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This NSFW trailer for a TV show might be the most ridiculous thing

Workaholics is a funny TV show about slacker college friends who happen to be roommates who also happen to be co-workers and the hijinks they get into. Workaholics is not a show about guns and explosions and shootouts and strippers. But guess what the trailer for Season 5 is about? Yep. Guns and strippers. The…

What Would You Teach High School Students About Science?

You have 80 minutes visiting a high school science class. What do you do? Tomorrow, I visit high school students to talk about careers in science. The classes are grade 11 Chemistry, grade 11 Earth Science, and grade 10 Science Honours*. What should I tell them? The lesson will be partly autobiographical as I have…

A new study suggests people see pornography as not only acceptable but “socially desirable” when it’s perceived as educational. “Instructional pornography includes explicit adult films designed to arouse and instruct couples or individuals in sexual matters,”explains lead author Katrina L. Pariera.

James Bond Will Return So Watch From Russia With Love

Bond is back next year in Spectre. And it’s gonna be the best Bond yet. Duh. Spectre almost definitely will bring Bond back to the ultra cheesy roots it started from with the terror organization responsible for all of the Sean Connery films plots. In From Russia With Love, the second Bond film ever made,…

The First British Science Fiction Film Got Restored, And It Looks Great

The first full-length British science fiction movie, A Message from Mars, has been fully restored, with a new musical soundtrack. You can see some footage in the video below, and it looks just outstanding. In A Message from Mars, inspired by A Christmas Carol, a Martian gets in trouble for stealing someone else’s idea, and…

So Many Wizards: Lose Your Mind

I’m unapologetic about my defense of sitcoms. When they’re done well, they’re truly an art. But one thing I don’t expect from my sitcoms is to hear music I like. The Fox comedy The New Girl breaks that rule from time to time. Recently I heard a song on The New Girl that I had…

The Visit Trailer Interrogates An Alien Visitor

Behold the befuddling, yet enticing trailer for Michael Madsen’s The Visit. Part of the 2015 Sundance lineup, this is the first look we’re getting at the mockumentary that asks how the world would respond to alien life. Here’s the official synopsis from Sundance: The Visit / Denmark, Austria, Ireland, Finland, Norway (Director: Michael Madsen) —…

How to Make an Ingenious Greeting Card With a Loading Message 

A loading message on your computer is, at best, annoying. A loading message on a paper though? Well, huh. Here’s how to make this clever greeting card with just some paper, scissors, and an X-ACTO knife. Over at Instructables, user goldlego has posted the complete instructions on creating an analog loading message, templates for the…

“Oldest Time Capsule” in U.S. Unearthed in Boston

History buffs, start your engines: CNN is reporting that a Boston crew has removed a time capsule from the cornerstone of the Massachusetts State House, believed to have been stashed there by then-Governor Samuel Adams and patriot Paul Revere. Inside the capsule are contents that will be showcased as soon as the box is removed…

This Galactic Collision Is A Beautiful Spawning Ground For Supernovae

Dear Universe: You’ve really outdone yourself with this impressive, dynamic light display of NGC 2207 and IC 2163 colliding 130 million light years away. Thank you. Composite image of NGC 2207 and IC 2163 collision. Click for massive version. Image credit: NASA/CXC/SAO/S.Mineo et al [X-ray]; NASA/STScI [optical]; NASA/JPL-Caltech [infrared] The composite image layers data from…

Complete Woolly Mammoth Skeleton Found In The North Sea

The year of the woolly mammoth lumbers on with the revelation of a 40,000-year-old skeleton plucked piece by piece from waters off the east coast of England. North Sea Fossils, a Netherlands-based team of “archaeologists, salvagers, and palaeontologists… including an expert they call ‘Mr. Mammoth'”, collected the skull, tusks, and other fragments over multiple years.…

The Next Version of the Oculus Rift Might Let You See Your Hands

It happens every time I strap on the Oculus Rift. Whether the amazing head-tracking wonder that is the DK2 unit or even the earlier model, I’m completely sucked into a new virtual world. Then I look down and my hands and…nothing. Oculus VR seems to understand the frustration and is taking steps toward developing hand…

Watch Adam Savage Build Barbarella’s Kickass Space Rifle

If this hour-long video teaches us anything, it’s that Adam Savage could easily be the world’s greatest cosplayer if he wanted to be. On a new Tested video as part of “Adam Savage’s One Day Builds,” the sci-fi-obsessed Savage tackles another ambitious project—Barbarella’s Space Rifle. If you’re a huge Barbarella fan but aren’t familiar with…

These Sculptures Turn Car Parts Into An Entire Animal Kingdom

Yesterday we showed you the incredible sculptures of Yong Ho Ji, who turns regular tires into amazing and disturbing creatures. Now we’re showing you the art that can be made from the rest of an automobile, including a wild world of robotic animals. (And maybe even a human or two!) Wild Boar Tiff Red-Shouldered Bastard…

Watch The Magical Trailer for Irish Animation Song of the Sea

Irish animation studio Cartoon Saloon — creators of wonderful, Oscar-nominated The Secret of Kells — return with Song of the Sea, another Tomm Moore-directed blend of fantasy and folklore. Irish superstars Brendan Gleeson and Fionnula Flanagan voice adult characters, but the story’s mostly about a motherless boy and his little sister, who may or may…

The Pentagon’s New Non-Lethal Mortars Seem Like a Very Good Idea

An estimated 174,000 civilians have died in the Iraq and Afghanistan wars. Who knows how many of these casualties could have been prevented if the United States and its allies were using deadly weapons, especially in dense urban areas. So it’s great news that the Pentagon has developed a non-lethal mortar round. These new 81mm…

The Dutch rode horses on their highways during the 1970s oil crisis

The oil crisis of the 1970s meant that Americans had to wait in long lines to fill up their cars. But in the Netherlands, the government decided that the best way to conserve fuel was to ban cars for one day a week. How did people cope? They took their horses on the highway. The…

An Epic Storm On The West Coast

The weather updates coming out of California read like measurement glitches Between 147 miles per hour wind gusts recorded at Mount Lincoln weather station, and a crest height of 37.6 feet on the Russian River, it’s looking downright apocalyptic. Batten down the hatches, run the bilge pumps, and hunker down for the storm! Top image:…

Star Wars: Rebels Is About To Reveal Its Own Unconventional Lightsaber

Who’d have thought that lightsaber-claymore hybrid seen in the Star Wars: The Force Awakens trailer wouldn’t be the only insane lightsaber we’d see this year? As it turns out, Ezra, the young would-be padawan of Disney XD’s Rebels cartoon, will soon be wielding an equally unusual version of the Jedi weapon. Spoilers! This image comes…

Spectacular demolition destroys cooling tower in the most satisfying way

Watch a cooling tower being ripped apart in Lublin, Poland. It looks like an invisible hand is pulling a thin cord embedded in the concrete. Amazing. SPLOID is delicious brain candy. Follow us on Facebook or Twitter.