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This Is How the Navy Cuts a Birthday Cake

If you’ve been using a knife to cut birthday cake this whole time, you’ve been doing it all wrong. When the Navy cuts a cake, it does it properly—using a digger. This shot shows Equipment Operator 2nd Class Sam Sutheimer, from the Navy Expeditionary Logistics Support Group, divvying up a cake the best way. Yes,…

Rumor: Intel in Discussions to Produce Apple Chips

Reuters is reporting that Intel has been in rather unlikely discussions that could pave the way for the processor giant producing chips to Apple specifications. A source “close to one of the companies” claims that executives from both Apple and Intel have met over the past year to discuss the idea of Intel making chips…

How Amazon’s Navigation Is So Damn Fast

If you’ve ever been amazed by just how fast and responsive Amazon’s drop-down menus are, you’re not alone. But Ben Kamens, lead developer at the Kahn Academy, decided to work out how Bezos and co do it—and it’s real sneaky. You see, most drop-down menus include some delay to give you time to move the…

Processed Meat Causes 1 in 30 Early Deaths

A new study, involving half a million participants from across Europe, shows that eating processed meats appears to increase the risk of dying young. The research followed people from 10 European countries for nearly 13 years on average. Its findings suggest that eating processed meat—like bacon, hot dogs, salami and all those other wonderful things—is…

Yahoo’s CEO Marissa Mayer just got a $1 million bonus after six months on the job. Must be the new homepage, right?

Which Hurts More, AC or DC Electricity?

If you mange to get yourself electrocuted, you probably won’t care too much what type of electricity is pumping through your body. But this video takes a playful look at whether AC or DC current will hurt more when that day comes. This guy is very clearly more brave or stupid than most of us—but…

These Nike Free 5.0 Shoes Are Like Chinese Finger Traps for Your Feet

If you put on these Nike Free 5.0s, you might not be able to ever take them off. That’s because the latest training kicks from Nike use a lockdown system inspired by Chinese finger traps. That means these shoes lock down your foot so you can move more freely. Nike Frees have always mimicked barefoot…

The Weirdest Thing on the Internet Tonight: Inversion

You never know when the next clothing-optional Rapture will strike, so be prepared. Watch for early warning signs—clocks running backwards, people breaking into renditions of “Ole Time Religion,” that sort of thing. Jonathan Rio animated this impressive, hand-crafted short.

The Colorful World of Shots

Alcohol is supposed to be simple: whisky, whisky and more whisky. Maybe some gin. Tequila if you want to party. Fine, vodka too. But alcohol doesn’t have to always be so boring. The sugary world of flavored party shots can be fun! Or at the very least, be super colorful. It’s really ridiculous how humans…

Path 3 Now Does Messaging

Path, the social networking app that does a little bit of everything, has added some new features in its latest update. Path 3.0 now does private messaging (one-to-one or group), has something called ‘Stickers’ which are like Emojis on steroids and is opening up a new shop for you to buy stuff from. Basically, more…

You Can Be Pizza Hut’s Social Media Manager If You Can Interview in 140 Seconds

Are you good at Twitter? Do you know how to book that face? Perhaps even post more pictures than just food and cats on Instagram? Well, if you’re a quick talker and a proud minute man or woman, Pizza Hut would like to interview you for 140 seconds about its Social Media Manager job. 140…

How Every Guy Will Use Google Glass

Though you may look like a complete dork wearing Google Glass, it’s the capital-F future realized in the most overtly futuristic way possible. That means people are going to be interested in this thing. That means once guys realize what they can do with it, they’ll just use it in any way possible to get…

Here’s what it looks like when meteors hit the rings of Saturn

Recently, the cameras on board the Cassini spacecraft caught images of meteors racing through the rings of Saturn. Or, rather, photos of the clouds of debris created as the meteors impacted the icy ring particles. These meteors were probably a lot smaller than the Chelyabinsk meteor—-let alone the monsters that rained onto Jupiter—-being perhaps only…

I Want to Live in This Retro Future Animation of Life on Mars

Created by Czech designer Lukas Vojir, this animation is a retro-futuristic short commercial for a make believe life on Mars. The style of the animation is wonderful, I just love how everything unfolds on the geometrically shaped red planet, and the world is imaginative and perfectly rooted in our past thought of what the future…

Felicity joins the Dawn of the Planet of the Apes, but as a human or a primate?

Dawn of the Planet of the Apes has picked up yet another big name (the last big announcement revealed that Gary Oldman would be playing the leader of the human resistance). And now Variety has announced Keri Russell will be joining the cast which already includes Andy Serkis and Jason Clarke. Fingers crossed she plays…

How Camels Evolved Their Humps — In Northern Canada

Camels aren’t typically associated with northern climates, but a recent discovery of 3.5 million-year-old fossils by Canadian paleontologist Natalia Rybczynski suggests that this is precisely where they came from. The finding was made on Nunavut’s Ellesmere Island, the most northerly part of Canada, and an area that was much more temperate back during the mid-Pliocene…

Watch the first minute of the re-energized Revolution

Last November Revolution ended with a massive cliffhanger (spoilers) showing Miles staring down the barrel of s helicopter’s gun. Now that Monroe has the power (and the amplifier) he’s potentially unstoppable. This first look picks up right where the finale left off. BEHOLD THE POWER OF ELECTRICITY! Revolution returns on March 25th, but this time…

Strange Buildings of the Eastern Bloc from the Last Decades of Communism

Communist architecture is often monumental, sometimes minimalist, and always imposing. But in the latter years of most European communist states, traditional Brutalist architecture gave way to something a little weirder — and occasionally even playful. Here are some incredible buildings from this era in late Eastern Bloc communism. Crematorium, Kiev, Ukraine (1975) You can see…

Dyson Vacuums: They’ll Suck Up Your Fire

Dirt, hairballs, crumbs, small children: Dyson vacuums can triumph over pretty much anything. But there’s still that lingering question: what about flames? We all know that feeling when your living room rug spontaneously ignites in a blaze of hellfire right before company comes over. What a dreg. But it’s ok—you can breathe easy now. Because…

Vintage anatomical illustrations, as animated GIFs

Brain Picking’s Maria Popova has gone and turned a whole mess of drawings from 1942’s The Sexual Study of the Male and Female Human Body in Color Pictures into a pretty fantastic series of animated GIFs. It’s a little like the Visible Human Project, or soaring through 700 layers of the human brain. Only illustrated.…