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Just because your nervous system is an intricate mesh of wires and logic gates doesn’t mean you don’t feel things. Especially on night watch, when the humans engage in their social rituals. Minovo Wang is a concept artist in Shanghai. See more of Wang’s work in this Art Station gallery. Contact the author at [email protected].…
This is a clip from an episode of BBC’s Life Story and it shows how orderly (and also completely chaotic) hermit crabs can be when it comes to trading homes. They all meet up in front of a shell, line themselves up from biggest to smallest and then trade shells with each other by jumping…
The simplest browser extensions are almost always the greatest browser extensions. And TweetFired is no exception. Its one simple function is to bestow you with the most important advice the internet can offer: Never, ever tweet. Because we are all a bunch of blithering, attention-starved idiots, our Tweets tend to reflect this. Some hide it…
There’s an online movement underway to remove our genocidal 7th Prez, Andrew Jackson, from his place of honor on the $20 bill. One advocacy group believes a woman deserves the spot on the $20, since the only lady currently in circulation is Sacagawea on the $1 coin, and all Americans hate dollar coins. Women on…
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If this hadn’t been published by the US Air Force, I would think it’s a fake and those F-16s from their Thunderbird exhibition team weren’t real but cloned and perfectly aligned in Photoshop to form a delta formation. It was shot at the Daytona International Speedway during a practice flight for the Daytona 500 February…
With their furs and bling and ‘tude, today’s rap stars are a lot like the aristocrats of yore. A hilarious tumblr chronicles the accidental convergences of hip hop and pre-16th century art. B4-XVI (get it?) is the brainchild of Cecilia Azcarate, who has a keen eye for the resemblances between unlikely companions like Henry VIII…
Worried if your Chromebook battery’s going to last until you get back home? The latest version of the Chrome OS Dev channel breaks things down for you by showing how much juice each of your Web apps is using. Follow these steps to load up the console and you can easily spot the battery hogs…
Camera makers are trying everything to revive the tanking market of low-end shooters. Their latest gambit? Insanely long zooming cameras that reach across vast swaths of land. But zoom is just another sweet-sounding spec that could leave you with crappier pictures. Way back in the recesses of time—about five years ago—sales of consumer-oriented cameras took…
I love mochi—the Japanese cakes made from rice that gets smashed into a gooey, elastic paste. I like all shapes and types, savory or sweet, is one of my favorite things to eat. I know how it is made it but I never saw them doing them by hand. Crazy. A closer angle: SPLOID is…
Since 1987, the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists has been counting up each country’s nuclear arsenal in its Nuclear Notebook, peeling back the veil of secrecy that often surrounds these numbers. The Bulletin has now gone and made its Nuclear Notebook into a neat interactive graphic. There are nine nuclear states: the U.S., Russia, the…
Today, hotels offer high-tech amenities that just a generation ago would be astounding — RFID key cards, customizable ambiance at the push of a button, and coming soon, humanoid robot concierges. So what started the high-tech hotel craze? It can all be traced back to the 1920s, when Americans started to demand a decidedly techno-centric…
How do you control your virtual reality experience in Valve and HTC’s sensor-covered Vive VR headset? With a pair of sensor-pocked motion controlled wands, of course. They look weird, bulbous and exactly like what they really are: early prototypes. Their current form is so early, in fact, that the HTC folks at Mobile World Congress…
This weekend, we’ll begin daylight savings time. Next week, we’ll get another peek at the Apple Watch. Time is on the mind. And so for this week’s Shooting Challenge, photograph this largely invisible phenomenon by photographing watches and clocks. The Challenge Photograph time, literally. We want to see clocks and watches, not figurative wilting flowers…
Kickstarter is hiring an Integrity Specialist to help evaluate products and ensure that they meet the company’s not very rigorous rules. But they could probably get by with a mere Common Sense specialist with two eyes and a brain who can tell if a proposed project obviously defies logic and reason. The job requirements for…
IBT reports a slew of new (supposed) details about HBO’s forthcoming standalone subscription. The name? HBO Now. How much will it cost? $15. Should you be excited? Yes! According to the report, the internet service will be available this spring in time for Game of Thrones season 5. Interestingly (if not surprisingly) the Apple TV…
Knowledge is the key to survival when nature turns hostile, whether because we’re living on trembling ground, building homes along vulnerable coasts, or navigating through dangerous water. That’s why scientists study nature’s greatest acts of destruction — by recreating them. Here are ten labs where they do it. They do it to help firefighters, rescue…
The 20th anniversary of the Sailor Moon Manga’s release, as well as the launch of Sailor Moon Crystal, has seen kind of an explosion in Sailor Moon marketing mania recently. We’ve had tortilla chips, we’ve had animé contacts, and now the Sailor Senshi are getting into… the tiny, replica food market? Huh. (Moon Marketing Mania…
Oculus isn’t waiting for virtual reality to be perfect. It’s coming this year. Oculus tech guru John Carmack just revealed that—barring calamity—the next Samsung smartphone will double as the first consumer version of the Oculus VR experience. Yes, that means you’re going to be strapping a phone to your head. And you’ll like it, too.…
Back in 2010, divers off the coast of Finland stumbled upon some astonishingly old booze: champagne and beer preserved underwater in a 170-year-old shipwreck. Naturally, they had a taste. But now scientists are back with a rigorous chemical analysis of the beers. In the initial taste tests, the beer was so sour no one would…
