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A Tent With Built-In LED Lighting Eliminates Midnight Flashlight Hunts

If you’re sleeping out in the woods, and suitably far enough from civilization that you wake up in complete darkness, finding your flashlight to investigate a noise outside your tent can be all but impossible. So tent-maker Big Agnes has announced a new line of temporary abodes featuring LEDs built-in to the framework, ensuring adequate…

Imgur’s had an overhaul, including a new search feature—which let’s you find images by title, tag, image size, and image type—and user-suggested tagging. Basically, it’s way easier to find the right animated GIF now.

Watch a Boeing 787 Dreamliner Pull Some Crazy Stunts

There are certain things we all look for in a huge passenger jet: safety, stability, comfort… but what about some insane acrobatics? Well, you’ll be pleased to see that the Boeing 787 Dreamliner can certainly provide the latter. In between having cracked wings,dribbling fuel and catching fire, you might be surprised to find out that…

An Interactive Chart Showing Which Jobs STEM Majors Really End Up In

What do students who receive a Bachelors degree in a STEM major end up doing with it? The answer, as this chart shows, is all over the place. This interactive chart was put together by the Census, using data on Bachelors degrees and fields of employment from Americans between the ages of 25-64. Interestingly, the…

The Messed-Up Experiment Meant To Induce Crippling Guilt In Children

Do you know when children start to feel guilt? Scientists at the University of Iowa do, because of this little experiment. They gave children a toy, told them that the toy was very special to them, and asked the child to be extremely careful with it. Then the toy broke. The toy, usually a doll…

Darwin’s Entire Library Aboard The HMS Beagle Is Now Available Online

A historian has reconstructed the lost library of books that accompanied Charles Darwin during his five-year scientific voyage across the world, allowing the public to read the more than 400 volumes that served as reference and inspiration for the young naturalist whose theories would revolutionize biology. When Charles Darwin first stepped aboard the HMS Beagle…

The New Striker II Is the World’s Most Advanced Fighter Pilot Helmet

Having great reaction speeds is one thing, but for a fighter pilot to be performing at their best these days they need the most advanced equipment available to them. And when it comes to helmets, they don’t come any more advanced than BAE’s Striker II. Featuring a high definition curved display, the all-digital helmet has…

The First Trailer For Syfy’s 12 Monkeys Show Is Its Own Paradox

It doesn’t debut until next January, but the first trailer for Syfy’s TV series adaptation of Terry Gilliam’s scifi movie 12 Monkeys is here, showing how they’ll expand it — man in future sent back in time to destroy virus apocalypse — into a full show. But why does it seem so… off? Clearly, they’re…

Cool point of view video shows how it looks to climb a huge ship mast

This point of view video shows what it is like to climb to the top of the main mast of the Charles W. Morgan—the world’s oldest surviving merchant vessel, built in the 19th century. When I watched this a cascade of images from old pirate movies came into my mind. SPLOID is a new blog…

Five Things You’ll Never See Posted on Social Media

The internet is a wonderful and diverse place, a democratized space for us all to share and enjoy—but there are still some things you should never, ever say. Richard Stevens of Diesel Sweeties put together this comic that features the kinds of posts that you’re unlikely to ever find on social media. How very accurate.…

Marvel Roundup: Hints On Avengers 2, Agents Of SHIELD And Agent Carter!

How will Agent Carter tie into Agents of SHIELD? And more details about the new Avengers Tower from Kevin Feige. Plus, Resurrection’s “new world order,” a new castmember for Grimm, concept art from Rob Zombie’s movie 31, and The 100 gains an artist. Spoilers now! Top image: Avengers: Age of Ultron Avengers: Age of Ultron…

90 Percent of Wiretaps Are Listening Out For Drug Deals

If you’re worried about being wiretapped you can probably rest easy—unless you’re talking about narcotics. Because that’s what a staggering 90 percent of taps are listening out for. Anew Administrative Office of US Courts reportrevealed that wiretaps hits an all-time high in 2013. That’s not terribly surprising. But it also provided a breakdown of why…

Three Origami Animals Live All Too Briefly In This Short Film

“The Dream Life of Paper” is a 3D animated short showing the life and death of three origami animals. It’s four and half minutes long, and yet the moment where the creatures venture forward to what will eventually end their lives is unaccountably sad. There are no words spoken in the short, but there’s still…

Google Is Now Doing Free Glass Demos

Google is running a series of base camps in in Los Angeles, New York, and San Francisco where you can try out Glass, gratis. CNET reports that Google is inviting anyone from the general public to “sit down with a Glass Guide.” If you head along to such a session, you’ll get to try out…

New video of mysterious giant Siberian hole filmed by investigation team

Watch new footage of the mysterious giant hole that opened up in Siberia as a scientific expedition—with the country’s Emergencies Ministry represented—reaches the remote site and looks inside. An explosion below the ground is currently thought to be the most probable explanation—but the date and cause remain unknown. If a Russian speaking reader could help…

This Is the Most Detailed Map of Mars’s Surface Ever Made

Ever wondered how you might navigate your way across the surface of Mars, if you ever find yourself there? Well, perhaps you could use this: the most detailed map of the Red Planet’s geology ever made. The map compiles 16 years’ worth of observations from four orbiting spacecraft—Mars Global Surveyor, Mars Odyssey, Mars Express and…

The Full Sized Wire Fairy Queen of Trentham Gardens

At Trentham Gardens in the UK, you can walk the Fairy Trail and see the many wire fairies created by artist Robin Wright. And the centerpiece is Wishes, a life-sized queen installed earlier this year to commemorate the garden’s 10th anniversary. Below, you can see some of Wishes’ subjects. A in-depth look at how they…

We’re Going To Need a New Name to Describe This Transforming Cabinet

The designers have named this spectacularly over-engineered cabinet the ‘Cubrick’, but that doesn’t even come close to doing this transforming masterpiece justice. The Cubrick is a piece of furniture from London’s YardSaleProject. I’m hesitant to call it a cabinet, because it’s unlike any other cabined I’ve ever seen — pull apart the two handles, and…

Amazing man climbs a ladder holding a sports bike on top of his head

This guy in India must be a superhero because he has superhuman strength and gravity breaking balance. Just check out this video of him carrying a motorcycle on top of his head and then climbing ladder so he can put the bike on top of the bus. I don’t know how they’re going to get…

The amazing story of a man who planted a giant forest one tree at a time

The Forest Man of India—that’s his official title. Just a regular dude who, one day of 1979, decided to transform a barren land into a forest with an extension of 1,359 acres and counting. One tiny baby tree at a time, seed by seed he created a paradise that is now home for elephants, rhinos,…