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This Week’s Top Comedy Video: Tubbin with Tash

Do you know how to get the truth out of people? Not from some sort of movie truth serum shot or on a late night talk show or even in a conversation between two ferns, the way to pry the obscene truth is to stick them in a hot tub and feed them drinks. Life…

According to Reuters, Blackberry is asking Google, Samsung, LG, Cisco, basically anybody with money to buy BlackBerry entirely or at the very least, certain parts of the company. This is seen as an alternative in case the finances don’t work out in going private.

9 Winning Super Structures From The World Architecture Festival

The annual World Architecture Festival is about more than just awards: attendees can check out a pretty packed line-up of talks and crits, browse galleries and installations, and hob-nob with fellow folks in the biz from students to bold-named stars. But for those of us who didn’t make it to Singapore’s ultra-luxe Marina Bay Sands…

Most Beautiful Items: September 27 – October 4, 2013

Need some beautiful things to gaze upon at the end of a long week? How about photos of the restoration of an 138-year-old Brooklyn bank? Or a lighting pavilion that looks like it’s alive? Or a massive Lego calendar that syncs with your smartphone? These things and more wonders from the worlds of design, art,…

Hanni El Khatib: Penny

If Orange Is the New Black has taught us anything, it’s that not everybody in prison is the psycho ultra-violent killer Scared Straight would have you believe. Many are just normal schmucks who made some bad decisions and are just waiting to get back to their lives on the outside. This is a song for…

Now Availabe: GoPro Hero 3+, Libratone Loop, Windows 8.1 and More

Hear that? It’s the weekend, barreling down the tracks of time. Let’s stop that metaphor right there before we all start reflecting on the meaning of existence, and instead focus on the gadgets that went on sale this week! From the new to the newly-revamped to the somewhat puzzling, this week brought plenty of gizmos…

Our Favorite iOS, Android and Windows Phone Apps of the Week

Welcome to the new Apps of the Week, where we give you all the cool apps we came across in one place. Android folks, iOS folks, and Windows Phone folks, now you can all come together and live in peace, sharing in the joy that is a cool new app. iOS Earbits This free-to-use and…

TheMoto X camera fix that hit T-Mobile handsets last week is now rolling out to AT&T versions of the phone. Rejoice smartphone shutterbugs.

High-Class Sweets Made With Tools Intended For Chandeliers

The art of making candy will forever be associated with the dark whimsy of Willy Wonka’s magical factory, but a recent exhibition held during Vienna’s Design Week put a sweetly sophisticated spin on the process. Lausanne, Switzerland-based Bertille Laguet and Mathieu Rohrer teamed up with Austrian brand Lobmeyr, family-run purveyors of super swanky chandeliers since…

Why did everyone hate one of the most beloved video games of all time?

There’s no doubt about it, 2001’s The Legend of Zelda: Wind Waker was gorgeous. It was also one of the most universally-hated video games of that year. With the release of the game’s HD Wii U remake, here’s a look back at the epic bitch-fest stirred up by one of the most beautiful video games…

Historic Bridge Disasters Caught On Film

People have been obsessively filming bridge collapses for over 70 years. Here is some footage of classic disasters that look like they could have been caused by kaiju. Honeymoon Bridge or The Upper Steel Arch Bridge (also known as Fallsview Bridge), Niagara Falls, Ontario, collapsed after an ice storm on 27 January 1938 due to…

A Desk Toy For Fidgety Types That Appears To Bend Time and Space

Part sculpture, part toy, part perfect time waster, the OSM—or Object for Spatial Manipulation—is like a kaleidoscope brought into the 3D world that you can manipulate and morph without having to look through a faux telescope. Comprising six interlocking plastic discs, the $10 distraction doesn’t require you to solve any puzzles or unlock any mysteries.…

The iPhone’s First Demo Was Buggy as Hell

Saturday is the second anniversary of Steve Jobs’s death, and a lot of remembrances are making their way around the web. One of the most revealing comes from the New York Times Magazine who just published a sprawling report on the original iPhone. Long story short, that thing was a mess. If you go back…

Comment of the Day: Supertaster Edition

In today’s comments, we took a much closer look at our world maps, contemplated the return of the sabrecat, and learned a simple way to test yourself for the most ordinary of superpowers: hypertasting. Food inventor Barb Stuckey joined us today for a Q&A on the science of food development, and (in response to commenter…

Sweet mercy, the cuteness: a white lion cub practicing her roar

This obscenely adorable (and still unnamed) little lion cub was born on September 26th to a lioness named Masha at the Belgrade Zoo. HEAR HER ROAR. It’s a good thing the animal making the sounds in this video is so adorable. If I heard these noises while I was alone in the dark, I’d probably…

Amazing anatomical drawings from centuries ago

Delicate, beautiful, and terrifyingly gory, antique medical drawings give us a window on the history of science. Over at Indiana University Bloomington’s Lilly Library, there’s an incredible display of historical anatomical drawings. Here’s a gallery. According to the University: “Visualizing Disease,” an exhibition of pathological illustrations from the 16th century to the mid-19th century on…

Vampire Diaries has run into 4 crucial problems of long-lived TV shows

Last night, we got a generous helping of two hours of The Vampire Diaries, or technically one hour of TVD and one hour of its spinoff, The Originals. There were some lovely moments — but also a sense that the wheels are coming off the vampire bus. The Vampire empire is running into four lethal…

How a Total Accident Saved the French Wine Industry

Amy Harmon’s excellent, recent article in the New York Times describes how the Florida orange juice industry may soon be wiped-out because of a new bacterial disease spread by an introduced insect. It looks like there could be a technology-fix for the problem using genetic engineering. The question is whether the growers will get to…

This Underwater Terminator Is a Floating Jellyfish Abattoir

With the continuing collapse of fisheries around the world, a new balance of power is being set in the open oceans—one where jellies are the dominant biomass, not more modern vertebrates. This is not good. Unlike fish, jellies basically go where ever the current takes them. Unfortunately, this often leads them—lots of them, as many…

This Week in Time Capsules: How Do You Put a Website in a Capsule?

This week we have a brand new time capsule in the U.K. with the Star Wars movies, a 1960 capsule in Michigan that was thought to be lost for good, and a town in Oregon that included a website print-out in their latest low-tech time travel box. Oregon Time Capsule Includes a (Deadtree) Website A…