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Murdering Things With Laughing Gas Was A Proto-CSI Technique

Sir Humphry Davy learned quite a bit from experiment in which he exposed animals — including himself — to laughing gas. One of the things he learned was how to look at blood and determine a cause of death. (Usually that cause of death was exposure to Sir Humphry Davy.) Sir Humphry Davy was a…

io9 Esther Inglis-Arkell

Panasonic G7: The GH4’s New Kid Brother Can Still Shoot 4K Video

While Fujilm announced a shrunk-down version of its top-end mirrorless camera today, Panasonic is doing the exact same thing. The G7 has many of the features that enthusiasts love about last year’s GH4, including the power of 4K video recording. While previous models in Panasonic’s G line have been rather bland, the G7 has updated…

Tech News Michael Hession

We’re In The Longest U.S. Hurricane Drought Ever Recorded. Here’s Why.

We’re currently in the middle of the largest U.S. hurricane lull since 1850 — but we’re also still having strong global hurricane seasons. What explains this seeming paradox? Simple. It’s statistics. NASA scientist Timothy Hall and researcher Kelly Hereid ran a series of statistical models, and using those, calculated that a lull of this size…

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A Few Choice Excerpts From Tim Cook’s Commencement Speech

Apple’s CEOs are fascinating: Where Steve Jobs cultivated a shrewd genius persona, Tim Cook’s journey to Apple’s upper echelon is equally inspiring. In his George Washington commencement speech this weekend, Cook shared some details about that journey—and threw in an iPhone joke or two. Commencement speeches tend to be part humblebrag and part sickening optimism,…

Tech News Darren Orf

Meet Orgrim The Orc In This Amazing First Peek At The Warcraft Movie

We’ve been drip fed reports about test footage and even gorgeous painted recreations of unreleased trailers, but here is our first official look at Duncan Jones’ Warcraft: The gloriously detailed visage of Orc chieftain Orgrim Doomhammer! https://gizmodo.com/a-whos-who-of-the-heroes-of-the-warcraft-movie-1656436541 Wired have officially unveiled our first good look at the mindblowing work of Industrial Light and Magic for…

Movies James Whitbrook

“It’s Barack. Really!” Obama Finally Joins Twitter at @POTUS

Did it take this long to verify him? Is he posting from his BlackBerry? I have SO MANY QUESTIONS. After six years in office, President Barack Obama finally has a Twitter account, where he posted his first tweet today: Those who wished to address the president via social media in the past were limited to…

Tech News Alissa Walker

In Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell, Power Lies With Politics, Not Magic

What if a world of mysticism and magic stood alongside Regency high society? Susanna Clarke’s break-out novel Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell — the BBC’s adaptation of which began in the U.K last night — asks just that. But as the first episode shows, even in a world with magic, the real power is in…

Television James Whitbrook

Silicon Valley Made the Best Apple Maps Joke

Last night’s Silicon Valley is called “Homicide,” and it’s a reference to a fictional energy drink, not intentional killing. But the episode also contains a killer joke about the worst tech products in recent history. Hooli’s Nucleus completely screws up a UFC livestream, prompting a Gavin Belson freakout. He demands to know exactly how bad…

Television Kate Knibbs

An Undead Ex-Girlfriend Makes A Strange Bedfellow In Nina Forever

The self-proclaimed “fucked-up fairy tale” Nina Forever has been making the festival rounds with fairly good reviews. And now the first trailer is out, showing off just what makes this film so very, very odd. It’s hard to put to words, really. Directors Chris Blaine and Ben Blaine setsthe scene in the depressed bed of…

Trailers Meredith Woerner

The Placenta Was Your First Reproductive Organ

You were once as wrapped as snug as the pony in the picture. Before you were born, you sat wrapped inside a placenta tucked inside your mother’s womb. That placenta was the very first reproductive structure your body built, long before you built your testes or ovaries or genitalia. But even though this type of…

Biology Diane Kelly

How Anabolic Steroids Make You Stronger – And How They Destroy You

The quick and dirty route to gaining strength is to take some kind of anabolic steroid. These drugs actually trick the body into building up muscle mass and endurance — but they can also age you far beyond your years. Anabolic steroids work because they masquerade as one of the body’s basic hormones: testosterone. Testosterone…

Health Kiona Smith-Strickland

On Game Of Thrones, The Stark Girls Learn The Cost Of Becoming Monsters

Both Sansa and Arya Stark have been apprenticed to monsters lately on Game of Thrones. But in last night’s horrifying episode, they both learn that imitating their mentors may come at a higher cost than they realized. Spoilers ahead… Since the start of the season, Arya Stark has been studying with the Faceless Men in…

Television Charlie Jane Anders

The Best Tool for Tracking Our Crumbling Infrastructure Is In Orbit

The sad state of America’s bridges is a perennial topic amongst engineers and a regular talking point for politicians, all of whom have a plan to fix them. An interesting post from the European Space Agency shows how one of the best tools for repair is actually hanging out in Low Earth Orbit. Bonner Bridge…

Space & Spaceflight Kelsey Campbell-Dollaghan

Disney May Be Thinking About Marvel And Star Wars TV Channels

Tucked inside an interview with Daily Finance is the news that Disney CEO Bob Iger seems to be considering two TV channels dedicated to Marvel entertainment and all things Star Wars, respectively. If you’re wondering how Star Wars could possibly get its own channel out of six movies and a handful of cartoon series, the…

Television Rob Bricken

The Marvel vs. DC Debate Finally Ends With These Comic Book Chess Pieces

Everyone just assumed that the Marvel Comics vs. DC Comics debate would rage on forever—or at least until mankind became extinct. But Eaglemoss has finally come up with a way to figure out which company is better, Marvel or DC, with custom chess pieces featuring the most popular comic book characters from each side of…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski

These eerie millipedes glow in the dark because of stress

We all have our own different coping mechanisms when it comes to stress. A nice walk outside. A cold beer. A punching bag. Blowing up at your friends. And glowing in the dark. What? Scientists believe that these millipedes evolved to glow in the dark to deal with stress (and to let predators now that…

Sploid Casey Chan

What Are You Reading?

Look up from between your pages of your book just long enough to tell us, what have you been reading lately? Maybe it’s biographies that have caught your attention these days. Or perhaps you’re reading your way through the collected works of Arthur Conan Doyle. Maybe you’re perusing old home DIY project manuals, in search…

Books & Comics Ria Misra

How to Add Customized Gesture Controls to Your Android Phone

Get yourself an Android phone or tablet and you can hack it to work in pretty much whatever way you want—and that extends to input as well. All In One Gestures is one of several apps on the Google Play Store that let you create customized gestures for controlling your apps and the OS itself.…

Gadgets David Nield

How The Soviet Union Tracked People With “Spy Dust”

The US started hearing about a substance that could be used to track the movements of any person who touches, or walks across, a contaminated surface. in 1963. It wasn’t until 1984 that they got a sample of the stuff. A defecting agent revealed that powder containing both luminol and a substance called nitrophenyl pentadien…

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Batman’s Mobile Bat-Lab Will Return As A New Playset

Now this is sort of retro revival I can get behind. First, Figures Toy Company announced that they would bring back Mego’s old school cardboard playsets for their Batman and DC 8” figure line — and now they’ve gone a step further and revealed they’ll be bringing back new versions of Mego’s DC vehicles, too.…

Tech News James Whitbrook

Murdering Things With Laughing Gas Was A Proto-CSI Technique

Panasonic G7: The GH4’s New Kid Brother Can Still Shoot 4K Video

We’re In The Longest U.S. Hurricane Drought Ever Recorded. Here’s Why.

A Few Choice Excerpts From Tim Cook’s Commencement Speech

Meet Orgrim The Orc In This Amazing First Peek At The Warcraft Movie

“It’s Barack. Really!” Obama Finally Joins Twitter at @POTUS

In Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell, Power Lies With Politics, Not Magic

Silicon Valley Made the Best Apple Maps Joke

An Undead Ex-Girlfriend Makes A Strange Bedfellow In Nina Forever

The Placenta Was Your First Reproductive Organ

How Anabolic Steroids Make You Stronger – And How They Destroy You

On Game Of Thrones, The Stark Girls Learn The Cost Of Becoming Monsters

The Best Tool for Tracking Our Crumbling Infrastructure Is In Orbit

Disney May Be Thinking About Marvel And Star Wars TV Channels

The Marvel vs. DC Debate Finally Ends With These Comic Book Chess Pieces

These eerie millipedes glow in the dark because of stress

What Are You Reading?

How to Add Customized Gesture Controls to Your Android Phone

How The Soviet Union Tracked People With “Spy Dust”

Batman’s Mobile Bat-Lab Will Return As A New Playset

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Murdering Things With Laughing Gas Was A Proto-CSI Technique

Panasonic G7: The GH4’s New Kid Brother Can Still Shoot 4K Video

We’re In The Longest U.S. Hurricane Drought Ever Recorded. Here’s Why.

A Few Choice Excerpts From Tim Cook’s Commencement Speech

Meet Orgrim The Orc In This Amazing First Peek At The Warcraft Movie

“It’s Barack. Really!” Obama Finally Joins Twitter at @POTUS

In Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell, Power Lies With Politics, Not Magic

Silicon Valley Made the Best Apple Maps Joke

An Undead Ex-Girlfriend Makes A Strange Bedfellow In Nina Forever

The Placenta Was Your First Reproductive Organ

How Anabolic Steroids Make You Stronger – And How They Destroy You

On Game Of Thrones, The Stark Girls Learn The Cost Of Becoming Monsters

The Best Tool for Tracking Our Crumbling Infrastructure Is In Orbit

Disney May Be Thinking About Marvel And Star Wars TV Channels

The Marvel vs. DC Debate Finally Ends With These Comic Book Chess Pieces

These eerie millipedes glow in the dark because of stress

What Are You Reading?

How to Add Customized Gesture Controls to Your Android Phone

How The Soviet Union Tracked People With “Spy Dust”

Batman’s Mobile Bat-Lab Will Return As A New Playset

Dammit, Jim, He’s a Doctor *And* an Action Figure!

Whatever Just Happened with ‘Fruit Love Island,’ Nobody Won

AMC Puts a Stake in ‘Talamasca’ After One Season

Aqara Smart Lock U400 Review: Hands-free Unlocking at Its Best

2027 Is Shaping Up to Be a Great Year for Big Sci-Fi RPGs

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Asus ROG’s Massive Swift OLED Gaming Monitor Epitomizes Excess in the Best Way

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