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Meet All Of The New Characters From Pixar’s Inside Out

Inside Out is the latest animated film to come out of the hallowed halls of cartoonery, Pixar. The premise is adorable, the whole thing is centered around the emotions inside the mind of a little girl. And now you can meet each emotion in this collection of teaser clips. First up there’s Disgust (voiced by…

This 2000-Year-Old Pigment Can Eliminate The Third Dimension

Han purple is an ancient pigment that wasn’t reconstructed by modern chemists until 1992. After the chemists got done with it, it was the physicists’ turn. Han purple, they found, eliminates an entire dimension. It makes waves go two-dimensional! The Chemistry of Han Purple You’ll see Han purple on the famous terracotta warriors surrounding the…

This Santa-Centaur Christmas Decoration will Haunt your Nightmares

Ho ho hoh god look at it, looooook aaaaat iiiiiiiiit. This glittery hellspawn is by Archie McPhee, and depicts Jolly Ol’ Saint Nick as as half-holiday cheer-giver, half-horse. A Santaur! Just behold its infinite bizarre majesty: Oh no, the spinning is even freakier. I have no mouth, and I must scream. The 6″ nightmare costs…

The Nostalgia Nerds Who Rescue Old Games From Oblivion

Do you remember the first computer game you played? What about the first program you downloaded? Unless you’ve just emerged Brendan-Fraser-in-Encino Man-style from the earth, wholly unaware of computers (in which case, I have several questions for you), your early digital distractions are probably years, if not decades old by now. That doesn’t mean they’re…

The First Jurassic World Teaser Is Heavy On The Tease

Unfortunately, it’s also kind of light on the whole “jurassic” or dinosaur-y aspect of the movie. But I still have to admit this is still the most exciting glass of water I’ve seen since the ones that little girl from Signs used to leave everywhere. [Via Uproxx]

Watch In Horror As A Tapeworm Wiggles Through A Living Man’s Brain

Physicians in the UK were unable to explain a strange ring-like pattern moving across a patient’s brain tissue in a series of scans taken over four years. During a biopsy, they were shocked to learn it was a one centimeter-long parasitic tape worm. The 50-year-old Chinese man was admitted to hospital after complaining of headaches,…

The latest Lego modular building feels like a perfect piece of old NYC

Each year Lego puts out an exclusive modular building and they are always pretty special. In January of 2015, Detective’s Office (10246) hits the shelves. Pricing is set at $159.99 for this 2,262 piece kit that measures over 10″ high and is packed full of awesome play and gorgeous design. The set is split into…

This GIF Party Dance Off Is The Only Party You Need

Enter at your peril, GIFs! This party is a good old-fashioned dance-off. Do you have any news to share about your week, upcoming holiday plans, recipe requests, or just some updates to share with the room? Interpretive GIF dance your way to an answer — and then get ready to throw down in the comments…

Cool renders of trucks bending beyond the laws of physics

UK- based designer Chris LaBrooy made this cool series of renders showing colorful trucks bending beyond the laws of physics. He called it Tales of Auto Elasticity and it’s inspired by the road trips through the Californian deserts. Chris LaBrooy is a designer and 3D artist based in the UK. Tales of Auto Elasticity is…

Somehow This Tiny RC Tractor Looks Incredibly Fun To Play With

When you’re an adult who drives on a regular basis, you fantasize about fast cars and other high-performance vehicles. But when you’re a kid, who doesn’t get to drive at all, even mundane vehicles like garbage trucks and buses are exciting. So while the thought of a tiny RC tractor might be hard for you…

This Amazing Back To The Future Event Is Worth Time-Traveling For

If you don’t know Secret Cinema, they’re a group from the U.K. that put on movie screenings alongside a wild live-action performance (and a theme park!). Watch this incredible look at last summer’s BttF event, and prepare to want to be there almost as much as you want a working hoverboard. The bad news is,…

Scientists Built Flash Storage in a Single Molecule

When a lot of us think about storage, we still think about that archaic method of encoding data by etching patterns into a disk. That’s so 20th century. In the era of flash storage, researchers are now doing amazing things with chemical bonds—things like storing data on a single molecule. A pretty bonkers-sounding breakthrough in…

A Brief History of People Thinking Google’s Loon Balloons Are UFOs

Some South African sheep got a nasty little surprise earlier this week when a Google-branded internet balloon came tumbling down from the heavens to say hello. The sheep are in good company, though. Because this happens—a lot. And fortunately for the conspiracy theorists among us, this means all the UFO fodder their chemtrail-addled brains can…

A New NASA Map Depicts 20 Years Of Fireball Events Across The Globe

Bolides, more commonly known as fireballs, are small asteroids that impact Earth’s atmosphere and create very bright meteors as they disintegrate. NASA has compiled data on each and every impact around the world since 1994. The sizes of the yellow dots (daytime impacts) and blue dots (nighttime impacts) are proportional to the optical radiated energy…

Report: Amazon’s Ad-Supported Streaming Service Is a Done Deal

Today in things Amazon might be working on: first, a travel site, and now, according to the New York Post, an ad-supported streaming video network. This has been previously rumored, but the Post is saying it’s a done deal. The Post also says the service would operate separately from a $99 Prime subscription, be supported…

James Bond’s Laser-Cutting Watch Is Finally a Reality

Thanks to some clever special effects, the gadgets that Q creates for James Bond and other MI6 agents are often well ahead of their time. So much so that it’s only now, more than 31 years after Never Say Never Again hit theaters, that we finally have a wristwatch with a built-in laser powerful enough…

Is There Really Going to Be a Game of Thrones Movie?

Charles Dance says there’s talk of one. There are more contradictory rumors about the Star Wars teaser trailer and a description of what the villain looks like in it. Jennifer Lawrence guesses where Mystique will be in X-Men: Apocalypse. And can anyone die in Gotham? Spoilers now! Top image: Game of Thrones Star Wars Some…

7 Pieces of Album Art From the Golden Age of Disco Design

What’s hot, sweaty, and filled with sexual innuendo? I’m talking about disco—what did you think I was talking about?—but I’m also talking about the design that was created to sell this era of suddenly decadent lifestyles. The new book Disco: An Encyclopedic Guide to the Cover Art of Disco Records includes over 2000 (!) album…

Burning Godzilla is the coolest Godzilla Toy

Well, not literally, as he’s meant to be melting from the inside out, but you know what I mean. The last of the Heisei Godzillas is getting a NECA figure, and he looks badass. The figure is based on the ailing Kaiju’s appearance in the 1995 Toho film Gojira tai Desutoroia – aka Godzilla vs.…

The polar vortex was all over the news (and our thermostats) last year, and for many people that was first they’d heard of the alarming phenomenon. But the phrase actually originated over 150 years ago in a magazine edited by Charles Dickens, as explained in this linguistic history of the term.