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Can a laser etched tortilla actually play music like a vinyl record?

One of those jokester Vines had previously made a six-second funny on a tortilla playing music but Rhapsody Records wanted to see if it was actually feasible. Supposedly it is! They took an uncooked flour tortilla and then laser etched the deliciousness into something that can hold music. Tortillas, not only are they tasty and…

This Sweet, Two-Minute Short Brings a Disney Musical Fantasy to Life

Noam Murro—director of 300: Rise of An Empire—enters a decidedly more adorable fantasy realm with Night Shift, a Fantasia homage featuring a rubbery-limbed janitor/sorcerer (note the Mickey gloves!) taking care of business with the help of an animated, bucket-toting mop. Murro’s piece was featured as part of a larger showcase of shorts at the Cannes…

I Tried Some Aphrodisiacs, and Didn’t Even Get a Stupid Placebo Effect

People have ascribed sexual powers to certain foods for centuries, but there’s absolutely no scientific evidence any of them will actually give you anything beyond calories and vitamins. But what the hell? Every so often, I’ll try some out and let you know what they’re like. As you read, imagine that I take a bite…

We’re Only a Pluto Day Away From Pluto

We’re only a day from reaching everyone’s favorite demoted planet—a Pluto Day, that is. The icy dwarf world rotates once every 6 days, 9 hours, and 22 minutes, meaning that at 10:28 p.m. EST tonight, Pluto will have itself just one more spin before the New Horizons spacecraft makes its closest approach on July 14th.…

Hipcamp Wants To Be Airbnb For Camping

Last weekend, my friends and I went camping at a private spot in Big Sur that has the only fresh water swimming hole in the area. It’d previously been off-limits, but thanks to a new service called Hipcamp, anyone can now book it online. How’s it work? The actual sunset you will actually see from…

Watch What Happens Inside a Bubble When It Collapses

Watch a bubble annihilate itself by stabbing itself, splitting in two, and then dissolving into two tiny clouds of bubbles. It’s quick, it’s beautiful, and, with the accompanying explanation, it’s weirdly intuitive. My favorite moment in this video of a bubble collapsing is the moment when the bubble seems to turn in on itself and…

Tell Us Your Hopes and Fears for the Han Solo Spin-Off Movie

Well, it’s finally happening. We’re getting a movie abut the origin of Han Solo. The good news is that putting The Lego Movie’s Lord and Miller in charge is definitely a good call; the bad news is there’s a ton of potential to needlessly ruin one of our favorite characters ever. Where do you fall…

The Shocking 1982 Hollywood Attack That Raised Awareness About Stalking

In the early 1980s, actor Theresa Saldana’s star was on the rise. Her roles in Defiance and Raging Bull brought her fame—but also the attention of mentally unstable man who believed he was “the benevolent angel of death.” In 1982, his pursuit of her turned violent. Saldana’s deranged “fan” was a Scottish man named Arthur…

Warning: Hacking Team Wrote Malware for Flash, Android, and Windows

We learned yesterdaythat the Hacking Team—an Italian security company with ties to oppressive governments and a reputation for selling intrusive spy tools—got hacked. Today, we’re learning some scary thingsabout what this all means for you and me. In a word: malware. Thanks to documents leaked after the hack, we now know Hacking Team sold exploits…

“iPhone Keeps Restarting” Glitch Is Driving the Internet Crazy

At first I thought it was just my old 5s—in the middle of an activity, it freezes for a few seconds, blanks out to the Apple screen, and restarts. Then friends reported the same restarts with varying iPhone models and iOS versions. Now the problem is so common, it’s become a meme unto itself. Browse…

Tuesday Game Room: Summer Doldrums Edition

Ah, summer is here—and that basically means video games have decided to give it a rest for a couple of months. Now’s the time to get out there and enjoy the sunshine, or… stay in and play all those video games you’ve been meaning to catch up on? Let’s go with the latter. It’s time…

Watch A Viral Video Setting Up Ant-Man and Linking To Civil War

With the buzz swirling around the start of Comic-Con, it’s easy to forget Marvel Studios has their next big movie coming out just next week: Ant-Man. To help you remember, a viral video has come online setting up the new film and linking to the following one. The video features Christine Everhart (really actress Leslie…

Bonobos may be as good at using tools as early humans were, a new study finds. The observation demonstrates that captive bonobos are capable of a wide range of tool use, but it also suggests that observing how these animals forage for food could help anthropologists understand how our ancestors evolved similar skills. Contact the…

Report Finds WHO Unfit To Confront Public Health Emergencies Like Ebola

In the wake of West Africa’s Ebola crisis, an independent panel assembled at the request of World Health Organization director Margaret Chan has judged the WHO unfit “to deliver a full emergency public health response,” finding that it has neither “the capacity [nor] organizational culture” to do so. The Ebola Interim Assessment Panel, led by…

The special effects behind Game of Thrones’ epic White Walker battle

The VFX in Game of Thrones is consistently great for a TV show, with some scenes rivaling the very best of any visual medium. And this past season’s battle (or massacre) at Hardhome between the White Walkers and wights vs The Night’s Watch and the wildlings might very well be the best we’ve seen. At…

That Photo of Hillary Clinton With a Confederate Flag is Fake

Is this Hillary Clinton posing for a photo in front of the Confederate flag? Nope. It’s a fake. Well, at least the flag part is. The original photo comes from her time at Wellesley College and doesn’t have the flag. Noted conservative activist Dinesh D’Souza tweeted the fake photo earlier today, which helped it go…

These Hanging Hotel Rooms Have Good Food, Great Views, So Much Screaming

It’s not unlike camping, according to visitors. Except for the fact that you’re hanging from a sheer rock cliff 400 feet above the ground. Oh, and the bathroom. The bathroom is… different. These are the Skylodges, a set of three steel capsules that hang off of a cliff that leads down into Peru’s Sacred Valley—the…

Capcom’s Upcoming Wearable Mega Man Helmet Replica Is Flawless

Following up on that wonderful Mega Man Buster Gun replica that ThinkGeek is still selling, today Capcom teased an image of an upcoming wearable Mega Man helmet that will officially be on display at San Diego Comic-Con starting this week. Made from polished ABS plastic with working LED accent lighting, the replica has a clamshell…

Darth Vader Will Appear in the First Star Wars Spin-Off, Rogue One

We knew Rogue One was going to be set in-between Revenge of the Sith and A New Hope, and we’ve heard that the movie will be centered around their mission is to steal the plans for the first Death Star. But it now it sounds like these Rebel pilots will have more to worry about…

Dividing 1 by This Big Number Gives You the Fibonacci Sequence. Why?

After dividing 1 by 999-quattuordecillion (a number that’s 48 integers long), you get the Fibonacci sequence presented in neat, 24-digit strings. Here’s why that happens. As a quick refresher, the Fibonacci sequence is the series of numbers, 0, 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21, 34, etc., in which each subsequent number is determined…