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You Might Actually Be Able to Afford a 4K Monitor Soon

These days, any mention of 4K immediately conjures up images of crystal-clear definition—-and absurdly exorbitant price tags. Well, that’s quickly changing. Dell’s new UltraSharp 28-inch 4K screen can be yours for less than $700 when it ships later this month, and it’s not alone. The price of 4K monitors is dropping across the board. Asus…

Tech News Ashley Feinberg

Disney Villain Perfume Line is Drop Dead Gorgeous

If Disney ever does get into the fancy perfumery business they had better use these brilliant little bottles for packaging. Gaston: a musky cologne with a hint of whisky, tobacco and stag fur. Ursula: a brine infused scent with a touch of sea grass. We could do this all day… These bottle mockups were created…

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We need GMOs to feed a growing population

Now that many environmentalists are coming around to the idea that GMOs don’t have to be evil, we need a more nuanced view of how we want to use GMOs in agriculture. When is it a good idea to use GMOs, and when is it overkill? University of Guelph professor Evan Fraser suggests some ideas…

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Gorgeous Photos Capture Smoke Bombs and Pyrotechnics As They Explode

We all know how it feels. A flame hits the fuse, and sparks spray into the cool nighttime air. Your jaw goes slack and your eyes wide when you hear the boom and smell the smoke. Well, this is how that feeling looks. Artist and photographer Lisa DiLillo calls this series “Before the Echo,” and…

Tech News Adam Clark Estes

Watch OmniCorp Unveil Robocop at Its CES Keynote In 2027

Remember OmniCorp, the sinister mega-corporation that built Robocop and his unstable robo-cousins? With the advent of surveillance drones and mechanical police officers, that scenario doesn’t seem that far-fetched anymore. Which makes this video of OmniCorp introducing RoboCop at a CES keynote 13 years in the future even more fun. It must makes you wonder: If…

Movies Adam Clark Estes

Five Reasons Why Alfred Hitchcock Was an Unsung Architectural Genius

From the wall of apartments in Rear Window to the Golden Gate Bridge in Vertigo, Alfred Hitchcock was nothing short of obsessed with architecture and space. Hitchcock exploited both to create incredible psychological tension in his films—our friends at Architizer take a look at his architectural legacy, below.

Tech News Kelsey Campbell-Dollaghan

10 Superhero Webcomics You Should Be Reading

While superheroes dominate print comics, they pop up less often across the webcomics landscape. But there are still plenty of great webcartoonists putting their own spin on superhumans, lampooning the superhero genre, paying tribute to it, and exploring what makes a person truly heroic. Strong Female Protagonist by Brennan Lee Mulligan and Molly Ostertag: Alison…

Books & Comics Lauren Davis

Will Your Novel Be a Best Seller? Ask This Super Accurate Algorithm

It’s tough for humans to predict how well a book will sell until after it’s published—it’s something of a gamble. But now, a new algorithmcan tell if a book will be a commercial success or not long before it hits the shelves—with a staggering 84 percent accuracy. A team of researchers from Stony Brook University,…

Books & Comics Jamie Condliffe

How to Understand Why an Awesome Book Cover Became Expensive Fine Art

Yesterday, we shared with you the news that Glenn Brown’s painting, which is very closely based on an Isaac Asimov book cover by Chris Foss, sold for $5.7 million at auction. Now, over at Scientific American’s Symbiartic blog, Glendon Mellow provides some essential context for this. Top image: Tony Roberts’ Double Star and Brown’s The…

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Watch people walk, run and dance on a liquid that thinks it’s a solid

Non-Newtonian fluids are seriously strange — a mixture that takes on properties of both a fluid and a solid. Watch as people perform a number of physics-defying tricks on a 2,100 galloon pool of “oobleck.” The viscosity of non-Newtonian fluids change according to the amount of force applied to it and include everyday items like…

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Guy loses 100 pounds eating McDonald’s and becomes an athlete

You probably already know about the science teacher who lost 37 pounds and dramatically reduced his cholesterol in 90 days exclusively eating McDonald’s and walking 45 minutes every day. The case Lloyd Brombach is even more dramatic. He wrote to Sploid to explain it: Loving Sploid, thanks for the daily awesomeness! I read of the…

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The Mississippi River Is A Land-Making Machine: Dredgefest 2014

For the last four years, the Dredge Research Collaborative has been looking at dredging and erosion control as a form of often unacknowledged landscape architecture. Part of their work is a series of festivals they’re calling DredgeFest that celebrate and examine the role that dredging plays in landscaping. Their next event is in Louisiana. Gizmodo…

Tech News Tim Maly and Rob Holmes

First Look at The Mandarin short shows Trevor jailed but not defeated

Everyone’s favorite Marvel whipping boy is back! Trevor Slattery will be returning to our lives after his short but brilliant bit as The Mandarin in Iron Man 3, thanks to the new Marvel movie short”All Hail the King.” New details and images reveal the fate of dear old, drunk Trevor, and it’s not good. According…

Movies Meredith Woerner

Glitter & Mayhem is a glam rock space party terror anthology

Glitter & Mayhem is an anthology of fantasy, science-fiction, and horror that takes mythology to a nightclub, dusts it with glitter, gets it drunk, then takes it out onto the dance floor to grind the night away. It’s one of the more interesting anthology themes I’ve seen recently, even if it is a bit hard…

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15 Heart-Stopping Skywalks That Will Turn Your Legs To Jelly

A few weeks ago, we showed you a terrifying Alpine tourist attraction called “Step Into the Void.” It’s a glass cage that hangs more than 3,300 feet above the mountains. But the Void is hardly the first heart-stopping skywalk—in fact, these are dozens out there that are just as scary. I’m not afraid of heights,…

Tech News Attila Nagy

Disney appoints a group to determine a new, official Star Wars canon

The Expanded Universe as we knew it will soon be no more. Disney has created a special committee whose job it will be to figure out what is and isn’t part of a complete Star Wars canon — meaning all the EU material created over the years will be judged, and either become official or…

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Here’s what the computer code on TV really means. (Hint: Not much.)

When our favorite TV and movie heroes find themselves in a technological jam, they’ll often pull up some source code to spot an incredible, unlikely solution. But what exactly does the code they’re looking at mean? Turns out, not so much. The Moviecode tumblr grabs instances of on-screen computer code and translates what we’re actually…

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A Brief History of Aphrodisiacs

Throughout history people have been trying to solve the problem of not getting any or just not getting enough. The following are some of the all-natural historical cures for the sexy-time doldrums. Ambergris If I told you that one of the most prized and well-known aphrodisiacs in the world was a combination of squid beaks,…

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The long-running mystery of the Feynman Sprinkler

Richard Feynman left the world many legacies, including multiple books on physics, the atomic bomb, and some stellar bongo solos. He also left the world the mystery of the Feynman Sprinkler — proving that science doesn’t have to be impressive to be frustrating. To be fair, Feynman didn’t want it to be called the Feynman…

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The Universe Can Now Be Measured to 1% Accuracy

The Universe is so big that it can be difficult to accurately measure the huge distances between things in it. But no longer, because now a team of researchers working on the Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Surveycan measure distances between galaxies with1 percent accuracy. The new gold standard of measurement is a big jump from previous…

Space & Spaceflight Jamie Condliffe

You Might Actually Be Able to Afford a 4K Monitor Soon

Disney Villain Perfume Line is Drop Dead Gorgeous

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Watch people walk, run and dance on a liquid that thinks it’s a solid

Guy loses 100 pounds eating McDonald’s and becomes an athlete

The Mississippi River Is A Land-Making Machine: Dredgefest 2014

First Look at The Mandarin short shows Trevor jailed but not defeated

Glitter & Mayhem is a glam rock space party terror anthology

15 Heart-Stopping Skywalks That Will Turn Your Legs To Jelly

Disney appoints a group to determine a new, official Star Wars canon

Here’s what the computer code on TV really means. (Hint: Not much.)

A Brief History of Aphrodisiacs

The long-running mystery of the Feynman Sprinkler

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We need GMOs to feed a growing population

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Watch OmniCorp Unveil Robocop at Its CES Keynote In 2027

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Will Your Novel Be a Best Seller? Ask This Super Accurate Algorithm

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Watch people walk, run and dance on a liquid that thinks it’s a solid

Guy loses 100 pounds eating McDonald’s and becomes an athlete

The Mississippi River Is A Land-Making Machine: Dredgefest 2014

First Look at The Mandarin short shows Trevor jailed but not defeated

​Glitter & Mayhem is a glam rock space party terror anthology

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Disney appoints a group to determine a new, official Star Wars canon

Here’s what the computer code on TV really means. (Hint: Not much.)

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The long-running mystery of the Feynman Sprinkler

The Universe Can Now Be Measured to 1% Accuracy

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