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How to Get Rid of Your Facebook News Feed

Remember the days when Facebook was simple? There was no News Feed, no FarmVille requests, no massive privacy violations—it was a nice, clean directory of all your friends and their basic information. Well, thanks to a developer from Hamburg, you can finally have that Facebook back. Max Friedrich recently published this browser hack that simply…

Creation Museum To Display Dinosaur That “Proves” Biblical Flood

The Creation Museum in Petersburg, Kentucky, is set to unveil the skeleton of an Allosaurus fragilis — one that supposedly proves the biblical account of creation. Dubbed Ebenezer, the skeleton is set to be unveiled this coming Memorial Day. Measuring 30-feet long, standing nearly 10-feet high, and slightly resembling a smaller version of a T.…

Newly updated census data reveals dramatic inequalities in public school spending across the U.S. The nine states in the Northeast all rank among the top 15 states by per-pupil spending. Of the 20 states spending the least, 18 are in either the South or West.

Nerf-Like Foam Headphones Your Kids Won’t Instantly Destroy

There’s a reason brands like Nerf and Tonka are popular with parents: it’s because they’re almost impossible for kids to destroy. So Marblue decided to take a similar approach with its headphones designed for kids, by making the frame out of nearly indestructible foam. And of course, they called them Headfoams. Available in bright orange,…

Robert Kirkman Says Walking Dead Season 5 “Hits The Ground Running”

Bryan Singer explains why X-Men solo spin-offs are taking so long. J.K. Simmons explains why his Terminator: Genesis character has a big future. And it looks like we’re going to get tons more flashbacks to the Horseman’s past in Sleepy Hollow. Plus, Sharlto Copley explains the animation process for his character in Chappie. Spoilers now!…

These 7 Bizarre Bus Stops Are All In the Same Tiny Austrian Town

Krumbach, a tiny, 1000-person village in Austrian, has some of the most avant-garde bus stops in the world. In exchange for a weeklong holiday in the village, seven architects designed bus stops that are alternately whimsical, weird, and dazzling. Last year, the village’s culture council convinced Austrian architect Dietmar Steiner to curate the bus stops.…

Lawn Ornaments Help Lemurs Stay Happy and Healthy

The San Francisco Zoo recently introduced its lemurs to some pink plastic flamingos. The results were predictably adorable, but the flamingos weren’t just decoration. They’re an effort to give the lemurs a bit of mental exercise. Above: a ringtailed lemur inspects the plastic intruder. While most zoos try to present animals in as naturalistic a…

The Perfect Desk Could Also Be a Regulation Ping-Pong Table

Desks are the focal point of our work and creativity, but that doesn’t mean they can’t be fun, too. Like the You And Me Table, which offers both a fully-functioning table tennis surface and somewhere to work, too. Designed by Barcelona’s Antoni Pallejá Office, the You And Me Table is a large dining table/conference table/desk—only…

U.S. Physics Panel Wants to Build Billion-Dollar, 800-Mile Neutrino Beam

A committee made up of high-profile U.S. scientists has a bold plan afoot. It wants to build a billion-dollar particle beam to blast neutrinos 800 miles underground, from Chicago to South Dakota. The audacious plan would, according to Steven Ritz from the University of California Santa Cruz, be the biggest American particle physics project in…

Soldier drops grenade, gets saved by his supervisor at the last second

Watch a Chinese soldier dropping a grenade backwards during training—only to be saved at the last second by his supervisor. It looks like the grenade slips from his hand as he was throwing it. The reader Wateverworks was kind enough to translate into english what the instructor said in the interview at the end of…

Report: Samsung’s Working on its Own Oculus Rift Rival

Got pockets big enough for a Samsung phablet? You might want to stitch an extension into them: Samsung is said to be working on its own virtual reality headset to be paired up with its mobile devices, according to Engadget. http://www.engadget.com/2014/05/22/samsung-vr-headset/ Whereas the Oculus Rift focusses on PC gaming, and Sony’s Project Morpheus will do…

Microsoft has won the right to disclose the FBI’s demand for information about Office 365 customer—a pretty significant victory for transparency and free speech.

Finally, We’ve Found an Actual Use For Smartwatches

Smart Watches are yet to really deliver on their promise, so what can be done with the proliferation of tiny screens? Finally, we’ve come across a solution we can really get behind. https://gizmodo.com/i-actually-really-want-a-smartwatch-1257227834 In today’s XKCD, Randall Munroe proposes an idea that should have been obvious to us all along. Those tiny little screen can…

Concept Art from the Star Trek Series That Never Was

Back in 1977, Paramount began production on a new live-action Star Trek series called Star Trek: Phase II. The idea was eventually scrapped in favor of making The Motion Picture. But Mike Minor had already completed concept art for a revamped interior for the Enterprise. A few of the scripts for Phase II were reworked…

You Can Now Download 400,000 of the Met’s Artworks For Free

New York City’s Metropolitan Museum of Art has a fairly impressive collection of art stashed away—and now you can download almost 400,000 digital images of its pieces for free. The artworks have been released as Open Access for Scholarly Content (OASC), which means students, academics and anyone working on scholarly-like not-for-profit projects can use them…

Why Only the Most Intelligent Mammals Make Friends

Humans aren’t the only mammals to make friends—elephants, horses, whales and plenty more form strong social bonds that aren’t connected to reproduction—but it’s only the smartest that do. Why is that? In fact, mammals form alliances to help other, to ensure safety—essentially to make life easier—and it requires intelligence to realise that’s a smart thing…

WSJ: Google Developing Project Tango Tablets That Map Their Surroundings

The Wall Street Journal reports that Google is developing new 7-inch tablets based around its Project Tango technology—and it plans to manufacture 4,000 prototype devices in the coming month. http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10001424052702303749904579578833557306544 The reports suggests that the tablets will have a 7-inch screen, infrared depth sensors, two back-mounted cameras, and “advanced software that can capture precise three-dimensional…

Is This Really Jurassic World‘s Take on the Liability-Laden Theme Park?

Photos that purport to be of the map of Jurassic World’s version of Isla Nublar have leaked. There’s no way to know if they’re real or, if they are, what role they’ll actually play in the film. But they do paint the picture of a dinosaur-laden island. These photos were posted to the Jurassic Park…

All Together Now: DIMETRODON IS NOT A DINOSAUR

Like pterosaurs, ichthyosaurs and plesiosaurs, Dimetrodon, while commonly mistaken for a dinosaur, isn’t actually a dinosaur. In fact, unlike pterosaurs, ichthyosaurs and plesiosaurs, Dimetrodon isn’t even a reptile, but instead belongs to a diverse group of animals that includes all modern day mammals. Seriously. According to Emily Graslie – host of the outstanding YouTube science…

Semi-Transparent Ants Are What They Eat

This is a photo by Dr. Mohamed Babu showing a species of ants with partially transparent bellies drinking liquid spiked with food dye. via Qikipedia