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Watch this guy snowboarding through the streets of New York

Casey Neitstat got out his snowboard yesterday, tied a rope to a Jeep, and zoomed through the streets of New York. He even went to the Metropolitan Museum of Art and snowboarded down the stairs covered with snow. Same in Central Park. SPLOID is a new blog about awesome stuff. Join us on Facebook

Tapping Into Wave Power With a Gigantic, Artificial “Seafloor Carpet”

Scientists have known for decades that muddy coastal sediments absorb the power of waves as they roll toward beaches. The result is a free service courtesy of soft ocean bottoms that diminishes the sea’s energy before it reaches the communities living beyond them. Now an engineering team is working to expand the muddy seafloor’s portfolio…

The insane glory of Jodorowsky’s Dune revealed in new trailer

A brand-new trailer for the documentary about Chilean director Alejandro Jodorowsky’s failed attempt to make a Dune movie has dropped, and the look it provides at what could have been is fantastic, bewildering, and a little soul-crushing, mostly because we never got to see Salvador Dali as the Emperor of Space. That’s just one of…

Tell Us Your Online Dating Horror Stories

On the worst OKCupid date I ever went on, the guy was 30 pounds heavier than his pics, ate wings like a slob, licked his fingers, and talked about his upset stomach the whole time. It was the worst date in history. We want to hear your online dating war stories, too. Compared to some…

Lego Contest: Recreate famous literary scenes in brick form for prizes

In anticipation of The LEGO Movie premiere, British bookstore Waterstones is holding a fantastic Lego contest. Basically, recreate your favorite literary moment “in brick form” and tweet a picture of it to @Waterstones with the hashtag #LEGOLit (you can only enter once, so make it count). Here’s some inspiration: The scene above is from “The…

This Giant Superdesk Is Bigger Than Your Average Suburban Home

When it was time for the NYC ad agency, Barbarian Group, to design a new office, they wanted to do something different. The agency wanted something more open, less inhibiting. So architect Clive Wilkinson built them an “endless table.” An endless table is exactly what it sounds like: One giant, continuous superdesk that wraps itself…

The GIF Party doesn’t start until you get here!

Hello, GIF-partiers! Are you having an unscheduled snow day today? What are you doing with it? Now is the time to tell (or just show) us what’s going on in your world this week, all through our chosen format of GIFs.

The U.S. military has developed a pizza that stays edible for years

In an effort to boost solider morale, researchers at a U.S. military lab in Massachusetts have developed a pizza that can stay on the shelf for up to three years and still remain good to eat. U.S. soldiers have been pleading with their bosses to have pizza added to their “meals ready to eat” packages,…

Clever New Clothes To Protect You From Germs On The Subway

The news that measles might be spreading through San Francisco’s BART network not only triggered a warning from the transit authority itself, it is also a particularly alarming reminder that public transportation can be, well, disgusting. Winter’s runny noses, summer’s sweat, spring’s sneezing allergies—it doesn’t really matter the season. When you ride the bus or…

What women want out of their underwear, according to academic experts

Women put a lot of thought into their underwear choices, and have a few basic metrics they use to pick their skivvies. That’s according to Christiana Tsaousi, who has studied underwear consumption extensively as a lecturer in consumerism at the University of Leicester. Tsaousi just published a paper on women’s underwear choices in the Journal…

Seeking a Cheap Cell Phone Signal by the Light of the Moon

It looks like a cultish gathering of smartphone users, and in many ways it is: this image shows African migrants on the shore of Djibouti, holding their phones aloft to snatch cheap phone signal from nearby Somalia. Djibouti is a common stopping point for migrants trying to leave Somalia, Ethiopia and Eritrea for new lives…

Will Avengers 2 pave the way for Black Panther and Black Widow movies?

A Game of Thrones star says the show could become a movie. David Fincher is remaking the British series Utopia in the U.S. Find out why Cap’s costume is changing in Captain America 2. A new promo may have answered a major Walking Dead question. And a familiar face is coming to Person of Interest.…

London’s Iconic Routemaster Busses Are Being Scrapped For Good

It’s one of the most iconic vehicles on London’s roads, but the ageing red Routemaster bus, currently serving two routes, is set to be replaced by the modern hybrid “Boris Bus” entirely. The old-style jump-on Routemaster is in use on two “heritage” routes, the number 9 from Kensington High Street to Trafalgar Square and part…

This Graphene Nanoribbon Conducts Electricity Insanely Fast

You’re looking a ribbon of graphene that’s just one atom thick and fifteen atoms wide—and it could help shift data thousands of times faster than anything else currently can. The nanoribbons, produced Felix Fischer, a chemist at Berkeley, are narrow—10,000 of them placed side by side would be about as wide as a human hair—and…

The Science of Marrying Your Cousin

In modern western society, marrying your cousin is not well accepted, particularly in the United States. Through a combination of old prejudices and present-day conventional wisdom about inherited birth defects, first cousin marriage is seen by many as a little too close for comfort, as well as a bad idea if you want children. However,…

Why Do We Get Headaches?

From dull tension headaches to crippling migraines, sometimes your cranium can feel crippled. But what causes all those headaches? You might not know that the brain itself can’t actually feel pain. Instead, headaches are usually the result of muscle tension or blood flow in the head—and this video explains how and why those both happen.…

Under Armour’s Suits May Actually Be Slowing U.S. Speedskaters Down

Heralded as “the world’s fastest speed skating suit,” Under Armour’s all-in-one was hoped to give U.S. athletes the edge in Sochi. Now, though, it appears it could in fact be slowing them down. https://gizmodo.com/under-armour-will-debut-the-worlds-fastest-speedskatin-1502673088 The Wall Street Journal reports that, according to three people familiar with the U.S. team, the suit has a major design…

You Can Download Every De La Soul Album for Free Today

Era-defining hip hop legends De La Soul have decided to make their entire back catalog available for free download today to celebrate the 25th anniversary of their debut album. Because of label and sample clearance issues, most of De La Soul’s catalog has never made it online, and is peculiarly absent from the likes of…

Google Wants to Give Us 10 Gigabit Fiber Within Three Years

Google’ Fiber is mighty fast at 1 gigabit per second, but the company is working to pick its speeds up by a factor of ten. https://gizmodo.com/googles-crazy-1000mbps-fiber-internet-connection-is-out-5929295 At a conference earlier this week, Google’s Chief Financial Officer Patrick Pichette explained that its coming fiber networks should boast speeds of 10 gigabits per second, reports USA Today.…

The second season of House of Cards is available now on Netflix. So long, weekend.