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Head over to History Extra to learn how British breakfasts evolved from a privilege to the most important meal of the day. The key was the establishment of regular work hours. [History Extra]

A Year of Presidential Travel, Mapped

In 2014, President Obama travelled a bewildering over 188,000 miles—at least according to the best estimates of the Washington Post. This maps shows where he went. The journeys included trips to: North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Wisconsin, California, the Midwest, Mexico, Massachusetts, Florida, Netherlands, Belgium, Italy, Saudi Arabia, Japan, Korea, the Philippines, Alaska, Cooperstown, North Dakota,…

Is There Any Real Cheese in Cheese Whiz?

As America gets ready for their upcoming Super Bowl parties (or Royal Rumble party, if that’s your thing), Cheez Whiz – the yellowish-orange, gooey, bland tasting “cheese” product – will surely make an appearance at some of them. But what is Cheez Whiz? Why did get it invented? And is there really cheese in Cheez…

Edward Scissorhands Really Could Have Used This Center For His Condition

The Center for People of Things With Hands is devoted to helping the 1 in 10 million people born with this rare condition. Be you a cactus-hand who can’t high five or a cup-hand with a severe anger management problem, this center can help. [via Tastefully Offensive]

Sony Pictures has announced that it expects to have some of its critical systems back online in early February. Poor Sony Pictures.

The New Sonos Logo Looks Like Pulsing Sound as You Scroll It

Scroll the page. Go on, scroll it. And marvel at the way the new, perfectly static Sonos logo pulses—like sound is emanating from its centre, producing a pounding bass line. This new logo has been produced for by Bruce Mau Design, and it’s supposed to “advance the idea of the modern music experience.” In fact…

New NFL Bad Lip Reading video is freaking hilarious too

The guys at Bad Lip Reading are back with more hilarious mistranslated voiceovers. Their absurd NFL series always makes me crack up and the 2015 video didn’t disappoint me at all. Enjoy! SPLOID is delicious brain candy. Follow us on Facebook or Twitter.

The Heartbreaking Story Behind Beauty and the Beast‘s Opening Song

Alan Menken, the songwriter behind Aladdin, The Little Mermaid, Beauty and the Beast — to name just a few — has given Entertainment Weekly the story behind a number of his most famous songs. Some are pretty basic, some are funny, and some tell of frustrating directors. But the one that is a laser-guided missile…

Dish Network Violated the ‘Do Not Call’ Registry 57 Million Times

Dish Network, it seems, has been rather partial to telemarketing. A little too partial. The TV provider has been found guilty of violating the Federal Trade Commission’s “Do Not Call” list a staggering 57 million times. The final ruling on a complaint lodged way back in 2009, the District Court for the Central District of…

This Greenland Glacier Flows Like Water Around Rock

Found in the northwest corner of Greenland, the Leidy Glacier faces a barrier as it meets the Olriks Fjord that it feeds into: rock. This image shows how, even for a giant, hulking slab of ice and rock, the path of least resistance is often the most favorable. Fed by the Academy Glacier, which is…

Apogee Groove Is a Thumb Drive-Sized DAC For Your Laptop

Laptop sound cards are often complete junk. So, if you need to actually use your computer’s audio output for something the demands crisp clear sound, you need an external solution—and Apogee’s new external digital-to-analog converter could do the trick. Just launched at this week’s NAMM music trade show, the Groove is designed to be as…

Valentino’s Pre-Fall Collection: My God, It’s Full of Stars

Valentino’s 2015 pre-fall collection is full of all sorts of things — hearts, plants, butterflies — but its the eight space looks that make me wish I could afford any of these clothes. Look at that planet skirt! And that moon and stars cape. AND THE SPACE GOWN. Give them all to me! Here are…

Twitter has officially introduced Bing-powered translations directly into your feed, after on-off testing.

Mr. Peabody & Sherman Failed Because It Was “Too Clever”

DreamWorks Animation is in trouble. It’s laying off 500 people, closing an office, and most of its leadership is leaving. Being blamed for this disaster is a string of big-budget misses, including blaming 2014’s Mr. Peabody & Sherman for being “too clever” for audiences. Deadline reports that DreamWorks Animation will start releasing two films a…

This Twisting Skyscraper Is Terrifyingly Clever

There’s a moment you reach in every Jenga game, when the weight of an entire tower balances precariously on a single middle block. A moment where everything can be ruined by a particularly violent cough. Residents of this new Austrian skyscraper will live in perpetual fear of that moment. The 30-storey, 360-foot tower is the…

Inelegant But Effective Start To The Active Learning Geology Experiment

In the first week of introductory geology, we explored rock types, learned that not all rocks are the same, and tackled the mysteries of scale. While not always elegantly executed, my experiment in embracing active learning appears to be leaving my students excited and bemused. Top base image: Beach rocks at Broulee Beach, New South…

China’s Newest Apple Store Is A Calligraphy Masterpiece

I am defiantly not an Apple Store kinda person. I’ve yet to queue up for the latest iPhone, certainly don’t aimlessly browse around during my lunch hour, and buy all my cases off Amazon. But Apple’s latest chunk of Cupertino on foreign soil would make me change all that. For the opening of its latest…

During The Apocalypse, A Man Becomes Addicted To Memories Of His Wife

While a series of megastorms devastates the world, everyone struggles to survive — everyone but Yonatan, the inventor of a device that allows him to relive recorded memories. While others look for safety and shelter, Yonatan is thinking of his next fix — the next time he can experience memories of his wife. The short…

Doomsday Clock Now Three Minutes To Midnight

The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists has moved the big hand of its “Doomsday Clock” to three minutes to midnight, i.e. the end of the world, citing the apocalyptic threat of global warming and nuclear proliferation. Photo Credit: Cliff Owen / AP “In 2015, unchecked climate change, global nuclear weapons modernizations, and outsized nuclear weapons…

Twitter Now Uses Bing To Translate Weird Foreign Tweets

If you’ve always looked longingly over the Fence of Babel at all those foreigners making jokes that you know would be funny, if only you could understand them, then fear not: Twitter has harnessed the power of the internet’s second-best translation tool into its service. As of right now, tweets in a foreign language get…