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10 of the Weirdest Corners on Reddit

If you’ve ever spent any time on Reddit, you know that bizarre corners and seedy underbellies abound, making it virtually impossible to uncover some of the site’s more absurd stores of knowledge (to use the term loosely). Knowledge, for example, like this, or this, or even this. So to aid us in this monstrous task,…

Wonderfully Surreal Photos From The American Museum Of Natural History

Earlier this week, the American Museum of Natural History (AMNH) launched its Digital Special Collections site — an online archive of more than 7,000 images that includes seldom-seen, scientific illustrations from the AMNH Rare Book Collection, and backstage glimpses of the museum’s famous dioramas. Spanning the AMNH’s 145-year history, the images were previously available only…

This Abandoned Igloo Hotel in Alaska Could Be Yours For $300,000

Even out in Alaska, this gigantic urethane igloo sticks out like a bizarre, misplaced structure on the side of Parks Highway. It’s long been a curiosity for tourists whizzing by on the way to Denali National Park. And now the famous landmark is for sale to the tune of $300,000. Let’s be clear, the igloo…

Google Now Can Remember Where You Parked

Google Now is getting a new superpower: it’s going to be able to remember where you parked. Using your phone’s sensors, it’ll figure out when you’ve exited a moving vehicle and remember your car’s location automatically, so you don’t even have to think twice. Of course, that means you could also get parking locations when…

New TMNT Trailer Features The Good, The Bad And The Shredder

If you’re looking for something good in this newest Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles trailer, you’ve got it: lots of new shots of the Turtles, the first semi-decent look at Shredder, and the jeep scene is legitimately pretty cool. Of course, if you’re looking for something bad, the Turtles still have those highly disconcerting nostrils. Now…

Madrid’s New Parking Meters Charge More For Gas Guzzlers

Drive a diesel car in Madrid and soon it’ll cost you in more than fuel. The Spanish city is introducing new smart parking meters which will add a surcharge to your tariff if you’re driving a heavily polluting car. The new initiative, which starts on July 1st, will use a complex pricing table—dictated by engine…

We Don’t Know The Sinister Six After All. Plus New Game Of Thrones Set!

There’s tons of info about the new apes in Dawn of the Planet of the Apes. Tricia Helfer is returning to Syfy. A new castmember joins the Marvel cartoon Big Hero 6. The writer of Frequently Asked Questions About Time Travel is joining Doctor Who. Spoilers now! Top image: The Dawn of the Planet of…

What the Hell is Non-Dairy Creamer Made Of?

Yucky stuff. But you have alternatives. The chemicals, oils, sugars and milk products (yes, milk, in a “non dairy” product)—but the combinations vary depending on your brand. Carrageenan Extracted from the red seaweed more commonly known as Irish moss (Chondrus crispus), carrageenan is used as a thickening agent and emulsifier to make foods creamier. It…

Impact of Cosmic Rays on Cognitive Health

As part of investigations into the impact of long-duration space travel on squishy biological creatures, researchers at Johns Hopkins University blasted rats with high-speed particles. Shockingly, the irradiated rats failed to develop awesome superpowers, instead developing cognitive issues. Whoops. Down here on Earth, our magnetic field protects us from high speed particles. It not just…

The Wikipedia-Powered Teddy Could Go Really Wrong

The idea of a stuffed toy that could answer any question is kind of neat—until it starts going rogue. In this video, Conan finds out what happens when WikiBear gets a little… morbid. [Conan]

Amazon has expanded its same-day delivery service to San Francisco, Dallas, and Los Angeles. Good news for those who leave things to the last minute.

Snapchat Now Does Video Chat and IM

Snapchat, everybody’s favorite sexting app, has just grown up. Now, to complement its simple self-destructing messages, the iOS and Android apps both handle instant messaging and live video chats. To use them, you just swipe right from the main camera screen to find a list of friends, from where you can send them a message…

Coding Sucks: Why a Job in Programming Is Absolute Hell

Every friend I have with a job that involves picking up something heavier than a laptop more than twice a week eventually finds a way to slip something like this into conversation: “Bro, you don’t work hard. I just worked a 4700-hour week digging a tunnel under Mordor with a screwdriver.” They have a point.…

Sony A77 Mark II: The Mid-Range DSLR Gets a Turbo-Charged Upgrade

Most of the attention heaped on Sony these days is directed at their compact mirrorless cameras. But there is still plenty of interest in those other members of the Alpha family, those larger A-mount DSLR style bodies. The a77 Mark II brings some long awaited updates to the table. The original a77 came out way…

Watch Conan Get Stressed Out While He Reviews Stress Relief Apps

Conan—like a lot of people!—has a fairly stressful job, so he decided to test out apps that could help him calm down a little. Perhaps predictably, it doesn’t quite go to plan. Throwing virtual knives, odd Scottish brogues, and even digital massage from beautiful Swedish women don’t seem to cut it. Smashing lightbulbs in real…

Rumor: AT&T Wants to Buy DirecTV

The Wall Street Journal and LA Times are reporting that AT&T is in talks with DirecTV about a possible acquisition of the satellite business and—its 20 million customers. Hot on the heels of the Comcast-Time Warner Cable deal, the newspapers report that the telecom giant may be trying to buy the satellite TV business for…

Astronomers Discover An Entire Cluster of Stars Tossed From Its Galaxy

Scientists have seen hypervelocity stars before, but this is the first time they’ve ever observed an entire star cluster thrown from its host galaxy. Named HVGC-1, it’s traveling at a rate of 2 million miles per hour — and its ultimate fate is to drift through the cosmic void for all time. Top image: Artistic…

The full trailer for The Simpsons’ Lego Spectacular special is here

The full trailer for the special Lego episode of The Simpsons—called The Simpsons’ Lego Spectacular—is here. I hope it has the best of the Lego Movie and the best of The Simpsons in it. It seems that this episode has been produced with the same 3D techniques as The Lego Movie but combined with 2D…

Hitler materializes in lost family trip negatives found at thrift store

Mat Ames found some negatives in a thrift store in Roanoke, Virginia. After digitizing them, a lot of the photos seemed to belong to a couple’s vacation in Naples, Italy, in 1938. Among all the scenic Italian vignettes there was a creepy surprise—a sinister figure sitting in a car under the sun. It was Adolf…

Adorable Stop Motion Man Discovers Life on Mars

Because, really, who among us hasn’t come home from a grueling day at the office to find a magical miniature man made of aluminum foil sitting in the living room, watching classic films and listening to a bit of Bowie? What, seriously, just me? Animator Austin Harvey Stock put this interesting piece together back in…