Latest

Ontem (Yesterday) Is Your Surrealistic Short Video Of The Day

Need something colorful and trippy to watch? Ontem (Yesterday) is just your thing. Accompanied by a cool soundtrack, this short video is described as “A journey through introspection”, and it’s a pretty neat trip. [Vimeo]

This Stormy Star Is Unlike Anything We’ve Seen Before

Astronomers are comparing it to Jupiter’s red spot: a forever storm large enough to swallow three Earths. Except this monster tempest appears to be raging on a star. The object in question, W1906+40, belongs to a class of relatively cool celestial bodies known as L-dwarfs. Despite their low temperatures, some L-dwarfs fuse atoms and produce…

Marlon James’s Next Book Will Be ‘African Game Of Thrones‘

Jamaican author Marlon James is best known for his book A Brief History of Seven Killings, which earned him the prestigious Man Booker Award earlier this year. When asked about his next book, he told Man of the World Magazine that he’s going to “geek the fuck out” with his own fantasy series. The first…

In recent years, interest in Gabriel García Márquez has surged, and in the years since his death, his popularity has grown even greater. Vanity Fair has a great profile on how he wrote his best-known book, One Hundred Years of Solitude.

6,000 Year Old Death Pit Points to One Hell of a Brawl

Scattered hand bones, severed arms, cracked skulls: if one thing is clear from this Neolithic burial pit, it’s that some some serious shit went down 6,000 years ago. Circular burial pits like the one shown above were common during the Neolithic period in Central and Western Europe some 6,500 to 5,500 years ago. But rarely…

Cosplay Repair Teams Help Costumers In Serious Trouble

Costumers can wow us with their outstanding outfits, but under it all, there’s something waiting to go wrong: that’s where cosplay repair teams jump into action to save the day at any given comic con. The Replica Props Forums has a great post up about some fantastic individuals that they’ve spotted, armed with all the…

Google Pixel C Review: Android’s Not Ready For a Tablet This Good

With the Pixel C, Google imagines a tablet as more than just a portable window into the internet. These things have to be good for more than endless Candy Crush and Netflix, right? The current thinking is tablets needs to evolve, and so Google, like its rivals, has created its own, kinda-sorta work tablet, complete…

Heroes Of The Empire Charts The Rise Of The 501st Legion’s UK Garrison

The 501st Legion has become an international costuming group since its formation in 1997, and a new documentary coming in 2016 looks to feature the rise of the group in the United Kingdom. The UK Garrison is particularly known within the 501st Legion for their dedication: their armor is fantastic, and their troopers are known…

A Girl Saves A Tiny Pilot In Soar

In this cute, short animated film, a girl obsessed with building airplanes comes across something unexpected: a tiny pilot who’s crashed. The film could certainly do a little more with the actual engineering of flight, but it’s a neat little film with some well-crafted animation.

The Paris Climate Agreement Has Been Adopted

After two weeks of marathon negotiations, 195 countries approved an accord that would wean the world off fossil fuels this century, limiting global warming to 2ºC, with an aspirational target of 1.5ºC. It’s the first successful end to a global climate summit after two decades of failed negotiations. The final draft of the text that…

James Cameron Says That Avatar 2 Will Make Sure Avatar Wasn’t A Big Fluke 

James Cameron provided an update on the sequels to his 2009 film, Avatar, noting that he wanted to make sure that the first film “wasn’t just some big fluke”. In speaking with Entertainment Weekly, he noted that the process to bring the films to the screen was just as challenging as the first, and that…

Hide the Menu Bar in OS X El Capitan for a True Full-Screen Experience

If you’re busy exploring everything that OS X El Capitan has to offer, one of the smaller new features that you might not have come across yet is the ability to automatically hide the menu bar from view—if you want a truly full-screen experience for your regular apps, it’s easy to toggle it on and…

Technology Will Save Our Future, According To Japanese SF Author Taiyo Fujii

I’ve been increasingly interested in translated science fiction novels, and one of the best ones that I picked up this year was Taiyo Fujii’s debut Gene Mapper. Gene Mapper takes place in a future where augmented reality and genetic engineering is commonplace. When a freelance gene mapper named Hayashida finds that a project that he…

A vote on the accord that’s being hailed humanity’s best and perhaps last shot at preventing dangerous climate change is about to take place in Paris. Watch 195 countries try to make history here.

Watch Chewie Interview a Rocket Scientist About Advanced Propulsion Systems

Certain aspects of the Star Wars universe (FTL travel, force magic) are clearly impossible. But some technologies, like extremely high-powered thrusters and even lightsabers, may one day be feasible. This month, the University of Michigan released “Chillin’ with Chewie,” a 5-video series in which everyone’s favorite Wookie warrior interviews a range of experts about all…

Musk’s Plan to Save the World From Advanced AI: Develop Advanced AI

Noted killer robot-fearer Elon Musk has a plan to save humanity from the looming robopocalypse: developing advanced artificial intelligence systems. You know, the exact technologies that could lead to the robopocalypse. Let’s unpack that one a little bit. Yesterday, Tesla’s boss, along with a band of prominent tech executives including Linked in co-founder Reid Hoffman…

Everything Is Perfect About This Boy With A Flaming Samurai Sword On A Flying Lion

The weekend is here so, we figured we’d throw up this amazing illustration by artist Carlyle McCullough. It’s of a young boy with a light-up samurai sword riding a flying lion. Sure, why not? It’s from the cover of the fourth book in Kevin McGill’s series, Nikolas and Company, Fire of the Lionsbran. Here’s the…

Activists Turned a Busy Paris Roundabout into a Symbol of Hope for the Planet

The final climate agreement draft won’t come until this weekend but a group of activists have found a way to mark the end of the COP21 summit on a somewhat hopeful note. Protesters affiliated with Greenpeace poured yellow paint onto the streets around the Arc de Triomphe today, allowing cars and motorbikes to spread the…

The Bizarre Reason Earth’s Rotation Will Slow Down This Century

If you’ve had your fill of depressing predictions for the future, here’s one that is both fascinating and as innocuous as they come: as ice caps melt, Earth’s rotation is slowing down, and that’s making our days ever so slightly longer. That’s the conclusion of a Harvard-led study published today in Science Advances. According to…

Is This California Pier the First Victim of El Niño?

Southern California residents witnessed a foreign substance falling from the sky as rain swept through the region over the last 24 hours. The storm also brought huge waves to the coast which ended up smashing the city of Ventura’s pier. Just before high tide this morning, a set of waves sloshed over the 1,600-foot pier,…