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YouTubers Realize Trademarking ‘React’ Was a Bad Idea, Firmly Backpedal

The internet duo Fine Bros managed to briefly steal Donald Trump’s mantle as the most-hated thing on the internetlast week, when they revealed supervillain-style their plan to trademark the word “React”. Following the bad, uh, response to the plan, they’re cancelling everything. The Fine Bros made their substantial internet following mostly by taking the time-honored…

Tech News Chris Mills Feb 2 '16

Watch an Entire Year of Weather In One Video

Thanks to all the satellites hanging out watching our planet these days, 24/7 coverage of the weather is basically a given. So it’s not surprising that a year’s worth of weather can be condensed into one eight-minute video, but it’s still a damn beautiful sight. The European Organization for the Exploitation of Meteorological Satellites (EUMETSAT)…

Tech News Chris Mills Feb 2 '16

Going to Super Bowl Parties Does Indeed Raise Your Risk of Catching the Flu

San Francisco is bracing itself to host the 50th Super Bowl, but Denver and Charlotte are going to be seeing a real uptick in mortality rates. It seems that if your team is playing in the Super Bowl, your chances of catching a deadly flu go up, albeit slightly. Tulane University just analyzed 35 years…

Tech News Esther Inglis-Arkell Feb 1 '16

The Science Behind Making Snow

Both global warming and the popularity of downhill skiing are on the rise, a trend that probably seems a little counterintuitive. Hiding behind the scenes are snowmaking machines, which every year convert millions of gallons of water into money-making snow. YouTuber Tom Scott went to Norway to get an understanding of the basic science behind…

Tech News Chris Mills Feb 1 '16

Map Shows the Spread of ISIS in the Past Few Years

The Islamic State or ISIS or ISIL have quickly risen to power in the regions of Iraq and Syria. This map by Peter Ridilla tracks the group’s spread across the region. The Islamic State is shown in red against the rest of the region. What started off in just a few areas a few years…

Sploid Casey Chan Feb 1 '16

Almost Getting Smashed By a Swinging Wrecking Ball to Prove a Law of Physics Is Crazy

Our favorite physicist Andrea Wahl is back with his wild experiments where he blends real life physics with Jackass-style self torture. This time he uses a swinging wrecking ball to prove how conservation of energy can neither be created or destroyed, it transforms into other forms. Basically, as dangerous as being in the line of…

Sploid Casey Chan Feb 1 '16

Sorry, Oxygen-Free Animals Don’t Exist After All

In 2010 a group of scientists announced that they’d found evidence of multi-cellular life in hyper-salty, oxygen-free pools at the bottom of the ocean. A new study indicates that what they thought were living animals were actually corpses taken over by bacterial “body-snatchers.” Scientists from the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution have published a paper in…

Tech News Esther Inglis-Arkell Feb 1 '16

Naomi Watts Is Reuniting With David Lynch on Twin Peaks

Before Mulholland Dr., Naomi Watts was a Hollywood unknown. Today, she’s a multiple Oscar nominee, one of the biggest movie stars on the planet, etc.—basically living the life her David Lynch character Betty aspired to have. So it’s especially cool to hear she’s signed on to Showtime’s Twin Peaks revival. Deadline broke the news, with…

Television Cheryl Eddy Feb 1 '16

This Startup Is Creating Stories That Adapt, Learn, Evolve, and Breed

Why do stories need to be linear and repeatable? What if instead of finishing a movie, you could keep exploring it? What if your favorite side-character could become central to the plot? Why can’t we harness technology to explore our creativity in a new hybrid of full-interactive, immersive animation? A new startup is determined to…

Tech News Mika McKinnon Feb 1 '16

Can You Solve This Complex Riddle About Escaping a Cursed Temple?

This one’s a doozy in that there is a lot going on. The goal is simple, you need to escape a collapsing tunnel with a group of nine people (including yourself). It’s all the other variables that confuse things. There are four potential exit tunnels but only one of them is actually the way out.…

Sploid Casey Chan Feb 1 '16

Los Angeles Has Invented the Multimodal Navigation App of My Dreams

For years now, I have very publicly wished for an app that would list all my possible transportation alternatives in the palm of my hand, then guide me to my destination once I’d made the decision of how to get there. Well, I’m here to tell you: Sometimes wishes come true. Go LA is a…

Tech News Alissa Walker Feb 1 '16

Astronomers Want to Build A Forty Foot Space Telescope to Find the Next Earth

With Pluto millions of miles behind us and construction of the James Webb Space Telescope moving swiftly along, astronomers are already thinking about the Next Big Mission. At the top of their wish list? A forty foot-wide orbital telescope that’ll search for proof of life beyond Earth. At the American Astronomical Society meeting this week,…

Space & Spaceflight Maddie Stone Feb 1 '16

Watch a Surfer Survive a Crazy Wipeout Off a 40-Foot Wave

This wipeout is totally crazy and not unlike jumping out of the 4th floor of a building. The waves were that high (thank you El Nino) and the sea monster that is the ocean looked like it was blowing itself up and whipping surfer Tom Dosland around as he barreled around. The drop must have…

Sploid Casey Chan Feb 1 '16

I’m Still Trying To Make Sense of Infinite Jest

Infinite Jestby David Foster Wallace turns 20 today, and I’m still confused by it all these years later. I’ve seldom been more engrossed in a novel, and more willing to put in the time of obsessively studying footnotes. But what the heck happens in the end? One of the ways that Infinite Jest grabs you…

Books & Comics Charlie Jane Anders Feb 1 '16

Damn, Kanye Used to Be a Great Tech Blogger

Kanye West insists that his next album will be the “album of life.” Is he exaggerating? Probably. But I do know that Kanye used to be the tech blogger of life. Before he became a#FingersInTheBootyAssBitch, Kanye West ran his own blog at KanyeUniverseCity.com. The website is, unfortunately, now defunct, but Internet Archive has helpfully archived…

Tech News Kate Knibbs Feb 1 '16

Four Classic DC Heroes Are Coming to Legends of Tomorrow, and One of Them Is Lunacy

Even with a mere two episodes aired, Legends of Tomorrow hasn’t exactly been shy about bringing heroes and villains from the DC universe to TV, and there are many more on the way. We’ve just learned of four more heroes who will make their live-action debut on the show, and one of them is completely…

Television Rob Bricken Feb 1 '16

A Fire-Resistant Bag Is a Non-Solution to the Exploding Hoverboard Problem

An Australian company believes it has come up with a way to finally make hoverboards safe—or at least safer. But instead of addressing the issue of faulty batteries and shoddy electronics, it’s instead created a bag that it claims will safely contain your hoverboard’s inevitable meltdown. To reiterate. Homescreen Media’s Hovervault, as the bag is…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski Feb 1 '16

We Finally Know How Much Google Is Losing on Its Crazy Ideas

Google, aka Alphabet, is famous for its “moonshots”—enormous, ambitious technology projects that cost a ton to develop and might not ever work or turn a profit. Today, we’re getting a first look at just how much money the company is flushing on its big ideas. Alphabet encompasses the many different little businesses we used to…

Tech News Mario Aguilar Feb 1 '16

This Zombie-Fighting Movie Looks Like The Worst First-Person Shooter Ever

Here’s the first trailer for Pandemic, a movie in which Kiera from Continuum goes into a plague zone in Los Angeles to find survivors. And she fights, basically, zombies. The whole thing is shot in a “first-person shooter” style, so it’s sort of an attempt to duplicate the feeling of a video game. Because that…

Trailers Charlie Jane Anders Feb 1 '16

This Biotech Startup Promises Lab-Grown Pork Within Five Years

The future of lab-grown meat is coming. Or at least it feels that way, based on burgeoning interest in the biotech community. One by one, companies are staking out different animal tissues to grow in vitro for human consumption. First there was beef. Then there was chicken. Now there’s pork. San Fransisco-based startup Memphis Meats…

Tech News Maddie Stone Feb 1 '16

YouTubers Realize Trademarking ‘React’ Was a Bad Idea, Firmly Backpedal

Watch an Entire Year of Weather In One Video

Going to Super Bowl Parties Does Indeed Raise Your Risk of Catching the Flu

The Science Behind Making Snow

Map Shows the Spread of ISIS in the Past Few Years

Almost Getting Smashed By a Swinging Wrecking Ball to Prove a Law of Physics Is Crazy

Sorry, Oxygen-Free Animals Don’t Exist After All

Naomi Watts Is Reuniting With David Lynch on Twin Peaks

This Startup Is Creating Stories That Adapt, Learn, Evolve, and Breed

Can You Solve This Complex Riddle About Escaping a Cursed Temple?

Los Angeles Has Invented the Multimodal Navigation App of My Dreams

Astronomers Want to Build A Forty Foot Space Telescope to Find the Next Earth

Watch a Surfer Survive a Crazy Wipeout Off a 40-Foot Wave

I’m Still Trying To Make Sense of Infinite Jest

Damn, Kanye Used to Be a Great Tech Blogger

Four Classic DC Heroes Are Coming to Legends of Tomorrow, and One of Them Is Lunacy

A Fire-Resistant Bag Is a Non-Solution to the Exploding Hoverboard Problem

We Finally Know How Much Google Is Losing on Its Crazy Ideas

This Zombie-Fighting Movie Looks Like The Worst First-Person Shooter Ever

This Biotech Startup Promises Lab-Grown Pork Within Five Years

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