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A simple chart shows how the dogs we love today evolved from a wolf

How did we get from wolves to dogs of all sizes? How do pugs and chihuahuas and pit bulls and English bulldogs and German shepherds and so forth all come from the big Grey Wolf? Evolution! We domesticated wolves by adopting cubs and feeding them and slowly changing their habits. Over generations, the wolves changed…

Sploid Casey Chan

The amazing life of a travel photographer

Half the fun of being a travel photographer—in fact make that 100% of the fun—is the crazy adventures I often get to do as part of my job. Such as this rappel into the “Lost World” in New Zealand’s famous Waitomo Caves. Before capturing this image I had to abseil down that very line myself,…

Sploid Chris McLennan

Terrifying video of fearless kids hanging from buildings with one hand

I’ve seen plenty of Russian kids risking their lives walking on top of buildings or hanging from bridges, cranes and buildings. I get nervous just by looking at the photos, but this video compilation actually raised my blood pressure— I felt physically dizzy half-way through it. I may be a wimp, but what the bloody…

Sploid Jesus Diaz

The sky looks incredible from the darkest and clearest place on Earth

The San Pedro de Atacama region of Northern Chile is one of the prettiest and most desolated places in the planet. It also has the clearest and darkest sky on Earth. Nicholas Buer went there to take one of the most beautiful time lapses I’ve seen: The Atacama is well-known for what are arguably the…

Sploid Jesus Diaz

Japanese synchronized walking is a thing and it’s nuts

For the same baffling reasons they do many other things, the Japanese have been competing in synchronized team precision walking since 1966. They call it Shuudan Koudou and, as you can imagine, they do it perfectly well and it looks perfectly crazy. Go to 1:30 in the video above to start seeing the crazy action.…

Sploid Jesus Diaz

Gorgeous underwater sand dunes (or how Earth never ceases to amaze me)

The underwater world is a strange and haunting one. This NASA Earth Observatory photograph captures the ethereal beauty of underwater sand dunes in the Bahamas. Tides and ocean currents shape the underwater sand much like wind on land, but the result is just different enough to be otherworldly. NASA first published this image thirteen years…

Sploid Sarah Zhang

Rock mysteriously appears in front of the Mars Opportunity rover

Left: a photo taken 3528 days after the Opportunity rover arrival to Mars. Right: the exact same spot 12 Mars days later. Notice the difference? NASA JPL scientists did too: “It’s about the size of a jelly doughnut. It was a total surprise, we were like ‘wait a second, that wasn’t there before, it can’t…

Sploid Jesus Diaz

This is how San Francisco sounded just before getting destroyed in 1906

Hardscrabble Pictures added sound to this old black and white silent film of San Francisco’s Market Street in April 14, 1906, just four days before the big earthquake that destroyed 80 percent of the city. It’s really wonderful—put on your headphones and listen to the calm before the storm. I have seen plenty of restored…

Sploid Jesus Diaz

I can’t figure out which way the girl in these photographs is standing

So her hair makes it look like she’s turned away from the camera but her clothes are set up to make it look like she’s facing the camera. What way is she really facing? Honestly, I can’t tell. Malin Bergman loves to play little games with her Instagram pictures to make you question and wonder…

Sploid Casey Chan

Dancing all over China might be the best way to travel through China

100 days. 1 foreign country. 1 outfit. 1 guy dancing all across China. It’s just a bloody good time to see someone have so much fun making a fool of himself as he travels all across a foreign country. We should all lighten up and remember to dance more. The video above shows Jake Gaba,…

Sploid Casey Chan

This upside down house is actually right side up

Your eyes aren’t deceiving you, this house was actually built upside down. The roof is on the floor, the Mini Cooper is parked in the sky and every fixture in the house is flipped around. But when the house is upside down it’s actually right side up, if that makes any sense, because the interior…

Sploid Casey Chan

Health-monitoring contact lenses herald the Medical Tricorder Age

Google is working in a new device that will monitor your glucose levels: smart contact lenses, connected to your phone using a wireless chip. It’s just the beginning of something that will be much bigger—this is going to be one of the sensors that will turn your phone into the Star Trek medical tricorder. https://gizmodo.com/holy-spock-the-star-trek-medical-tricorder-is-real-an-5965143…

Sploid Jesus Diaz

The sum of 1 + 2 + 3 + 4 + 5 + … until infinity is somehow -1/12

Here’s a fun little brain wrinkle pinch for all you non-math people out there (that should be everyone in the world*): the sum of all natural numbers, from one to infinity, is not a ridiculously big number like you would expect but actually just -1/12. Yes, the sum of every number from one to infinity…

Sploid Casey Chan

This full-size human skull is made out of cocaine

Dutch artist diddo created this full-scale sculpture of a human skull made with street cocaine. The piece is entitled ‘”ecce animal.” The artist even took the cocaine to a research lab in order to verify its authenticity. The sculpture intends to provoke thought and conversation about the nature of man, particularly our participation in society…

Sploid Tatiana Danger

An adorable lion cub waves hi to a GoPro camera

Well, it looks like a hi and then it winds into a gentle smack. But still, the lion cub who stumbled upon this GoPro camera is just so adorable that I wouldn’t mind getting pawed around by the little prince of the jungle. The footage was captured by photographer Chris Bray on a photo safari…

Sploid Casey Chan

Watch a concrete WWII bunker get cut in half

In 2010 a Dutch WWII bunker was sliced in half to create one of the most unique war memorials in the world. This video documents the transformation of bunker 599 into a work of art. The sculpture, designed by Dutch studio RAAAF and Atelier de Lyon, recently won the Architectural Review Award in 2013 for…

Sploid Tatiana Danger

Impressive images of the California wildfire

Just two weeks after state officials declared 2013 the driest year in California history, a fast-moving wildfire has burned 1,700 acres northeast of Los Angeles, according to the Los Angeles Times. In winter. When it’s usually raining. As of 10:00 a.m. this morning the Colby Fire is zero percent contained in Glendora, California, a city…

Sploid Alissa Walker

This is not a lost Space Marines’ prop from an Aliens movie

It’s a new gun industry invention: a “NY legal” 50-round five-magazine part for the AR-15 semi-auomatic air cooled rifle. I can’t understand how can this be legal in NY or anywhere else*. Just look at the description from The Truth About Guns—you can’t miss it: The concept is solid and well established on Ruger 10/22…

Sploid Jesus Diaz

Animated classical paintings make me want to escape into other worlds

I really love these 2.5D animations of classical paintings by Rino Stefano Tagliafierro. He says that they are “a tribute to the art and her disarming beauty.” Some are more inviting and evocative than the actual painting. I want to keep getting into the scene. And a few are quite disturbing. Warning: the video includes…

Sploid Jesus Diaz

Fascinating murals show the funky anatomy of animals

Austrian urban art and graffiti illustrator Nychos is the animal anatomy Leonardo to Jason Freeny’s toys and animation characters Michelangelo. His mural designs are exquisitely made, with enough detail to both fascinate and gross you out. https://gizmodo.com/these-toys-and-characters-anatomies-will-ruin-your-chi-1500923545 They may not be accurate in many cases, but obviously that’s not the point. This is how he…

Sploid Jesus Diaz

A simple chart shows how the dogs we love today evolved from a wolf

The amazing life of a travel photographer

Terrifying video of fearless kids hanging from buildings with one hand

The sky looks incredible from the darkest and clearest place on Earth

Japanese synchronized walking is a thing and it’s nuts

Gorgeous underwater sand dunes (or how Earth never ceases to amaze me)

Rock mysteriously appears in front of the Mars Opportunity rover

This is how San Francisco sounded just before getting destroyed in 1906

I can’t figure out which way the girl in these photographs is standing

Dancing all over China might be the best way to travel through China

This upside down house is actually right side up

Health-monitoring contact lenses herald the Medical Tricorder Age

The sum of 1 + 2 + 3 + 4 + 5 + … until infinity is somehow -1/12

This full-size human skull is made out of cocaine

An adorable lion cub waves hi to a GoPro camera

Watch a concrete WWII bunker get cut in half

Impressive images of the California wildfire

This is not a lost Space Marines’ prop from an Aliens movie

Animated classical paintings make me want to escape into other worlds

Fascinating murals show the funky anatomy of animals

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