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Our Favorite Creatures From The 8th Season Of SyFy’s Face Off!

The 8th season of SyFy’s monster makeup reality competition Face Off wrapped up this week, so it’s a good time to look back at the scariest, most badass, beautiful or just flat out awesome creatures from the entire season. Plus, we interviewed season 8 winner Darla Edin. This season, Face Off brought back three previous…

io9 Ed Grabianowski

War Between Tigers And Sharks Erupts In This New Axe Cop Trailer

If you haven’t been watching the Axe Cop cartoon on the ADHD block, you’re missing out on some very important information. Information like, the only thing that stops nature’s mortal enemies, tigers and sharks, from waging all-out war on each other is the water. Also: Now the water is missing. The educational new season of…

Trailers Rob Bricken

What Scientific Question Do You Most Hope Is Answered In Your Lifetime?

Sometimes, the best part about science are all the still-unanswered questions and the possibilities they offer. And sometimes, you just want an answer already. Today, we want to know about the unanswered questions that you most want to be figured out while you’re still roaming around this planet. Tell us in the comments what the…

io9 Ria Misra

Abraham Lincoln Autopsy Notes Reveal The Horror Of An Assassin’s Gunshot

The Fenimore Art Museum in Cooperstown, NY just opened a new installation, “Autopsy for a Nation: The Death of Abraham Lincoln,” marking the 150th anniversary of Lincoln’s assassination. The exhibit’s key items include handwritten notes by the physicians who conducted the President’s autopsy. Lincoln was shot April 14, 1865 by John Wilkes Booth while watching…

Tech News Cheryl Eddy

Edit Office Documents From Inside the Dropbox Website

To continue to compete with the likes of Google Drive, OneDrive and iCloud, Dropbox really needs an online office suite to call its own—so it’s borrowed Microsoft’s. You can now edit any .docx, .xlsx or .pptx file from right inside the Dropbox web interface, with no extra software required, and here’s how to go about…

Gadgets David Nield

This Is As Close As You’ll Ever Get To Seinfeld Action Figures

Despite a laugh track, there are apparently still enough fans of the sitcom Seinfeld to justify a series of figures based on some of the show’s more popular and memorable characters. So Funko has recently announced a new range of its Vinyl Idolz figures that will include Seinfeld characters like Kramer, the Soup Nazi, Newman,…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski

One Certain Kitchen Item Can Defeat The World’s Strongest Acid

Fluoroantimonic acid is the strongest acid in the world; it can rip through most materials easily. But a chemical that you’ve got around your house will stop it cold. An acid, when it hits water, produces positive hydrogen ions looking for electrons. Certain materials will lend electrons more readily than others. Metals will often hand…

io9 Esther Inglis-Arkell

The beautiful ancient art of making sake

Yoshida Brewery in northern Japan is a 144 year old family brewery that makes sake the old fashioned way. That is, they make sake in a way that preserves a 2000 year old tradition. Erik Shirai made a beautiful short of the people at Yoshida and the process of making sake in his film The…

Sploid Casey Chan

A Clever New Play About The Post-Apocalypse That You Can See For Free

In the new play “Salvage,” a team of government officials searches through the rubble of New York for precious objects from the time before a catastrophic event devastated the city. And the play asks what defines us, when almost all the physical trappings of our hyper-connected society are lost. The play’s official synopsis reads thus:…

io9 Kaila Hale-Stern

Blazing Fast SSD Flash Drives Finally Available in Half TB Capacities

If you don’t mind waiting hours to fill a massive flash drive with files then by all means go and drop a few hundred bucks on a 256 GB drive. But if you value your time, you’ll want to seriously consider a compact SSD flash drive instead. They boast sustained transfer speeds topping out at…

Gadgets Andrew Liszewski

Surprise! A Fan Favorite Survivor Might Die In Walking Dead Season 6

James Gunn talks about the importance of fathers in Guardians of the Galaxy 2. Read the entire alleged cast-list of The Force Awakens, and see more Age of Ultron pictures. Plus Orphan Black hints, clips from Outlander and Vampire Diaries, and a familiar face returns to Agents of Shield. Spoilers! Top image: The Walking Dead.…

Television James Whitbrook

Tinder Jumps In Bed With Instagram, And Everything Else You Missed

Tinder teams up with Instagram, handwriting makes a comeback, and Sony may release its next flagship smartphone sooner than you’d think. BitStream has all the news and rumors you missed in the last 24 hours. Tinder has always been more about looks and less about personality, like going to a speed dating event but you’re…

Tech News Darren Orf

Is It Really Possible to Learn to Speed Read?

Ninety-five percent of college educated individuals read at a rate between 200-400 words per minute according to extensive research done by University of Massachusetts Amherst professor Dr. Keith Rayner. However, there exists a small, but rather vocal subset of people who insist that they can read several times faster than this using various speed reading…

Books & Comics Karl Smallwood - TodayIFoundOut.com

This Mesh Stops Oil But Lets Water Right Through

This looks like a fairly normal piece of stainless steel mesh—but it’s coated with a special substance which allows it to block oil while allowing water through. Developed by researchers at Ohio State, the coating is apparently inspired by lotus leaves, which do the opposite—repelling water but not oil. The team attempted to replicate the…

Tech News Jamie Condliffe

This trippy music video would make Salvador Dali proud

The music video for Fantasía—by Spanish band Fur Voice—seems to come straight out of Salvador Dali’s mind. The video—directed by Spanish director Pablo Mestres—is full of surrealistic images and uncanny dreamy sequences that made my brain hurt—in a pleasant way. Fur Voice is an alternative-electronic band from Barcelona, Spain. You can follow them on Twitter…

Sploid Omar Kardoudi

Turn Your Drawings Into 3D-Printable Models With MakerBot’s iPad App

One of the biggest reasons there isn’t a 3D printer in every home—yet—has nothing to do with price or availability. It’s the fact that if you want to design and print your own objects, you need to know how to use relatively complex 3D modelling software. So MakerBot has updated its free PrintShop iPad app…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski

How The Thing’s gross defibrillator chest chomp scene was made

John Carpenter’s The Thing is a masterclass on the use of practical effects. The makeup effects team worked for seven days a week for 57 weeks to create the realistic alien creatures, gore, and viscera we see on the film. This neat video by Cinefix explains how they made it. SPLOID is delicious brain candy.…

Sploid Omar Kardoudi

This Is How Robots Are Mapping Radiation at Fukushima

Deep within the abandoned shell of the Fukushima nuclear power plant, it’s too dangerous for humans to investigate—so it’s being inspected by robots instead. New Scientist reports that two new robots, called Rosemary and Sakura, are exploring the depths of the site. It hasn’t all gone smoothly: one robot sent in earlier this month got…

Tech News Jamie Condliffe

Guy invents color-coded chord wheel to translate music into paintings

Tim Bavington—an artist based in Las Vegas, Nevada—is not the first artist who tries to paint music but he might be the most precise at it. He came up with a color-coded chord wheel that helps him translate notes into colors so he can make paintings that are exact visualizations of his favorite songs. SPLOID…

Sploid Omar Kardoudi

How This Equation Draws Itself

This rather clunky looking formula—made more clunky by its pixelated nature—is actually rather special. Because the formula is what’s used to create the visual representation of the formula which is used to create the… This is known as Tupper’s self-referential formula, and it was developed as part of Jeff Tupper’s into developing automated graphing techniques.…

Tech News Jamie Condliffe

Our Favorite Creatures From The 8th Season Of SyFy’s Face Off!

War Between Tigers And Sharks Erupts In This New Axe Cop Trailer

What Scientific Question Do You Most Hope Is Answered In Your Lifetime?

Abraham Lincoln Autopsy Notes Reveal The Horror Of An Assassin’s Gunshot

Edit Office Documents From Inside the Dropbox Website

This Is As Close As You’ll Ever Get To Seinfeld Action Figures

One Certain Kitchen Item Can Defeat The World’s Strongest Acid

The beautiful ancient art of making sake

A Clever New Play About The Post-Apocalypse That You Can See For Free

Blazing Fast SSD Flash Drives Finally Available in Half TB Capacities

Surprise! A Fan Favorite Survivor Might Die In Walking Dead Season 6

Tinder Jumps In Bed With Instagram, And Everything Else You Missed

Is It Really Possible to Learn to Speed Read?

This Mesh Stops Oil But Lets Water Right Through

This trippy music video would make Salvador Dali proud

Turn Your Drawings Into 3D-Printable Models With MakerBot’s iPad App

How The Thing’s gross defibrillator chest chomp scene was made

This Is How Robots Are Mapping Radiation at Fukushima

Guy invents color-coded chord wheel to translate music into paintings

How This Equation Draws Itself

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