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These Mysterious Ice Pancakes Have Taken Over a Scottish River 

Weird things happen in the winter cold. At the River Dee in Scotland, that includes dozens of recently discovered “ice pancakes” floating on the river surface. Their strange shapes boggle the imagination, but rest assured, there’s an explanation for their existence. The River Dee Trust, which first posted the photos online, suggests eddies in the…

The Akrapovič Full Moon bike is like a Vespa from the future

I don’t know if the new Akrapovič Full Moon concept bike is the unholy baby of a Vespa, a Harley Davidson, and a Tron bike. And I don’t know if I like it or I hate it yet. All I know is that it got my attention. Looks like a space bike form behind: The…

One Gingerbread Tower To Rule Them All

Welcome to ginger-Barad-Dûr, home of the great shadow of Middle Earth, made completely out of gingerbread. Who knew Sauron had such a sweet tooth. Spotted by Geekologie, two Finnish engineering and computer science students built the 3-foot-tower of Lord of the Rings fame out of 13.5 pounds of gingerbread dough, topped off with a glowing…

A Little-Known Property Of The Atmosphere Makes A Halo Around The Sun

The sun, from where we stand on the ground, is yellow. The sky is blue. So why is the sky around the sun white? Find out about the scattered light you never hear about, and why it means there is a ‘halo’ around the sun. The sky above Earth is a beautiful radiant blue and…

This Gear Took Us Around The World

What clothes, computer, ice axe, and backpack does a photographer and writer for an adventure travel site fall back on when he’s going to be going up against the unpredictability of nature, while traveling unsupported around the world? This is the best of the best, the stuff I took with me to adventure around the…

If you’re still in the market for a Christmas gift, you’re in luck. Amazon has the Kindle Fire HDXon sale for $300. Merry Christmas, ya filthy animals. [Amazon]

Watch Airbus’ mad stunt with $1.5 billion worth of airplanes

I have to give kudos to Airbus for having the guts to do this using five test A350-900 XWB airplanes, its newest wide-body airliner. I know the stunt was well calculated and the pilots—all of them ex-military aviators—knew exactly what they were doing, but the entire thing still looks insane. Especially when one of the…

Researchers: Let’s Blame Online Porn For Marriage Decline

The decline in marriage in America is often blamed on a number of different factors: Cultural changes, economic strife, the rise of cohabitation… and now the easy availability of porn online is getting fingered. Researchers at Germany’s Institute for the Study of Labor have published a paper arguing that the rise in free porn on…

5 Important Places We Lost Forever This Year

Every year, the National Trust for Historic Preservation—which fights for the protection of historic places and buildings—releases a list of its biggest wins and losses. This year, the losses are very sad. With a week left to go in 2014, we’re hitting peak end-of-year-listing time. In all the clamor over what went right this year,…

You Can 3D Print Official Hoover Vacuum Accessories Now 

There’s still no definitive reason why every home should have a 3D printer, but as more and more companies allow consumers to print their own parts and accessories, the case for owning one gets stronger and stronger. And following in the footsteps of Hasbro and Martha Stewart, Hoover will now let consumers print their own…

What Shocking Event Forces Ant-Man To Join The Avengers? 

Check out what appears to be our first glimpse of Chewbacca’s look in The Force Awakens. Yet another character is supposedly in the running to appear in Suicide Squad. Bruce Campbell spills the details on the Evil Dead TV series. And did Clark Gregg just hint at an Avenger cameo in Agents of SHIELD? Spoilers…

Marvel And DC’s Live Action Heroes Duke It Out In This Amazing Trailer

The odds of Disney and Warner teaming up to have their live-action superheroes go toe to toe on the big screen actually happening in reality are practically non existent – but that doesn’t stop Youtuber Alex Luthor (presumably not related to Lex) from mashing them together in this brilliant fan trailer. Using clips from everything…

The last Looney Tunes colorist reveals the origin of Bugs Bunny

Martha Goldman Sigall—the last colorist and inker from the original Looney Tunes who died last week—reveals how Bugs Bunny was born in this short. According to her, it was director Ben “Bugs” Hardaway who came up with it. The clip is a must-watch testimony on the legendary pop culture icon. SPLOID is delicious brain candy.…

Possible First Leaked Photo of Star Wars: The Force Awakens Figures

You’ll want to take it with a grain or two of Tatooine salt, but this photo posted to a Chinese Star Wars fan forum this morning claims to give us our first look at a handful of the six-inch figures in the inevitable Star Wars: The Force Awakens toy line. They appear to be mostly…

Guy spends $150,000 in plastic surgery to look like Kim Kardashian

British make-up artist Jordan James Parke spent $150,000 in plastic surgery to look like his idol Kim Kardashian. The 23 year-old confessed he became obsessed with Kim since the first time he saw her on TV. It’s been 50 plastic surgeries so far, and Jordan is already saving for the next one: Another nose job.…

The future of racing looks so much more fun and badass

This video on the future of racing—based on concept tires designed by Hankook Tire and the University of Pforzheim, Germany—is pretty goddamn fun. I don’t know if we will ever get to this point (seeing the evolution of racing since the time of Roman Empire, I wouldn’t be surprised) but it’s great to watch. They…

The Best Data Visualizations of 2014

It’s always tough to pick my favorite visualization projects. I mean, it’s a challenge to pick and rank your favorite anything really. So much depends on what you feel like at the time, and there’s a lot of good work out there. Nevertheless, I gave it a go. These are my favorites for the year,…

I really want the Pixels movie to be good but I know it won’t be

I didn’t know that this movie existed until today: Apparently there’s an upcoming full feature film based on Pixels, the short by Patrick Jean that went viral on 2010 (below.) Being a fan of all things 8-bit, I got really excited when I saw these new teaser posters and the synopsis: Former 1980’s Video Game…

South Korea Carrying Out Security Drills Following Power Station Hack

South Korea’s nuclear power plant operator is conducting a two-day drill to test its resilience to digital attacks, following a series of posts on Twitter from a hacker claiming to have compromised power station computer networks. Korea Hydro and Nuclear Power (KHNP), which runs 23 reactors and supplies around a third of the country’s electricity,…

Rare Behind-the-Scenes Footage of Star Wars: Episode IV

Eyes On Cinema recently uploaded this nearly-six-minute video of soundless footage from filming in 1976. As the footage shows George Lucas, Mark Hamill, and Garrick Hagon (Biggs Darklighter) on the Tatooine set, it’s not only set footage, it’s set footage of a scene that got cut. https://gizmodo.com/star-wars-deleted-scenes-reveal-the-utter-disaster-that-1663817712 [via Slashfilm]