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In Honor Of Lunar New Year, Here’s An Underwater Lion Dance

Happy Year of the Sheep! Here’s something you don’t see every day: divers performing a Chinese lion dance … underwater. With a big ol’ reptilian buddy providing some verrrry slow backup moves. This shot was taken at the Lunar New Year celebration February 19 at the Aquaria KLCC underwater park in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. (AP…

Removing A Tunneling Machine From The Ground Is Strangely Difficult

Tunnel-boring machines are genuine marvels of modern technology — self-contained contraptions big enough to build entire subway tunnels, a job that used to require thousands of pick-axes and the sacrifice of quite a few lives. But once construction is finished, getting the machines out can take months. This timelapse shows the breakthrough and removal of…

Simon Pegg Is A Crass Assassin In The Trailer For Kill Me Three Times

Oh jeez, you’re saying. Another hitman movie? But! Australian entry Kill Me Three Times stars Simon Pegg, noted funnyguy, as the ruthless bloke with the gun. And wisecracks. Watch the red band trailer below, and make sure not to use all your matches to set off that explosion.

What’s Your Dumbest Internet Purchasing Fail?

Amazon is great and all, but an unfortunate side-effect of buying stuff sight unseen on the ‘net is that sometimes you end up with stuff you didn’t really mean to buy. I’m not saying that’s the reason I have three power strips for European plugs under my bed, but…yeah. I should probably read the description…

The Time Travel In Syfy’s 12 Monkeys Is Probably Not Going To Make Sense

Don’t get me wrong — I’m still enjoying the hell out of 12 Monkeys. But last night’s episode confirmed what I suspected from the pilot onwards. The time travel on this show is going to follow make-it-up-as-we-go-along rules, without much regard for logic. Typical television time travel, in other words. Spoilers ahead… The main problem…

A Vintage Chart Of UFO Sightings From Around The World

From the collection of the National Archives UK, this awesomely simple chart was drawn in 1969. Some of them look like classic scifi interpretations of flying saucers … but we also see some hubcaps and hats in there, too.

Lenovo Made An Automatic Removal Tool For Its Adware Mess

Lenovo’s pre-installation of the Superfish adware is one of the biggest fuck-ups the company could have made, but at least it’s cleaning up fairly quickly: it created a custom uninstall tool to clean your computer of the program and its certificates, and in a responsibly transparent move, also posted the source code and license of…

This Japanese Robot Feeds You Tomatoes While You Run

Okay, it’s not exactly a robot—but I bet it’s still the craziest thing you’ve seen all day. Japanese juice and ketchup company Kagome built a freaking wearable tomato dispenser for a runner at the Japan Marathon this weekend. The video pretty much speaks for itself: What’s really going on here? Believe it or not, it’s…

Why Flying Cars Are Difficult And Dumb

By this stage, it’s fairly clear that flying cars aren’t going to happen any time soon, despite what the media might want to say. And there’s a simple reason for that — the whole concept of flying cars is pretty stupid in the first place. Vsauce uses this video to explain why a number of…

Finally, Sailor Moon Crystal Has Learned The Power Of Characterisation

Don’t call it a comeback, but Sailor Moon Crystal delivered a strong episode this week, off of the back of a solid opening to the ‘Black Moon’ story line. The only problem is, is it too late for us to start caring? https://gizmodo.com/on-sailor-moon-crystal-change-might-actually-be-a-good-1684390364 Thankfully, Act 16 gets most of its B-Plot out of the way…

The French Remake Of Hot Tub Time Machine Has A Lot More Motor Scooters

Just imagine if Hot Tub Time Machine was more sophisticated and European, and less… I don’t know what, crass and American. Yes? Then you would have something like BIS, which borrows the basic idea of HTTM, but with no hot tub. And a lot more riding around on motor scooters. Actually, this looks like some…

Drone footage reveals the alien world that is a frozen Niagara Falls 

Pick your pop culture reference—the Fortress of Solitude or Hoth—and brush the mountains in cotton candy white and add water raging underneath the frozen sheets and you get a little bit close to what Niagara Falls looks like right now. NBC News has footage of the frozen Niagara Falls and it looks like another planet.…

A man’s death has led to the discovery of a new virus in Kansas. “We do not yet fully know how people become infected with Bourbon virus,” the CDC reports. “However, based on what we know about similar viruses, it is likely that Bourbon virus is spread through tick or other insect bites.”

How one of the most complicated watches in the world is made

I don’t wear a watch and I hate time and yet I’m still so very impressed with the movement of this watch by FP Journe. It’s stunning and it is the most complicated watch that FP Journe makes because it’s a grande sonniere watch. Which means, it’s a complication that is able to audibly chime…

Dammit, Science Writers Are Not Afraid To Curse

On his eponymous personal blog, Nature Chemistry editor Stuart Cantrill offers a post on “how sweary Nature has been over the years,” spurred by the use of “bollocks” in a 2014 piece on e-cigarettes. Using George Carlin’s famous “seven dirty words” bit as a guideline, he investigated hard-copy issues of the publication, which began in…

The Mandelbaum Effect Might Explain A Lot Of Accidents

When visibility is poor, people have car accidents because they can’t see what’s ahead of them, right? Actually, the Mandelbaum Effect implies that sometimes people have accidents because they aren’t even looking for what’s ahead of them. Most drivers have, at least once, experienced what it’s like to drive in bad visibility. A violent rainstorm,…

To Truly Understand District 19, You Have To Explore All Its Levels

Visitors tend to stick to the surface, which mimicked the cities back on Earth. But they’re missing out. The nightlife doesn’t really get interesting until you get past Level 51. Concept art by Pat Presley. Seriously, if you want your eyes to bug out of your head, go visit Presley’s portfolio site and his ArtStation…

Video: The delicate art of making bonsai trees

I love this video about Ryan Neil, an American Bonsai master, because not only do I get to watch him work but I also get to hear him talk about the art of Bonsai. Neil reveals the amount of respect and consideration you need to be able to craft these beautiful pieces of art from…

What I Found At The Biggest Gun Show In Vegas

The annual Las Vegas Shooting Hunting and Outdoor Trade show is the biggest gun show in America, attracting 33,000 people each year. And Sarah Palin. I was about the only visitor not wearing a pistol, but I did manage to find some neat new stuff. https://gizmodo.com/what-i-learned-at-the-biggest-gun-show-in-vegas-1687031172

Two And A Half Men Was Really A Black Mirror Episode In The End

Last night was the series finale of Two and a Half Men. And what started off as a “So long, farewell” episode slowly unspooled into a terrifying horror show. And I think I’ve cracked it: Two and a Half Men is actually a brilliant mashup of Black Mirror and Stay Tuned. And last night the…