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This Video Explains the Most Disturbing Fashion Trend in Human History

17th century Icelanders were a cold, hungry, light-deprived lot. And it’s under these miserable conditions that imaginations dreamt up the most disturbing wearable ever: Leggings, made of the skin of your dead friend. They’re called necropants, and today, their macabre history is preserved at the Museum of Icelandic Sorcery and Witchcraft. Here’s how the skinny…

Check Out The Creepy Trailer For Joe Hill’s Upcoming Thriller, The Fireman

Joe Hill is one of our favorite authors out there, and his next novel, The Fireman, will be coming out in May of next year. Gollancz books has just released a trailer for the novel, which gives us some hints about what it’ll be about. The story looks like it’ll depict a plague that causes…

‘After The War’ Story Contest Seeks To Imagine Post-War Futures  

Writing a story about the aftermath of warfare in the future? The Atlantic Council might want to see it: they’re running a contest called ‘After The War’. The think tank has been running a really interesting project called The Art Of Future Wars, which seeks to line up the arts with military policy. The contest…

Why Do We Smell the Change of Seasons?

Colorful foliage is autumn’s hallmark, but humans can also smell the change of seasons. What exactly is that familiar scent that hits our noses every October? Turns out, it’s a lot more complicated than wood smoke and pumpkin spice lattes. Most familiar aromas are a concoction of numerous odiferous molecules. The scent of a rose,…

The Plan to Make California Wet By Spreading Beavers Up and Down the State

Ending the drought in the West will require rain—not too much rain—and smarter ways to collect and store that water. But something else that can keep things moist? Believe it or not: Beavers. According to a story in Water Deeply, a group of ecologists have a plan to help repopulate the Central Coast of California…

Father Of The Space Shuttle, George Mueller, Dies At Age 97

George Mueller, the NASA administrator who helped steer the agency during the 1960s and was known as the ‘father of the space shuttle’, died earlier this week at the age of 97. Mueller joined NASA in 1963 as the Associate Administrator of the NASA Office of Manned Space Flight, where he oversaw the planning and…

In Space, “Up” is a State of Mind

September 9, 2015: The Soyuz TMA-18M spacecraft arrived at the International Space Station for a ten-day mission, providing visual proof of a little bit of every day magic: in space, “up” is optional. The Soyuz spacecraft carried ESA astronaut Andreas Mogensen and Roscosmos cosmonauts Sergei Volkov and Aidyn Aimbetov to the space station. The mission…

The Beautiful DiY Rebar Art That Still Decorates Ex-Socialist Buildings 

If you happen to be wandering the countryside walking the streets of ex-socialist towns and villages in Central or Eastern Europe, you may notice a similar decor on houses built in the 60s, 70s, and 80s. What you’re witnessing is DiY rebar art in its finest form. Just like the case of the cabins beside…

Classic literary characters such as Sherlock Holmes have faced intense copyright battles, but now, another character is being claimed: Buck Rogers. With a potential film in the works, the estate of one of the character’s writers is claiming that they have a claim on the property.

Washington DC is Turning Our Nation’s Poop into Power

The next time you pay a visit to our nation’s capital, flush the toilet with a little extra pride. Your excrement is now helping contribute to America’s clean energy future. Yep, you heard that right: In September, D.C. Water became the first utility in North America to convert treated sewage sludge to electricity. At its…

Two New Cases Of Ebola Have Surfaced In Guinea

Just weeks before it would be declared Ebola-free, the World Health Organization confirmed that two new cases of the disease have surfaced in Guinea, showing that the outbreak lingers in the West African country. Reuters reports that while one case in Forecariah had a known transmission chain, the other, located in Conakry, came from unknown…

Aliens or Not, We’ve Still Got A Lot To Learn From NASA’s Kepler Mission

This week, the internet worked itself into a frenzy over the possibility that we’ve found an alien megastructure. But whether or not there’s a Dyson sphere buried in the Kepler data, the discovery of a strange, flickering star is very interesting. Indeed, it points to an entirely new use for the spectral data on 150,000-odd…

Watch The 1939 World’s Fair Come To Life In This Documentary

The 1939 World’s Fair was an incredible event that showcased the ‘World of Tomorrow’. Now, director Amanda Murray has brought the event to life with a new documentary. Featuring interviews from attendees and color footage, Murray’s documentary shows off the visitors and attractions that populated the New York event in 1939. From the perspective of…

The Avengers Assemble In This Cosplay Video From New York Comic Con

New York Comic Con is behind us, but this fantastic cosplay video will let you relive the glorious mix of costumes that go along with it. We really dig Sneaky Zebra’s cosplay videos – they’re energetic and entertaining alike, and you can even see the Hulkbuster Iron Man we wrote about a couple of weeks…

5 Easy Router Tweaks for Faster, More Secure Wifi

Your router might look like an impenetrable black box of internet mystery, but tweaking a few settings under the hood is easier than you might think. Here are some of the options you can reconfigure to get a faster wireless connection and keep unwelcome visitors off your network. We haven’t gone into much detail about…

This House With A Star Trek Theater Can Be Yours For $1.2 Million 

Are you a Star Trek Fan? Do you have $1.2 million dollars? Are you in the market for a new home? Do you have the urge to move to Texas? If you answered Yes to any of those questions, this could be the house for you. Located in Friendswood, Texas, this 4-bedroom home went on…

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SyFy’s Defiance Can’t Defy Cancellation

SyFy’s big transmedia flagship show Defiance won’t be returning for a fourth season, according to Variety. The cancellation of the show comes just days after Dominion was also cancelled. Defiance was developed by Rockne S. O’Bannon, Kevin Murphy, and Michael Taylor, and depicted a quasi-transformed Earth after the arrival of a number of alien species…

Fires in Indonesia are Emitting More Carbon Than All Americans Combined

The United States may be the second largest carbon emitter on the planet, but it’s got a new rival: Forest fires. Indonesia is in the midst of a devastating fire season, one that’s kicking up more greenhouse gases than the entire US economy. There have been nearly 100,000 forest fires in Indonesia this year, according…

This Crazy Patchwork of Restraints Ultimately Led to Modern Pressurized Spacesuits

1962: This isn’t a demented experiment from some wacky fictional mad scientist. Instead, it’s actual serious research by NASA that led to pressurized spacesuits. Robert St. John is the lucky victim, er, “test subject” in this completely legitimate and necessary experiment on pilot restraint and closed loop breathing systems at NASA’s Ames Research Center. The…