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Flo Sandon’s: Parole D’Amore Sulla Sabbia

I don’t really know much about Italian singer Flo Sandon’s. And I especially don’t know why her surname has an apostrophe like that. I couldn’t even tell you what the lyrics to her song “Parole D’Amore Sulla Sabbia” mean. All I know is that I absolutely love it. I recall first hearing Flo Sandon’s about…

Game Of Thrones Season 5 Definitely Won’t Have Bran, And Here’s Why

We’ve heard the rumors from Hodor himself that Bran Stark, having finally reached the Three-Eyed Raven last year, would be absent in the next season of Game of Thrones. But now showrunner David Benioff has not only confirmed we’re going Hodor-less, but explains why. Here’s what Benioff told Entertainment Weekly: “The fact is, even though…

New Jurassic Park Lego video because dinosaurs are awesome

Sami Mustonen has taken this great set and some sound clips from the movie and given us this 33 second promo video for the Jurassic Park theme on Lego Ideas. We’d love to see get supporters for the second time. Seeing as Lego has already picked up the license, it should be fairly easy to…

Gmail’s Inbox is offering up guaranteed invites for 60 minutes this afternoon, but it looks as though the request email is already full only 30 minutes into the hour-long window. If your email bounced, try it again—the Inbox team tweeted you’ll still get your invite if you send it by 4PM PST.

Spectacular satellite image shows almost perfect 9.6-km foliage circle

I love to zoom into pictures, especially spectacular ones like this one of the Egmont National Park, New Zealand, published by the European Space Agency. The clear circular boundary is actually the edge of the park, with the dormant volcano Mount Taranaki in the middle. It looks like a reverse crater of lush life. Click…

This Nifty Tool Helps Roommates Find The Fairest Way to Split the Rent

It’s impossible enough to find a decent apartment these days, let alone the humans to share it who won’t dismember you in the night. Far more difficult, however, is deciding which roommate pays which portion of the rent, which has been known to end more than one friendship before it even started. A new online…

Video shows how lock picking works using a cutaway lock

We have seen drawings and animations before, but this video is great at teaching how to pick a conventional door lock. It can’t get clearer than this cutaway mechanism. Now go practice and learn to be a good thief/spy/detective/dude in some thriller movie/policeman without scruples. SPLOID is delicious brain candy. Follow us on Facebook or…

More Britons Believe In Aliens And Ghosts Than God

God’s polling numbers are down in the UK, where a recent survey found adults were more than twice as likely to believe in extraterrestrials than the creator and ruler of the universe. Above: Creationism for Geeks, via Wiki Fiction Via The Independent: The survey of 1,500 adults and 500 children, carried out online for Ripley’s…

In California, Rich People Use the Most Water

As the California drought worsens, the State Water Resources Control Board has released hard numbers on which regions drain the state’s water supplies most. It turns out that the biggest water users tend to be wealthy suburbanites … with one exception. Photo by Rick Loomis via LA Times The numbers come from September to October…

Your Halloween Costume Next Year Should Be This Great Hoverboard Getup

Since the closest thing we have to a real working hoverboard is still pretty lame, why not consider YouTuber RyanLeerReeL’s surprisingly convincing alternative for your Marty McFly Halloween costume next year. You don’t even need a scientist with questionable ethics and sanity to make it. You just need an orange puffy vest, a decent hoverboard…

Seriously, Why Isn’t Hogwarts Using All That Magic To Explore Space?

We’ve all asked it at some point or another: if the wizards of the Harry Potter universe can conjure up such amazing miracles, why don’t they use it to solve the energy crisis or explore the wonders of the universe? Boulet’s latest webcomic dreams up all magical possibilities for the wizarding world. Boulet is one…

The science of Interstellar is a mixed bag — what it gets right is absolutely right, and what it gets wrong is unrecognizable, while the very black holes were once thought to be purely fictional. Here’s Annalee Newitz’s take on how this is both the best and worse space opera you’ll ever see.

Implausibly Visible Logo On The Canadarm Triggers Parliamentary Query

Science in Canada is in a bad state — government scientists muzzled, science library books chucked in the dumpster, long-running experiments abruptly defunded, and painfully more — yet this photograph is the thing that spawns a parliamentary query. This rogue logo is now the subject of a parliamentary query. Image credit: NASA, modified by CSA…

Tiny Basketball Court Rugs Give Any Room the Home Court Advantage

If you’re obsessed with college hoops, these miniature basketball court rugs from Milliken are the perfect final touch for decorating that one room in your home that’s jam-packed with NCAA memorabilia—and you’ll never need to mop up a single drop of sweat. The largest version is roughly 11-feet by 13-feet in size, much smaller than…

Universal Studios Japan will host life-sized Attack on Titan statues

Attack on Titan’s Titans are gigantic, hulking monstrosities with a penchant for gobbling up the remnants of Humanity – so what better thing to do than recreate life-sized versions of them for our viewing pleasure? Universal Studios Japan will be doing just that next year. Attack on Titan: The Real (Oh, Japan) is a collaborative…

This Owl Is Flying Straight Into Your Face

This is a detail from a photograph that captures what an owl looks like when it is zooming straight at the camera, angling its feet forward as it prepares to land on a branch. All I can say is that our hovercrafts are made of feathers. Russell Savory is a photographer in Essex, UK. To…

Deodorizing Toilet Seats Are the New Air Fresheners

Kudos to Kohler for tackling one of the most unpleasant aspects of being a living organism, and making it slightly less awful. The company’s already released hands-free toilet flushing kits and a seat with a nightlight, and it’s now tackling bathroom odors with a deodorizing seat that helps mask your discretions for whoever’s next in…

Netflix Is Adapting A Series Of Unfortunate Events As A TV Series

Unfortunate things are coming to Netflix—miserabile, vile, carnivorous things. Lemony Snicket’s dark and droll A Series of Unfortunate Events is coming to the screen again, this time as a series from Netflix. Image from the series’ Facebook page. Deadline has the rather amusing press release announcing that Netflix will be adapting the trials and tribulations…

The Problem With the Chair

“A Chair is a difficult object. A skyscraper is almost easier.” — Mies van der Rohe. Van der Rohe, as with Eames, Gehry, Hadid, Libeskind, Corbusier, and Breuer: if they’ve designed a big building, chances are they’ve designed a thing on which to sit. The chair presents an interesting design challenge, because it is an…

The New Ghostbusters That We Really Want To See

The new Ghostbusters reboot on its way has a lot of people torn: On one hand, more Ghostbusters! On the other, we’re already pretty happy with just the Ghostbusters we’ve got. Here’s an idea for the forthcoming Ghostbusters movie that we love, though. In response to this original cast reunion, several commenters spun an idea…