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The Harmonious Ecosystem That You Destroy To Make Bread 

A loaf of bread isn’t fluffed up by chemistry alone. It’s slowly built up by colonies of yeast, which you heartlessly extinguish when you bake the dough in the oven. There’s an ecosystem in every loaf, and a special kind of loaf, sourdough, is built by a special kind of ecology. If you make bread…

Creepy photoshopped portraits of human-plant hybrids

French artist Cal Redback is a master of digital photo retouching. His new work, called Treebeards, is a collection of creepy hyper-realistic portraits of human-plant hybrids and a clear proof of his amazing Photoshop skills. Cal Redback is a profesional photographer and retoucher based in Paris, France. You can follow his work on Behance, Fliker,…

We May Already Know The Opening Scenes Of The Force Awakens

Steven Spielberg wants to direct Chris Pratt as Indiana Jones. Joss Whedon explains how Avengers 2 is totally different. Game of Thrones could send Sansa in a surprising direction. An Agents of SHIELD villain might show up on Daredevil. Plus Doctor Who set photos, and how Supergirl gets her costume. So many spoilers! Top image:…

A Blurry Look At More Age Of Ultron Figuarts Reveals An Incredible Hulk

We’ve seen Bandai’s wonderful Iron Man figure already, but new images from Figure King Magazine have shown off even more Age of Ultron figures in the line – including a glimpse at Bandai’s first ever figuarts take on the Hulk. https://gizmodo.com/bandais-age-of-ultron-iron-man-figure-is-gloriously-goo-1677735449 Although the image isn’t the best quality, being a picture of a magazine page…

This is the kind of awesome machine you would find in Iron Man’s garage

DMG MORI has combined laser deposition welding and precision material removal in this amazing machine. Watching this thing move to build different parts and components feels like an special effect from Tony Stark’s machine shop. SPLOID is delicious brain candy. Follow us on Facebook or Twitter.

A forgotten fossil from the Doncaster Museum and Art Gallery has just now been shown to be a wholly new species of ichthyosaur. The fossil, brought to the museum in the 80s, was thought by the museum to be a plaster cast, until 25-year-old paleontologist Dean Lomax realized it was real in 2008. It’s been…

The great animated short film that won the Oscar last night

Watching Feast—directed by Patrick Osborne, co-head of animation on Big Hero 6, and produced by Disney—is like riding an emotional roller coaster. It tells the funny, sad, tender, and happy story of a food-obsessed Boston Terrier puppy and how he adapts to the changes in his owner’s life. Update: The video has been removed due…

This Time-Lapse Proves That Cats Are Solar-Powered

I think we all knew this, but watching it in time lapse form is pretty astonishing. Watch as a strip of sunlight moves across the floor during a day, and packs of cats move with it. It happens so slowly in real life, that at the end of the day, I can tell my cats…

Apple’s Investing $1.7bn on Two Entirely Renewable Energy Data Centres

Apple has just announced that it is to invest €1.7 billion in two new “state-of-the-art” data centres for Europe, located in Ireland and Denmark. The sites in County Galway and Denmark’s central Jutland will use 100 per cent renewable energy and power Apple’s iTunes Store, App Store, iMessage and Maps applications and Siri voice assistant.…

Citizenfour Awarded Oscar for Best Documentary in 2014

CITIZENFOUR, Laura Poitras’ riveting documentary about Edward Snowden’s efforts to shed light on gross surveillance abuses by the United States government and its partners, just won the 2014 Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature. Tonight’s Oscar win recognizes not only the incredible cinematography of Poitras, but also her daring work with a high-stakes whistleblower and…

Lighting Can Completely Change How You See a Face

This tweet shows just how important lighting really is: as the light changes, this face completely changes. It’s disorienting and is why film and theater are so dependent on professionals to work with lights. It’s almost as disorienting as the hollow face illusion, only instead of the mask rotating and your brain turning a concave…

Birdman Inspired Hugh Jackman to Play Wolverine “Until I Die”

If we see a dozen more movies with Hugh Jackman as Wolverine, we’ll have this year’s best picture, Birdman, to thank. In an interview with Cigar Aficionado, Jackman spoke from the perspective of watching Birdman as an actual actor with an iconic superhero role. And the movie may have struck much closer to home for…

Academy Award Winners Round-Up: Birdman, Birdman, Birdman!

After hours and hours of songs, heartfelt speeches, and Neil Patrick Harris doing a magic trick about Oscar predictions, we are officially done with the 2015 Oscars. And congratulations to Birdman, a movie we thoroughly loved, for its Best Picture win. The winners are bolded below. Best Picture American Sniper Birdman Boyhood The Grand Budapest…

Watch The Oscars’ “Everything Is Awesome,” With Will Arnett As Batman

If you missed the epic performance of “Everything Is Awesome” by Tegan and Sara and the Lonely Island, then you also missed Will Arnett, who voices LEGO Batman, making an appearance as the very dour Batman. “Darkness. No parents,” indeed. In another bit of nerdy coolness, according to Chris Miller Arnett’s Batsuit was the Val…

Why It’s Amazing News That Takashi Miike Is Adapting This Scifi Manga

Well, this is exciting: cult-beloved Japanese director Takashi Miike is planning a live-action adaptation of popular manga Terra Formars, described as “a crazy, bloody, adrenaline-pumped action-sci-fi-horror series.” Yes. We like that. All of that. The manga is set in the year 2577, when the first six humans land on Mars … which has spent the…

Astronauts Take the Best Selfies

Barry “Butch’ Wilmore and Terry Virts went out for a six-and-half hour spacewalk yesterday in the continued effort to ready the International Space Station for upcoming commercial space taxis. But while the two astronauts were floating above the blue marble, traveling near 5 miles per second, they took the opportunity to take some selfies because…

Drug-Resistant Malaria Is On The Verge Of Spreading Into India

In Southeast Asia, the malaria parasite has been steadily building resistance to the drug that’s used to treat it. This scary news, but even worse: the resistance is on the verge of spreading into densely populated India. This data comes from a new study in infectious diseases publication the Lancet (read the scientific paper here).…

France Wants Google, Facebook, and Twitter’s Help Fighting Terrorism

When it comes to social media presence, the Islamic State (ISIS) has Western nations completely outgunned. In fact, ISIS and its supports tweet and post upwards of 90,000 times a day and has led to the U.S. and the U.K. to reconsider its propaganda social media strategy. France wants to take a slightly different approach…

We Like This Theory About The Simpsons, But We Don’t 100 Percent Agree

On his Bad Astronomy blog, Phil Plait puts forth a novel theory about the mysterious location of Springfield, hometown of the Simpsons. His come-to-Homer moment springs from the recent episode that featured Elon Musk (“The Musk Who Fell to Earth“), specifically a scene, pictured below, in which the SpaceX CEO is staring up at the…

Ruined Fukushima Plant Leaking Radiation 70 Times Above Normal Levels

Fukushima is Japan’s radiation nightmare that just won’t go away. Ever since March 11, 2011, the damaged plant has been riddled with leaks and cleanup setbacks. Now Tepco, the operator of the damaged facility, says they’ve recorded spikes between 50-70 times above average readings in the gutters that pour water into a nearby bay. Tepco…