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Want to hear a neanderthal say the letter “E”?

Other neanderthals would probably also like to hear that — but one researcher thinks that the average neanderthal would have a problem with that vowel. A reconstructed vocal tract indicates that there are some vowel sounds that neanderthals just couldn’t say. Robert McCarthy, an anthropology professor at Florida Atlantic University, wanted to hear a neanderthal’s…

On a Sunny Day This Solar Pendulum Will Keep You Distracted For Hours

On those frequent days when you just don’t feel like working, there’s nothing like a fun desk toy to wile away the hours. And if you’re tired of your Newton’s Cradle, and don’t want to draw attention to yourself with a office-wide Nerf war, check out the solar-powered Zendulum. Like a Newton’s Cradle its hypnotic…

The Sculptor Who’ll Represent America in the Art World’s Battle Royale

The Venice Biennale is kind of like the Olympics of art. Every other year, each country picks a single artist to represent it on the international stage—a weird but interesting way to quantify success in the art world. So who’s the most interesting artist in America right now? Meet the 43-year-old sculptor Sarah Sze, whose…

The Purge clips show the downside to legalizing crime. Who knew?

These clips from The Purge take you inside the one night of the year that humanity is allowed to wear masks and kill each other. Here’s the gimmick behind strange alternate reality movie The Purge — for one special night, all crime is legal. So humans get a chance to purge their terrible needs. Apparently…

Electronic Bricks Means the Future Of Lego Is Even More Wonderful

At Sony Computer Science Laboratories’ recent open house in Tokyo, the company gave the public a glimpse of some of the innovative research its team has been working on. Including a project called Toy Alive: a joint venture between Sony and Lego to develop microchip-embedded bricks that add a new level of electronic interactivity to…

Women will ‘evolve out’ of menopause

Geneticist Aarathi Prasad recently argued that menopause is on the cusp of extinction — and that women will soon be able to have children at virtually any stage in their lives. Prasad is the author of the book, Like a Virgin: How Science is Redesigning the Rules of Sex. https://gizmodo.com/how-scientists-tried-to-confirm-a-virgin-birth-long-b-5936056 Speaking at the Hay Festival…

A Love Story Edited From Stock Footage Is Your Tearjerker of the Day

Last year ad agency AlmapBBDO tugged at our heart strings with an animated love story assembled from over 5,000 Getty stock photos. And this year the agency’s back with an even sappier tale of love edited together from a seemingly endless run of perfectly matched clips harvested from Getty’s stock footage archive. https://gizmodo.com/beautiful-ad-stitches-873-snapshots-into-single-wonder-5912667 If you…

Pinterest Embraces Its Porn Problem, Artistically

A little over a year ago, everybody started freaking out about Pinterest’s new porn problem. “Officially, there is no porn on Pinterest,” Business Insider’s Jim Edwards declared at the time. “But there is porn on Pinterest, and it appears to be a growing problem.” Oh noes! There’s porn on the Internet?! Of course there is,…

Gender-swapping superhero’s creator responds to right-wing backlash

In SheZow, a 12-year-old boy accidentally puts on a magic ring that turns him into a female superhero, known as SheZow. It’s an excuse for lots of fish-out-of-water comedy and some personal growth. Or, if you’re Breitbart News, it’s a left-wing conspiracy. We talked to SheZow’s creator about the controversy. In case you missed it,…

How the Navy of the Future Will Find—And Destroy—Underwater Mines

You don’t joke about mining important maritime trade routes—Iran did and nearly started WWIII. And while America’s fleet of MH-53E Sea Dragons and Avenger-class mine countermeasures ships are still quite effective, they’re getting really, really old. Both platforms entered service in the mid-1980s and are quickly nearing their retirement dates. Here’s what the Navy has…

“How Iron Man 3 Should Have Ended” is 100% right

So if Tony can control all of his suits, why didn’t he activate them to protect his house from the start? Because then there wouldn’t be any movie, that’s why. It’s another edition of How It Should Have Ended, and this time it’s all about Iron Man 3.

A Cheap HTC One on Sprint Is Your Deal of the Day

The HTC One Google Edition running stock Android that Google announced earlier today is pretty cool, but it’s still a $600 contract-free phone, and most people opt for a carrier-subsidized handset. If you like HTC Sense and you’re eligible for a Sprint upgrade, you can get the HTC One for $80 with a new contract.…

This Watch’s Floating Second Hand Is a Mesmerizing Reason To Go Analog

There are countless reasons to wear a digital watch: they don’t need winding, they keep incredibly accurate time, and include a host of functions. And even good reasons not to wear a watch at all: smartphones. But watchmaker Maurice LaCroix makes a good case for still considering an analog timepiece with its Masterpiece Seconde Mysterieuse…

Could a notorious party drug be the next psychiatric breakthrough?

MDMA is a drug that’s typically associated with youth culture and dance parties — but it’s increasingly attracting the attention of psychologists and cognitive therapists. Also known as ecstasy, the drug has shown effectiveness in treating a number of mood disorders. But are the potential health risks worth it? Since its introduction less than 50…

How Google Is Finally Fixing Android’s Deepest Flaw

You might not have noticed, but in the last two weeks Google has fixed the thing you hate most about Android. The biggest news out of this year’s I/O Googlepalooza didn’t have anything to do with Jelly Bean or Google Glass. It wasn’t a killer app or a self-driving car. It was, in fact, the…

Kinky people have better mental health than everyone else

People who engage in kinky sexual practices involving such things as bondage and sadomasochism may actually be more mentally healthy than those who don’t, according to a new study. So what are you waiting for? It’s time to break out those whips and handcuffs. BDSM is an umbrella term that mainly bridges bondage and discipline…

Fan TV Is a Hot Set-Top-Box Organized Around Content Instead of Apps

A few years back we told you about Fanhattan, an iPad app, which, a bit like a TV guide, helps you find out which service—say Hulu or Netflix—has the content you want to watch. Genius! Now the company is porting that experience to a set-top-box called Fan TV that helps you sift through madness with…

How Yesterday’s Feminists Invented the Food of the Future

These days, foodie messiahs like Mark Bittman and Michael Pollan preach the gospel of whole foods and get quite a lot of ink and airtime for their ideas about a more healthy way of eating. But the most progressive idea in food from a hundred years ago would likely shock the slow fooders of today:…

A Full Scale Lego T-800 Terminator Sent Back In Time To Blow Our Minds

We wholeheartedly approve of this recent trend of perfect 1:1 scale Lego creations. First, it was the Lego X-Wing which tipped the scales as the largest Lego creation ever assembled. And now it’s this smaller—though no less fantastic—full scale Lego T-800 Terminator model built by Martin Latta. https://gizmodo.com/this-incredible-full-scale-lego-x-wing-is-the-largest-m-509484787 All-in-all the endoskeleton gobbled up some 15,000…