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Even Packing For a Space Mission Looks Cool

The European Space Agency’s Automated Transfer Vehicle Georges Lemaître will soon deliver over 2,600 kg of dry cargo to the International Space Station—and even packing it looks kinda fun. The craft will take off, strapped to Ariane 5, from Europe’s Spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana later this year. Packing is no mean feat, either, given…

Following tensions between the two companies, T-Mobile will no longer carry BlackBerry devices. What a shame.

Amazon Lockers Now Do Returns, Too

Amazon lockers are amazingly convenient, and they just got a little bit better: the company has just rolled out a new service which allows to return unwanted purchases, too. The Wall Street Journal reports that the new service is very similar to the pick-up one it already offers. For returns, Amazon sends you a code…

Spotify’s Deep Black Redesign Makes Your Favorite Music Pop

Today, Spotify starts rolling out a new darker redesign. It’s the biggest stylistic change we’ve seen since the service launched its web-based player in late 2012. The new look ditches the old app’s overcast grays for a sleek facade that’s blacker than hell—and it’s so much more beautiful and useful for it. I spoke with…

Proof that the English language is crazy and makes no sense

English isn’t the hardest language in the world to learn but it’s definitely a crazy one with wacky rules. Things that apply for some words, never seem to be considered for similar ones. Change one letter here and it can sound completely different there but sound the same somewhere else. It’s all pretty ridiculous. AsapThought…

Who Needs Towels When You Can Just Stand on a Full Body Air Dryer?

If you’ve yet to find a bathroom towel large enough to suitably dry you after a shower, the solution could be as simple as standing on this unique bathroom accessory for about half-a-minute. It looks like a weigh scale, but it’s actually a dryer that blasts you with warm air to quickly and thoroughly dry…

This Animated Vanagon Tribute Will Leave You Pining for Open Roads

It takes a special breed of traveler to own a VW Vanagon. These quirky people-movers are far from the most luxurious whips on the road but they always seem to arrive at the most scenic of destinations. Or the garage. Because these things break down—a lot.

Listen to the awesome cast of The Lion King start singing on a plane

This is either the best flight ever—if it wasn’t delayed and you managed to eat and rest beforehand—or the worst flight ever—if you’re trying to catch up on sleep and are stuck next to an oversized mouth breather. Still, I’d like to think that most people with a working heart that pumps blood would have…

Bulgarian Dread

Multiple monikers utilized by a single artist can be confusing to listeners, yet provide orientation for the musicians who adopt them. Take the Bulgaria-based Mytrip, whose work has been covered here in the past, often as an exploration of subsumed tones that push at the contours of rhythm and melody. When planning a set at…

Crazy guy destroys a silo tower by smashing it with just one hammer

It’s like real life Jenga. Only instead of carefully removing each piece of the puzzle, this lunatic uses a sledge hammer to smash the base of a silo into smithereens so that the entire tower will collapse in one off the wall demonstration. Stick around through the 1 minute mark to see the destruction. SPLOID…

L.A.’s Interchanges Are Beautiful (If You’re Not Stuck in Traffic)

To anyone who’s ever endured a maddening, 15-minute crawl through one, freeway interchanges may seem the furthest thing from beauty. But given some psychic distance—and the skilled composition of a photographer—we can indeed appreciate the elegance of these concrete structures. Some we admire for their symmetry, like the famous Four-Level Interchange. It’s best viewed from…

More Evidence That Operant Conditioning Rocks

You can use it to train your very own rat army!

Slomo: Why You See a Retired Doctor Skating Around San Diego Every Day

If you visit Pacific Beach in San Diego, you might spy an older dude skating in slow motion along the boardwalk. Known as “Slomo,” man’s been mistaken for many things through the years—homeless, insane, etc.—but he’s actually there very much on purpose. This short New York Times doc is his strange, inspiring story. Slomo’s real…

Why Do Scientists Care About Whether Animals Can Dance?

The thing about dancing animals is that it’s not just about adorable viral YouTube videos. By studying animals with rhythmic entrainment – that is, the ability to synchronize the movement of its own body with an external auditory stimulus – then we might be able to learn more about the evolution of language. That’s because…

North Korea’s New Space Agency Logo Is a Space Age Throwback

North Korea’s space agency is celebrating its one-year anniversary with a new logo. And the Wall Street Journal fittingly describes its design in retro-futuristic terms: a “Jetsons-era throwback that captures the optimism of the Space Age.” The space agency is called the National Aerospace Development Agency or NADA. Yes, NADA. And it all sounds too…

Watch more cute dogs get hilariously confused by a magic trick

Seeing dogs get confused by a magic trick was so darn cute the first time that magician Jose Ahonen decided to pull the same disappearing treat trick again with more adorable dogs. You can laugh as they hilariously react to the sorcery of seeing something vanish right underneath their nose and cry aww as you…

Basically, On The Tomorrow People Stephen Is Everyone’s Bitch

The most memorable scene in last night’s episode of The Tomorrow People involved Hillary, the vaguely piss-and-vinegar-y Ultra agent, telling Stephen that he has to be her bitch because he lost a bet. This lacks a certain impact, because Stephen is already everybody’s bitch. Spoilers ahead… The basic concept of The Tomorrow People is that…

Spider-Man Meets Spider-Baby In This Completely Insane Commercial

Evian decided to pair up with The Amazing Spider-Man 2 movie to shill some of its water. No problem with that… until you see the commercial, which is all about Spider-Man discovering a tiny baby version of himself in a mirror and challenging it to a… dance-off? It’s a moment so terrible you could be…

First Footage From Extant: What Did Halle Berry Bring Back From Space?

One of the year’s most anticipated science fiction shows is this summer’s Extant, starring Halle Berry as an astronaut who returns to Earth after a solo mission. And as this new promo hints… she didn’t return alone. Cue creepy ultrasound fetus images. We’ll find out more when Extant airs in June on CBS.

When Ships Used To Be Painted In Zebra Stripes, For Stealth

Take a look at this WWI-era, 58,000-ton cruiser painted with magic-eye style black-and-white stripes! Doesn’t it just blend right into the background? Well, no. No it doesn’t. But there was a time when military scientists thought that it might. After reading about a breakthrough in our understanding of zebra stripes, commenter LtCmndHipster pointed us towards…