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Wow. That got out of hand really fast. I mean that spiralled from Chilean butt band weird to modern-day Heavy Metal in a blink. https://gizmodo.com/the-weirdest-thing-on-the-internet-tonight-panda-nsfw-5982243
Dr. Barbara Sherwood Lollar drank water from the oldest undisturbed water cache ever—1.5 billion years old. She said to the LA Times that ‘it tastes terrible […] You would definitely not want to drink this stuff.’ It’s not surprising, knowing it’s ‘viscous and turns kind of orangey’ when exposed to air. Image by Shutterstock
When most of us hear the words “flatpack furniture,” we’re wracked with flashbacks of sitting amongst mountains of dowels and particle board, sobbing. But Ying Zhang and Ida Thonsgaard, two Berlin-based designers, are taking the concept beyond Ikea. Zhang and Thonsgaard are the authors of a system called Playtime: A collection of chairs and tables…
A 20-year-old British man felt a “little tipsy” before he plummeted 15 floors off an apartment balcony at 2 a.m. in Auckland, New Zealand. Tom Stilwell lost his keys and then attempted to hop onto his 14th floor balcony directly beneath his neighbor’s apartment, but grossly misjudged his leap and wound up flailing to the…
Not everybody’s into chemistry but you have to be a special kind of insane to not have a fondness for the Muppets. This periodic table of Muppetry is a wonderfully organized and colorful take on the history of the form than anyone (with a soul) can appreciate, chem-geek or not. Designed by Mike BaBoon, the…
There’s no way you won’t agree with nut journalist Hamilton Nolan that the top five nuts are the nuts he chose for Gawker’s Top Five Nuts series. All of the world’s favorite nuts are well represented, meaning there’s no mention at all of the lowly peanut, which is of course a legume and not a…
In 1974, Philippe Petit walked across a wire between New York City’s Twin Towers. The feat was incredibly dangerous and incredibly illegal. Man on Wire is the amazing story of how he got there, told by the people who lived it. Petit discovered the World Trade Center in the early 1960s in a photo in…
So remember about a month ago when scientists in Canada found the oldest undisturbed water cache ever? The one that had been stagnant beneath a rock for roughly 1.5 billion years? And that might hold the remains of prehistoric life? Yeah, don’t drink that; it tastes like crap. Or so says Dr. Barbara Sherwood Lollar.…
Thanks to a New York Times freedom of information request, we can now see (almost) all the names of the prisoners still held at the U.S. prison at Guantanamo Bay, a dozen years into the War On Terror. “Continued detention” is the future for most of them. http://gawker.com/here-is-a-list-of-everyone-currently-rotting-in-guantan-513892845
The Riemann Hypothesis, which deals with the distribution of prime numbers, was first put forth by mathematician Bernhard Reimann in 1859. It has yet to be fully proven and remains one of the most important unproven theories in mathematics. It’s so important that the Cray Mathematics Institute is even offering a $1 million purse to…
When Ray and Charles Eames’ classic molded side chair was first produced, in 1951, it was one of the first industrially-manufactured plastic chairs on the market. The wonder of technology went on to become a much-loved classic—today, it’s enjoying a renewed popularity thanks to the popularity of Mid-Century modernism. The side chair may be a…
Did you know that there never was a balloon in Around the World in 80 Days? And that the Nautilus wasn’t powered by atomic energy? You can blame Disney for establishing those lies as “fact”—but not for the other four big misconceptions about Jules Verne, one of the best writers of the 19th century.
12-year-old Malcolm Brickhouse, Jarad Dawkins and Alec Atkins are Unlocking the Truth, the Brooklyn-based metal band that’s taking over New York and everyone on the internet except the dumb kids who taunt them at school because they don’t like hip hop like the rest of the hive. I don’t like metal, but they rock.
President Obama will be on Charlie Rose tonight to chat about all the NSA spying that came to light last week. But ahead of the broadcast, PBS has released a portion of the transcript to Buzzfeed. Below is a portion of said transcript: Barack Obama: Well, in the end, and what I’ve said, and I…
Your endless stream of photos on Instagram is fun—for a while. But there’s only so many times you can see a sepia-toned sunset before even the mere thought starts to induce nausea. Instapuzzle for iOS, though, puts a fun new twist on how you interact with your friends’ filtered pics. What does it do? Lets…
Parents tell kids to “shush” all the time, even though this has never worked because children are just intolerably loud. Ignore them, Deadspin’s Drew Magary writes. “Children are like the homeless: you cannot engage.”
The Man has his hand in your inbox, cops are intimidating citizens who film them beating other citizens, it’s only logical to want to keep the private contents of your SD card, well, private. The Covert Coin from CCS Spy Gear is a precision-machined piece of retired US currency that are nearly indistinguishable from the…
Uncle Sam might soon be spying on you with a vast, computerized network. At least that was the eerie prophecy of The Atlantic in 1967. In an article by Arthur Miller (a law professor at the University of Michigan, not the playwright) readers were introduced to the rise of centralized data collection, and how a…
For a quarter century, owners of delightfully weird-looking dogs have brought these monstrosities to the World’s Ugliest Dog Contest at the Sonoma-Marine Fairgrounds. For the 25th annual pageant, expect lots of strange canines—and remember that humans caused the dogs to look this way, through selective breeding. https://dogs.kinja.com/hairless-dogs-flock-to-yearly-ugly-dog-competition-513837561
Ready for a cozy two-bedroom starter cottage? This little house in Silicon Valley is listed at $1.1 million. Act fast, because there is definitely not a housing bubble in the Bay Area. http://gawker.com/the-next-housing-bubble-is-about-to-pop-all-over-you-510108728
