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Five Crazy Ways Humans Have Preserved Their Bodies Throughout History

Nobody can cheat death, but for thousands of years, humans have tried to elude decomposition. Whether we’re saving our bodies for the afterlife or time traveling to a better future, peoples throughout history have gone to astounding lengths to preserve their mortal remains. Here are five fascinating ways human corpses have defied the natural process…

Tech News Maddie Stone

Never Leave your Spaceship Without Boots, Mitts, and a Hat

All the best-dressed explorers wore glittery spacesuits more suitable to the Silver Surfer than somber NASA astronauts in the early days of the Space Age. These are the helmets, gloves, and boots for the Mercury Seven astronauts. [NASA] Contact the author at [email protected] or follow her at @MikaMcKinnon.

Tech News Mika McKinnon

The Secret Tech Behind Disney’s Haunted Mansion Illusions

“Perhaps Madame Leota can establish contact,” the Ghost Host decides. “She has a remarkable head for materializing…the disembodied!” As the Ghost Host is speaking, the Doom Buggies make their way into a dim parlor and take their place around a large seance circle. This is Part One of a two-part excerpt from The Unauthorized Story…

Tech News Jeff Baham, DoomBuggies.com

How do Ghost Forests Happen?

This is a ghost forest near Seward, Alaska. It’s not the only one—ghost forests are found on coastlines up and down the Pacific Northwest. But how are they created? Ghost forests are the long-preserved relic of terrifying events: the sudden subsidence of an entire coastline after a major earthquake rapidly submerging the forest. The saltwater…

Tech News Mika McKinnon

Listen to the Dad Rock Version of The War of the Worlds

On this very night in 1938, a radio broadcast of The War of the Worlds may or may not have caused mass hysteria for American listeners. But there’s another War of the Worlds that scared me much more as a kid. For me, there’s the HG Wells version, the Orson Welles version, and the rock…

Tech News Alissa Walker

Cold Plasma Could Be Used to Freeze Out Toenail Fungus

Admit it, you’ve tried everything to get rid of your crusty yellow toenail fungus: prescription anti-fungal pills, medicated creams and nail polish, laser therapy — the usual remedies. But that darn fungus keeps coming back. Cold plasma could be your salvation. We’re not talking about biological plasma, that stuff in your blood that holds all…

Tech News Jennifer Ouellette

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

I wish all nightmares were as cool as this one

Ben, the protagonist of this film, doesn’t know if the end of the world is real or if it’s all just a nightmare. But! It’s a nightmare that’s so cool that I actually wouldn’t mind living there. I would sit comfortably on a rooftop, grab a beer, and just watch that beautiful world go to…

Sploid Omar Kardoudi

Five Crazy Ways Humans Have Preserved Their Bodies Throughout History

Never Leave your Spaceship Without Boots, Mitts, and a Hat

The Secret Tech Behind Disney’s Haunted Mansion Illusions

How do Ghost Forests Happen?

Listen to the Dad Rock Version of The War of the Worlds

Cold Plasma Could Be Used to Freeze Out Toenail Fungus

The Best Creepypasta Stories to Give You Nightmares Forever

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

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

This Chrome Extension Blocks Spoilers Before They Ruin Your Day

Japanese Researchers Make Glass That’s Nearly Unbreakable

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 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

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

I wish all nightmares were as cool as this one

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