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What If We Dressed Like Our Social Networks?

We all spend so much damn time looking at them; what if we started… being a bit like them, too? In this photo shoot, Viktorija Pashuta imagined a world where we started dressing like our social networks. The results are… slightly disturbing. From the retro styling of Instagram to the slick smartness of LinkedIn, they’re…

​Radar Images From Space Could Help Predict Volcanic Eruptions

This radar scan, taken by the European Space Agency’s Sentinel-1A satellite, reveals the ground movements surrounding the Fogo volcano before and after its recent eruption. To expert eyes, the image reveals the subsurface pathways of molten rock. Located on Cape Verde’s Fogo Island, the volcano erupted on November 23rd for the first time in 19…

Michelle Forbes’s Retro Girl Looks Very Different From the Powers Comic

Of course, it’s always nice to see Michelle Forbes back in action. And we’ve been repeatedly told that that the Powers show is not going to be slavishly devoted to anything from the comics. Some things are similar, but there’s no doubt that the costume above isn’t the same as the one we already know:…

This Cute Little Creature Can Kill You With A Cat Allergen

The slow loris is one of the few venomous mammals on earth, and the only venomous primate. It has one of the oddest venom-creation methods in the world. And it kills you much the same way your cat would (if he could). When the slow loris is frightened (or vengeful) it will raise its arms…

These weirdass GIFs could be perfect tattoos for sports-loving hipsters

Putin against the New York Knicks. Coca cola against the Kremlin. German graphic designer Florian Schommer mashups eastern and western pop culture icons making them collide in this fantastic collection of illustrated GIFs. Florian Schommer is a graphic designer based in Hamburg, Germany. You can follow Florian onFacebookand LinkediIn. This is part of a series…

What Does the Return of a Major Villain Mean for Arrow?

Yet another familiar face may be joining the cast of Captain America 3. Joseph Gordon-Levitt talks up Rian Johnson’s plans for Star Wars Episodes VIII and IX. Watch a new Hobbit clip. See a new look at Helena Bonham Carter as the Fairy Godmother in Cinderella. And Sleepy Hollow finds its Thomas Jefferson. Spoilers now!…

This Is the Largest Stone Block Ever Carved By Human Hands

This may look like a modern civil engineering marvel—but in fact you’re looking at the largest known stone block to be tirelessly carved by human hands. Discovered in a stone quarry in Baalbek, Lebanon, by German archaeologists, the perfectly hewn chunk of stone measures 64 feet by 19.6 feet and is 18 feet tall. It’s…

How Scotch Tape Was Invented

Despite the name, Scotch tape wasn’t invented by the Scottish. It was invented by a college dropout named Richard Drew from Minnesota who worked for a small sandpaper company founded in 1902 called Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing, later known as 3M. The name “Scotch” itself has an origin story almost as interesting as the invention…

An Episode of Forever Where Only the Last Seconds Matter

Hey! Remember at the start of the show, when it felt like the mystery of Henry’s immortality and his mysterious caller were going to be central parts of this show? Yeah, the show just remembered that, too. Spoilers… This week’s theme: Hiding your true identity! Yes, with a main character who is over 200 years…

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This Is What a Volcanic Eruption Looks Like in Satellite Radar

Back on November 23rd, the Pico do Fogo volcano on Cape Verde’s Fogo island erupted. This image shows how that incident looked when it was captured by the Sentinel-1A satellite’s radar sensors. In fact, the European Space Agency satellite captured two images: one before the event on November 3rd and then another afterwards on the…

Report: Mozilla Will Get Firefox on iOS

For a long time, Apple hasn’t allowed Firefox to appear on iOS. Now, Mozilla wants to change that. According to TechCrunch Mozilla’s VP for Firefox Jonathan Nightingale explained: “We need to be where our users are. So we’re going to get Firefox on iOS.” It’s an overdue move, given how robust third-party browsers like Chrome,…

Gmail now allows you to to edit Microsoft Office documents sent as email attachments by simply clicking an “edit” button at the bottom of the message.

Unreal in-game footage makes GTA V totally look like a parallel reality

After seeing footage of GTA V on the next gen consoles, I’m beginning to think that GTA V isn’t just a video game. A full blown parallel reality? That’s more likely. A real life breathing city that exists somewhere? That’d be more accurate. This footage of Los Santos at night in GTA V is unreal.…

This Steampunk Iron Man Art Comes With a New Tragic Backstory

Concept artist Anthony Jones not only made this beautiful piece of art, as he’s done before, he also came up with an alternate universe explanation for it. The full image is below, but here isJones’ short story: After donating his heart to save his only son Jarvis, Jarvis devoted his life to engineering to bring…

This GIF shows how much work goes into making stop motion animation

In this clip from the movie The Boxtrolls (it’s the end credits scene), you see how the stop motion animation of that beautiful film was made. There aren’t any shortcuts, somebody has to move the characters, move out of the way, film it and then move the characters over and over again to get it…

Watch Japan’s Explosive Asteroid-Sampling Mission Take Off

While the rest of the world has been busy shedding a bitter tear over the early demise of Europe’s comet-sampling probe, the Japan Space Agency has been busy launching another mission to sample distant celestial bodies. The Hayabusa 2 rocket is the follow-on mission to the largely successful Hayabusa, which returned to Earth with samples…

Why Jackie Chan movies are so much fun to watch

The always excellent Tony Zhou of Every Frame a Painting takes a closer look at what makes Jackie Chan action movies so fun to watch. It’s Jackie Chan’s brand of action comedy that makes him so special, he plays the underdog, he uses the environment around him, he’s a perfectionist and so much more. Every…

How To Make Your Own Tent Footprint For $25

Footprints help extend the life of your tent by protecting its floor. But, they’re inexplicably expensive. You can slash that price by half or more if your make your own from Tyvek. Here’s how. We have a Big Agnes Fly Creek UL2 tent ($390) that we use for pretty much every backpacking trip. It’s a…

Overcoming Rain And Darkness For A Successful Morpheus Test Flight

Morpheus successfully ran through its tether test flight after addressing a flaw in the remote control system. Despite looming bad weather and impending darkness, the test flight went beautifully. I’m calling this a good opening up for Orion on Thursday! Morpheus dangling from a crane as the sun sets. Image credit: NASA Morpheus, NASA’s prototype…