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8 Things We Simply Don’t Understand About the Human Brain

Despite all the recent advances in the cognitive and neurosciences, there’s still much about the human brain that we do not know. Here are 8 of the most baffling problems currently facing science. https://gizmodo.com/see-the-first-ultra-high-resolution-3d-scan-of-the-ent-514395280 1. What is consciousness? Without question, conscious awareness is the most astounding — and most perplexing — aspect of the human…

Nexus 7 2013 Review: The Best Small Tablet, Even Better

Google’s Nexus 7 was the best small tablet of 2012. Rather than mess with success, Google did something uncharacteristically conservative: It made little improvements here and there and left the rest mostly as is. The result? This year’s Nexus 7 is more low rumble than tectonic shift, but it’s still our new favorite tablet. For…

Brilliance is an alternate history of non-neurotypicals in America

Marcus Sakey’s first science fiction novel, Brilliance, opens with headlines ripped from the newspapers of an alternate 1986: A small percentage of children born in 1980 onwards exhibit some extraordinary abilities: pattern recognition, extracognition, and more. They’re called Brilliants, and they’re at the heart of this gripping thriller. So what happens when this alternate 80s…

We call SHENANIGANS on the Insidious 2 trailer

If you saw the end for James Wan’s jump scare spectacular, Insidious then you know [SPOILERS FOR INSIDIOUS], the Dad kind of “gets it” in the end. So you can imagine our confusion when the Insidious 2 trailer looks like business as usual for the Lambert family. SHENANIGANS! SHENANIGANS, SHENANIGANS, SHENANIGANS! Why is Patrick Wilson…

This Week’s TV: The Worst Thing Ever to Come Out of The Hunger Games!

Seriously, just watch the previews for this new reality TV show, which is wants so badly to look like Hunger Games, and judge for yourselves. Meanwhile, Disney XD is giving us a brand new sneak peek at Guardians of the Galaxy and other upcoming Marvel movies. Check out clips and details for all this week’s…

Fermilab Hunts Rare Subatomic Particles With This 50-Foot Electromagnet

Just because Fermilab shut off its famous Tevartron back in 2011 doesn’t mean the entire facility closed down with it. In fact, the Chicago-area physics lab is embarking on an auspicious plan to develop some of the world’s most powerful proton beam technology by the end of the decade. But first, researchers have to install…

Watch Patrick Stewart’s unprofessionalism in Star Trek: TNG bloopers

Sir Patrick Stewart is a consummate actor whose professionalism is beyond reproach…. except when Sir Patrick Stewart isn’t, because Sir Patrick Stewart can’t remember his damn lines. As you might guess, this blooper reel — more of which will be on the Star Trek: TNG season 4 set released tomorrow — features the latter. Additional…

Follow this advice and you’ll be happy, say scientists

You don’t have to have a house, an spouse, children and a car to be happy. In fact, you may get all that and still be unhappy. But here are six things you can do now to make you happier today, according to scientific research. https://lifehacker.com/six-unconventional-scientific-ways-to-be-happier-948843276

When did “The United States” become a singular noun?

“There was a time a few years ago when the United States was spoken of in the plural number,” reads an article published April 24th, 1887, in The Washington Post. “Men said ‘the United States are’ — ‘the United States have’ — ‘the United States were.’ But the war changed all that.” The quote continues…

See how the world will really end, picture by picture

No apocalyptic angels playing the trumpet. No seas of blood. No cats cohabiting with dogs. If you could live 1.1 billion years, this is what you would see when the world ends, step by step, destroyed by the star that now nurtures life on Earth. https://gizmodo.com/what-the-death-of-the-sun-will-look-like-471796727

Valentina Grizodubova: The Soviet Amelia Earhart

While American women were restricted to administrative flying missions during wartime, more than a thousand Russian women flew combat missions. Valentina Grizodubova was one of them. Women had served in combat positions in the Soviet Union as early as World War I. Together, Russia and the surrounding countries were one country, known as the Soviet…

Here Are The Clearest Shots Yet of the Moto X

Motorola doesn’t officially announce the X until this Thursday, but let’s be honest, this has quickly become one of the worst kept secrets in tech. Here we have the clearest shots yet of Motorola and Google’s long-awaited collaborative effort. Details are still relatively sparse, but the Moto X is said to be sporting a new…

Sony revealed today that the PS4 will have party chat for up to 2,000 friends, no PlayStation Plus subscription required. Apps like Netflix will also be available without a PS Plus subscription, along with free-to-play games. [Sony via Verge]

One-Minute Horror Movie will make you jump

Last week we cowered over two-sentence scary stories that gave us chills (some of your comments haunted our weekend, yeeesh!). And now we give you a one-minute short — just as simple, and just as terrifying. https://gizmodo.com/two-sentence-horror-stories-are-actually-pretty-chillin-923728355 Written, directed and edited by Jason Eisener, this short was part of Vice’s 3:07 AM project. Well done!…

Budget iPhone Seemingly Confirmed in Undercover Safety Inspection

Thanks to a non-profit, undercover safety investigation into Apple supplier, Pegatron, we apparently have confirmation that Apple is indeed getting ready to release a cheaper, plastic-backed iPhone. The ultimate goal of China Labor Watch’s inspection was to assess workers’ pay, hours, and overall working conditions, but one of the undercover investigator’s diary entries has finally…

Director Jon M. Chu really, really wants to make that He-Man movie

Director Jon M. Chu is hard at work on both the G.I. Joe: Retaliation sequel and the long-in-development-hell Masters of the Universe movie. While the former depends on The Rock’s schedule, and the latter depends on when G.I. Joe 3 films, Chu is determined to make sure He-Man returns to movie theaters. Chu talked to…

Chinese Scalpers Created a Black Market for Genius Bar Appointments

The Apple Store is a hectic place in China, so hectic that if you try to go in for a repair without an appointment, you can expect to wait all day. No big deal. This is what the black market for Genius Bar appointments is for. According to the Beijing Morning News, ticket scalpers are…

These people posing with awkward high school portraits are awkward too

It may seem fun and cathartic to exorcise your demons by joining the Awkward Years Project, but posing with awkward high-school photos will prove to be equally awkward 20 years from now. https://jezebel.com/awkward-photos-then-and-now-945337333

Could You Imagine a Real Life Version of This Giant Lego Crawler Town?

That’s the premise of Crawler Town, an entire town mounted in a gigantic platform that looks pretty much like an enormous version of NASA’s crawler or the Jawa Sancrawler, which is pretty much the same thing but for tiny people. https://jalopnik.com/massive-massiveosity-thy-name-is-crawler-transporter-268561 https://gizmodo.com/lego-star-wars-sandwalker-took-nine-months-to-build-5808103 You’re reading Leg Godt, the blog with the latest Lego news and the…

This Guy Turned Himself in for Child Porn Because Malware Told Him To

We’re already well aware of the damage malware can do to your machine, but apparently, guilty consciences don’t fare all that well, either. At least not for one 21-year-old man who, after getting a fake pop-up demanding a fine for the child pornography on his computer, decided to take his laptop straight to the police—and…