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Whenever I need to light the fire under my own ass, I turn on the remix of Beyonce’s ***Flawless. There’s 100 percent more Nicki Minaj, and it’s 100 percent more awesome. It’s a motivational tool! Listen to these lyrics and tell me you they don’t affirm your life’s existence: I wake up lookin’ this good,…
It’s not a new image, but I just saw it popping again on my feed and I had the irresistible urge to get in there, to enjoy this bath during that sunset until I look like a California prune. If you are not familiar with this luxury condo skyscraper in Manhattan, it’s name is 432…
Ever wonder who’s responsible for the trove of cringeworthy, if classic, B-movies clogging up your Netflix queues? Electric Boogaloo: The Wild, Untold Story of Cannon Films, currently playing at the Toronto International Film Festival, is the inside story of the gonzo gusto of Menahem Golan and Yoram Globus, Israeli cousins who arrived in the U.S.…
Throughout history, people have tried to build many different versions of Utopia. Sometimes it’s a charismatic leader ushering people toward a righteous path with a common goal. Other times, groups of like-minded people come together to democratically work toward a common goal. And sometimes it’s just a bunch of knuckleheads on a reality show. If…
Come on guys. It’s just 40 miles. We’ll even go halfsies with you. Except, in this case, “halfsies” still amounts to $5 billion. Japan, in an effort to help DC build a maglev train that would cut travel time to Baltimore down to 15 minutes, is offering up half the cash to do it. The…
Sherlock fans, ever looked at your mantlepiece and thought ‘Hmmm, it’s nice, but it could really do with some faux-bronze busts of Benedict Cumberbatch and Martin Freeman.’? If you have, imagine no longer – the BBC intend to make such thoughts reality with a new box set of all 3 series of the show. Due…
As newspapers, magazines, and books are slowly replaced with electronic alternatives, the art of CMYK printing is slowly dying alongside them. So now’s as good a time as any to grab a souvenir before the technical process becomes a forgotten art—and these CMYK coasters seem to fit the bill, especially if you’ve got wooden furniture…
Regardless what you think about the future of phones or wearables or cars, there is one thing nearly everyone can agree on: We will need more batteries. And for that, we’ll need more lithium. One startup has its eyes on a new source of lithium: the wastewater from geothermal power plants. The curious and clever…
Google Play Movies & TV app for iOS, which was announced back in January, now supports offline playback. So you can watch your videos from Google Play on your iPad on a plane. Nifty.
What good is a fancy set of kitchen knives if after deboning a few chickens and julienning a bunch of celery stalks it’s already too dull to handle a ripe tomato? You don’t want to spend your time in the kitchen toiling away on a sharpening stone, so the folks at TB Groupe designed a…
It’s been 60 years since a viking fortress was discovered, leading historians to assume that we’d uncovered everything there is to uncover. But this weekend, Danish and English archaeologists announced they’ve unearthed evidence of a new fortress that’s been sought after for years—and they used some pretty cool tech to do it. The fortress sits…
Sometimes it feels like the genre tales I love are in a storytelling arms race to constantly raise the stakes. We can’t even just have the world under threat – it’s the solar system, it’s the galaxy, hell, throw in the whole damn universe while you’re at it. What’s happened to the small-scale hero in…
Here at Paleofuture, we love failed predictions. It’s kind of our bread and butter. But shockingly, some of the failed predictions being passed around on the internet are often misleading, frequently taken out of context, or sometimes completely fabricated. Fake quotes on the internet? Unbelievable, I know. But today we have seven predictions you may…
Reports are quickly spreading of a “meteorite impact” near Managua, Nicaragua. Circumstantial evidence supports the impact theory, but just as equally supports an explosives mishap from the nearby military base. Here’s what we know, and what we need to know to tell the difference. Is this an impact crater? Image credit: AP/Nicaraguan Army A loud…
If you’ve visited Helsinki, you’ve probably spent time in its leafy Esplanade Park at the center of the city. Now Helsinki has turned the ground below the park into a subterranean lake which can keep buildings and other civic operations cool as part of a growing network that replaces traditional air conditioning systems. Like the…
National Geographic’s Photo of the Day is this picture of Mount Hood, Oregon, shot by Paul C. Glasser. A beautiful image of something actually quite terrible, as Glasser himself describes: The hills were bathed in smoke from the many fires burning across Oregon. It’s only after it has died and shed its needles that the…
Prepare your wallet and your backlog, here are a whole bunch of PC pre-order deals. Get a $5 Amazon credit with following. Several of the games are cheaper from Green Man Gaming in the second list, but the Amazon deals will be around longer and some people have trouble with GMG, so we’re giving you…
To sound off the top of each hour, Alessandro Zambelli’s DINN clock does’t use a complex geared mechanism like a grandfather clock, or even simple electronics like your digital watch. Instead, positioned at the DINN’s twelve o’clock is a tiny bell that’s struck by the hour hand every time it passes. But a shiny bell…
There is exactly one reason you would ever want to brew hot tea in a barely stable chocolate teapot: To prove that you could. And indeed, tea-loving Brits have enlisted a master chocolatier to do just that. Behold the power of (chocolate) science. In case you aren’t up on your British insults, a “chocolate teapot”…
This short animation for Channel 4 is brilliant in many ways. It shows an overly developed world inhabited by millions of cute little creatures, with cute little jobs, and cute little bars. All is fine till the final twist—so unexpected that it blew my mind. SPLOID is a new blog about awesome stuff. Join us…
