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Sherlock’s Father Makes Recovery Miserable in Season Premiere of Elementary

Sherlock Holmes and Joan Watson are back in the season 4 kickoff of Elementary, and it’s all about mistakes, forgiveness, and recovery. Holmes relapsed on heroin in the finale last season, and now he has to cope with the fallout with his daddy issues on full display. Ready to brave the many, relentless spoilers to…

More Nightmare Stories of Your Worst IT Jobs Ever

After we published reader IT job horror stories, we received more than a 1000 comments, and you kicked it up to a whole other level. From finding porn on church systems to working IT in actual warzones, you’ve been to computerized hell and back. OrbitalGun wrote: I’ve been at my IT job for 11 years,…

Architects Say This Apartment Complex Is the Year’s Best Building–Here’s Why

What do villages look like in a world where most people live in cities? Can close-knit communities even exist in the megapolis of the future? The Interlace, an unusual apartment building that was just crowned Building of the Year, thinks so. The Interlace is an apartment complex in Singapore designed by Ole Scheeren, a German…

Think Cat Pics Are Worthless?  This One Sold for Nearly a Million Dollars.

You’re looking at “My Wife’s Lovers,” a painting done by Carl Kahler in 1891. It represents forty-two felines of an eccentric California millionaire, and it sold for $826,000. Kate Birdsall Johnson was what a polite person might call “well-situated” and “eccentric,” meaning she was rich and crazy. Among her favorite pastimes was feeding the many…

This wall of clouds creeping over a city is so ominous

If I saw these clouds coming at me like this, I would drop everything, turn around, and start running. It’s absolutely what I envision the end of the world looking like. These shelf clouds popped up and rolled into and over Sydney’s Bondi Beach earlier today and look absolutely terrifying. Nothing really happened but it…

Aurora and solar panels seen from the International Space Station are even more beautiful in combination than they are apart. Image credit: NASA/Alex Gerst

Let’s Break Down The Fantastic Spectacle That is the Warcraft Trailer

At last, after years of teasing, the first trailer for Duncan Jones’ Warcraft movie is here. If you’re familiar with the smash hit video game franchise, it’s packed with secrets, hints and Easter eggs. And if you’ve got absolutely no idea what’s going on? Well, we have you covered to as we take a deep…

New Horizons is Officially Off to the Kuiper Belt!

With Pluto receding into the distance, New Horizons is speeding merrily along toward its next destination. On Wednesday, the spacecraft completed its fourth and final engine burn, placing it on course for 2014 MU69, an ancient, frozen body located more than a billion miles beyond Pluto in the Kuiper Belt. The Kuiper Belt is like…

JonBenet Ramsey’s Father Still “Sort of” Thinks Her Killer Will Be Found

Barbara Walters sat down with John Ramsey for her new Investigation Discovery show, “Barbara Walters Presents American Scandals.” It’s been 19 years since baby beauty queen JonBenet Ramsey was found murdered in her home; the Ramsey family wasn’t officially cleared of involvement in 2008. In this interview snippet, John Ramsey—his wife, JonBenet’s mother Patsy, died…

The Bread Lab’s Mission to Breed The Best New Wheats 

The Bread Lab at Washington State University is a collaboration between plant geneticists and master bakers. The goal? To breed new varieties of wheat that can turn out superior breads and beers while still growing well in the cool and wet Northwest climate. According to Ferris Jabr’s profile of the lab in the New York…

How a machine separates egg yolks from egg whites

I have a hard enough time trying to crack an egg without fishing out bits of the shell so I don’t even dream about ever separating the egg yolk from the egg white. If I eat an egg, it’s always going to be the whole damn thing no matter how many flip flopping lies I’ve…

NASA’s Super Guppy Eats Spacecraft Parts for Breakfast

NASA’s Super Guppy aircraft is one of the most extravagant cargo planes in the world. The awkwardly shaped aircraft has been in service since 1965, and was specifically designed to carry oversized payloads, like rocket stages and spacecrafts. This Tuesday she was fed with the Orion service module stacking assembly interface ring and stack holding…

These Drones Are Like Floating Legos 

Ever wish your Legos could fly? Someone invented the next best thing—BitDrones are tiny box drones that work like 3D building blocks. Created at Queen’s University, BitDrones are physical manifestations of pixels, made for the real world. There are three different kinds of BitDrone: PixelDrones come with an LED light for different color capabilities, while…

One of 2013’s Most Beautiful Stop-Motion Shorts Is Finally Online

Christophe Peladan’s Goutte d’Or is so brilliantly conceived and executed, all other undead pirate stories (looking at you Pirates of the Caribbean) will fall from memory. Warning: mildly NSFW due to naked half-octopus woman. https://vimeo.com/channels/every… [via Everything Animated] Contact the author at [email protected].

This Insect Protects Its Eggs By Making Them Delicious

This animal seems to spend its entire life trying to get eaten. Not only does it coat its eggs in substances designed to lure ants to chew on them, but its main defense mechanism as an adult doubles as a salad dressing. When Extatosoma tiaratum lays it eggs, it gives them a special coating. Some…

Bank of America Wants to Use Robots to Manage Your Money

We’re trusting robots with more and more these days: Our luggage, our meals—even our lives on the road. Why not add finances to the list? Bank of America is joining several other banks that want to do just that. Bloomberg Business reports that Bank of America wants to use algorithms that provide customers with investment…

Rod Stewart Has a New Song Called “Batman Superman Spiderman” and It’s Driving Me Insane

Just an FYI: Rod Stewart has a song on his new album, Another Country, that is really called “Batman Superman Spiderman.” It’s apparently a lullaby he wrote his 4-year-old kid, which is kind of sweet, until you listen to the song and life stops making sense. I don’t personally listen to a lot of lullabies…

LA’s New Streetlamps Will Keep Cell Service Running After an Earthquake

Cities beefing up their smart infrastructure have tapped the ubiquitous streetlamp to track traffic data and measure pollution. Now, in Los Angeles, some streetlights will help keep the communications network intact after an emergency. LA is the first city in the world to install Philips-branded SmartPoles, which are outfitted with 4G LTE wireless technology by…

How Scarlet Witch’s New Comic Uncovers The Mystic Marvel Universe—And The Scarlet Witch Herself

Sister of Quicksilver. Wife of Vision. Daughter of Magneto (or not). X-Man. Avenger. We know these facts about Wanda Maxmimoff, but really, who is Scarlet Witch? Ahead of her first-ever solo series, we sat down with writer James Robinson to discuss how he’ll explore what makes Wanda really tick. As well as speaking with James…

Your Forearm Could Soon Morph Into an Augmented Reality Keyboard

Has texting worn your thumbs to the nub? Help is on the way: Japanese electronics giant NEC is introducing new wearables that project an augmented reality keyboard onto your arm. NEC announced the innovation, called ARmKeypad, earlier this week. Here’s how it works: Slip on special glasses and a special smartwatch. With the glasses on,…