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Hamersley Shows Off The Beauty Of Australia’s Wilderness

If there’s any reason to love drones, it’s the fantastic footage of the world that’s being filmed by amateur and professionals alike. Case in point: Hamersley, a stunning short film by Dan Proud. The video was taken from drone footage around the Hamersley range and Karijini National park in Australia. The footage here is stunning:…

Nexus 6P Review: The Android Phone For Everyone

Google-designed Nexus phones have been beating the handsets designed by third-parties for a few years now, owing to their use of an unfettered stock Android. With the 6P, Nexus finally gets gorgeous hardware to match the luster of its powerful software. It’s the Android phone almost everyone should buy. What Is It? A 5.7-inch Android…

Weird Al’s Live Music Video For Tacky Is Delightful Fun

Weird Al made a splash with his latest album Mandatory Fun last year, and he’s been on the road ever since. He’s just released his latest music video that compiles all of his wacky concert intros. Yankovic’s concerts are hilarious multimedia affairs, complete with music videos, costume changes and more, and for this latest tour,…

Last Month Was the Hottest September in Recorded History

Here we go again, folks! July was the hottest July on record, August the hottest August, so I bet you can’t fathom what the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration has to say about the September that closed out the hottest summer on record. You guessed it! This week, NOAA gave us its monthly state-of-the-climate report,…

That Victorian Sherlock Special Gets A Title and Air Date!

Good news, everyone! BBC One has announced the title and airdate for the Victorian Sherlock special! Sherlock: The Abominable Bride will air on January 1st, 2016. Also announced was that the show’s fourth series is currently being written, with production to be slated in spring 206. PBS’s Masterpiece Theater also dropped a trailer with the…

In 1900, a ship arrived at the island of Eileen Mor off the coast of Scotland. There, they were to deliver supplies to a lighthouse crew, only to discover that the three men had mysteriously vanished. Mentalfloss looks back on the 115 year old mystery.

Three Uses for Instagram That Don’t Involve Photo Sharing

Instagram keeps on adding users and adding features, but there’s more to the app than sharing photos and wondering which filter is going to bring out the best in your latest collection of beach shots. Here are three alternative ways of using Instagram you may not have come across before. Scout out locations for your…

Johnny Depp In Talks To Join Neil Gaiman’s Fortunately, The Milk Film 

This is neat: Johnny Depp is in discussions to join Edgar Wright’s adaptation of Neil Gaiman’s children’s book Fortunately, The Milk. Written by Gaiman and illustrated by Skottie Young, the short book follows a brother and sister as they discover that their house is missing milk. When their father goes out and returns, his story…

This Globe-Within-a-Globe is Essential to Navigating in Space

While this may look like a snapshot from an alternate futuristic-history of transparent overlays on mechanical globes, it’s a real moment from our past. This is John Glenn cramming in off-world navigation training just weeks before blasting off from Earth. In February 1962, John Glenn squeezed in a bit more time with this globe-within-a-globe, a…

Canadian Netflix Subscribers Will Be The First To Stream The Force Awakens

Canadians rejoice: in 2016, the next installment of the Star Wars saga will be available to stream on Netflix. According to Variety, The Force Awakens will hit Netflix in Canada “approximately eight months after the movie leaves theaters.” Why Canada? Apparently it comes down to prior agreements. Disney has existing agreements with Starz, although it…

This is What the Strongest Tropical Cyclone Ever Recorded Looked Like From Space

Yesterday, NASA’s Suomi NPP satellite passed over Hurricane Patricia, the most powerful tropical cyclone ever measured, and captured this stunning image in infrared. Hurricane Patricia made landfall on the Pacific coast of Mexico last night, and was downgraded to a tropical storm earlier this morning. The storm is remarkable not only in terms of how…

RIP Harriet Klausner, The Web’s Most Prolific Book Reviewer

If you’ve ever perused book reviews on Amazon.com, you’ve probably come across a name on just about every novel out there: Harriet Klausner. By the time she passed away on October 15th, she amassed an incredible 31,014 reviews. A self-described speed reader, Klausner was a former librarian who tore through four to six books a…

Hurricane Patricia, Live

One of the most powerful storms ever is hitting populated land right now, and none of the major media networks have live coverage. Let’s assemble the best of social media from the storm, and keep it live right here. I’ll update this throughout the night as best I can. And you can help! Post pictures,…

We Can’t Stop Watching This Video of Flowing Sand Art 

Take two panes of glass and glue them together with liquid and sand in between, and you’ve got the makings of some eye-popping dynamic sandscape art. For the above video, Joey Shanks (Shanks FX, in collaboration with PBS Digital Studios) worked with three different frames to get the effects he wanted, but the same principles…

Write a Short Story About Climate Change, And Win $1000!

Arizona State University, the folks who brought you the Hieroglyph anthology of optimistic science fiction, is now hosting a writing contest for stories about the Earth after climate change. And Kim Stanley Robinson is judging the contest! In addition to a $1000 prize for the grand prize winner, the Hieroglyph climate-fiction story contest has a…

Friday the 13th Part 4 Is the Best Friday the 13th Movie

A bold statement. But a true one. Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter is the best Friday the 13th film, and I say that as a diehard fan of Betsy “Mrs. Voorhees” Palmer. Here are all the reasons why part four is number one. It Acknowledges What Came Before … Then Moves Forward In an…

Watch people’s tattoos transform into animations with cool 3D body mapping

What’s cooler looking than tattoos? Tattoos that can move. Check out this awesome “ink mapping” by Oskar & Gaspar. They map a person’s body and transform their tattoos into kick ass animations that incorporate the tattoos’ original design. Basically, a person’s skin becomes the canvas for moving art. SPLOID is delicious brain candy. Follow us…

The Mind Behind Hannibal is Bringing Amazing Stories Back

In the mid-Eighties, Steven Spielberg created and produced an anthology show called Amazing Stories. Each week, a new tale dealing with the supernatural or fantastic was told, totally unrelated to the previous week. Now, it’s coming back with the help of Bryan Fuller. Entertainment Weekly broke the news of the return of Amazing Stories, which…

Steve Jobs Is a Very Entertaining Movie About How It’s OK to Be an Asshole

Five minutes into Steve Jobs, I didn’t think I was gonna make it. I am, indeed, a product of the attention-deficit generation whose mind was ruined by the “beautiful” ideas of Steve Jobs. I’ve heard the stories about Jobs’ meticulous obsession with details, and his mercurial, uncompromising personality. How could I not? They’ve been etched…

Fantastically Nerdy Science Humor Magazine Goes Digital

After 21 years, the Annals of Improbable Research — that bastion of uber-nerdy science humor — is switching from a dead tree format to an all-digital PDF format. And it’s holding a special subscription sale to celebrate. From now until October 31, you can get a yearly subscription (six issues) for just $15/year, instead of…