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A Map Of Every Earthquake Over The Last Century

This map takes every quake from the last century and plots them out to give a sense of the incredible scope — and the power — of earthquakes. The map is the work of Nathan Yau at FlowingData. Using USGS stats, Yau plotted 72,000 earthquakes topping magnitudes of 5.0 scale from the last century, each…

Everyone Has Hemorrhoids (Yes, Even You)

Much like bathroom-humor at the dinner table, hemorrhoids can be a taboo subject. The truth is, everyone has them. Their job is to protect your anal sphincter muscles (the ones that open and close your anus) and to help keep your anus closed when you have moments of increased abdominal pressure, like when you’re coughing.…

Heartbreaking Video Shows A Male Monkey Comforting His Dying Partner

Scientists working in Brazil recently witnessed a heartbreaking scene involving a female marmoset who sustained a mortal head injury after accidentally falling from a tree. They then watched in amazement as her partner of three-and-a-half years climbed down to comfort her as she lay dying. For primatologists, this is a truly rare occurrence. Prior to…

How to Check If Your Android Device Could Be Hacked via Heartbleed

Heartbleed is causing heartache on hundreds of servers all over the internet, but security researchers have also warned that the bug could allow direct hacks of Android, too. Here’s how to check if your device is at risk. While researchers at security firm Symantec happily report that the major browsers don’t rely on the OpenSSL…

Star Trek Movies To Tour With Live Orchestras Playing Their Music

No matter your feelings on nu-Trek, this is very cool — for a limited time, Star Trek and Star Trek Into Darkness will have a limited re-release in which the scores for both films will be played live by an accompanying orchestra. Unfortunately, the tour is extremely limited, although one of the showings just happens…

The Stinky Twin Study We’ve All Been Waiting For

Do you smell like your twin? One study actually went to the trouble of finding out. The study looked to see if non-cohabitating twins have the same body odor. Does genetics play a role in how we smell? The study got sets of twins who lived separately from one another to sweat themselves up and…

Do We Already Know The Villain Of The Walking Dead Season 6?

Benedict Cumberbatch bows out of not one, but two major franchises. On the other hand, Harrison Ford’s totally on board a Blade Runner sequel, and Paul Bettany talks playing the Vision in Avengers: Age of Ultron. And tons of information about Warehouse 13’s final season. Spoilers now! Top image: The Walking Dead Star Wars Benedict…

10-Gigabit Wi-Fi Is Promised By 2015

Think your 802.11ac Wi-Fi is fast? Think again: Quantenna Communications has announced that it’s working on a chipset due 2015 that will supports speeds of up to a staggering 10 Gbps. Most current high-speed wireless chipsets send and receive three data streams at once, and are referred to as 3×3 MIMO chipsets (that last bit…

Was This the World’s First Emoticon?

The emoticon might be older than we thought. This passage of text, which includes a cheeky smiley, is taken from Robert Herrick’s 1648 poem To Fortune—and it might be the first ever use of an emoticon. Literary critic Levi Stahl thought the punctuation might be a typo in his copy of of Hesperides, but he…

FBI Wants 52 Million Photos in its Face Recognition Database by 2015

New documents released by the FBI show that the Bureau is well on its way toward its goal of a fully operational face recognition database by this summer. EFF received these records in response to our Freedom of Information Act lawsuitfor information on Next Generation Identification (NGI)—the FBI’s massive biometric database that may hold records…

Try the Super-Secure USB Drive OS That Edward Snowden Insists on Using

We all know that Edward Snowden insists on secure email, but he’s also very picky about his operating systems, too. In fact, he uses a free, super-secure version of Linux—called Tails—that fits on a USB stick and can be used on any computer without leaving a trace. Linux installs on USB sticks are nothing new,…

Microsoft’s Office Online—the free, web-based version of Word, Excel, PowerPoint and OneNote—is headed for the Chrome Web Store as a series of apps.

Mind-blowing video shows how humans are basically bad copies of amoebas

Vsauce, the master answerer of life’s toughest questions and professional blower of minds, tackles something so philosophical in his latest video that you’ll start to wonder what in the hell our purpose is on this Earth. And if it’s any different than a purpose of a rock. It starts with the discussion of art and…

Here are 12 of the best long takes in movie history

There are few legal things that can teleport you to another world as well as an excellent long film take in a movie. When those happen—think of those scenes in Children of Men or Goodfellas—you don’t feel like you’re watching a movie anymore, you feel like you’re seeing it happen in real life. Like you’re…

Once Upon A Time Lets Hook Be The Hero. He Fails.

Last night, Once Upon a Time revealed what Hook was up to during the “lost year.” Turns out, it was absolutely nothing at all. But Once Upon A Time feeds on nothing, this show devours it. This is a show that runs simply on the fact that we all really like Disney cosplay. A lot.…

Boss Noodles Make Lunch in Your Cubicle the Best Part of the Day

Waddaup playa, you tired of this 14-hour-a-day Salary Man drudgery? Well, your ticket to the boardroom has just arrived in an easy-to-open cellophane wrapper. Crunch through those delicious flash-dried noodles, rack up a seasoned fatty, and show Elaine in marketing what she’s been missing with Boss Noodles. Andre Maat conceived and produced this absurd commercial…

Gobi Desert Road Trip with Google Glass

Did you know the American Museum of Natural History was on Kinja? They are, and they produce some really neat articles. They have a whole lot of palaeontology, with articles on fuzzy pterosaurs, pink pterosaurs, and toothy pterosaurs all this month. And this one, going on a road trip through the Gobi Desert.

Not Photoshopped — These Two Planes Really Are Flying Like This

It’s called a Calypso Pass. That’s when two jets fly in a mirror image pattern like this, often only inches apart. A few weeks ago, two U.S. Air Force Thunderbird F-16 Fighting Falcons did just that. Show me a drone with this kind of style. The Thunderbirds performed for a huge crowd on March 23,…

Watch how a traffic accident is cleaned up in this timelapse

When a semi-trailer truck carrying a rig filled with toilet paper crashes into a bridge, what happens? A giant mess. A giant mess that someone has to clean up. This timelapse shows a city clean up crew picking up all the crap, repackaging it for another truck and getting the streets clean so that no…

In The Netherlands, There Are Now Glow-in-the-Dark Roads

There’s a quarter mile stretch of highway in the Netherlands that now features light-absorbing glow-in-the-dark road markings. It’s a pilot project that, if proven effective, could dramatically reduce our need for streetlights. The project is a collaboration between interactive artist Daan Roosegaarde and Dutch civil engineering firm Heijmans. The paint contains a “photo-luminising” powder that…