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Zack Snyder Calls Into Local Radio Show To Defend The Honor Of Aquaman

Zack Snyder heard a couple of local radio DJs in Detroit talking shit about HIS movie—specifically about Aquaman, and that was just not going to fly. So he called them up and politely set them straight. And in doing so, he revealed a whole lot about his Aquaman. Plus, it’s just adorable. CBS Detroit caught…

Shoelaces That Include Everything You Need To Start an Emergency Fire

Unless you’re trying to prove yourself on some ill-conceived reality survival show, it’s always a good idea to bring some way to easily start a fire when you head off into the wilderness. But if things go awry, this simple set of shoelaces can be used to start a fire in the event of an…

Should Robotics Companies Help The Workers They Displace?

The Pew Research Internet Project has just published a major survey of tech experts, asking whether they thought robotic devices would displace significant numbers of blue- and white-collar workers. Opinions are divided, with 52% saying no, and 48% warning that we could see a new underclass of unemployable people. What’s striking about this study is…

The World’s Most Badass Combine Harvester Will Shuck Your Mind

For untold centuries, humanity manually harvested and threshed our grains to separate the literal wheat from the chaff. The advent of combine harvesters—those that both harvest and thresh the grains in a single, automated process—however has vastly increased our ability to cultivate crops. And the new CR10.90 from New Holland does it better than anyone.…

More Anne Rice Vampire Chronicles Movies Are Coming

Yikes, has it really been 20 years since Interview With The Vampire? By Hollywood standards, that makes Anne Rice’s works way overdue for a reboot—which is exactly what is happening, only with producers we’re not really sure we want meddling in this supernatural genre. The Wrap is reporting that Brian Grazer, Alex Kurtzman and Roberto…

NASA Is Betting on These Five Extraordinary Ideas

Beyond developing current missions, NASA’s job is to invest in technologies that might seem like sci-fi—but could hold the keys to the next generation of space missions. After all, a century ago, the idea of a lunar landing probably seemed almost like pure sensational fiction. And this week, NASA picked the five seemingly distant concepts…

Peter Capaldi Really Is A Pricklier Doctor In These Doctor Who Clips

We haven’t seen much of Peter Capaldi’s Doctor in action yet, but if these snippets from the upcoming series of Doctor Who are any indication, he really will be a less warm and fuzzy Doctor, his curiosity tempered with a snarky edge. It’s a shame we can’t quite hear all the lines in this segment…

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Review: An NYC Tale That Needs More NYC

Reboots of cartoon classics are just a fact of life now. Each time they hit theaters, you hope and pray they’ll do justice to your childhood memories. More often than not, they leave you disappointed. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles is sadly no exception, and it doesn’t take advantage of the one thing that could have…

Reality Check: Most Scientists Never Believed In “Global Cooling”

Climate-change deniers like to remind us how, in the 1970s, scientists all believed the Earth was heading for another ice age. So why should we believe the doomsayers who now claim the opposite? Here’s why: Most scientists rejected the “global cooling” theory and, even then, were convinced the real problem was global warming. Unfortunately, the…

A See-Through Glass Pot That Definitely Boils While You Watch It

Designed by Massimo Castagna and made in Italy, this gorgeous all-glass pot defies the saying “a watched pot never boils” because it encourages chefs to stare in awe at whatever they’re preparing for dinner, while it cooks. Made from dense borosilicate glass instead of opaque stainless steel, the $200 transparent pot has been tempered so…

5 Inspiring Science Projects Designed by Teens

The amazing thing about the Google Science Fair isn’t so much the ambitious projects that spring from it, but who creates them: teenagers worldwide between 13 and 18 years. Google has announced the 15 global finalists for this year’s competition. They’re all spectacular, but here are five that stood out. The final three winners will…

10 Alternate Versions Of Characters That Were Better Than The Originals

Sometimes a TV show, movie or comic rolls out a wildly different version of a familiar character — just to show us a different path they could have taken. And then this other version is put back in the box forever. But here are 10 alternate versions that we wish could have replaced the originals.

Speedo’s Crazy Nemesis Fins Borrow Their Design From Humpback Whales

When you’re designing a product that helps someone race through the water, it only makes sense to draw your inspiration from the ocean’s resident experts. So you might be surprised to hear that Speedo closely based the design for its new Nemesis fins on humpback whales instead of sharks or dolphins. Either way, it’s a…

Watch music turn vapor into a living and dancing beast

This video shows how powerful low frequency sounds—blasting at full volume through the insanely powerful speakers of car—can affect vapor clouds. The movement is so unreal and seemingly unnatural that it feels like someone edited a series of jump cuts following the rhythm of the music. SPLOID is a new blog about awesome stuff.Join us…

Our ancestors may have left Africa even earlier than previously believed. The prevailing view maintains modern humans left the continent 60,000 years ago, but fossils recovered in Asia have given rise to the theory that a human exodus may have reached China as early as 100,000 years ago.

A Flippable Frame Lets This Bike Grow With Your Kids

As your child transitions from a balance bike—where they use their feet against the ground for propulsion—to a larger pedal version, it usually means it’s time for an upgrade. But not with Andreas Bhend’s clever Miilo. The bike’s frame is reversible, allowing it to be easily disassembled and flipped, elevating the seat and making room…

This Is How We’ll Grow Salad on Mars

Dining on alien planets might be a way off, but at least when we do there will be salad—because we’ve already developed the means to grow lettuce on other worlds. This image shows the set-up used by researchers at the German Aerospace Center, who have been pioneering the techniques required to grow “space lettuce.” Bathed…

The Extraordinary Evolution of Scissors

Since the ancient Egyptians who supposedly invented them, scissors have been a constant in human civilization. After knives, they’re likely the most common household object the average person owns. Just look around your house: You have them for your nails, your paperwork, your kitchen, sewing—even kids have their own safer versions. So it’s odd that…

The New Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Movie Fails In Every Possible Way

It’s not enough to say that the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles reboot is kind of a lousy movie. You want to be able to draw some kind of lesson from its crapness, or at least pick through the debris for some hint of what it could have been. To that end, here are all the…

Orphan Black Creators Reveal [Redacted]’s Injury’s Worse Than It Looked

This was a whirlwind season for Orphan Black, and when we caught up with co-creators Graeme Manson and John Fawcett, we had questions. Why did they decide to unveil the [redacted]? What’s going to happen now that [redacted] has been [redacted] in the [redacted]? Obviously, spoilers for Season Two ahead. So it finally happened in…