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Bill Gates Says Our Energy System Is Broken And He’s Giving $2 Billion To Fix It

Infectious diseases like polio and malaria might be gone in 15 years because the founder of Microsoft devoted a foundation to eradicating them. Now Bill Gates has turned his attention towards our global energy crisis, which he thinks can also be fixed with better R&D. And, yes, he’s going to fund it. In an interview…

Climate Change Alissa Walker

The Nights Are Filled With Glorious Auroras This Week

The aurora borealis is one of the most stunning light shows on Earth, but normally, it’s a treat reserved for the hardy souls living at the coldest edges of the world. The last few nights, however, people across the Northern and Southern hemispheres have enjoyed dazzling, colorful skies, thanks to a geomagnetic storm that began…

Tech News Maddie Stone

WHEN WILL LIBERALS GET A CLUE?

LIBERALS, AM I RIGHT? IF IT’S NOT MAKING UP CLIMATE CHANGE, IT’S TRYING TO TAKE OUR GUNS. WHY DO THEY HATE AMERICA? JUST YESTERDAY, SOME LIBERAL GIRLY MAN NAMED WES SILER (WHAT KIND OF NAME IS THAT, ANWAYS? I BET HE’S MEXICAN) TRIED TO TELL TED CRUZ (PRAIS JESUS) HE WAS HOLDING HIS SHOTGUN WRONG.…

Tech News Wes Siler

The Designers Who Make Muji’s Products Are Now Making Muji Cabins

Very few pieces of architecture are forms of trolling. But this tiny hut, designed for Muji by Konstantin Grcic, is one of them: It is just small enough to avoid needing planning permission from the local government to build in Japan. Designboom explains that it’s one of three Muji Huts built in a park in…

Tech News Kelsey Campbell-Dollaghan

7 Things We Want In The New Star Trek TV Show

Yes, it’s finally happening: We’re getting a new Star Trek TV show for the first time in over a decade. Since this week’s announcement, Trek fans all over the world have been speculating and sharing their desires for the series—here’s just 7 things we’d love to see come 2017. 7) A post-Star-Trek-XI look at the…

Television James Whitbrook

Here’s What Americans Call “Muggles” in the World of Harry Potter

Big happenings in the wizarding world of H.P.! Courtesy of that Entertainment Weekly that presented the first picture of Eddie Redmayne as Newt Scamander in Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, we have now learned that American witches and wizards have a whole new term for those who can’t practice magic. Ready? According to…

Movies Rob Bricken

This Newly-Discovered Beetle Can Reshape Its Own Eyes

The Sunburst Diving Beetle has great eyesight, in part due to a bifocal lens. The larvae of the beetle go through multiple molting periods in their trek to adulthood—which means it reshapes its own eyes. In the picture below we see two different stages of the Sunburst Diving Beetle. There’s quite a difference between them.…

Tech News Esther Inglis-Arkell

iZombie Gave Major the Shortest Downward Spiral in History

In other news, Ravi is the best. It was a weird week in “Love & Basketball.” Spoilers … The death this week was of a beloved basketball coach. Which means the Liv comedy was in her constant sports references. It also is mostly irrelevant. The important parts of the episode have to do with Major’s…

Television Katharine Trendacosta

In 1959 People Walked an Elephant Over the Alps

In 218 BC, Carthaginian general Hannibal took a group of elephants over the Alps in order to fight the Roman Empire in style. Since then, people have speculated as to the route he took. In 1959, a small group of people with an elephant decided to conduct a test. Hannibal wasn’t always a famous fictional…

Tech News Esther Inglis-Arkell

This totally NSFW video that uses splashed paint to strip away people’s clothes is so cool

Okay. The video from Tim Fitzgerald is totally NSFW. As in, there is a lot of nudity from both sexes in it. As in, you see everything. But! If you can get over the prudish brainwashing of the human body, you’ll see something totally cool: a splash of liquid on clothes immediately makes the person’s…

Sploid Casey Chan

Feast Your Eyes on NYC’s Remarkably Beautiful Mail Chutes

You know those curious brass boxes in the hallwaysof old New York skyscrapers? Believe it or not they represent the public-facing element of a communications network that kept office buildings humming before email. And damn are they beautiful. Atlas Obscura just posted an image-rich feature on the history of the technology. It turns out that…

Tech News Adam Clark Estes

SF’s Nasty Prop F Battle Proves Airbnb Is More Powerful Than We Ever Imagined

Yesterday, San Francisco voters defeated Proposition F, a set of regulations for short-term rentals which many thought might help ease its housing problems. The defeat is being credited almost singlehandedly to Airbnb. Will the entire city of San Francisco become overrun with Airbnb rentals now? Probably not. Have we gotten a taste of what Airbnb…

Tech News Alissa Walker

Continuing to Be Awesome, Agent Carter Adds Ken Marino to Its Cast

At some point, Agent Carter news will be disappointing. This is not one of those times. Get ready for Ken Marino, Marvel mobster. Variety reports that Marino is playing Joseph Manfredi, described by them as a “volatile leader in the Maggia crime syndicate.” In the comics, Joseph Manfredi has the power to control bats. I’m…

Television Katharine Trendacosta

This Robot is All Eyes to Inspect Satellites in Orbit

A self-repairing robot on the space station just isn’t enough to satisfy NASA’s mad quest to bring the robot uprising that much closer to reality. It may be cute in a lopsided Wall-E sort of way, but one day it’ll break free to independently inspect satellites if we want it to or not. VIPIR looks…

Tech News Mika McKinnon

CEO’s Swiss Alps Estate Is a Dope James Bond Villain Hideout

Want to spend a few minutes living vicariously through a multimillionaire whose 007-inspired villa feels like the awesome digs of a real-life Spectre villain? Then scope out VisaJet CEO Thomas Flore’s Swiss villa, which appears in the new issue of T magazine from the New York Times. The seven-story, 35,000-square foot chalet is named “Eagle’s…

Tech News Bryan Lufkin

How Many Murderers Are on Scream Queens, Anyway?

Scream Queens took a break last week (thanks, baseball), and we hardly missed it. Its return to the airwaves, “Beware of Young Girls,” yielded one huge clue that moved the show’s central mystery forward, a few juicy Jamie Lee Curtis scenes, and a whole lotta hot air. Let’s dive in, shall we? Spoilers! Ok, this…

Television Cheryl Eddy

Nightmare Stories of Your Worst IT Jobs Ever

We asked the heroic IT workers of Gizmodo to tell us about their worst jobs. You came back with tales of overbearing bosses, unbelievable customers, and spoiled coworkers. And did you hear about the one with the preserved tumor? ShinyBlueThing wrote: I think my worst was as the lone IT techmonkeygirl for a branch office…

Tech News Kaila Hale-Stern

How Warren Ellis Brought the James Bond Of Ian Fleming’s Books To Comics

James Bond is back! And not just on the big screen—Britain’s most famous spy has returned to comics after decades away in today’s release of James Bond #1 by Warren Ellis and Jason Masters. To mark the release of issue one, we spoke Ellis to discuss how he brought Ian Fleming’s classic hero to life.…

Books & Comics James Whitbrook

Go Vote So These Tiny Lego Minimoog Synthesizers Become Real Sets

Not familiar with what an analog synthesizer is, even though you’ve probably heard them used on countless songs? Go read our in-depth explainer first, and then vote for Andy Grobengieser’s tiny recreations of Bob Moog’s Minimoog synths on the Lego Ideas site. Designed to be portable versions of the classic Moog modular synthesizers that weren’t…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski

200 Million Americans Will Suffer ‘Psychological Distress’ From Climate Change

A report published by the National Wildlife Federation finds that the majority of Americans can expect to suffer mental health problems as a result of global warming and warns that our mental health system is not equipped to handle it. “The interplay between the climate realities we likely face and the potential psychological fallout from…

Climate Change Wes Siler

Bill Gates Says Our Energy System Is Broken And He’s Giving $2 Billion To Fix It

The Nights Are Filled With Glorious Auroras This Week

WHEN WILL LIBERALS GET A CLUE?

The Designers Who Make Muji’s Products Are Now Making Muji Cabins

7 Things We Want In The New Star Trek TV Show

Here’s What Americans Call “Muggles” in the World of Harry Potter

This Newly-Discovered Beetle Can Reshape Its Own Eyes

iZombie Gave Major the Shortest Downward Spiral in History

In 1959 People Walked an Elephant Over the Alps

This totally NSFW video that uses splashed paint to strip away people’s clothes is so cool

Feast Your Eyes on NYC’s Remarkably Beautiful Mail Chutes

SF’s Nasty Prop F Battle Proves Airbnb Is More Powerful Than We Ever Imagined

Continuing to Be Awesome, Agent Carter Adds Ken Marino to Its Cast

This Robot is All Eyes to Inspect Satellites in Orbit

CEO’s Swiss Alps Estate Is a Dope James Bond Villain Hideout

How Many Murderers Are on Scream Queens, Anyway?

Nightmare Stories of Your Worst IT Jobs Ever

How Warren Ellis Brought the James Bond Of Ian Fleming’s Books To Comics

Go Vote So These Tiny Lego Minimoog Synthesizers Become Real Sets

200 Million Americans Will Suffer ‘Psychological Distress’ From Climate Change

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