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8 Vastly Overqualified Actors Who Played Ridiculous Villains

Good actors know the value of a good villain; from Richard III to Dracula, some times the best bad guys are much more interesting than the heroes. Some times… but not always. Here are eight incredibly talented actors who completely wasted their talents as silly cinematic scoundrels. 1) Frank Langella as Skeletor in Masters of…

Rising Waters Are Spawning a New Breed of Cyborg Architecture

× Mies van der Rohe’s Farnsworth House, a masterpiece on the banks of the Fox River, has been hit by three different “100-year-floods” in the last 20 years. Now, preservationists are considering putting the home on permanent hydraulic jacks to lift it above floodwaters. The Farnsworth House would become a cyborg building—and it’s far from…

The Tasteless Crap That Fills the 9/11 Museum Gift Shop

The National September 11 Memorial Museum opens to the public this Wednesday, May 21st. It’s an important place of remembrance for the thousands of innocent people killed that infamous day in 2001. It also has a gift shop full of tasteless kitsch. The purpose of the 9/11 museum shop is to raise money for the…

How A Bad Experiment And Dead Horses Led To Your Morning Shower

The 16th through 18th centuries, in addition to their regrettable stances on witch burning and geocentrism, were a stinky time to be alive. People did not bathe due to a popular misconception. What turned it around? Another popular misconception, a poorly-thought-out experiment, and dead horses. The problem was that the resurgence of the plague, and…

Reminder: DJs Don’t Do Anything Besides Press Play

The latest SNL Digital Short features ex-cast member (and last weekend’s SNL host) Andy Samburg as a world-famous DJ who doesn’t do anything but press a single button on stage. It’s a hilarious parody, but it also tells the stark truth about DJs: Once they’ve put in the hard work of producing a track in…

Scientists May Have Figured Out How to Turn Light into Matter

Back in 1934, a team of physicists came up with an idea for how one might create matter from light. Put simply, just slam two photons into each other to get an electron and a positron, a.k.a. matter. And now, some 80 years later, a team of physicists have a plan to carry out the…

Cosmos Asks If Humanity Has What It Takes To Survive

Tonight’s episode of Cosmos is about the fragility and durability of life. Our story starts in the cradle of civilization, Iraq, with the development of written language and the recorded legends of the Mesopotamian goddess Innana, the hero Gilgamesh and the flood myth that found its final form in the Old Testament and the Aronofsky…

These Sennheiser Headphones Live in the Future and on My Head

These hot red Sennheiser Momentum headphones used to live in the bedroom of the future and now they live on my head. I picked them up a few days ago and haven’t been able to take them off. In fact, here’s a Vine to prove it. “Living” in this Home of the Future the past…

Suave baseball kid wasn’t as suave as you thought he was

Samer Kalaf at Deadspin got this awesome clip of a boy trying to impress a girl by giving her an apparently generic baseball instead of the foul ball he just caught on a Blue Jays-Rangers game. This made every man in the planet wish they had the kids’ (other) balls, but it seems it was…

This Week’s TV: Say Goodbye To Revolution And Warehouse 13!

Two scifi shows take their final bows this week—and Warehouse 13 is going out with a musical number. Plus, we see the season finales of From Dusk Till Dawn and Supernatural while the summer TV season is just ramping up. See all the latest clips and details below! Top image from Warehouse 13. Everyone is…

A New Terrifying Ride Drops You Face First At 60 MPH

Amusement parks love those heart-stopping vertical drop rides because they don’t take up much space. But when you’ve ridden one, you’ve ridden them all. At least until Busch Gardens’ new 335-foot tall Falcon’s Fury ride is open to the public. When riders get to the top—as many as 32 at one time—their seats are tilted…

Here’s Every Product We Have in the Home of the Future

Herman Miller couches! Edible glasses! Telepresence robots! Here is everything we have in our Home of the Future and where you can buy these things. Living/General Herman Miller Tuxedo Sofa, $5389, Herman Miller Stool 60 by Alvar Aalto for Artek, $270, artek “Rocket” Stool by Eero Aarnio for Artek, $435, artek Bower Pick-Up Stool, $425,…

Chicago’s Huge Vertical Farm Glows Under Countless LED Suns

Chicago, Illinois, isn’t exactly a major player in national food production anymore, but that could soon change if companies like Green Sense Farms continue to sprout up. With the help of next-gen LED grow lights, the country’s biggest indoor commercial vertical farm can produce masses of produce regardless of the weather outside. Green Sense Farms…

Steampunk And Catfish (The Other Kind) Are Now In The Dictionary

Merriam Webster has updated its newest edition with 150 new words. A lot of the terms — social networking, tweeps, hashtag, and catfish (in the identity sense, not in the goes-well-with-okra sense) — come from social media. But there are also plenty of other words including Yooper, freegan, fracking and more. Other new additions include…

​Behold the world’s first full-size, functional Lego R2-D2

At Emerald City Comic-Con the world’s first and only full-size, and functional Lego R2-D2 met its match when it came up against a full-size Dalek. The droid is about 16,000 bricks, 42″ tall, weighs 65 pounds, and can go 5 mph. It’s a radio-controlled, 4-wheeled masterpiece. It’s powered by two Arduinos, with a dedicated motor,…

The FBI Just Issued Wanted Posters for 5 Chinese Army Officers

In case you need more reasons to worry about escalating tensions between the US and China, the FBI is now circulating Wanted posters for five officers of the People’s Liberation Army. This isn’t just a fun let’s-see-what-happens exercise. These guys have been charged with some serious cyber crimes. These are those Chinese hackers you keep…

Gravity director Alfonso Cuarón may be returning to the world of Harry Potter. Cuarón is reportedly in talks to directFantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, which would be his second film set in the wizarding world after Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban.

Scientists Say They Need Philosophers to Continue Their Research

At the University of Washington, researchers are pioneering a field of neuroscience called “neuroengineering,” which will one day involve doing things like regulating people’s moods with brain implants. In this fascinating video, they explain how their work spilled over into philosophy. The issues that these neuroengineers are tackling are going to become increasingly important in…

The Science of Removing Graffiti From a Priceless Work of Art

In the fall of 2012, a vandal approached a painting by Mark Rothko hanging in London’s Tate Modern, and scrawled it with graffiti. It took the Tate over nine months of work to successfully restore the painting before it went back on display last week. This video shows the amazing science and craft that went…

This Was The Most Emotionally Intense Game Of Thrones Episode Yet

Last night’s Game of Thrones was ridiculously eventful, with a number of major turning points. But “Mockingbird” was also full of intense moments, where people revealed their defining tragedies and made life-or-death decisions. And discovered what they’re willing to kill, or die, for. Spoilers ahead… Tyrion and the Three Swordsmen The backbone of this episode…