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This is Why Some Newborn Babies Turn Half-Red

One out of every ten newborn infants displays a weird quirk of the human body called “harlequin sign.” It makes babies spontaneously turn parti-colored, especially when their tiny bodies heat up. Harlequin sign begins freaking parents out at two days after the child’s birth. When the parents, for a moment, lay their baby on his…

Everything You Need to Know About Earth-2 Before Tomorrow Night’s Episode of The Flash

The Flash’s first season was defined by its admirable embrace of some of the Flash’s strangest comic book concepts: the mystery of the Reverse Flash, time travel, the goofy Rogues, and yes, Gorilla Grodd. But its second season is tackling something altogether crazier—the DC comics multiverse. Here’s what you need to know going in. Welcome…

Here’s Where the Tallest Observation Decks In the World Will Be in 2020

A crop of new skyscrapers are coming due over the next five years–and with them, nine new observation decks that will be taller than any others ever built. The Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat recently released a study about observation decks that looks at how they’ve evolved over the last 120 years of…

Zimbabwe Drops Charges Against Lion Murderer Walter Palmer

“All his papers were in order.” Zimbabwe has announced that it will not be charging American dentist Walter Palmer in the illegal killing of #CecilTheLion. The hunt’s guide, though, is being prosecuted. Palmer was the subject of social media outrage in July when he shot and wounded a famous lion just outside Hwange National Park.…

Week’s TV: Robot Chicken Tackles DC Comics! And Arya Stark Comes to Doctor Who!

This week, we say goodbye to the beloved time-travel TV show Continuum. But also, Gotham follows up that shocking twist, Doctor Who features a Game of Thrones stalwart, and LEGO Star Wars takes us aboard the Falcon. It’s all happening in this week’s television! Tonight Be Cool, Scooby-Doo! (7PM, CARTOON) “Fred switches places with the…

A First Look at the Most Expensive Android Wear Watch Ever Made

Intel and Tag Heuer have done tons of hyping for its still upcoming, $1,800 Android Wear watch. But after hearsay that a November launch was coming, the Swiss luxury watchmaker is sticking with that rumored game plan. The most expensive Android Watch ever made is coming November 9th. The recently released invitation does have an…

Gaze Into the Cold, Black Eyes of Marvel’s Potato Head Vision

Look, I know in the comics that Vision has purged his emotions multiple times, but that’s no excuse to turn an innocent Mr. Potato Head into the creepiest thing imaginable. PPW Toys have been doing Mr. Potato Heads based on pop culture characters for ages now—but their rebrand into “Poptaters” has allowed them to delve…

10 more really fun movie mistakes that made it into the final version of the movie

People screw up. And in movies, you’d expect that when someone screws up that those scenes would just be played for laughs as outtakes or on a blooper reel. But sometimes everything else about the scene is so good and the screw up is so unexpectedly perfect for the movie that the directors include the…

Steven Spielberg Is Cutting The Steven Spielberg Movies From Ready Player One

Like many of us, Ready Player One author Ernie Cline is a disciple of Steven Spielberg. If you grew up in the Eighties or Nineties, his films were your everything, which is why they’re so important in the Ready Player One book. But they won’t be in the movie. “The movie won’t have any of…

How Fish Guts Launched an International Empire

These days, it’s a luxury (and often a goal) to eat local. A few hundred years ago, it was a necessity. One country found a way to break free of local, seasonal eating and that discovery changed the world. You like herring? Even if the answer is no, you probably like it more than starving…

Underwater Avalanches, Intranasal Dilators, And Technical Outerwear That Looks Good: What’s New Outside

Scared of diving deep? Scared of cave-ins? Why not combine the two into one, happy fun time activity? Above the surface, technical outwear is getting a fashionable makeover and breathing air is getting easier. This is What’s New Outside. Outdoor Gear Blog For Women: My buddy Michelle is putting together a new blog around women’s…

These Seven New Universal Monsters Posters Are Absolutely Stunning

Dracula, Frankenstein, Wolfman, The Invisible Man, Creature From the Black Lagoon, Mummy and Bride of Frankenstein. Individually, they’re some of the most recognizable, celebrated character of all time. Together, they’re known as the Universal Monsters. Each has been imagined, reimagined, repurposed and remade numerous times. Even now, they’re getting a new, rebooted movie universe. Still,…

No, Taking Your Coffee Black Does Not Mean You’re More Likely to be a Psychopath

Is that friend who always very politely turns down your offers for cream or sugar very possibly hiding a dark secret, as haters around the internet have been insisting recently? No, probably not—but here’s why some people are saying taking your coffee black means you’re more likely to be a psychopath. A new study published…

New Hoverboard Commercial is Obviously Fake Because The Future is Garbage

We still don’t have hoverboards. At least not the ones we were promised in the 1989 movie, Back to the Future: Part II. And this new promo video from Universal Pictures does little more than remind us that living in the future is garbage. From hoverboards to flying cars, Back to the Future II’s version…

How Growing More Weed Can Help California Fix Its Water Problems

Last Tuesday, the Humboldt County Courthouse in Eureka, California was swarming with potheads. A pro-cannabis rally had been organized by State Assemblymember Jim Wood, who knows how to grab headlines: In July, Wood walked onto the State Capitol floor carrying a live marijuana plant and asked his colleagues to regulate the heck out of it.…

The Last Man On Earth May Have Just Delivered Its Biggest Laugh Yet

Just when you thought The Last Man of Earth was going to be a two-person show again, the end of last week’s episode and this week’s episode brought back the larger cast and lead into a few of the biggest, most awkward laughs yet. But first, since I missed the episode 2 recap, here’s the…

Unicode Proposes 29 New Emoji Just in Time for the Olympics

You know you’ve been worried about how you’re going to express yourself during fencing matches at the Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro. Worry not! The Unicode Consortium has you covered with 29 new emoji being considered for release in June 2016. The 29 new emojis revealed by the Unicode Technical Committee include everything from…

An update to the Spotify app now gives it Chromecast support. This is great for you goofballs who listen to music on your TV. However, it only works with the new Chromecast and Chromecast Audio. Download the latest Spotify app for iOS or Android here and here, respectively. Contact the author at [email protected]. Public PGP…

5 Gruesome Real-Life Murders That Inspired Spooky Ghost Stories

Nearly every town’s got a ghost story. Far more rare is when a ghost story can be traced back to one specific, legally documented criminal case. Still, they do exist, and the stories they spawn are even scarier with real-life context. Here are five horrifying murders that created five spooky legends. 1) Zona Heaster Shue,…

What happens when you crack an egg into liquid nitrogen?

There are something like a thousand ways to cook an egg, with each of them being just as delicious as the next. But what if you cooked an egg in liquid nitrogen? What would happen? From the looks of this video, it looks like the egg freezes into this chalky styrofoam texture that looks totally…