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Inspect the Detailed Geometry of Ships in These High Res Photos

Modern ships can be so immense that you rarely get a chance to see them in their entirety, let alone looking straight down from above. The photographs of Laurent Maes provide such a perspective, showcasing every shapely detail of giant yachts and freighters. The series is called Shipshape, and it’s unclear exactly how Maes creates…

Sony RX100 Mark III: The Point and Shoot Champ Takes It Up a Notch

The RX100 was instrumental in forging the high-end point and shoot category of digital cameras when it debuted in 2012. Last year’s Mark II version was a minor spec bump, but the new RX100 Mark III has some startling features you’d ever expect from a camera so small. At first glance, the $800 RX100 Mark…

How Many Licks Does It Take to Get to the Center of Your Revenge?

Jean Claude Van Damme is on a mission to discover what lies at the center of a Tootsie Pop. But this ain’t no mission of mercy and he’s certainly not going to let a bunch of psychedelic, animated woodland animals keep him from the truth—even if they do all know kung fu.

​Adventure Tested: Danner Crater Rim GTX Hiking Boots Review

The nicest hiking boots you can buy? The Danner Crater Rim GTXs are hand-made in Portland, Oregon and worn by the American Special Forces in Afghanistan. What’re They Supposed To Do? These aren’t boots for the casual hiker. They’re overbuilt, heavy, rugged, stiff and, at $300, expensive. That’s because they’re meant to be the ultimate…

The California wildfires and fire tornadoes look like hell on Earth

This footage capturedby a Fox News video crew shows a firenado raging near Carlsbad. It’s absolutely terrifying but the video taken by some people driving through a road is even worse. It really feels like hell on Earth. The firenado Road through hell Here’s one taken right next to the road, which looks about to…

A Gear Geek’s Guide To Ultralight Backpacking

Taking weight off your back is a good thing, but not at the expense of comfort, capability or preparedness. Here’s how to ultralight backpack in style. When venturing out into the wilderness on foot, there are two objective-based motivations that can drive us: hiking and camping. If you get off on ever-changing scenery and love…

Derive and Thrive: Remix 3 Netlabels This Weekend

Update 2014.05.16: Please note there were two text errors when this project was first posted. The netlabel Audiotalaia was misidentified as Audioitalia, and the Kayaka track “O” was misidentified as “Blackening.” Each Thursday at the Disquiet Junto group on SoundCloud.com a new compositional challenge is set before the group’s members, who then have just over…

The Gray Whale Could Not Be Contained

Despite the museum’s best efforts, the gray whale kept jumping out of the paper on which it had been drawn. It wanted nothing more than to do battle with the shark painted beside it, and every day it strained against the bounds of credulity to do just that. Fiona Tang is a Canadian art student…

​America, Why Is Your National Anthem So Goddamn Hard To Sing?

As virtually every American citizen knows all too well, belting out the National Anthem can be a rather precarious proposition. Here’s what the experts have to say about “The Star Spangled Banner” and why it’s such a challenging piece, even for professionals. Over at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History Blog, program producer M.K.…

Being gluten free is dumb—and gluten intolerance may not even exist

If you have Celiac, this obviously doesn’t apply to you. Don’t eat gluten. But if you don’t have Celiac—and that’s 99% of the human population, mind you—there’s no reason to be gluten free. You’re wasting your time. Even the scientist who started this gluten free craze thinks it’s useless to be gluten free. Seriously. People,…

Win An ESEE-6 Survival Knife

We’re giving away a brand new version of our favorite survival knife, the ESEE-6! At 11.75 inches in total length, with a 6.50-inch blade and made from .188-inch thick 1095 carbon steel, the ESEE-6 is a strong, versatile, capable multi-purpose outdoors tool. It’s perfect for building fires, building shelters, preparing food or even scaring off…

This Animated Film About Elephant Seals Could Have Been Made By Pixar

With Pixar’s attention to the natural world, this short film would be a great fit for them. Someone hire this fellow to make a whole series of animated animal shorts. Pinnipèdes is Victor Caire’s first 3D animated film, made at Supinfocom Arles, and it is darling. Under all those folds of flesh, his animated elephant…

While I gave you a quick explanation of fire tornadoes (and adiabatic winds!) yesterday, The Vane has more details on the atmospheric science of how a fire tornado differs from a more mundane tornado.

These fully-automatic Wolverine claws are as badass as the real ones

Holy crap, Colin Furze made the best Wolverine claws replicas ever. These 12-inch steel blades are fully automatic: they can deploy or retract with the push of a button. I’ve seen many tries at making these, but nothing as amazing as this these ones. And for sure, you can use these as real—very—mortal weapons. The…

This Diver Is Cradling a 12,000-Year-Old Skull in an Underwater Cave

Inside a cave so deep and dark it’s called Hoyo Negro, or Spanish for “black hole,” divers are transporting a 12,000-year-old skull for 3D scanning. The skull belongs to one of the oldest and most complete skeletons ever found in the Americas. Lucky for us, the expedition was documented with an entire set of stunning…

A Massive Dose of Measles Virus Wiped Out This Woman’s Cancer

Stacy Erholtz didn’t have many options to treat her blood cancer left when she agreed to being injected with the equivalent of 10 million doses of measles vaccine. Hours later, she was vomiting and feverish. Months later, her cancer was gone. This landmark result—if replicated in larger clinical trials—could open the door to new therapy…

How Survival Knives Are Designed And Manufactured

What makes a $200 knife different from a $20 one? We asked Jungle survival trainer and knife designer Jeff Randall. Jeff runs Randall’s Adventure and Training, where he teaches survival in one of the harshest environments on earth — the Amazon Rainforest. Along with co-founder Mike Perrin, he also runs ESEE Knives, producing no-bullshit tools…

An Artist Who Uses 3D Scanning To Upgrade Renaissance Sculptures

They say that good artists copy and great artists steal—but artist Barry X. Ball sort of does both with his semi-unique sculptures that start where classic renaissance-era sculptors left off. The original pieces are recreated as digital models using a detailed scanning process, and then enhanced or augmented in 3D modeling software to either complete…

Scientists Finally Understand Shark Skin, Thanks to 3D Printers

If you described a shark as a toothy torpedo covered in sandpaper, you wouldn’t be too far off the mark. It’s that rough sandpapery skin that gives sharks their highly efficient swimming abilities, and scientists finally understand why. A shark’s skin is covered in millions of microscopic denticles, rigid tooth-like scales that jut out from…

Fearless guy walks and dances barefoot on a crane in terrifying video

Mustang Wanted—one of those fearless daredevils from Eastern Europe that climbs any structure with no safety measures whatsoever—has definitely one-upped himself in this new video. I just can’t believe what the guy does starting on the 1:13 mark. It made me gasp in disbelief—and fear. Videoclip for Fall Like Rain, the new single Austrian electronic…