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Why Does This Ice Look Exactly Like Hair

Fungi are some of the weirdest and most fascinating creatures on Earth, but they’ve really outdone themselves with this one: Hair ice. According to new research, the icy hair-sculptures that crop up overnight in forests before melting away in the sun have fungal fingerprints all over them. Hair ice is this totally weird stuff people…

In 1937, A Badass Old Lady Sued Her Neighbor For Calling Her a Witch

This is the Virginia home of “Aunt Jane” Dutton in 1937, when the 82-year-old was accused by her neighbor, “Rocky Joe” Stanley, 83, of being a witch—a slanderous accusation so low she sought a warrant for his arrest. The ensuing trial offered a fascinating mix of courtroom drama and local folklore. On October 5, 1937,…

This Badass Iron Patriot Is The Most Patriotic Iron Man Figure Yet

Stand down, saluting War Machine. There’s a new robot suit figure in town that oozes patriotism—and it looks pretty damn great while doing so. Enter Sentinel’s totally awesome Iron Patriot! https://gizmodo.com/bandais-war-machine-toy-comes-complete-with-patriotic-a-1698491475 Although we got a teasing glimpse last month, this is our first good look at the Re:Edit line’s latest Iron Man armor, the red,…

Adam Sandler Has Never Ruined A Movie As Much As He Ruins Pixels

We’ve suspected that Pixels would be an almighty disaster ever since we saw the first trailer, but it’s actually worse than we feared. Director Chris Columbus is clearly trying to create another great fantasy adventure, but he’s hamstrung by a short-sighted script. And Adam Sandler’s painful performance. Minor spoilers ahead… Sandler, along with Kevin James,…

Where’s Waldo Wallpaper Is the Best Work Distraction

We’ve all got something on our desks we like to fiddle with when work gets boring, be it a traditional Newton’s Cradle, or just the good ol’ internet. But neither can compare to the wonderful waste of time that is a giant Where’s Waldo scene filling an entire wall of your office. Even after you…

The House of Representatives has passed a bill that would ban states from labeling GMO foods. It’s the first federal move on an issue that, until now, has mostly been controlled by the states. You can read more on the full case against GMO labeling right here.

Create Custom Names For Your Favorite Places on Google Maps

The most recent version of Google Maps for Android lets you retrace your steps with a new timeline feature, but there’s more to explore when you dig deeper, like creating custom names for places on your maps. You can label your friends’ houses, use local nicknames rather than official labels, and so on. Once Google…

The Reason Lake Tahoe Is So Blue Is Not Because It’s So Clear

California’s Lake Tahoe is known for being blue—really, really blue. And for a long time people assumed that bright color was because it was so clear. We now know that isn’t the case after a study on the lake revealed something weird. Lake Tahoe is almost always very blue, but it’s not consistently blue—there are…

A GoPro Makes a Swing Feel Like a Roller Coaster

Slides, teeter-totters, and even merry-go-rounds are all just bit players at a playground. The real star of the show are always the swing sets, because as this first-person GoPro footage reminds us, they’re about as close as you can get to riding a roller coaster without any kind of safety gear. This particular daredevil is…

Earthquake Kits Selling Like Hotcakes After Terrifying New Yorker Story

It’s been more than a week since The New Yorker published a story called The Really Big One, describing how much of the Pacific Northwest will be destroyed by a massive earthquake and tsunami and scaring the crap out of Americans nationwide. Now, emergency kits are “flying off the shelves.” That’s no huge surprise to…

An Auto-Inflating Bulletproof Vest Will Do Anything To Keep You Alive

In the movies you see people falling into water after getting shot all the time. But apparently that also happens often enough in real life for someone to develop a bulletproof vest with an auto-inflating air bladder to keep someone afloat if they’re injured or unconscious. A bulletproof vest will prevent a round from piercing…

Look at This Extinct Snake’s Little Arms and Legs

Yes, at least one snake—albeit a very, very old snake—used to have tiny little arms and legs on its lengthy torso. iI want, more than anything else in the world, to see this snake running. Unfortunately, it appears it didn’t use its legs for that. But we can use them to studyv erything from pterosaurs…

Seats From Tokyo’s Demolished Olympic Stadium Sold As Minimalist Chairs

As you may have heard, Tokyo scrapped plans last week for its pricy $2 billion stadium for the 2020 Summer Olympics. It’s a big mess, not least because the city’s existing, historic stadium from the 1964 Olympic Games had been destroyed to make room for this ugly new one. But now? Seats from that 60s…

On A Pirate Ship, Off The Coast Of Panama, In The Caribbean

Located off the coast of Panama, the San Blas Islands are rarely visited and can be dangerous to reach. So, we hopped aboard a pirate ship and set sail. Here’s how you can do that too. When I started thinking about exploring in Panama, two girls came to mind. The first started a rocking sushi…

We Might Have Our First Glimpse Of The New Spider-Man Costume!

Is Zack Snyder’s son playing Robin in Batman v Superman? The next season of Arrow could be drawing on a famous comic book storyline. The future of the Terminator has been put in doubt following Genisys. Plus, new footage from Mission Impossible: Rogue Nation and Fantastic Four. To me, my Spoilers! Captain America: Civil War…

Federal Inspectors Request Criminal Investigation Over Clinton Emails

Federal officials have requested that the US Justice Department opens a full criminal investigation into Hillary Clinton’s use of a private email account while she held the position of secretary of state. The officials believe that a full investigation is required to understand if she misused sensitive information while using her own home-brew email server…

This Glorious Mess Is Actually Munich From Space

A splattered canvas of reds and greens, this is actually a combination of three radar scans from the European Space Agency’s Sentinel-1A satellite as it passed over Bavaria in Southern Germany. The white sprawl on the right is Munich. The ESA explains what you can see: Along the northern part of this river, the white…

Judges Revive Claim that AT&T Overcharged Schools for Internet Service

For seven years, a Wisconsin telecom consultant has waged an unsuccessful legal fight against AT&T, alleging that the company long defrauded a federal program by overcharging the nation’s schools and libraries for Internet and telephone services. Now an appeals court in the District of Columbia has given new life to his case. The little-noticed June…

It’s a Run to Danger In the 2nd Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials Trailer

I mean, if Petyr Baelish (okay, really Aidan Gillen) was telling you how bad things were, would you believe him? Contact the author at [email protected].

Watch a Computer Attempt to Sing 90s Power Ballads—With Feeling

Computers do many things well, but expressing emotion is not one of them. So what happens if you ask one to try and sing a heartfel version of a 90s power ballad? “What do machines sing of?” is an art project by Martin Backes that “endlessly sings number-one ballads from the 1990s.” There is little…