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What can we actually learn from the UK’s first marijuana ‘overdose’?

Gemma Moss recently became the first woman in Britain “ruled to have been poisoned to death by smoking cannabis,” her sudden death referred to by tabloids as “the tragic proof that cannabis can kill.” But Moss’s story, while undeniably sad, has told us next to nothing about the dangers of pot. At the same time,…

How To Deep Fry Without A Deep Fryer (And Make 5 Super Bowl Treats)

For a lot of us, just thinking about the Super Bowl elicits a craving for deep-fried goodness. If you’re without a dedicated fryer, don’t fear. Modernist Cuisine at Home will show you how to achieve the same effect with a handful of conventional kitchen tools you just might have lying around. Modernist Cuisine at Home,…

25% of Russian Men are Dead by Age 55

A full quarter of Russian men die before their 55th birthday. Compare that to America’s 1% and the UK’s 7%. Why the disparity? There’s a good chance it has something to do with the country’s vodka consumption. Top photo by christian.senger via flickr Via USA Today: Researchers tracked about 151,000 adult men in the Russian…

Help NASA Find Baby Solar Systems Forming Deep In Our Universe

NASA scientists are poring over their most detailed snapshots of our universe, searching for the hallmark shapes that indicate a planet being formed. And you can help them, even if you never got that Ph.D. in astronomy, just by hopping on the Disk Detective website. This new citizen science project gives you access to images…

Why the FCC Can Save Net Neutrality

The Electronic Frontier Foundation’s recent post on Net Neutrality started off well. It rightly noted that “[v]iolations of network neutrality are a real and serious problem: in recent years we have seen dozens of ISPs in the U.S. and around the world interfere with and discriminate against traffic on their networks.” https://gizmodo.com/why-the-fcc-cant-actually-save-net-neutrality-1509831240 This is indeed…

An awesome interview with Jeremy Shada, voice of Adventure Time‘s Finn

Bleeding Cool’s Brendon Connelly got a chance to sit down with Jeremy Shada, who voices Finn on Adventure Time, for this extensive 20-minute Q&A. There’s some really great stuff in here – insights on everything from the inner workings of creator Pendleton Ward’s mind, to the basis of Finn and Jake’s relationship, to genuinely interesting…

Patrick Stewart and Ian McKellen sure do know how to football

As someone whose attitudes towards NFL matchups could best be described as something between indifferent and aggressively indifferent, I can say with all authority that this is the greatest Super Bowl themed photo ever taken. (Seriously, though – it’s got to be up there, right?) [Via PatStew]

Watch Fermilab’s Astoundingly Massive Neutrino Detector Being Built

The Department of Energy’s Fermilab is building a gargantuan detector to examine uncharged subatomic neutrinos that can blast through the earth unimpeded. The 14,000-ton detector in Minnesota will capture neutrinos shot from a cannon over 500 miles away. Watch how they build a huge catcher’s mitt for subatomic particles. https://gizmodo.com/fermilabs-new-neutrino-cannon-shoots-subterranean-suba-1372214361 The detector, located in Ash…

Casey Jones looks AMAZING on the new TMNT

The Teenage Mutants Ninja Turtles, hot on the heels of some sneaked pics of their next live-action incarnation, return from their winter hiatus this week, and they bring a friend – Casey Jones. https://gizmodo.com/an-even-better-look-at-all-four-of-michael-bays-new-ni-1513154633 https://gizmodo.com/michael-bays-teenage-mutant-ninja-turtles-dont-look-t-1511487017 As always – minor spoilers ahead! Adventure Time – “Rattleballs” Finn pulls the old “abandoning father” trick, disappearing on a…

The Pebble smartwatch is getting an app store, set to go live on Monday at 1PM EST. The timing coincides nicely with the debut of Pebble Steel, which began shipping on January 28th. [Pebble via Slashgear]

How To Turn the Settlers Of Catan Board Into a Globe

If you’ve played every expansion available, and have mixed up the rules six ways from Sunday, but are still finding yourself bored of The Settlers of Catan, here’s a hail mary pass that might just make it interesting again. It involves turning the game’s 2D board into a 3D sphere that Instructables user PenfoldPlant calls…

Aphex Twin SAW2 Countdown: Track 14 (“Parallel Stripes”)

I am going to do this track-by-track countdown to the release, on February 13, 2014, the day prior to Valentine’s Day, of my book in the estimable 33 1/3 series. It is a love letter to Aphex Twin’s album Selected Ambient Works Volume II, which will mark its 20th anniversary this year, less than a…

The Weirdest Thing on the Internet Tonight: Volans

And this is your brain on LSD, it’s a good thing.

Impressive 3D brain scan shows every neuron connection in a brain

If you look at the wires behind your entertainment console, you’re going to see different colors tangled up with different things leading to different places you forgot existed. It’s an awful ugly mess. Seeing the brain is like that, only the opposite because in its chaos is beauty. Just look at the 3D brain scan…

This is what a lightsaber fight looks like in total darkness

Filmmaker Corey Vidal made this short film about a Jedi fighting Darktroopers (a.k.a Stormtroopers whose armor is blank, not white) where the only light comes from the lasers fired and the Jedi’s lightsaber, and it’s awesome. Hey, Abrams, if you want to send this kid a check and use this in Episode VII, it’s fine…

How to crush a soda can without using any physical force

Crushing cans with your bare hands or stepping on them with your full body weight or shooting them with a bb gun are all fun ways to destroy an aluminum can. What might be most fun is letting it crush itself. How? Magical pressure. It’s the water, friends. Grant Thompson shows us how to do…

Newly discovered titanosaur was one of the largest land animals ever

Introducing Yongjinglong datangi, a titanosaur that lumbered across the fields of China during the Early Cretaceous period some 100 million years ago. The specimen discovered, a juvenile not yet fully grown, measured nearly 60 feet in length, making it one of the largest species to ever walk the Earth. The image above illustrates an Alamosaurus,…

St. Vincent’s New Video Takes Place In a City Fit for Le Corbusier

St. Vincent is kind of like that girl from high school. You know the one. She didn’t care about the popular kids. She wore vintage clothes before they were cool, and she drove to the city on the weekends to see art house flicks with her friends who were already in college. Damn, that girl…

Pranking people into thinking you’re an Apple Store employee is funny

When you walk inside an Apple store and start swiping one of their iPads, a clingy, colorful shirt wearing person usually attaches themselves to you and gives you the verbal rubdown of the features. It’s part of the Apple Store experience! But what if that Apple Store employee was a fake? What if they scared…

Adult-sized child made a street legal Little Tikes Car that goes 70mph

Do you know what the most disappointing thing about being an adult is? It’s not the slow metabolism or the achy joints or the plateau of growth, it’s the fact that we’re all failures to our childhood selves. We don’t eat candy, we don’t play with toys and we drive responsible vehicles. Not John Bitmead…