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What happens when an orchestra eats the world’s hottest chili pepper?

Pain. Tears. Hurt. Agony. Numbness. Burning hell. When an entire orchestra decides to make the questionable life decision to all eat the world’s hottest chili peppers at the same time and then perform a song, all of that and more happens to them. For us watching though? It’s just funny as hell. Here’s what happened:…

Is Alexander Payne Finally Making His Science Fiction Satire?

Matt Damon is supposedly set to star in Alexander Payne’s next film, Downsizing. And with that announcement, the long-delayed film is finally getting made. Thank god, because what we know about the project sounds kind of amazingly bonkers. Photo credit: AP Images According to Deadline, Damon’s bowing out of Zhang Yimou’s The Great Wall to…

Leaked Game of Thrones season 5 footage shows six people burning

Spoilers, probably. I wouldn’t know because well, I don’t want to know more. But this video is supposedly leaked footage from Game of Thrones season 5 (can’t wait!) and it shows six people being led to their death by fire. Like, seriously. Hell on Earth doesn’t even begin to describe how hot this fire burns.…

Smartest Ever Eagle Steals Dinner Right Off a Fisherman’s Line

This bald eagle has figured out how to game the system. Instead of expending all the energy necessary to hunt for himself, he just snatches a fish that’s already been snared by a fisherman. You go, bald eagle. On the list of things that are awesome in the video: the sound of the reel rapidly…

Playing around with a water bubble in space must never get old

I’m happy when I see astronauts happy. There’s something about seeing people in space enjoy all there is about space that’s just infectious. Even the little things, like playing around with a giant water bubble blob. I mean, I would do the same thing they’re doing. Let it swallow my hands while a GoPro is…

That Time Doctor Who Used Real Science For Its Stories

While frequently called a science fantasy show for its loose approach to scientific plausibility, Doctor Who can be surprisingly grounded in real science. Along with changing to accommodate shifting understanding of cosmology over the decades, the show has explored a whole range of science.

The Trailer For This Drug-Dystopia Movie Really Will Get You Hooked

With just one trailer, the futuristic thriller Narcopolis has gone from being off the radar to being one of next year’s most anticipated films. With a cast that includes Brazil’s Jonathan Pryce, this movie looks both slick and thought-provoking. Let’s hope the whole thing is as good as this first hit. This movie is the…

It’s Humpday, When Two Straight Dudes Get Together to Make a Gay Porno

HUMP!, the amateur porn festival hosted by The Stranger and Dan Savage, is revving up in Seattle this week. Amateur porn may not be known for great filmmaking, but it’s inspired a pretty great film in Humpday, which you should definitely watch this Wednesday. The absurd premise aside—two old college buddies get into a weird…

Documentary Takes You Deep Inside H.R. Giger’s Studio Of Nightmares

Check out the trailer for Dark Star: H.R. Giger’s World, a documentary that gives you an inside look at the creative process of the man who gave us Alien’s Xenomorph and so much more. What’s amazing about this documentary is how tactile it is — even without being able to touch all of the strange…

All Of William Shatner’s Tek War Books Will Be Available As E-Books!

Good news! You can now use your e-reader tech to read about William Shatner’s Tek — that fictional cyber-drug that people will kill for in the Tek War series. The final four Tek War books, co-written with Ron Goulart, are coming out from Open Road Media, making the series complete. For those of you who…

Researchers from Genetech have developed a new way to deliver drugs across the blood-brain barrier. The new technique — not to be confused with another recent method — uses a double-sided antibody that targets enzymes of a harmful degenerative protein in monkeys. Delivering molecules in this way could assist in the treatment of brain disorders…

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…