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Water Rip-Off! Belfast Hotel Charges £26 for Bottle of Melted Ice

According to the United Nations, 783 million people lack access to clean water, and 2.5 billion people worldwide have inadequate sanitation. At the same time, the cataclysm of climate change grows ever nearer as the narcissistic complacency of our species prevents the collective action necessary to head off future degradation. Meanwhile over in Belfast, according…

Palm Rot Is A Strange, Surrealistic Animated Video

When a crop duster named Bill hears an explosion out in the Florida Everglades, he discovers a mysterious package, one that leads to some very, very strange happenings that he’ll come to regret. This is a neat, Weird little video that reminds me a little of Jeff Vandermeer’s Area X novels. It’s worth checking out.

Watch The First Soviet Science Fiction Film, Aelita: Queen Of Mars

Here’s something cool to watch: the first ever Soviet science fiction movie, Aelita: Queen of Mars, directed by Yakov Protazanov from 1924. Based on the 1923 novel Aelita by Alexei Tolstoy, the film follows Los as he travels to Mars and leads an uprising against the totalitarian government , supported by queen Aelita, who had…

Nigeria Has Been Free of Polio for A Year

Nigeria marked its first full year with no new polio cases on Friday, thanks to an inoculation campaign which carried on despite continuing violence in the north and other major challenges for public health workers. Challenging Work The growing anti-vaccine movement in the U.S. is vocal, but it’s nothing compared to what Nigerian public health…

The 10 Best Slow-Mo Videos The Slow-Mo Guys Have Ever Done

Everything looks better in slow motion. Especially cocking about with your mates while making massive explosions. The Slow-Mo Guys on YouTube have millions of subscribers and loads of great slow-motion videos, but which ones are best? Here’s our top 10. Wondering who the Slow Mo Guys are? Check out the above video to get an…

Learn How To Doof With Funny Or Die

Mad Max: Fury Road has certainly caught on this year, but one of the most memorable points of the film was the Doof Warrior, the blind rock star with a flamethrower guitar. Funny or Die has a funny short that teaches you how to ‘doof’. The most important thing to remember? Play the hits and…

Here’s the 2015 British Fantasy Award Nominees

Begun in 1972, the British Fantasy Awards (originally named the August Derleth Fantasy Awards) have been presented annually by the British Fantasy Society. The BFS just announced their finalists for the award. Here’s the nominees: Best Fantasy Novel (the Robert Holdstock Award) City of Stairs, Robert Jackson Bennett (Jo Fletcher) The Relic Guild, Edward Cox…

This Might Be the Best Government Instagram Account of All

This week, I did a roundup of some of the best government Instagram accounts, but as several readers pointed out, I neglected to mention one very special Insta-goldmine: The TSA. We covered this treasure trove in its early days, but it’s such a gem we thought you deserved a reminder. There is no better place…

Watch a Drone Rescue Another Drone with Coat Hangers

Harrisen Howes was one beloved quadrocopter short after a drunk roommate managed to get his drone stuck up on the roof of their house. Lucky for Howes, drones are plenty capable of rescuing one another—given the right tools. Two months after the drone was marooned, Howes equipped a larger drone with hooks made from coat…

Watch The History Of Aliens In Film Starting In 1902

Digg has compiled a really cool video that looks at how we’ve used aliens in films, starting with 1902’s A Trip to the Moon and going all the way to 2014’s Guardians of the Galaxy. This isn’t a comprehensive look by any stretch of the imagination, but it’s interesting to see a bit of a…

Divers Discover Enormous Squid Egg Mass Off The Coast Of Turkey

Earlier this month, a team of divers swimming off the coast of Turkey discovered something unexpected: a 4-meter wide gelatinous mass of what turned out to be one of the biggest mass of squid eggs ever discovered. The divers weren’t sure what they had discovered, but once the video was posted online, they got a…

Gizmodo Photo Guide: Tips For Shooting The Night Sky

Want to get outside and snap some amazing photographs of the night sky, of some stunning moonlit landscapes and time-lapse starlight trails? Here are six key tips you need to know. Gizmodo’s Guide to Better Photography is brought to you by the Sony Mirrorless Alpha Range. Photography has evolved, and Sony mirrorless cameras have made…

Explore 25 Lost Cities With This Video 

The world is a really big place, and throughout human history, we’ve built and then lost a whole bunch of major cities. Over on the Mental Floss YouTube channel, John Green assembled a list and a bit of background on 25 cities from around the world that have been lost. Most have been found by…

In a recent piece for Grantland, Sean T. Collins explores how Hellboy has been destroying the world since 1994, and how he upended the traditional superhero comic along the way. He traces a bit of history behind Mike Mignola’s comic universe, and how the story is drawing to a close.

San Francisco Is Getting a Pee-Proof Paint Job

Taking a leak outside in San Francisco just got a wee bit less fun. That’s because public works crews are coating walls throughout the city with a urine-repellent paint that bounces your pee right back at you. Public urination has been a problem in San Francisco for years. The city banned urinating outside in 2002,…

Can A Home Drone Kill You? The Mythbusters Test With A Chicken Says Yes

Tonight’s episode of Mythbusters, Flights of Fantasy features two very different types of flying machines: drones and a Lockheed U-2 spy plane. Show hosts Adam Savage and Jaime Hyneman took a couple of minutes to chat with us about the episode and the rest of the newly-rebooted season of the show. Tonight’s episode sees the…

What Would Happen if a Massive Comet Struck the Sun?

Humans, dark and disturbed creatures that we are, love to imagine what would happen if a massive comet struck the Earth. But what if a giant ice rock flung itself into the Sun? A team of astronomers did the math to figure out what would happen. “I give talks about these and I call them…

James Cameron’s Deepsea Challenger Damaged In Transit

In 2012, James Cameron made history when he became the third person to visit the Mariana Trench. After the trip, he donated his submarine, Deepsea Challenger, to the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution. The institution was in the process of loaning the vehicle out when it caught fire while in transit. https://gizmodo.com/james-cameron-has-donated-his-record-breaking-submarine-459240423 The Deepsea Challenger was…

Fly Through The Solar System At The Speed Of Light With This Video

Space is really, really big, and there’s been a couple of great videos out there that show off the relative size of objects. This video puts the scale of the solar system into real perspective by showing how it takes you pass through the solar system at the speed of light. Light travels 299,792,458 m/s,…

Mobile payments provider Square has apparently filed confidential paperwork for an initial public offering. This could give the company the additional capital it needs to build out new initiatives, including a wireless device that accepts payments from Apple Pay. Learn more at Bloomberg.