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These Churches Are Floating on Water

Here’s what happens when churches throughout history have come unmoored from land and floated out on the water. The Church of Our Saviour in New York City, converted from a ferryboat in 1844, operated until 1868. (via SCI Digital Archives and Retronaut) The Church of the Holy Comforter in New York City, built in 1846,…

Archaeologists Just Discovered a 1,000-Year-Old Viking Fortress

It’s been 60 years since a viking fortress was discovered, leading historians to assume that we’d uncovered everything there is to uncover. But this weekend, Danish and English archaeologists announced they’ve unearthed evidence of a new fortress that’s been sought after for years—and they used some pretty cool tech to do it. The fortress sits…

Minority Report TV Series Will Take Place 10 Years After Tom Cruise

We won’t have to wait long for Steven Spielberg’s Minority Report TV show, because Fox just picked up this series. Plus we’ve got plot point details! Deadline is reporting that Fox has purchased the series with a “put pilot” deal, meaning this is most definitely happening or Fox will have to pay out a whole…

I’m sick of saving the world: The case for smaller-scale stories

Sometimes it feels like the genre tales I love are in a storytelling arms race to constantly raise the stakes. We can’t even just have the world under threat – it’s the solar system, it’s the galaxy, hell, throw in the whole damn universe while you’re at it. What’s happened to the small-scale hero in…

The Movie and TV Release Calendar Update, America Edition

Captain America: The Winter Soldier was really good. So good in fact that io9’s Charlie Jane Anders called it one of the best action movies she’d ever seen . It’s out on Blu-ray tomorrow, along with several other notable releases. Check out our updated calendar and let us know what you’re looking forward to.

7 Famous Quotes About the Future That Are Actually Fake

Here at Paleofuture, we love failed predictions. It’s kind of our bread and butter. But shockingly, some of the failed predictions being passed around on the internet are often misleading, frequently taken out of context, or sometimes completely fabricated. Fake quotes on the internet? Unbelievable, I know. But today we have seven predictions you may…

Someone’s In Major, Major Trouble In This Newest Walking Dead Trailer

Well. I don’t know if the footage in this latest trailer for the fifth season of The Walking Dead constitutes a spoiler or not, but I do know this — it seems to stress that a major character is going to die, and soon, and unfortunately this is best discussed after the jump. Spoilers! Obviously,…

Moto 360 Battery Life Test: So Far, Not As Bad As You Heard

Battery life is generally the slowest thing to test on a gadget, and it’s almost always the toughest to get right. There’s just no way to rush it, and there are just so many variables regarding how people use a particular gadget that it’s always one of those “your mileage may vary” type of situations.…

What Caused This Crater In Nicaragua?

Reports are quickly spreading of a “meteorite impact” near Managua, Nicaragua. Circumstantial evidence supports the impact theory, but just as equally supports an explosives mishap from the nearby military base. Here’s what we know, and what we need to know to tell the difference. Is this an impact crater? Image credit: AP/Nicaraguan Army A loud…

Samsung Galaxy Tab 4 Nook Review: What’s the Point?

The Nook brand stormed back into relevance a couple weeks ago with the announcement of a Samsung Galaxy Tab 4 custom-designed for reading. But did it really? Does the new Nook experience knock your socks off? When I used the Nook tab, my socks stayed firmly on my feet. What Is It? The new Nook…

If Reddit’s leaders consider themselves a government, is it time to declare Reddit a failed state? That’s what T.C. Sottek is asking over at the Verge, in a thought-provoking essay about Reddit’s failure to control the way its members are abusing women.

Watch Bryan Fuller’s Never-Before-Seen TV Adaptation of The Lotus Caves

Many moons ago, Bryan Fuller (Hannibal and Pushing Daisies) developed a TV adaptation of John Christopher’s The Lotus Caves for Syfy. Alas, the pilot never made it to the small screen, until now. Syfy is finally airing their lost Lotus Caves adaptation titled High Moon. TV Line has the first five minutes from High Moon,…

Read A Sexy Excerpt From The Porn Comics Anthology Smut Peddler [NSFW]

The second edition ofSmut Peddler, the anthology of pornographic comics made by women, is out and filled with sexy stories featuring a wide range of genders, sexualities, and genres. We’ve got an excerpt from the collection set in the future, where two people from different planets figure out how to mate. Smut Peddler 2014, which…

Helsinki Blasted Out an Underground Lake To Water-Cool Its Buildings

If you’ve visited Helsinki, you’ve probably spent time in its leafy Esplanade Park at the center of the city. Now Helsinki has turned the ground below the park into a subterranean lake which can keep buildings and other civic operations cool as part of a growing network that replaces traditional air conditioning systems. Like the…

The Most Mathematically-Efficient Way To Buy Your Metro Cards

Those last few nickels and dimes leftover on your metro card, and the time it takes to add on to it, can really add up. So what’s the frugal (and time-crunched) train traveler to do? Mathematics has the answer. [UPDATE] Top image: Train car in motion / Cec Over at I Quant NY, Ben Wellington,…

The horrible beauty of Mount Hood, Oregon

National Geographic’s Photo of the Day is this picture of Mount Hood, Oregon, shot by Paul C. Glasser. A beautiful image of something actually quite terrible, as Glasser himself describes: The hills were bathed in smoke from the many fires burning across Oregon. It’s only after it has died and shed its needles that the…

The Leftovers Season Finale Was Sick, Brutal, And Highly Satisfying

Well, then. After a slowly burning season, The Leftovers exploded, throwing Mapleton into complete chaos while reshuffling its disparate characters. But where will all these changes really leave the Garvey family? We start off where we left off two weeks ago, with Patti dead by her own hand in Cairo and Jill inside the Guilty…

Gaming Preorder Discounts, BBC Documentaries, SanDisk Storage [Deals]

Prepare your wallet and your backlog, here are a whole bunch of PC pre-order deals. Get a $5 Amazon credit with following. Several of the games are cheaper from Green Man Gaming in the second list, but the Amazon deals will be around longer and some people have trouble with GMG, so we’re giving you…

BBC Life, All the Gaming Preorders, Clean Air and Frothier Milk [Deals]

Several gorgeous BBC Life Sets, including the excellent Planet Earth, are at price lows today. Your Blu-ray player deserves these discs. [BBC Life] http://www.amazon.com/movies-tv-dvd-bluray/b/ref=gbrc_tit_r-1_1762_51da71cb?tag=gizmodo08c-20 Prepare your wallet and your backlog, here are a whole bunch of PC pre-order deals. Get a $5 Amazon credit with following. Several of the games are cheaper from Green Man…

This Clock’s Minute Hand Rings Its Own Hourly Chime

To sound off the top of each hour, Alessandro Zambelli’s DINN clock does’t use a complex geared mechanism like a grandfather clock, or even simple electronics like your digital watch. Instead, positioned at the DINN’s twelve o’clock is a tiny bell that’s struck by the hour hand every time it passes. But a shiny bell…