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How TV could still become the best format for comic adaptations

There have been plenty of successful comic to movie adaptations, but finding the right balance for a TV series has been a little trickier. Still, TV adaptations of comics have a lot of potential. In response to a post on the lessons Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D could learn from Star Trek: The Next Generation, commenter lightninglouie…

New evidence that plants get their energy using quantum entanglement

Biophysicists theorize that plants tap into the eerie world of quantum entanglement during photosynthesis. But the evidence to date has been purely circumstantial. Now, scientists have discovered a feature of plants that cannot be explained by classical physics alone — but which quantum mechanics answers quite nicely. https://gizmodo.com/are-plants-really-using-quantum-entanglement-in-photosy-5452755 The fact that biological systems can exploit…

This Six-Wheeled Stroller Can Roll Up and Down Stairs

Navigating a city with a child in a stroller is hard enough, but imagine doing the same with a set of twins. Those double strollers are like driving a miniature bus, and you’ll always be on the hunt for ramps, elevators, or a long way around a set of stairs. It’s a problem that designer…

Person of Interest‘s producers tell us what the Machine really is

Person of Interest is back from mid-season hiatus, and already the show is delving deeply into science fictional themes, like the nature of AI consciousness. We caught up with producers Jonathan Nolan and Greg Plageman to talk about what comes next, and their real-life inspirations for the guns-and-malware world of this show. In this week’s…

Watch time getting frozen in these hypnotizing subway station videos

Photographer Adam Magyar took a high speed camera and recorded everything as his subway train car was getting into the station. Here’s the result in three spellbinding clips, part of his film Stainless, in three different cities: New York, Berlin and Tokyo. Above you can see 42 Street—Grand Central. Here’s Alexanderplatz in Berlin: And Shinjuku…

San Diego Comic-Con Only Selling Single Day Passes for 2014

Getting the full San Diego Comic-Con experience just got a lot more complicated. According to a new announcement, SDCC 2014 will no longer be selling two-day, four-day or full week passes. Convention goers will now have to buy each day pass individually. The SDCC Blog just announced the change: New for 2014! Only single day…

Are Other Vegas Businesses Benefiting from the Downtown Project?

The oldest freestanding bar in Vegas is Atomic Liquors, built in 1952, back when you could climb onto the roof and watch atomic bombs explode at desert test sites 60 miles away. If you sit long enough at its expansive bar, chances are Kent Johns will pull up a stool next to you and tell…

Awesome recording of space sounds exactly like a tropical rainforest

Birds singing, frogs croaking, animals walking, the sound of rain hitting trees, ponds, and the wet soil—if you listen to this video with your headphones you would believe you’re listening to the recording of a rainforest. But the truth is that you’re listening to space: CHORUS consists of brief tones which sounds like a chorus…

Here’s the Most Popular Movie Set in Each U.S. State

Here’s a fun idea for Friday night: Pick your favorite state and watch the best movie set there—while drinking beer from a local brewery, of course. Reddit user Jakubisko made it easy to find the right flick with this map of the best movies set in every state, according to its IMDB rating. Now you…

Professor Jyblitts sits down for an “automatic luncheon” back in 1903. The restaurant’s robot arms are even kind enough to take off his coat for him. — Read the full comic from the October 18, 1903 Richmond Times-Dispatch in Virginia

We Sure Watched a Lot of Porn During This Week’s Deep Freeze

Baby, it’s cold outside. But wait… You don’t have anybody to keep you warm? That’s what porn is for. During the polar vortex on January 7 and 8, traffic to Pornhub increased by over 40 percent in Maine and Michigan. Meanwhile, Florida saw a 37 percent increase during its uncharacteristically freezing days, too. Nationwide, it…

Leonardo sails to the New World in new Da Vinci’s Demons trailer

Because Da Vinci’s Demons apparently hasn’t pushed its ahistorical fantasy far enough, our can’t-fail Renaissance man Leonardo Da Vinci heads to the Americas in the trailer for Season Two, years before Christopher Columbus crossed the Atlantic. I can see why David S. Goyer chose to break the series out of its Florence and Leonardo vs.…

First clip from I, Frankenstein gives the monster Batman’s voice

Who wants to hear Aaron Eckhart’s Batman voice? The first clip from I, Frankenstein features the most heavy-handed conversation involving a reanimated corpse talking about other reanimated corpses. This looks just terrible. We can’t wait. I, Frankenstein will be released on January 24th.

What’s the sickest villain introduction of all time?

When a villain comes onto the scene for the first time in a movie, book or TV show, he or she has to do something to make a mark right away. Put an eel in someone’s ear. Murder someone we love. Do something horrible. What’s the darkest, most memorable villain introduction ever? Please include a…

The Sun Is Your Zippo With This Solar-Powered Lighter

Perfect for smokers who live in windy cities, this compact parabolic reflector lets you harness the sun as your own personal lighter—one that’s immune to even the strongest winds. A spring mounted holder ensures your cigarette is always at the focal point of the sun’s reflected rays, and the $8 mirror is made of plastic…

Here’s what an explosion of flavors literally looks like

We know it’s tasty and delicious but who knew flavor could be so beautiful? This audio visual installation by Schwartz Flavour Shots riffs off the explosion of flavors one tastes with spices by literally exploding those flavors. Several tons of black pepper corns, cardamom, turmeric, paprika, cumin seeds, ginger, chili and coriander were placed in…

Drinking Alcohol Doesn’t Actually Kill Brain Cells

Myth: Alcohol kills brain cells. Now, to qualify that title, pure alcohol will absolutely kill brain cells and many other types of cells, which is why it is used as a disinfectant. However, recent research has shown that the quantity of alcohol you could possibly take in, without killing yourself, does not introduce enough alcohol…

Lavie Tidhar’s Violent Century is like Watchmen on crack

World Fantasy Award-winning author Lavie Tidhar has already gone to some dark, strange places — but in The Violent Century, his brilliant Cold War epic, he does the closest thing we’ve seen to Alan Moore’s Watchmen in book form. And along the way, he questions what it means to be a hero. Some spoilers ahead……

Should Smilies Have Noses: The Great Emoticon Debate

Recently, the dating website Zoosk conducted a study of 4,000 singles to see which online dating habits were the most conducive to finding yourself your very own sex friend. One of the most peculiar bits of info gleaned from the study, though, is that fact that profiles that used the emoticon “:-)” racked up a…

Evangelion 3.33 changes everything you think you know about Evangelion

If you’ve watched the first two movies in Gainax’s movie retelling of their hit anime Evangelion, then you know the first movie was pretty much a straight-forward recap of the TV series’ first episodes. The second movie added new characters and new angels to fight, taking the story into new territory (our review is here).…