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You Can Now 3D-Print Your Own TSA Master Keys

TSA-recognized locks provide little more than a false sense of security. That’s not news. It is news, however, that some hacker type has uploaded the CAD files of the agency’s master keys to Github, so that anybody can 3D-print them at home. Let the stealing begin! Just kidding, please don’t break into other people’s luggage.…

Drool Over This Exclusive Look At The Official Game of Thrones Astrolabe

Game of Thrones has the coolest opening sequence on television, thanks to that insane orrery showing the relief map of Westeros along with the heavens. And io9 is proud to bring you an exclusive video showing the official Game of Thrones Astrolabe as it spins. Plus you can enter to win one for yourself, right…

How to Drink Sake: Your Guide to Japan’s Tasty, Boozy Gift to the World

Sake. You might only know it from Sapporo bombs or overheated swill from all-you-can-eat pan-Asian buffets. But if you get a beat on its basics, it’s the smoothest, sexiest, slickest libation. We’re going to demystify sake, and make you that sashimi-pairing, worldly boozehound we know you can be. It’s Friday afternoon, you’ve made it through…

When Bears Go To Rehab

Every year, hundreds of black, brown and even polar bears are successfully rehabilitated from their addiction to human-reliant food sources and released back into the wild. How does bear rehab work? Human-on-Bear Conflict Habitat loss is the single biggest factor affecting wild animal populations in North America. As the human species continues to grow and…

These guys doing crazy tricks on a slackline follow different rules of gravity

I don’t know what planet these guys are from but it’s certainly not Earth because they don’t follow the very simple laws of gravity and break the concept of balance and destroy the very idea of time. They can jump on and off a slackline like it’s nothing and even do ridiculous tricks normal people…

How visually similar Indiana Jones 4 was to the original movies

Very few people enjoyed Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull. Actually, I’m not sure if there was a single person who ever watched an Indiana Jones movie before who liked the movie. But as Pablo Fernandez Eyre points out in this video comparison, there were a lot of similarities between the last…

Louisiana Officials Said That After Planned Parenthood Closes, Women Can Just Go to the Dentist

When Louisiana state officials announced their plans to terminate Planned Parenthood’s state Medicaid contract in late August, they argued that there were plenty of doctors who could take on the more than 5200 patients the reproductive health organization sees each year in New Orleans and Baton Rouge. They even provided a list of those doctors…

Recognize Space Whisky for What It Is: A Long Con to Sell You Gross, Expensive Whisky

I love space. I love whisky. So how could the attempt to combine the two go so horribly wrong? Like this. Just like this. In case you haven’t heard, Scotch-purveyor Ardbeg retrieved their whisky experiment—which spent two years aging out in the microgravity of the International Space Station—and held a taste test recently. So just…

What’s The Red Shape in NASA’s Meatball Logo?

You’ve probably seen NASA’s so-called “meatball logo,” and wondered what it meant. Obviously, the blue sphere represents a planet. What about the red? I’d assumed the chevron stood for aeronautics, and once I heard it represented a certain constellation. But the truth is more interesting. Thanks to NASA’s latest free e-book titled “Emblems of Exploration:…

The World’s Coolest Poster Convention Gets a Goofy Warriors-Inspired One-Sheet

Anyone who collects posters has heard of Mondo. They’re the Austin, TX-based company making some of the best limited-edition, collectable posters in the world. Next month, they’re hosting their second convention: MondoCon. MondoCon takes place October 3-4 in Austin, and will feature two days of pure awesome for collectors. There will be panels on the…

California’s pistachio trees may look prolific this year but crack open many of those shells and you’ll find something surprising: nothing. NPR’sThe Salt has the story of what’s behind this year’s “ghost crop”—and when (and how) we can expect it back.

The First Human Head Transplant Will Take Place in 2017

Italian neurosurgeon Sergio Canavero grabbed the world’s attention this past winter when he announced his plans to perform the first human head transplant. Many doubted that such an outrageous procedure would ever see the light of day. Now, Canavero has a date on the books. Thirty-year-old Russian computer scientist Valery Spiridonov is set to become…

Forget Spider-Gwen, Gwenpool Is Gwen Stacy’s Latest Superhero Persona

The Gwenaissance continues! Following the debut of Spider-Gwen a year ago, Marvel has seemingly gone gaga for Gwen Stacy. First was Spider-Gwen’s appearance in Spider-Verse. Then she became every Marvel Superhero ever in a series of variant covers. And now, she’s getting another comic… as Gwenpool! Gwenpool first started out as a variant cover for…

Google Fiber plans to explore expansion possibilitiesin three new cities: San Diego, Louisville, and Irvine. This just means that Google Fiber is working with folks in those respective city halls, so it’s not certain that they’ll get gigabit internet. Butany extra internet help is great! Contact the author at [email protected]. Public PGP key PGP fingerprint:…

8 Scientific Discoveries That Prove Evolution is Real

When explaining human origins, a staggering 42% of all Americans still ascribe to a creationist interpretation—despite the fact that there’s plenty of evidence to support the theory of natural selection. Here are some of the most potent scientific discoveries that prove Darwin was right. Discovering DNA One of the more remarkable things about On the…

This Guy Turned His Dorm Room Fridge Into an Over-Sized Playable Game Boy

You can buy stick-on decals that will make your fridge look like a giant Game Boy, or you can do what Daniel d’Entremont did and actually turn your fridge into a giant playable Game Boy using a Raspberry Pi 2. The most important part of d’Entremont’s hack, which involved removing and hollowing out the tiny…

Kimberly Peirce’s Remake of Carrie Struggled With Vagina-Phobic Execs Who Couldn’t Say “Vagina”

When Boys Don’t Cry director Kimberly Peirce remade Carrie in 2013, everyone dismissed her version of the film as an unnecessary do-over. But Peirce had some ideas for how to make her version stand apart—including an awesomely weird ending, which freaked out studio executives who couldn’t even say the word “vagina.” By all accounts, the…

Behold the Bronzed Brilliance of Legends of Tomorrow‘s Hawkman and Hawkgirl

We’ve known for a while that Hawkgirl would be joining the cast of the CW’s superhero teamup series Legends of Tomorrow—and then we learned that Hawkman would be joining her. But aside from a minor tease in the trailer, we’ve not seen either hero in all their glory… until now, that is. The CW and…

You Can’t Steal Data From a Chip That’s Self-Destructed

Losing a flash drive full of family photos is unfortunate; losing an encryption key that gives access to sensitive data could be a catastrophe. So researchers at Xerox’s PARC have developed chips that can self-destruct on command, making them completely unusable once they shatter. The key to making chips that can just shatter into a…

Here’s What Syrian Refugees Bring On Their Long, Dangerous Journeys 

It’s a classic trope of fashion magazines: What’s in your bag? But that question, posed by a photographer with the International Rescue Committee to refugees arriving in Greece from Syria and Afghanistan, takes on a very different tone. This summer, the nonprofit aid group sent one of its staffers, a photographer named Tyler Jump, to…