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On The Tomorrow People, daddy issues are a secret weapon

Last night’s Tomorrow People went through some crazy plot gyrations to keep the “Stephen working for both Ultra and the mutants” storyline afloat. But it was superfun, you have to love how the two storylines — Stephen’s father and suspicion at Ultra — dovetail, in the clip above. Sure, a lot of it doesn’t entirely…

Comment of the Day: Hybrid Mutant Shark Edition

In today’s comments, we envied the polite small-talk abilities of the marmoset, looked up at the heavens with a mixture of awe and suspicion, and learned one more reason to fear the deep: hybrid sharks. In response to this post, exposing a potential yeti as just a pretender to the throne ancient polar-brown bear hybrid,…

Diplo feat. Lazerdisk Party Sex: Set It Off

An exciting thing happened in the world of dinosaur bones this week: News broke that a rare Diplodocus longus skeleton will go to the auction block next month. This must have thrilled everybody’s favorite beat jockey, Diplo, who took his name from the dinosaur. You see, Diplo (née Thomas Wesley Pentz) was fascinated with dinosaurs…

This is how small and ignorant we are—and how much we have to explore

As of October 13, 2013, humans have discovered almost one thousand exo-planets, worlds outside our solar system. 998 planets in 759 planetary systems, most of them giant gas worlds. It seems like a lot, but it’s nothing. Just look at the tiny space we have covered so far. That space has a lot more planets…

This retro adventure game version of the The Shining is so good

I love CineFix retro game versions of movies. Their 1990s Maniac Mansion style remake of Stanley Kubrick’s The Shining is begging for a real version for iPad. I want to play it. Badly. https://kotaku.com/if-lucasarts-made-a-game-about-the-shining-1447095703

Bike Your Way To Adventure With These Sweet City Cycling Guides

Rapha has been a one-stop-shop for all kinds of cool bike accessories since launching its first collection in 2004; in addition to the stylish wearables, they’ve got a small batch of prints and publications dedicated to the joy of road climbs and racing. Now, they’re adding leisure travel to the mix with an eight volume…

Modern Classics Get Retro with the Best Premakes Ever

Sometimes you’ve got to send a modern movie or TV series back in time to remake it before it’s ever born! That’s what happens in these premakes, which take contemporary movies and shows, and turn them into old-fashioned fare. Logan’s Run (1976) in the style of the ’30s Audio from Logan’s Run theatrical trailer (1976),…

NASA’s budget is less than the total cost of the government shutdown

NBC News has a list of nine things that costs less than the final bill of the government shutdown, estimated at $24 billion. Two of them: the 2014 budget of NASA ($17.7 billion) and running the International Space Station for almost eight years (cost per year: $3 billion). High five, Washington clowns.

Could an Ignition-Activated “Car Mode” Keep Drivers From Texting?

Texting while driving accounts for more and more accidents every year, but there’s no clear solution in sight (unless you think these new SMS rest stops will work). New York designer Joey Cofone is proposing another idea: An iOS “Car Mode,” akin to airplane mode, that would prevent you from texting while your car is…

Precise measurements reveal that this is the world’s fluffiest bunny

OK, so we didn’t do a scientific study or anything, but this Angora rabbit is one of the fluffiest creatures you’ll ever see. It’s also been bred by humans for its long fur for a really long time. The Angora originates from Turkey and is considered the oldest domesticated rabbit. It became popular with French…

Egyptian Rim? Foxjust ordered 13 episodes of Hieroglyph, an adventure show set in ancient Egypt featuring “magic, gods and goddesses,” from Pacific Rim writer Travis Beacham. Hieroglyph follows “a notorious thief who is plucked from prison to serve the Pharoah,” encountering a world of concubines, conspirators and sorcerers.

What movie terrified you the most when you were a kid?

There’s nothing scarier than a horror movie when you’re under the age of twelve. These movies leave their scars on us for life, inspiring countless nightmares — and (strangely) making us long for more horror movies when we get older. What’s your big childhood nightmare movie? Tell us in comments below, and include a picture…

These Canoe Paddles Will Make Even Landlubbers Dream of the Sea

After my wife and I went canoeing up in northern Minnesota a few months ago—on a lake near the town of Ely, where we had gone to visit the giant neutrino detector of the Soudan Underground Mine State Park—I became strangely obsessed with canoeing. For a land-bound Brooklynite, however, it’s not as easy as you…

Who Would You Nominate for the Internet Hall of Fame?

The Internet Society is currently taking nominations for 2014 inductees to the Internet Hall of Fame. They’re searching worldwide for people in three categories: Pioneers, Innovators, and Global Connectors. The nomination form is even open to the public. So who would you nominate? Nominees can have contributed to the development of the internet in any…

New York Subway Backpack Opens To Reveal an Eerily Empty Platform

If there’s one thing you can count on in a large crowded city like New York, it’s that there’s always someone waiting on the subway platform. So while we love this gorgeous $48 backpack from Mojo featuring a subway door screen print that actually opens to reveal a platform, we’re left a little unsettled by…

Take a look at the new crazy cinemas in South Korea

South Koreans call them ScreenX theaters, a new filming and projection technology that shows movies as 270-degree panoramas. The weird part: instead of using a curved IMAX-like screen, they use the walls of the movie theater. I anticipate those walls to be covered with explosive vomit, as people get motion sickness and epileptic fits. https://kotaku.com/imagine-playing-video-games-on-this-270-degree-screen-1446921567

How we could start looking for alien transmitters in our solar system

SETI now has the technology to go snooping for extraterrestrials in our own backyard. No, not as close as little green men cutting up crop circles. Rather, we should be able to detect an alien device positioned somewhere between the sun to 30 times farther out than Pluto. What would aliens place 100 billion miles…

The Most Beautiful Photo of Saturn You’ve Ever Seen

The first time you see this latest picture of Saturn, you’ll probably think it’s fake. The rings are too perfectly round. The swirling surface of the planet is too smooth. The shadows are too sharp. But it’s all real, thanks to the Cassini spacecraft and a Croatian software developer with too much time on his…

Is time real?

It’s more than some half-baked question from your college days. Time and its “real”-ness are, in fact, major considerations in fields like physics and philosophy. But then, what does that question – Is time real? – even mean? Theoretical physicist Sean Carroll gets down to brass tacks on time, reality, and how we experience both.…