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Bitchin’ Artwork That Makes You Proud to be An American Werewolf

Can we get a “fuck yeah” for American werewolves? This brand new artwork for Benjamin Percy’s novel Red Moon celebrates the blood red in the red white and blue. Makes you want to pump your fist while howling at the Moon. Red Moon, by Esquire editor Percy, is a brand new werewolf novel, and we’re…

How the human brain sees a 100-mph fastball

Given how slowly our brains react to incoming visual information, it should actually be impossible for us to hit a blistering fastball. But we can. That’s because, instead of showing us the world as it really is, our brains offer us a glimpse of the future. Indeed, our innate ability to track fast-moving objects has…

A Free After Contract Lumia 920 Is Your Deal of the Day

The Lumia 920 is the best Windows 8 phone you can currently buy. Sure, it might have a little too much junk in the trunk, but that girth houses the king of smartphone cameras. It’s built like a tank. And although Windows Phone 8 is still a little behind in app availability, it’s catching up…

Shark Kills French Surfer On Island Honeymoon

A shark killed a 36-year-old French surfer while his new bride watched in terror from the shore of Réunion Island. Twice attacked by the shark, the man was rescued from the water by lifeguards but had already lost so much blood that he died on the beach. The unnamed man and his new wife were…

How Jack Conte Made a Completely Batshit DIY Music Video From Scratch

Jack Conte’s “Pedals” music video is nuts. Holy crap, electronic music robot madness. But this is one of those situations where you have trouble deciding what’s crazier: the music video or the behind-the-scenes describing how the music video was made. Be the judge for yourself. And then you realize that Conte wasn’t working with some…

Why Is YouTube Censoring David Bowie’s SFW New Music Video?

Here we go again. After Robin Thicke’s “Blurred Lines” video was pulled from YouTube last month, David Bowie’s latest video from his new album “The Next Day” has been pulled from YouTube for violating the site’s Terms of Service as pointed out by Billboard. But it’s unclear why for a number of reasons. https://gizmodo.com/not-safe-for-youtube-how-google-draws-the-line-between-5993806 While…

Wine tasting is bullshit. Here’s why.

The human palate is arguably the weakest of the five traditional senses. This raises an important question regarding wine tasting: is it bullshit, or is it complete and utter bullshit? https://gizmodo.com/10-limits-to-human-perception-and-how-they-shape-yo-5926643 There are no two ways about it: the bullshit is strong with wine. Wine tasting. Wine rating. Wine reviews. Wine descriptions. They’re all related.…

Reality Check: You can’t easily replace Robert Downey Jr as Tony Stark

Now that Iron Man 3 has made pretty much all the money in the world, there’s reportedly a contract dispute brewing between star Robert Downey Jr. and Marvel, over whether he’ll be back for Avengers 2 and 3, and possibly Iron Man 4 as well. Is Downey Jr. overpaid? We don’t know. But we do…

8 of the Internet’s Most Adorable, Time-Wasting Animal Live Cams

Last spring, the inexplicably captivating live stream of brown bears catching salmon surfaced on explore.org and took the internet by storm. But even though it’s not quite salmon season yet, that doesn’t mean we should deprive ourselves the joys of watching a puppy sleeping in real time for 20 minutes. https://gizmodo.com/here-is-a-live-video-stream-of-brown-bears-catching-sal-5929084 So because it’s Wednesday,…

The ‘glass is a liquid’ myth has finally been destroyed

By studying a glob of 20 million-year-old amber, scientists have proven once and for all that glass does not flow. Some people claim that stained glass windows in old churches are thicker at the bottom than at the top because glass flows slowly like a liquid. We’ve known this isn’t true for quite some time…

Marvel Unlimitedis now available on Android. The awesome Spotify-like subscription service for comics launched back in March on iOS devices.

Batman Apparently Lives in Florida and Is Racing the Gumball 3000

Having captured the Joker, offed Two-Face, faked his own death, and passed the crimefighting torch to a new generation, Bruce Wayne is a man with a lot of time on his hands. So what better way to enjoy retirement race this street-legal Tumbler across the US in the annual Gumball 3000 rally? Designed by Team…

This Sticky Quadrotor Can Literally Be a Fly on the Wall

In the not too distant future the world is going to be abuzz with quadrotors flying about making deliveries, monitoring traffic, and of course spying on everyone: a skill this gecko-like craft is particularly adept at. Thanks to a special dry adhesive it’s able to stick and unstick from surfaces, letting it land and perch…

South Korean Newspaper May Have Just Printed the Worst Photoshop Ever

President Obama met with South Korea’s President Park Geun-hye at the White House this past Tuesday, and as major world leaders are wont to do in each others’ presence, handshakes abounded. This three-handed, two-roomed, Photoshop monstrosity, however, was not one of them. What makes this not just bad but inexplicable is that there were plenty…

Shooting Challenge: Reflections In An Eye

Our eyes capture everything we see. So for this week’s Shooting Challenge, we’re going straight for the source. The Challenge Photograph something reflecting in an eye. The Technique I know what you’re thinking: “That sounds neat. I’ve seen shots like that before. But how were they taken?” This is how.

12 Movies That Filmed Happy Endings You Never Saw

Everybody likes a happy ending… right? Actually, no. Sometimes a happy ending is the absolute wrong thing for a movie, because it throws away everything the film-makers worked to build up throughout the film. Sometimes, a movie has to end with fire, tears or blood. Here are 12 movies that had happy endings, but scrapped…

This Tiny Hand-Built House Is Fit for a Very Small King

Who says you need a big house with an expansive yard to achieve the American Dream these days? One Washington State resident has found her perfect home in the 140 square feet of living space she’s built herself. Located in Snohomish, WA, Apartment Therapy reader Melissa submitted her teensy abode as part of the site’s…

Jaron Lanier wants you to get money for your Instagram photos

Jaron Lanier is the guy who popularized virtual reality, back when it was still cool. He’s a futurist visionary, a musician, and a digital shit-disturber. We’ve got an excerpt from his new book, Who Owns the Future?, which proposes a new way to manage the economy for the information age. From the introduction to Who…

Why Isn’t Gatsby in the Public Domain?

When The Great Gatsby rolls out to theaters across the country this weekend, it will bring to the screen a story familiar to millions from a literary classic that’s often dubbed the proverbial “Great American Novel.” Here’s what many folks don’t know: even though the book was published nearly 90 years ago and is a…

YouTube Censors Bowie’s New Music Video Full of Depraved Priests

YouTube has deleted David Bowie’s new music video (NFSW) for the song The Next Day arguing that it goes against the site’s terms of service. The video stars Gary Oldman as a priest and Marion Cotillard as a martyr dancing in a bar full of semi-naked saints and catholic priests. At one point, Cotillard’s stigmata…