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New Ad Campaign Targets Medical Marijuana As A Date Rape Drug

Florida voters will soon decide whether they want to legalize medical marijuana in their state. As November election day draws closer, polls indicate the ballot initiative, known as “Amendment 2,” has strong popular support — and its opponents are descending ever further into reefer madness. The anti-legalization group “No On Amendment 2” says the ballot…

Make Siri Better By Telling Her All About Your Relationships

If you really want to be able to emulate the characters in Apple’s promotional videos then you need to be able to tell Siri to “call mom” and “email dad.” Thanks to the custom label field built into iCloud contacts, you can assign any kind of relationship to people you know. Tell Siri about your…

Morpholio Board Lets You Redecorate a Room Right From Your iPad

Morpholio Board 1.0 was a powerful design app geared almost entirely for professionals. Board 2.0 is a digital sketchpad anyone can use to dabble in design, clipping images from anywhere on the web to create a customized rendering that’s smarter and more interactive than any sketchbook. Board 2.0 is, broadly speaking, a digital scrapbook that…

Meet The Star Of The Prometheus Sequel Comic

Dark Horse’s massive relaunch of the Alien/Predator/Alien Vs. Predator/Prometheus comic universe begins next month, and here’s a trailer for the latter, revealing the “Ripley” of the series and a massive amount of beautiful art from cover artist David Palumbo and interior art by Juan Ferreyra. That’s Prometheus writer Paul Tobin and entire A/P/AVP/P project head…

What All the Metal From a Single Mine Would Look Like As a Giant Orb

Of all the ways humans have altered the Earth, mining must be one of the most awesome—just for the sheer ratio of Earth excavated to metals and gems recovered. Still, it’s hard to visualize just how much a single mine has netted in numbers, which is why For What It’s Worth is so interesting. This…

What Is Han Solo Wearing (And Captaining) In Star Wars Episode VII?

The original Ant-Man script has Hank Pym meeting some very familiar faces. Could a different character end up with a major Walking Dead storyline? And a contract negotiation could change The Vampire Diaries forever. Plus, a ton of information about the new season of Doctor Who! Spoilers now! Top image: Doctor Who Star Wars First…

The Sounds Around You Could Soon Charge Your Phone’s Battery

Sitting in a noisy bar, caring for screaming children, or watching the ball game—all awful locations to make a phone call, but soon these scenarios could actually help charge the battery of your cell. New collaborative research by Queen Mary University of London and Nokia shows that the piezoelectric zinc oxide—which creates a voltage as…

Cool animated baby care guide makes a great case against having them

That old saying kids don’t come with instructions isn’t true anymore. Now there’s more information about kids than ever. Jun Iwakawa gathered some of that knowledge, plus his own experience as a first-time father, and put together this cool animated quick guide to caring for a newborn baby. SPLOID is a new blog about awesome…

How Cities Sleep, Visualized

People in Melbourne get the most, those in Tokyo the least. No, get your mind out of the gutter: we’re talking about sleep here, and how much of it the inhabitants of certain cities manage to actually get. The Wall Street Journal has been playing with a new dataset released by Jawbone which tracks how…

This Beetle Has a Thin Coating Whiter Than Anything Humans Can Make

This beetle looks like it’s been given a lick with a paintbrush—but in fact, it’s covered in paper-thin scales that are brilliant white, and reflect more light than anything of a similar thickness that can be made by humans. These critters—Cyphochilus to their friends—are covered in scales made from complex networks of chitin filaments. Chitin…

The strange and beautiful sensuality of Chet Faker’s Gold

Who the hell is Chet Faker, you ask? I didn’t know until I came across the video for the first single of his first album, Built on Glass. The song is called Gold and it’s officially going straight into Sploid’s soundtrack—yes, there’s one. We just started it. And I’m the DJ and I’m going to…

Witches of East End Ruined a Fun Romp By Dealing Badly With Assault

It’s not that this issue was one the show could ignore. Not with whole Ingrid plotline as it happened. But, man, they really wanted points for addressing it while also getting to move right along as if nothing happened. I don’t want that to sound like I didn’t enjoy this episode. I did. Mostly. But…

How to Do Hyperlapse Photography on a Budget

So, you’ve given time-lapse photography a try, and you wanna give hyperlapse a go? This video shows you how do it using just your basic gear. https://gizmodo.com/7-simple-cheap-photography-hacks-you-should-try-out-1572293196 Put together by the guys at DigitalRevTV, it explains the basics of hyperlapse and some of the initial challenges you’ll run into. Perhaps most important though, as hyperlapse…

Watch Cancer Cells Scurrying Over The Surface Of A Microchip

Watching cancer cells scurrying across the surface of a microchip is mesmerizing. Most of them plod along together and make steady progress. Others break off and aggressively cover large distances. Scientists say that this ability to actually see the cancer cells advance will be useful to figure out how to stop them once and for…

The present and future of the US Navy’s aircraft force in one GIF

For the first time, the US Navy is showing how its manned and unmanned jets can seamlessly work together aboard its aircraft carriers. This video filmed on the supercarrier USS Theodore Roosevelt shows a manned F-18 and an unmanned X-47B taking off one right after the other, like any other jets would do. SPLOID is…

Julian Assange held a press conference this morning to announce that, after being holed up in the Ecuadorian embassy in London for two years, he needs medical care for “heart and lung ailments.” He’s also has suffered from a vitamin D deficiency due to a lack of sunlight. It’s not yet clear how or when…

This Camera Will Flag You as a Suicide Bomber If You Seem Stressed Out

You might want to practice some breath-control before you go to China. Chinese scientists have reportedly developed a mini-camera to scan crowds for highly stressed individuals, who, it turns out, have a greater chance of turning out to be suicide bombers. The camera works by detecting the level of blood oxygenation in exposed areas of…

What is this, Breaking Bad in space? Not quite. This is actually European Space Agency astronaut Alexander Gerst venturing into the Automated Transfer Vehicle Georges Lemaitrefor the first time since it recently docked with the ISS. The face mask is to avoid the inhalation of any dust or debris created during its journey. [ESA]

If an Octopus Can Paint This Well, Why Isn’t He Making 8 Works At Once?

He’s the most prolific painter of his time. His self-portraits are like nothing you’ve ever seen. He is the octo-artist. This is “Art Octopus” by Kim C.

How to Safely Use Your Phone at a Protest

With major protests in the news again, we decided it’s time to update our cell phone guide for protestors. A lot has changed since we last published this report in 2011, for better and for worse. On the one hand, we’ve learned more about the massive volume of law enforcement requests for cell phone—ranging from…