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Rumor: YouTube Will Debut Low-Bandwidth 4K Streaming Next Week

Watching 4K video is wonderful and all, but with streaming increasingly popular and data caps largely still in place, it also still seems impractical. Not for long, though, if rumors of YouTube’s latest schemes are to be believed. A report by GigaOM claims that YouTube will demonstrate a new 4K streaming technology at CES next…

The Weirdest Thing on the Internet Tonight: Free Fall Suspension

So apparently there’s a world record for bungee jumping with the base of the bungee cord embedded into the flesh of your back. To set it, you’ve just got to top this guy’s record-setting 170 meter base jump and not have the hooks tear out.

First Veronica Mars trailer fills us with squee

It’s the first trailer for the Veronica Mars movie, and things are looking damn good. Of course there’s a ten-year high school reunion, and of course bad boy Logan is involved in a murder scandal. And Veronica is kicking ass. Everybody is in this trailer — all your favorite characters from the show, including ones…

Hilarious guy recreates famous movie scenes with a dog

How do you top a couple that recreates movie scenes with their adorable baby? By recreating famous scenes with a dog. Yeah, it’s beautiful inspired work that should make us all want to grab our pet best friend in a warm embrace like Gosling did to McAdams. Redditor user mmsspp is the awesome guy in…

How Daft Punk made One More Time from a sample they say they never used

One more time. Even if you wear earplugs, turn off the radio and stay away from noisy clubs, you know Daft Punk’s song ‘One More Time’. It’s one of those songs that seems to be inserted into the memory of every human who has existed since the year 2000. Here, EDM producer Sadowick Production reveals…

This swarming horde of black stealth fighter jets is not a movie scene

We’re not preparing to fight the aliens. This isn’t a scene from Independence Day 2. It’s just a throwback photo of 25—yes, twenty five—Lockheed F-117A Nighthawk black stealth fighter jets celebrating its 25th anniversary back in 2006. What a beautifully intimidating celebration of power it was. According to The Aviationist, the jets flew over Heritage…

In a special article for the Washington Post Dr. [Thomas E.] Phipps used a series of analytical formulas based largely on past history and population growth to show “by the present calculations, the number of presidential assassinations will by the year 2014 reach one on the average of every four years.” — UPI White House…

How Corpses Helped Shape the London Underground

As Mexico City archaeologists sort through the surreal array of Aztec sacrificial skulls recently uncovered while excavating their city’s subway system, it’s worth remembering that parts of the London Underground were also tunneled, blasted, picked, and drilled through a labyrinth of plague pits and cemeteries. In her excellent and morbidly fascinating book Necropolis: London and…

The alien’s eyes are almost obscured by dark goggles

You might think you’re dealing with a human, but hold its gaze for just a few extra seconds. You see? Those flat, black orbs reveal everything you need to know. These images are from a series called “Residual Self Image,” by Martin Rinman. Rinman is an artist and photographer in Sweden, and you can see…

Record the Sound of Ice in a Glass and Make Something of It

Disquiet Junto Project 0105: Ice for 2014. Each Thursday at the Disquiet Junto group on SoundCloud.com a new compositional challenge is set before the group’s members, who then have just over four days to upload a track in response to the assignment. Membership in the Junto is open: just join and participate. Tracks by participants…

Watch a sailfish try to bludgeon fish bait to death with its spear

It sounds brutal and horrible and cruel but it’s actually kind of adorable. In the video, you see a sailfish—perhaps one of the most fascinating creatures of the ocean—chase down fish bait attached to a boat and try to smack the bait silly with its spear-like bill. The sailfish doesn’t succeed but he goes a…

Bucky Fuller’s Forgotten WWII Shelters Rediscovered In New Jersey

Buckminster Fuller’s Dymaxion Deployment Unit—an emergency shelter developed during WWII—isn’t his most well-known work. In fact, for years, it’s been unclear if any DDUs still existed. But this week, The New York Timestells the story of a handful of shelters that have resurfaced, after being abandoned on an army base just 30 miles outside of…

Which remake completely misses the point of the original?

We’re in the middle of remake fever, with classic films getting remade at a blinding rate. But sometimes, creators try to hard to put their own stamp on a property — and completely miss what it was actually about. Which movie (or comic, or TV) remake or reboot loses a key point of the original?…

The Finest Swiss Watchmaking Techniques Went Into This—Belt Buckle?

Most men don’t pay enough attention to one of the most important parts of their wardrobe: their belt buckle. A plummeting pair of trousers can be far more than just embarrassing, so why trust a hole punched in a leather strap when Roland Iten has created a belt buckle that’s been engineered to hold strong…

Scientists Unearth The Truth Behind Ultra-Creepy Earthquake Lights

Have you ever heard of “earthquake lights”? I’ve spent a good chunk of my life in shake-happy coastal California and this phenomenon is news to me—but, for centuries, people have reported seeing a wide variety of illuminations just slightly before and during major tremblers. The origin of these glows have consistently baffled scientists—and no doubt…

These MTA Snow Trains Fight Old Man Winter with Jet Engines

Even as the Northeast digs out after Nor’easter Nemo, New York’s Metropolitan Transit Authority isn’t worried about maintaining service along its northern New Haven Line. That’s thanks to a fleet of turbine-powered, slush-slinging, jet trains. Last year’s storm dropped anywhere from 11 to 40 inches of snow along the Northeast corridor, once again proving that…

The Lego Mars Curiosity Rover is now available for sale

The day has finally come, space nerds. For just $30, you can have your very own Mars Curiosity Rover Lego kit. It comes with six-wheel suspension for rumbling over Martian soil, a model robotic arm for picking up Martian rocks, and pretty much as much awesome as you can fit in a box. The design…

This Mug Lets You Harness a Hot Beverage To Warm Your Hands

When you’re running a large corporation and trying to keep frivolous costs under control, it makes sense to keep the heating as minimal as possible during the cold winter months. And if you happen to find yourself working for such an employer, this mug will help your hands from freezing. Technically, any non-insulated mug filled…

Dubai had the world’s largest fireworks show and it was amazing

To celebrate the New Year, Dubai decided to break the Guinness World Record for world’s largest fireworks show. Because of course the world’s largest fireworks show would be in Dubai. They put the best show on every year. Might as well put on the biggest too. Dubai exploded over 500,000 fireworks in just 6 minutes…

Dogs align their bodies along a North-South axis when they poop

Ever wonder why dogs need to get themselves into just the right position to do their business? As it turns out, dogs align their body axis according to Earth’s magnetic field when they squat to poop—a behavior that changes when the magnetic field is unstable. But why do they do it? The results of this…