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Crystal Fighters: You & I

What happens when you combine a Bob Dylan-style groove with George Harrison-style animatronics? A poignant story of love and devotion, that’s what. Directed by Elliot Sellers, You & I is off the London-based band’s forthcoming album, Cave Rave, which drops on May 28th. The bird used in the video is real, though it was totally…

Captain Picard’s vacation videos highlight this week’s Blu-rays

Even though Picard is clearly on vacation and trying to relax, the week’s DVD and Blu-ray releases march ever forward. This week includes fake superheroes, lesbian vampires and manborgs! (Also, here’s the uncropped pic, in case you want to see the Captain’s log.) • Star Trek: The Next Generation: Season 3 On Blu-ray, with the…

Watch William Gibson read from his brand new science fiction novel

Legendary author William Gibson appeared at the New York Public Library on April 19, and he read the first couple pages from his futuristic new novel, The Peripheral. Check out the first chapter, “The Gone Haptics.” That amazing prose just sticks to your mind. Watch the entire one hour, 41-minute video of Gibson’s appearance, including…

Everything You Need to Grill Everything But Steak

Your grill may be an altar for red meat but why partake only in steak when there are so many other delicious animals and vegetables to try? Here’s what you’ll need to roast birds and bivalves alongside your bevy of beef. Poultry Beer Can Chicken is both delicious and easily prepared, even if you’re already…

J.J. Abrams wants to make Stephen King’s time travel book into a show

J.J. Abrams’ Bad Robot production company reportedly wants to buy up the rights to the time traveling Stephen King’s book 11/22/63, in which an English teacher travels back in time to prevent the assassination of JFK . Deadline is reporting that Bad Robot and Warner Bros TV is hoping to finish their deal for the…

Jiffy for Android: Always Know Exactly Where the Time Went

It’s a busy life we lead—most of us, anyway. And between work, play, family time, rest, secret-other-family time, whatever it may be that you’ve got going on, making sure you’re distributing your time evenly can be a challenge. The simple Android fix Jiffy is here to help. What does it do? Lets you track up…

Iron Man saves Air Force One all by himself in a new Iron Man 3 clip

Okay, this is kind of bad-ass. Watch Tony Stark save the crew of Air Force One as the plane plummets out of the sky. Props to Tony for not uttering “get off my plane,” which would have all but impossible if we were in his metal boots. Already Iron Man 3 is looking a lot…

How Buckminster Fuller’s Dymaxion Map Tessellated The World

Buckminster Fuller applied his patented Dymaxion brand to all sorts of objects over the course of his career, from cars to buildings to entire cities. But one of the most useful and enduring applications? The Dymaxion World map, which unfolds the earth into a long string of shapes, like a carefully peeled orange. 2013 marks…

The Secret Twitter Music Feature That Adds a Dash of Pandora

Twitter’s stab at music streaming burst onto the scene a few weeks ago, in all its celebrity-stalking glory. But there’s at least one feature that’s still hiding behind the scenes: a Pandora-like “similar artists” option. And you can coax it out if you know the secret code. https://gizmodo.com/twitter-music-hands-on-a-celeb-stalking-music-discov-5994969 Discovered by Tyler Hayes the feature can…

Could scientific breakthroughs lead to new religions?

NYU psychologist Gary Marcus has penned an interesting article for The New Yorker in which he complains about how some scientists are using science itself as a way to rekindle beliefs in the supernatural. The two thinkers in particular that Marcus has chosen to pick on include artificial intelligence researcher Jürgen Schmidhuber, who has talked…

Which movie is your happy place?

When you feel sad, depressed or just tired, what movie cheers you up? For a lot of my Twitter friends, these days, it’s apparently The Avengers. But what movie makes you especially happy? Which DVD is your miracle cure? Please share your choice in the discussion below — and include a picture, if you can.…

These Japanese Wooden Pens Are Perfectly Elegant

You know, there’s nothing quite like finding the perfect writing instrument. It’s a wordsmith’s holy grail of sorts. And we love these elegant new pens from Japanese brand Miidori. The smooth ebony and tulipwood pens come in two colors options, and they’ll arrive on your doorstep in a nice little box. Sure, they’ll run you…

UFO Disclosure Hearings in Washington — Sort Of

This week, there will be a series of “citizen hearings” about UFO disclosure in Washington, DC. It sounds really official, until you read the fine print. This video is a marvel of misdirection, luring you in with the promise of UFO disclosure hearings for the first time since the 1960s — but then admitting, along…

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Report: There’s Going to Be a Lot of Jony Ive in iOS 7

With Jony Ive in the driver’s seat for iOS 7, the scent of change is on the breeze. Change itself is inevitable, it’s just a question of how much. And according to 9to5Mac’s sources, the answer to that question is “a lot.” According to several unnamed sources who have been briefed on the upcoming iOS…

Watch ice needles shooting out of a lake in this insane video

Ice needles literally spurt out in waves from chunks of ice at a Minnesota Lake in this amazing video. The phenomenon looks like magic, and the scientific explanation is even better. We share the amazement of the people in the video, watching as ice all along the shore of Medicine Lake suddenly seemed to spit…

We loved artist Sean Hartter’s “alternate universe” science fiction movie posters. Sadly, he died over the weekend, and there’s a fundraiser to pay his funeral expenses. Please give!

Saturn’s Harrowing Hurricane Is Even More Terrifying in Technicolor

Not too long ago, NASA’s Cassini spacecraft managed to get some awesome photos of Saturn’s 1,250 mile-wide polar hurricane. It looked pretty intense in black and white, but this new colored version is one blood-red beauty. https://gizmodo.com/stare-into-the-eye-of-saturns-terrifying-polar-vortex-5963849 Cassini shot the picture with special spectral filters that can detect the subtleties of wavelengths of near-infrared light.…

Scientists have engineered the world’s first glow-in-the dark sheep

Nighttime sheep-herders rejoice, for green-glowing sheep are now a thing. Two questions, though. How? And why? Photo courtesy Funcación IRAUy/J. Calvelo Here’s the how: last year, a team of researchers led by Alejo Menchaca at the Animal Reproduction Institue of Uruguay genetically modified some wooly ruminants to express a peptide commonly known as green fluorescent…

Playing favorites with children can be deadly

In eastern bluebird society, fathers favor their sons over their daughters, with brighter-colored sons winning out over their duller brothers, according to a new study. This favoritism has dire consequences for the less loved chicks, which are more likely to end up as crow food. In the last 15 years, a lot of work has…