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A Football With Wings Lets You Throw Farther Than an NFL Quarterback

The ultimate football fantasy involves throwing a last second Hail Mary pass into the endzone that ends up winning the Super Bowl. Such a fantasy usually requires you to have an NFL-caliber throwing arm, but the winged Raptor Football promises to give quarterback-like capabilities to almost anyone. Now we just need it approved by the…

Ikea Replaced All the Seats In This Movie Theater With Comfy Beds

Another way that movie theaters have tried to lure audiences away from their living rooms is with big comfy upgraded seats that often even recline. But that’s nothing compared to the facelift Ikea gave a movie theater in Khimki, Russia. The seats were all removed and replaced with freshly made beds all pointing at the…

The Congressional Debate Over What Makes Food “Natural”

A controversial bill that seeks to block mandatory GMO food labeling by individual U.S. states was the subject of a hearing held yesterday by the House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Health. Amid the testimonies, one key question emerged time and again: Are genetically modified foods “natural”? Activists in several states have been pushing for…

HBO Want Your Game of Thrones Fan Creations For A New Book

Well, this is neat. HBO are planning to release a new Game of Thrones Compendium late next year – the twist being that it’s packed solely with content created by fans of the books and TV series. Starting next week, you can start submitting your own work for it! Header Image Credit: The King of…

2014 As Told By Photos from the World’s Highest Resolution Satellites 

Our lives are chronicled from space these days. These satellite images from Digital Globe, operator of the world’s most powerful commercial imaging satellites, tell the story of some of the year’s most indelible moments—from the protests in Ukraine to wildfires in San Diego. Earlier this year, Digital Globe launched their Worldview-3 satellite, their most powerful…

Jetman strikes back with awesome aerobatic formation flight 

Swiss ex-fighter pilot Yves “Jetman” Rossy completed this awesome formation flight with aerobatics Champion Veres Zoltán in the skies of Dubai. The video contains a surprise at the end—is it another pilot flying a wing or a new Jetman model altogether? In case you don’t know who Jetman is, check out this video here. SPLOID…

Theater Posts Porn Instead of School Play to Parents and Children

Some sort of catastrophic mix-up in a DVD duplication firm ended up with pornography being burned to discs supposed to contain a school performance, leading to a grovelling apology, a recall of discs and dads showing an interest in their child’s education for once. The Edinburgh Playhouse said it: “…apologises unequivocally for any distress caused…

Suddenly, Everyone On Arrow Became Awesome

On this week’s episode of Arrow a number of characters did complete about-faces, and it was fantastic. It was like watching the climactic unmasking scene in every movie ever for 50 straight minutes. Then there was a sword fight! The League of Assassins Is Completely Right Cirque du Soslay is in town, and they truss…

There Are Over 5 Trillion Pieces of Plastic Floating in Our Oceans

Things have gotten so bad with the human predilection for dumping plastic in the seas that, by the latest predictions, there are now more than five trillion pieces of plastic floating in our oceans. The study, published this week inPLoS One, saw scientists from across the US, France, Chile, Australia, and New Zealand use data…

This is what the air flow around a vertical-axis wind turbine looks like. Created by researchers at Caltech, these flow visualizations allow engineers to work out where to place new turbines—to make sure they’re both safe and efficient.

Hey, By The Way, Riker Totally Wouldn’t Mind Directing Star Trek 3

Now that Roberto Orci is no longer directing the third Star Trek movie, the film like is a ship without a captain. But there’s someone with both captaining and film directing experience who’s more than willing to take the job — former first officer William T. Riker, a.k.a. Jonathan Frakes. Frakes has announced he’d be…

Which Unanswered Scientific Question Do You Most Want An Answer To?

For every scientific concept or fact we manage to uncover, there’s still so much left out there that’s unknown. Today we want to know which of those scientific unknowns you most hope to have revealed within your lifetime. Whether you’re curious about life on Mars, what’s going on deep in our oceans, or something else,…

You Can Hack Keurig’s DRM With Scotch Tape to Use Knock-Off Coffee Pods

The latest Keurig 2.0 arrived with more than just a welcoming scent of coffee; it also came loaded with security measures to stop you using cheap coffee pods. While other manufacturers have already cracked the code, you can actually hack the machine yourself—and all you need is scissors and tape. Mother Parkers Tea & Coffee…

This Greenpeace Stunt May Have Irreparably Damaged Peru’s Nazca Site

The Peruvian government is planning to file criminal charges against Greenpeace activists who may have permanently scarred the Nazca Lines World Heritage Site during a publicity stunt. As The Guardian reports, the Nazca lines “are huge figures depicting living creatures, stylized plants and imaginary figures scratched on the surface of the ground between 1,500 and…

Why We’re Thinking All Wrong About What Alien Life Could Look Like

With over 200 billion stars in our galaxy and at least 10 billion with planets kind of like Earth orbiting them, there’s almost certainly alien life out there—so why haven’t we found it yet? If technologically advanced alien species existed, there should be evidence of them littered across our Universe. But, as this lovely video…

More than 5 trillion pieces of plastic weighing 268,940 tons are floating in the Earth’s oceans, according to a new study published in PLOS ONE. This latest estimate is based on models of floating plastics data gathered from a series of 680 surface net tows and 891 visual surveys from oceans around the world.

There’s now a a Top Tracks in Your Network playlist under Top Lists in Spotify—so you can see what’s most popular amongst your peers right now.

All The Details About What’s Next After Agents of SHIELD‘s Big Reveals!

One actress has already had meetings about Paul Feig’s Ghostbusters. Jenna Coleman squashes a rumor about Clara’s fate in the Doctor Who Christmas special. The return of a villain is confirmed for Arrow. And what’s so scary about Jurassic World? Spoilers now! Top image: Agents of SHIELD Ghostbusters On the Today Show, Rebel Wilson revealed…

How to prepare and eat live octopus without choking to death

The first time I saw someone eating a live octopus was in the movie Old Boy and I thought it was just a far too gross scene made up by its creators. But later I learnt it’s an actual Korean dish, a rather dangerous one because if you don’t prepare it properly, the tentacles can…

Everything That Happened on Twitter in 2014

Each year, Twitter rounds up the biggest events that its users have been talking about—and 2014 is no exception. Can you guess the biggest Twitter event of the last twelve months? Twitter’s round up suggests that—somewhat depressingly—the biggest thing to happen on the social network all year was Ellen Degenere’s selfie at the Oscars. So…