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California is such a stunningly gorgeous place

I’m biased because I grew up in California so it’ll always be home to me but I’ll always be a little jealous of people who aren’t from here, just for the opportunity to be able to see it for the first time with brand new eyes. It’s such a big state that there are so…

The Surprising Reason Why Bike Lanes Could Be Good For Cars

It’s the typical saga unfolding in every city in America. Bike lanes go in, often replacing a lane of vehicular traffic. Drivers get mad, claiming that the presence of bike lanes is destroying their commute. But according to one study, bike lanes may actually be making life better for drivers. Over at CityLab, Eric Jaffe…

Beautiful video shows how Pixar uses a rainbow of colors in their movies

This is great. Rishi Kaneria made a quick supercut that stitches together scenes from Pixar movies according their particular color. Following the Roy G. Biv color spectrum, you’ll see how Pixar chooses to use colors to make their animations. And it’ll make you want to watch all the Pixar movies again. It helps that the…

Aphex Twin’s First New Song in Almost 15 Years Is Sick

I learned to love Aphex Twin in college, not too long after Drukqs melted everyone’s ears off. It’s been a decade and a half since then. I’m getting older. Aphex Twin appears to be getting younger. “Minipops 67 [120.2][source field mix]” is the first song to be released off ofAphex Twin’s new album, Syro, and…

The Story of the Man Who Threw a No-Hitter on LSD

In 1970, Dock Ellis threw a no-hitter high as shit on LSD. In 2009, NoMasTV and artist James Blagden made an awesome short film about the Pittsburgh Pirates pitcher’s hallucinogen-fueled triumph. More recently, Ellis’ story was given full-length documentary treatment in No No: A Dockumentary, a film about Ellis that offers a more comprehensive overlook…

You Don’t Want to Be Rescued By Scientifically Accurate Chip n’ Dale

I don’t want to spoil the newest installment of Animation Domination HD’s Scientifically Accurate series, but I do want to say that the terrifying penises of the DuckTales crew finally have some… stiff… competition.

Kim Harrison’s Hollows Series Has Fully Justified Our Love

I’ve been reading Kim Harrison’s Hollows for nearly a decade now, it’s one of the only series I’ve stuck with through the entire run and a large part of that is the fun, fast nature of the novels. And now, with The Witch With No Name, she’s giving long-time fans the satisfying ending we deserve.…

The Last Of Us Finds Its Way Into Adventure Time‘s Candy Kingdom

The good news is that Joel and Ellie have found their way to the Candy Kingdom; the bad news is that the kingdom is experiencing one of those pesky plagues of Candy Zombies. Greggory Metzler created this mashup for the Press Start III exhibit currently showing at Ltd. Art Gallery. Prints are available at the…

I Wish This House Hanging From a Cliff Was Actually Real

Along Australia’s rugged western coastlines, landowners could one day live next to their cliffside properties—rather than on them—if the designers of this vertigo-inducing, prefabricated design, Modscape, have their way. Built onto the the side of a vertical rock face like a modern Mesa Verde dwelling, the obviously-named Cliff House melds modular construction with a vertical…

How precise is one degree of longitude or latitude?

For those of us with no real navigation experience, encountering longitude and latitude coordinates is usually the result of some hiccup using Google Maps. 40.722272, -73.994194? What? Where the heck is that? Why are there so many digits after the decimal? We’re here to help. And because one degree of longitude and latitude can actually…

Report: Apple Has Already Lined Up CVS and Walgreens for Mobile Payments

We’ve heard tell of Apple’s plans to embrace mobile payments in a big way. And now, according to a new report from Recode, not only will the iPhone 6 come packing a payment system, but Apple has even lined up some major partners for announcement day. Citing “a person briefed on the plans”Recode notes that…

Normal guy catches a super fun ride on a spaceship back to Earth

The sad truth is that most of us will never be astronauts who can ride spaceships back to Earth. Here’s one hilarious way we can pretend though: be like this genius prankster who brought a blow up spaceship with him on a skydiving jump from a hot air balloon. Yup, he rode a spaceship back…

Swapping SATs for Video Selfies in College Applications Is a Bad Idea

Agonizing over a personal essay and crying over SAT scores is a rite of passage for any college-bound high school senior. But maybe those days are over. A liberal arts college in Baltimore is now letting potential students apply with a video instead. Goucher College is calling itself the “first college to create an application…

Archer fish are remarkable in that they can hit prey from meters away with pinpoint accuracy. New research shows that they’re able to control the range of their deadly water pistols by compressing their gill covers and forcing water through a “gun barrel” made by their tongue and the roof of their mouth.

Watch the First Graphene-Based Flexible Display Get Bent Out of Shape

Graphene is one of those material science breakthroughs that’s so frequently described as a harbinger of technological revolution, it almost feels hackneyed. Almost, until an update like this rolls around: Scientists at Cambridge today demonstrated the first graphene-based flexible display. “This is a significant step forward to enable fully wearable and flexible devices,” said the…

Why Apple Just Hired a Rockstar Industrial Designer

It’s no secret that Apple is branching out into the home—and into all manner of peripherals. But it’s still a surprise to hear that Marc Newson, the legendary industrial designer responsible for some of the most well-known furniture and products of the past decade, will be joining Jony Ive’s team soon. If you keep tabs…

Comic Book Sticky Notes Make Your Reminders Extra Exciting

Are you more likely to “call Ted in accounting” when the reminder is stuck to the frame of your monitor on a boring yellow Post-it Note? Or when the reminder appears to leap from the page on these wonderful comic book-style sticky notes? The answer is pretty clear. Just five bucks gets you three stacks…

The Army’s Laser War Truck Can Now See (and Shoot) Through Fog

The problem with the current iterations of combat laser prototypes is they can easily be foiled by suspended condensation, smoke, fog, and other obscurants that deflect and defract the beam as its en route to its target. The HEL MD, however, proved earlier this year that the solution is simple: Just increase the power of…

This Cocktail Concocted By IBM’s Watson Isn’t Half Bad

The surreal strength of IBM’s famous supercomputer, Watson, is now available to the public (for a fee). And to mark the occasion, the company threw a little party last week and served a very blue cocktail. Naturally, I whipped up my own slight variation when I got back to the office. I call it the…

Lego Batman takes to the streets on this brilliant R/C Technic Batpod

Polish Lego fan Sariel‘s created an outstanding bit of vehicular design with this teeny Batpod from The Dark Knight – not only is it made entirely out of Lego and Technic pieces, it’s fully powered for R/C control and flashing lights too. It’s not the first time Sariel has crafted RC Technic vehicles from Christopher…