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Why Do Humans Play Games?

Every March (as well as any number of other months), those of us who aren’t into sportsketball ask ourselves this question: we do people care about sports at all? Vsauce has taken the question a bit further, and dug into why we—as a species—play games at all. Nerds, we’ve got more in common with those…

They Might Be Giants: You’re On Fire

Sometimes it’s refreshing to find a song with a very candid title. Enter They Might Be Giant’s “You’re On Fire,” which is not only a kickin’ tune, but also literally about people being on fire. There you go. Off the band’s brand new album Nanobots, “You’re On Fire” is an unusually straighforwardly rocker, for a…

Is Fashion-Conscious Design the Future of the Stapler?

Most of the documents we send these days are digital, but when it comes to attaching the physical ones together, there’s nothing quite as helpful—and satisfyingly clicky—as a good old-fashioned stapler. The New York Times has whipped up a little ode to the device, in appreciation. And the key to staplers’ survival might lay in…

The IRS made a Star Trek parody video, and it’s just about the most amazingly bad thing ever. Check it out over at i09.

T-Mobile’s Testing Out Its LTE Network in 8 Different Cities

The “uncarrier” T-Mobile has an announcement coming up next week, and while it could be about anything, some recent data about their LTE testing provides a clue. According to OpenSignal, T-Mobile has already started testing it’s brand new, upcoming LTE network in a total of eight different cities. Here’s where you can expect some T-mobs…

At Least the IRS’s Ridiculous Star Trek Parody Was Also Crazy Expensive

We all have our favorite Star Trek episodes, and the ones we think aren’t quite up to snuff. But here’s something we can all agree on: the IRS’s nearly $60,000 Star Trek-inspired training video from 2010 would be the worst Star Trek episode ever. No contest. https://gizmodo.com/the-irs-spent-60-000-making-a-truly-awful-star-trek-pa-458466853 This little ditty is so bad, in fact,…

How Apple’s Password-Reset Security Breach Worked

Yesterday, The Verge uncovered a security breach that allowed malicious users to reset Apple ID passwords with nothing but an email and the user’s birthday. Luckily, the process didn’t leak out in full before the whole thing was patched up, but now iMore was able to reproduce the hack step by step and now it’s…

What’s The Most Annoying First World Problem You Are Still Waiting on Tech to Solve?

As tech makes our lives easier and easier, the little incoveniences that are left just get more glaring by contrast. Sure, I don’t have to use a chamber pot but sometimes my magical pocket computer that knows practically everything gets uncomfortably warm when I’m using to to play GTA III and that’s annoying. As time…

The First Beautiful Android Phone, The Most Accurate Map of NCAA Fandom, The iDumbPhone, And More

Congratulations, you’ve successfully made it to the end of yet another week. How about a little celebration? We have plenty of goodies to choose from. Take your pick from the Voyager’s journey to the edge of the solar system, the first truly beautiful Android, why T-Mobile’s LTE network could kick serious ass, the iDumbPhone, a…

These Exploding Droplets of Glass Are a Bewildering Quirk of Physics

Making a Prince Albert’s Rupert’s drop is easy; you just let some molten glass drip into a bucket of water. But the resulting structure is so much more complex than the process that made it. The guys over at SmarterEveryDay took an in-depth look to explain why part of it can’t be destroyed with a…

Recycle Your Old Water Bottles Into Flaming DIY Rockets

Those of use who know from experience can safely say there’s nothing quite as much fun as a homemade rocket. But part of that fun is not getting your hands blown off. Nighthawkinlight has a fun, easy way you can get the best of both worlds, and “recycle” your old water bottles in a literal…

Bill Gates Has $100,000 For Anyone Who Can Invent a High-Tech, Next-Gen Condom

Condoms are a life-saving piece of tech, and for being little more than uninflated latex balloons, they do their job pretty well if you wear them. That’s the part that Bill Gates is working on. No, he’s not going around as a one-man condom-police army, but he is offering $100,000 to anyone who can make…

Barnes And Noble Will Give You a Free Nook Simple Touch If You Just Buy a Nook HD+

Given much thought to picking up a Nook HD+? Neither has anyone else, which is why Barnes and Noble is keen to sweeten the potential deal by adding a pretty enticing bonus to the package: a free Nook Simple Touch. Free free free. The promotion begins this Sunday, March 24th, and promises a free $79…

A Stop Motion Video Showing the Drawing of an Art Model from Every Angle Brings the Sketch to Life

Stop motion videos are usually charming because they’re so bare boned, the choppy movements are part of the appeal. But at its most wonderful, stop motion videos can bring sketches or toys or static objects to life. This super creative idea from Wriggles & Robins shows just that—every angle of an art model is captured…

If Star Wars Was Set in Jurassic Park

Mashing up two wonderful things into one ridiculously wonderful thing should be the constant goal of mankind. That’s how we got smartphones. And gummy bears infused with alcohols. And designer drugs. One Minute Galactica imagined what would happen if we mashed up Star Wars and Jurassic Park and they came up with Jurat-at Park. I’ve…

The Weirdest Thing on the Internet Tonight: NOVUS

The creatives over at Light & Hevvy produced this stunning retelling of On the Concept of History by German philosopher and literary critic, Walter Bendix Schönflies Benjamin. Per thesis IX: There is a painting by Klee called Angelus Novus. An angel is depicted there who looks as though he were about to distance himself from…

Naked Human Bodies Jumping Up and Down in 2000FPS Is Not Flattering

Jiggle. Blubber. Bounce. Gravity’s a bitch. It’s especially unforgiving if you jump up and down naked while getting filmed at 2000FPS. That sort of slow motion camera work exposes all the extra meat we carry on our bodies. LA video artist Michael Haussman captured naked people in slow motion to show you what you’re missing.…

A Meteor Streaked Across the East Coast of the United States and No One Has a Damn Picture Of It Yet

At around 8 o’clock tonight, a meteor that’s been described as “huuuuge green” and “very bright” and “blueish” and “glowing green” and “pretty big” and “very slow and bright green” was spotted across the east coast of the United States from NYC to DC to Baltimore to West Virginia to Boston and basically any big…

This Week’s Top Comedy Video: TLZ

If you love everything about TMZ but just wish it could be a little kinder, gentler, and more generous… well, you probably don’t love much about TMZ. But TLZ will be right up your alley. Full video below: The rest of this week’s top comedy videos, including Johnny Depp’s makeup, Ryan Gosling’s range, and a…

What Happens When You Drop a Hot Ball of Nickel Into Honey

Because dropping super freaking hot balls of nickel is always fun to do, seeing it get dropped in various substances never gets old. This time, honey gets the hot nickel treatment. It starts pulsating like a geyser while getting all bubbly and foamy until it squashes the plastic container holding down the steam. At the…