir, and member of Marvel’s beloved Avengers. For years, Sandia has been known for its infamous Z-pinch machine, a powerful electrical…

Physics & Chemistry Jennifer Ouellette

The Forest Is a Genuinely Scary Horror Movie About the Burden of Guilt

Game of Thrones’ Natalie Dormer stars in The Forest, a decent horror movie that offers plenty of shriek-worthy moments. But its more interesting aspects are the repressed guilt and sorrow at its core, which provide unexpected emotional heft as the protagonist slowly starts losing touch with reality. That’s not to say that The Forest—from first-time…

io9 Cheryl Eddy

America Was Hot, Fiery, and Full of Climate Denial in 2015

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration announced yesterday that 2015 was the second hottest year ever recorded in the United States, with a major last-minute boost from our freakishly warm Christmas holiday season. It was also a record-breaking year for fire, as the US Department of Agriculture announced Wednesday. For the first time in history,…

Tech News Maddie Stone

BBC America’s Dirk Gently Series Is Really Going Forward

We’ve known since last year that BBC America were working on bringing a new version of Douglas Adam’s holistic detective to U.S. shores—but now it’s official: BBC America have announced that they’ve greenlit Dirk Gently for an order of eight episodes. https://gizmodo.com/douglas-adams-dirk-gently-series-heading-to-u-s-tvs-an-1615974469 The series, penned by Chronicle and Superman: American Alien writer Max Landis, will…

Television James Whitbrook

The New Nikon D5 Shooting at 12 FPS Is the Most Satisfying Sound You’ll Ever Hear

Revealed this past week at CES 2016, Nikon’s D5 is the company’s new flagship DSLR with a 20.3-megapixel full-frame sensor, and a hefty $6,500 price tag. But watching this video of the camera’s new 12 frames-per-second, 153-point autofocus system in action will still make you lust for one. The folks at DCFever spent some quality…

Gadgets Andrew Liszewski

RIP Crypt Keeper, the Superstar That Won’t Return to Tales From the Crypt

When you say “Tales from the Crypt” most people immediately think of the Crypt Keeper. He didn’t have the most screen time but the gross, frightening, cheeky host of the 90s HBO anthology series was undoubtedly the star. And he probably won’t be back for the remake. The story starts Thursday when it was revealed…

Television Germain Lussier

This Bison Was Struck by Lightning and Emerged Ugly But Alive

If you’re ever in Neal Smith National Wildlife Refuge, keep an eye out for the ugliest bison alive. That’s not an insult. Taking a direct hit from a lightning bolt and staying alive is something to be proud of. Sparky first caught the eye of Fish and Wildlife officials in 2013, when Karen Viste-Sparkman saw…

Biology Esther Inglis-Arkell

Most of Those Viral Clinton-Blair Conversations Are Fake

The Clinton Presidential Library recently released transcripts between President Bill Clinton and British Prime Minister Tony Blair dating back from the 1990s. The real conversations are candid and illuminating. But many transcripts that are being passed around on social media are fake. As the New York Times explains about the real transcripts: With bracing bluntness…

Tech News Matt Novak

How Connected Cars Will Transform Our Lives at Home

Let me put this bluntly: Smart homes are pretty dumb. Or at least historically, connected devices for the everyman’s house have seemed gimmicky at best. This week at CES, however, we saw new technology that stands to reform our very conception of how homes work. But the gamechanging device we saw isn’t really a device…

Commerce Bryan Lufkin

Making a Hollow Wooden Surfboard Looks Like It’s Totally Worth It

The inside of a wooden surfboard looks like the skeleton of a fish. And it only gets more beautiful from there. The entire process of making a surfboard from wood (most surfboards are made from foam and fiberglass) is so fun to see. There is so much carving and shaping and clamping and an obscene…

Sploid Casey Chan

9 Reasons to Be Excited About Pop Culture in 2016

Columbia Just Digitized a Bestselling Anatomy Flipbook From the 1610s

Diabolical Falcons Trap Living Birds in Rocks For Future Meals

The US Government Needs a National Policy on Self-Driving Cars

SpaceX Wants to Land a Rocket on an Ocean Barge, Yet Again

Marvel’s New Falcon Is a Latino Falcon Man-Hybrid

Campbell’s Promise to Label GMO Foods Is Not a Victory

Can You Spot the Imposter Bug?

FCC Says Internet Providers Still Fail at Fast Broadband

Video: Exploring the Arctic Is Beautifully Difficult

Sandia’s New Thor Accelerator Will Wield a Mighty Hammer

The Forest Is a Genuinely Scary Horror Movie About the Burden of Guilt

America Was Hot, Fiery, and Full of Climate Denial in 2015

BBC America’s Dirk Gently Series Is Really Going Forward

The New Nikon D5 Shooting at 12 FPS Is the Most Satisfying Sound You’ll Ever Hear

RIP Crypt Keeper, the Superstar That Won’t Return to Tales From the Crypt

This Bison Was Struck by Lightning and Emerged Ugly But Alive

Most of Those Viral Clinton-Blair Conversations Are Fake

How Connected Cars Will Transform Our Lives at Home

Making a Hollow Wooden Surfboard Looks Like It’s Totally Worth It

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