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The Best Creepypasta Stories to Give You Nightmares Forever

This story is completely true. It happened right here on the internet, on a night just like this. The True Tale of Creepypasta Not too long ago, people shared jokes, stories, and lame inspirational messages by copy/pasting text into message board posts or email. On the message board 4chan, users started calling these text memes…

Tech News Kiona Smith-Strickland Oct 30

Rumor: The Solo Batman Movies May Be Centered Around a Certain Robin

We’re still several months away from meeting our newest big screen Batman, but rumors are already surfacing about what Ben Affleck’s Dark Knight may be up to in his first solo outing. The good news is that these newest rumors happen to pretty plausible. JoBlo reports that two famous Batman comic storylines will help make…

Movies Germain Lussier Oct 30

The US is Finally Heeding Warnings About a Monster Solar Storm

We’re all too familiar with the dangers posed by earthquakes, droughts, and hurricanes. But there’s another natural phenomena that represents a growing threat to our tech-driven society, and that’s space weather. And at long last, the US government seems to be taking the issue seriously. Space weather scientists at the National Oceanic Atmospheric Administration and…

Tech News Maddie Stone Oct 30

Let’s Talk About Whatever You Want Right Now

There are two kinds of people in this world: those who have been planning their Halloween costume for ages, and those, like me, who scramble to buy some kind of hat day-of so that they can attend a party. I still don’t have a Halloween costume, and I will most likely throw together something lame…

Tech News Kaila Hale-Stern Oct 30

Hand making a sketchbook is an impressive amount of work

This is supposedly the ‘perfect sketchbook’. Why? Because it’s made from the highest quality watercolor paper there is, Fabriano Artistico 100% cotton paper (a paper mill with a lot of history and a lot of famous users like Leonardo da Vinci!), but also because it’s painstakingly made. Check out how they put together the prototype…

Sploid Casey Chan Oct 30

I Can Sum Up Everything Wrong With Heroes Reborn in a Single Line of Dialogue

“June 13—Part One” is about Hiro taking HRG back to a year ago, the day of Claire’s death and the Unity Summit explosion, ostensibly for HRG to get some answers. As the two arrive at the Summit thanks to Hiro’s time-traveling powers, they discuss how they need to find Claire and figure out who or…

Television Rob Bricken Oct 30

Should You Become a Corpse This Halloween, Drink a Corpse Reviver

“There are no Halloween cocktails,” someone once said on Twitter, and they might be right. I tried to find a pumpkin one that didn’t taste like baby food and I failed—no pumpkin spice martini for you. Fear not, I wouldn’t leave you out in the cold: A Corpse Reviver is the perfect Halloween treat. It’s…

Tech News Alissa Walker Oct 30

This Chrome Extension Blocks Spoilers Before They Ruin Your Day

You can’t move on the modern-day internet without bumping into a spoiler or two. Whether it’s Game of Thrones, The Force Awakens or the ending to Citizen Kane, it’s all too easy to trip up over a plot point that you’d rather not know about. If you’re desperately trying to stay in the dark about…

Gadgets David Nield Oct 30

Watch This Video And Develop the Fear That Your Organs Are Rocking Out Inside You

You know what your day is missing? Existential angst from the appendix. Which is what “Body of Songs: The Appendix” provides, in the form of an anthropomorphized appendix singing and dreaming about being cut out. Ben Wheele directed this installment of Body of Songs, which focuses on an organ that doesn’t really get a lot…

io9 Katharine Trendacosta Oct 30

Japanese Researchers Make Glass That’s Nearly Unbreakable

Scientists in Japan say they’ve fashioned glass that’s almost as strong as steel. The ability to make super strong glass could lead to a whole new generation of windows in buildings and vehicles, but could also prove useful in screens for electronics, like tablets, computers, and smartphones. The team, from the University of Tokyo’s Institute…

Tech News Bryan Lufkin Oct 30

Did Everybody Miss the Twist At the End of Crimson Peak?

Some people loved Guillermo del Toro’s gothic confection Crimson Peak. Some people found it disappointing. But the overall consensus seems to be that Crimson Peak not only wasn’t scary, but didn’t have a twisty enough storyline. But maybe everybody missed the huge twist at the end of the film? Huge spoilers ahead… The basic plot…

Movies Charlie Jane Anders Oct 30

Scare Yourself With Science: Here’s How to Sniff Out Bodies in Shallow Graves

Why bother with fiction when you can be horrified by everyday life? We’ve found a paper about how to locate bodies in “clandestine graves” by analyzing the gas emissions they give off. Odor Analysis of Decomposing Buried Human Remains is your must-read going into Halloween weekend. When we get murdered and buried in shallow graves,…

Tech News Esther Inglis-Arkell Oct 30

A plane landing in the snow and doing donuts is the funnest thing

An untouched snow-covered plot of land? Let’s get a plane to land on it and then immediately do donuts for a few rounds and then take off again! That’s obviously the first thing that comes to mind, right? Well if it isn’t, it will be now after seeing this plane do its thing. SPLOID is…

Sploid Casey Chan Oct 30

The Ultimate Evil Playlist for a Sinister Weekend

We’ve done the spookiest songs before, but this year we decided to be a bit more fiendish in our Halloweening. So treat yourself to twenty-five songs sung by, for, or about villains. A few small caveats—we were limited to what was available on Spotify. Sadly, no “In the Dark of the Night” from Anastasia. And…

Movies Katharine Trendacosta Oct 30

The Difference Between a Great Story and a Shitty Story Is Often Really Tiny

Hollywood people often say that it’s a miracle there are any good movies at all. Because so much can go wrong, and so many random things have to go right, for a movie to avoid being a hopeless disaster. I can believe this, because in general the difference between the good and bad versions of…

Movies Charlie Jane Anders Oct 30

The SEC Just Made a Big Change To What’s Legal In Crowdfunding

The SEC is making it legal for anyone to invest in companies through crowdfunding–but that does not mean you’re safe from scams. Today, the Securities and Exchange Commission voted to enacta new set of rulesabout who can buy equity, or a stake in a company, through crowdfunding. The new rules, which are part of Title…

Tech News Kelsey Campbell-Dollaghan Oct 30

Hillary Clinton’s Email About Emoji Is the Best Hillary Clinton Email

The State Departmentjust released over 7,000 of Hillary Clinton’s emails. In one exchange with her senior advisor Phillipe Reines, the presidential hopeful has a very important question: “on this new berry can I get smiley faces?” Reines gave a thorough explanation. It’s unclear if his suggesting ugly old emoticons quenched Hillary’s thirst for emoji fun.…

Tech News Adam Clark Estes Oct 30

You Need Geniuses at MIT, Harvard, and Columbia To Make an Animal-Shaped Xylophone

The same research and technological innovations that a team from MIT, Harvard, and Columbia University used to create a pitch-perfect xylophone with bars shaped like animals could one day help make your electronics quieter. You might be asking yourself why Fisher-Price hasn’t created a fun animal-shaped xylophone already. Turns out, it’s not as easy as…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski Oct 30

A Supercut of Every Single Jurassic Park Homage in Jurassic World

There were so many callbacks to the first Jurassic Park movie in this year’s sequel Jurassic World, it was practically a remake. Don’t believe me? Check out this collection of the many, many World scenes which channeled specific moments from the original Park. Surely a lot of them are coincidences—I mean, I can’t imagine the…

Movies Rob Bricken Oct 30

Your Full-Size Candy Bars Are Ruining Trick-or-Treating

Trick-or-treat night draws close, and with it come the warnings about the dangers (hidden razor blades and saturated fats) lurking in your candy—all the while ignoring the real threat at hand: that house around the corner handing out full-size candy bars. Understand, the problem with the full-size bar is not too much candy. You people…

Tech News Ria Misra Oct 30

The Best Creepypasta Stories to Give You Nightmares Forever

Rumor: The Solo Batman Movies May Be Centered Around a Certain Robin

The US is Finally Heeding Warnings About a Monster Solar Storm

Let’s Talk About Whatever You Want Right Now

Hand making a sketchbook is an impressive amount of work

I Can Sum Up Everything Wrong With Heroes Reborn in a Single Line of Dialogue

Should You Become a Corpse This Halloween, Drink a Corpse Reviver

This Chrome Extension Blocks Spoilers Before They Ruin Your Day

Watch This Video And Develop the Fear That Your Organs Are Rocking Out Inside You

Japanese Researchers Make Glass That’s Nearly Unbreakable

Did Everybody Miss the Twist At the End of Crimson Peak?

Scare Yourself With Science: Here’s How to Sniff Out Bodies in Shallow Graves

A plane landing in the snow and doing donuts is the funnest thing

The Ultimate Evil Playlist for a Sinister Weekend

The Difference Between a Great Story and a Shitty Story Is Often Really Tiny

The SEC Just Made a Big Change To What’s Legal In Crowdfunding

Hillary Clinton’s Email About Emoji Is the Best Hillary Clinton Email

You Need Geniuses at MIT, Harvard, and Columbia To Make an Animal-Shaped Xylophone

A Supercut of Every Single Jurassic Park Homage in Jurassic World

Your Full-Size Candy Bars Are Ruining Trick-or-Treating

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