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The New Season Of Doctor Who Will Have Way Less Serialized Storytelling

Steven Moffat goes into more detail about how Doctor Who will address Peter Capaldi’s previous appearances. The Under the Dome cast talks about the “penetrable” Dome. And previews of True Bloodand this Fall’s CW shows. Plus, which actor is all set to return for Guardians of the Galaxy 2? Spoilers now! Top image: Doctor Who…

Google’s Pulled a ‘Bomb Gaza’ Game From the Play Store

Google has pulled a mobile game from the Play Store which allowed users to simulate Israeli attacks on the Gaza Strip—inviting them to “drop bombs and avoid killing civilians”—after (understandable) public backlash. Called Bomb Gaza, the game was developed by PlayFTW and somehow is still available as an app on Facebook. (Update: It’s now been…

One Simple Trick to Get Better Photos When a Stranger’s Taking Them

We’ve all handed our camera over to a stranger for them to take our picture, only to be severely disappointed by the result. But fortunately, Redditor EMDX—or Marc Dufour to his friends—has a solution. He recommends that, before you hand your camera to a stranger, you set your camera to spot-focus. Then, put the spot…

This is the the U.S.S. Anchorage devouring the Orion spacecraft. Actually, this was taken on a test mission on August 2nd, where NASA and the U.S. Navy practiced different techniques for recovering the craft after its upcoming mission this December. [NASA]

Ten Great Ships from the History of Ocean Exploration

Research vessels come in all shapes and sizes for the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute. Over the past eight decades, the research institute has purchased smuggling ships, converted troop carriers, commissioned deep sea drillers, and built a catamaran out of surplus pontoons. Top image: Lulu, the original support vessel for the deep sea submersible Alvin. The…

Comcast’s Giving the Poor 6 Months of Free Internet and a Bill Amnesty

Comcast has struggled in the press of recent times, so here’s a small ray of sunshine in an otherwise stormy period: the company is giving poor families up to six months of free Internet and setting up an amnesty program for unpaid bills. These features form part of Comcast’s Internet Essentials program, which was actually…

X-Men: Days of Future Past Concept Art Shows the Future X-Jet’s Beauty

In X-Men: Days of Future Past, we don’t spend a lot of time in the dystopic future that the plot revolves around preventing. And when we do, it’s brutal. So this concept art of the future X-Jet from Henry Fong is great, because it gives us the chance to appreciate the things we missed. Fong…

Are You More Turned On or Terrified by “Sexts From the Void”?

This is an important question, although you can take the third option of “find them hilarious,” which is where we landed. NSFW. These tweets are 1/3 inspired, 1/3 befuddling, and 1/3 likely to summon the Elder Gods. The hard left turn some of them make from “typical sext” to “scary as all get out” is…

These are the coolest GIF loops I’ve ever seen

These looped GIFs by artist Erdal Inci are 50 percent surreal videoart, 50 percent performance art, 100 percent awesome—sometimes beautiful, sometimes creepy. From the artist: I realized that if you clone a recorded performance contiguously it will become perpetual. So that you can see all the time phases of the same performance in a small…

Spectacular failed car stunt almost kills film crew

The director shouts action. Time passes. Suddenly, a car crashes through a truck and, out of control, almost wipes out the entire film crew. This is what happens when you are filming a car action scene and you don’t take the appropriate safety measures.Fortunately, everyone seems to be alright. There are no details on where…

Hellboy Hamlet‘s Not the Weirdest Take, But It Is the Most Awesome

“Suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune”? Yeah, that sounds about right. And before anyone can say it in the comments: Yes. I know that quote’s from a different part of the play. But A) It doesn’t really apply and B) I didn’t memorize that one as part of a project in high school…

Wow, the winners of the National Geographic Photo Contest are unreal

National Geographic just announced the winners of the National Geographic Traveler Photo Contest for 2014. They’re all so fantastic you’d swear they aren’t real. Like the one above, which is so fantastic that it looks like a photoshop. But it is real—a stunning picture by Marc Henauer of Green Lake in Tragöss, Austria. Every spring,…

The First 7 Minutes of Star Wars Rebels Have a Very Aladdin Feel

Tonight, Disney XD aired the first seven minutes of the upcoming show Star Wars Rebels. And the introduction of the main character, Force-sensitive Ezra Bridger (Taylor Gray), rang a lot of Aladdin bells. It might be the way he casually makes off with fruit that does it, or the floppy hair, or the general “street…

This Animation Video Explains Everything You Need to Know About Earth

Kurzgesagt sums up all you need to know about our planet Earth in this nice animation explainer that’s much more easy to understand than school ever was. It shows how fascinating and unbelievable Earth is and makes you realize how seemingly impossible it is for us to be living here. But we’re here! Oh, and…

Behold some of the best Steadicam shots of all time

If you love filmmaking you will love this 10-minute montage of some of the best steadicam shots in cinema history. It’s definitely missing some great long takes—like the amazing 6-minute steadicam shot in True Detective—but it’s a great summary of good uses of this shot, invented by Garrett Brown in 1971. In the words of…

This Reflective Facade Turns The Horizon Into a Gigantic Kaleidoscope

On the rocky shore of La Grande Motte, a seaside resort in the south of France, a reflective facade is turning the horizon-line into a kaleidoscopic head-trip. Breath Box is an installation composed of hundreds of mirrored panels that move in time with the wind. A word of advice: Don’t stare directly into this super…

I Prefer Watching These Heavily Slurred Versions of American History

Drunk History is in many ways the best show on television at the moment. You get the LOLs of absurdist sketch comedy while arming yourself with enough History Channel-quality Fun Facts™ to make you sound smart the next day. At the same time, it feels like hosting a party in your living room—one that inevitably…

US Navy sailors inside an amphibious assault ship—or a lost Aliens scene

The US Navy sailorsin this photo are directing a landing hovercraft “into the well deck of the amphibious assault ship USS Kearsarge in the Atlantic Ocean, July 29, 2014.” The scene is so cinematic that it could have been filmed onboard the USS Sulaco. It only needs some Power Loaders. From the outside, this is…

See What It’s Like To Be Hunted By A Shark — From the POV of a Seal

Last year, a research team from the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution deployed a robotic “SharkCam” off the coast of Mexico’s Guadalupe Island to film great white sharks in the wild. But the sharks had other ideas. The underwater vehicle, called REMUS, was basically a swimming torpedo outfitted with five cameras: one that faced behind the…

An Ode to the Botfly, Nature’s Nastiest Bug

Whaddya mean you don’t want insect larvae chewing their way through your epidermis en route to bursting through your skin like tiny, winged Xenomorphs? That’s just how the Botfly shows its love (and propagates its species). It’s the circle of life, it rules us all, and many times it’s really friggin’ disgusting. What isn’t disgusting…