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The largest wave ever surfed on a skimboard

Skimboarder Brad Domke headed to Puerto Escondido, Mexico, to encounter this insane looking wave—the largest ever surfed on a skimboard and already described as a potential “wave of the year”. Skimboards don’t have fins so this is even more impressive than it looks. SPLOID is a new blog about awesome stuff. Join us on Facebook

Chris Carter Wants To Make 99 Episodes of New Hell Series The After

X-Files creator Chris Carter is back with the strange, post-apocalyptic Amazon series The After. Inspired (loosely) by Dante’s Divine Comedy, Carter boasted that he would like to make 99 episodes, similar to the 99 cantos in the book. Thankfully Amazon has only given him the cash to make eight. After premiering the pilot episode a…

Meet the “Queen of Hysterics” Who Was Freud’s Early Muse

Proving that fame isn’t a good measure of success, Marie “Blanche” Wittman, became known both locally and historically as the Queen of Hysterics. Her “medical demonstrations” were a kind of medical reality show — one that inspired the work of Sigmund Freud. But the story begins with a man named Jean-Martin Charcot. Given, an appointment…

There’s a New Material That’s So Black You Can’t See It

A team of British researchers has created a record-breaking material, but you might struggle to tell—because it’s so black that you can barely see it. The new material, called Vantablack, is a coating made using carbon nanotubes, which absorbs all but 0.035 percent of visible light. Grown on a sheet of aluminum foil, the coating…

Everything We Spotted In The New Doctor Who Trailer

The first proper trailer for Doctor Who season eight premiered over the weekend, and it was chock full of monsters, robots, and a Time Lord identity crisis. We pored over every frame, and here’s what we learned! Warning: Spoilers and speculation ahead.. So as you can see in the image up top, the TARDIS is…

New Time-Lapse Video Of Earth From Space Is Your Monday Moment Of Zen

Alexander Gerst, an astronaut from the European Space Agency, recorded this time-lapse video from the International Space Station as it flew over Brazil and the Atlantic Ocean at speeds close to 18,000 miles per hour, 250 miles above the Earth. Gerst, who joined the ISS crew in late May, is participating in a 166-day mission…

A Crash Course in Transistors, Processors and Moore’s Law

Do you sometimes wonder what the hell people a talking about when the discuss transistors, processors, binary or Moore’s Law? Or have friends that need a simple introduction to the topics? Then this is the video for you. Here, Sci Show takes a whistlestop tour of the circuitry that makes all computing possible. Electrical engineers…

Game Of Thrones Will Definitely Last At Least Another Three Years

Stan Lee drops hints about his Avengers 2 cameo. Guillermo del Toro talks about the chances of making a Hellboy 3 and Haunted Mansion. Constantine casts a female lead. Zachary Quinto mulls returning as Sylar for Heroes: Reborn. Plus, behind-the-scenes looks at Arrow and The Flash. Spoilers now! Top image: The Flash Amazing Spider-Man 3/Venom/Sinister…

Idiot Tries to Take Selfie While Running With the Bulls

This man may have survived the famous Pamplona Bull Run, but now the police are chasing after him too—because he took a selfie as he ran just inches ahead of the charging cattle. The Guardian reportsthat the bull runner is wanted because of new regulations, passed this year by the city of Pamplona, to clamp…

Redesigned Raspberry Pi: New Ports, More Power

A revised Raspberry Pi barebones computer launches today. The Raspberry Pi B+ is “the final evolution of the original Raspberry Pi,” according to its creators, but isn’t quite worthy of the “Raspberry Pi 2” moniker. Instead, the headline feature is an increased number of USB ports (with the DIY computer now housing four of the…

Airbus’ updated A330, the A330neo, gets an in-flight entertainment upgrade compared to its older sibling: 3D movies. Feeling queasy yet?

Witches of East End Makes a Convincing Argument for Nihilism

Whatever rules you think exist for an episode of television mean nothing to Witches of East End. There aren’t acts. Or narrative. Or anything that makes the episode stand on its own. But it’s not an avant garde experiment, either. It’s nothing at all. This episode is like television nihilism: everything that makes an episode…

Watch the Costa Concordia Being Refloated Now, Right Here

Removing the shipwrecked Costa Concordia from its resting spot off the coast of Giglio Island has been a slow project. But this morning, a team of engineers is finally refloating the sunken ship—and you can watch it happening right here. The efforts to refloat the ship started first thing this morning, and, as you’d expect,…

A Chinese Exec Living in Canada Hacked and Sold Secret Warplane Data

Attacks on U.S. networks come as little surprise these days, but the Department of Justice is now charging a Chinese executive living in Canada with stealing sensitive data about U.S. warplanes and selling it on. The Wall Street Journal reports that Su Bin employed hackers to obtain data about Boeing and Lockheed Martin warplanes—like the…

Adventure Tested: Mountain Hardwear Mtn. Speed 32 Sleeping Bag

Planning a fast and light cold weather adventure? The Mountain Hardwear Mtn Speed 32 employs a new type of nylon to become the lightest sleeping bag capable of keeping you warm in freezing weather. What’s It Supposed to Do? This is a down-filled sleeping bag designed for people who are traveling fast and light in…

Life of the Apes Revealed in Dawn of the Planet of the Apes Concept Art

These are the work of the Aaron Sims Company’s artists, which gives you the chance to look at the faces of Koba, Caesar, Cornelia, and Maurice. The detail in the faces and eyes are particularly arresting. Here are the rest of the character concepts, with Cornelia’s leaf crown a particular stand out: They also released…

Amazing hail storm on a beach looks like the beginning of the Apocalypse

This video captured on a beach in Novosibirsk, Siberia, looks like a scene from a movie about the end of the world. People were enjoying a perfect sunny day—with temperatures of 99F (37C)—when bullet-sized hail started strafing the beach while everyone were running for their lives in panic. According to The Siberian Times, a woman’s…

Fanmade American Horror Story: Freakshow Promo Is a Perfect Match

Update: FX confirmed this was fanmade and not real. Although, it’s a dead-on attempt to match what this show has done for other seasons. Impressive in its own way. FX teased the next American Horror Story season tonight during the premiere of The Strain. And, as is usual for this show, it was eerie and…

French TV Promos Show Extreme Animal Athletes

These French TV identifications have some pretty excellent CGI combined with a good, simple idea. It’s basically the animal kingdom’s version of the X-Games. There are turtles skateboarding on their shells, skydiving elephants, and (a personal favorite) gymnast ostriches. [via Tastefully Offensive]

The Antlers: Hotel

Summer can’t be all wild beach parties and fireworks and Songs of the Summer. There’s dim-roomed sunburn agony and thunderstorm-brokered power outages too—and these moments deserve their own playlist, as well. Here’s one nominee: Hotel, an amazing, foggy track off of the Antler’s latest album, Familiars. Released in mid-June, Familiars is no fun-time summer jam…