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When you first look at this painting, you imagine it as two women set against one scene. But then you notice the frames in the picture are a little off and wonder if there’s some Photoshopping or digital manipulation going on but nope, there’s none of that either. It’s just clever use of double exposure…
At last, here’s a cool GoPro video that is not about someone jumping or doing something risky and stupid. Just normal people doing normal things. Or not so normal: California kids Stella and Quincy enjoy their first snow day in Vermont, complete with horses, pigs, and of course… sledding! I like when she says “AGAIN!”…
I made this GIF from the slices of a recent CT scan of my head. The small white dot in the green circle is a tumor near my pineal gland. Fortunately, it’s calcified and requires no intervention—it stopped growing the same way it started*. I just thought it would be cool to share it here…
Apparently, the meteor that hit Chelyabinsk in last February transformed the locals into the most badass living creatures on Earth. Need to fire your cigarette? No problem, a 30 ton Hitachi caterpillar excavator can do the trick for you: SPLOID is a new blog about awesome stuff. Join us on Facebook
KitUp’s headline for the new Smith & Wesson .460-caliber revolver is “Smith & Wesson Unveils Backpack Cannon.” Judging by its size, it looks like a hand cannon to me, yes. Or like a power tool that can kill you. “An ideal firearm for your backpack in the backcountry,” they continue. And more: “revolvers have long…
I love the work artist/designer/mad doctor Jason Freeny. His Moist Productions shop has been showing us the fascinating humanoid anatomy of toys, animated characters and other objects for years. His new creations have reached new awesomely gross heights. Here’s a collection of some of his masterworks: SPLOID is a new blog about awesome stuff. Join…
National Geographic’s picture of the day is beautiful and otherworldly, like an aerial view of a fantastic alien planet. But this planet is a star. A sea star exquisitely photographed by Peet J van Eeden at Pomene Estuary, Mozambique. SPLOID is a new blog about awesome stuff. Join us on Facebook
Your two week long hangover may have prevented you from realizing this but… it’s 2014 now. That means 2013 is over and done with and like any other year, needs to be wrapped up nicely in one lovely drawing. This drawing, commissioned by Syzygy and created by Brosmind, sums up all that has happened on…
Click. Click. Click. It’s hypnotic. Click. You don’t realize how often you do it on your computer on a daily basis. Click. It’s almost mindless when you’re reading websites on the Internet. Click. And cycling through windows and apps and. Click. Selecting text. Click And listening to music. Click. It’s just so easy to ignore…
Imagine yourself stuck in traffic. Imagine listening to some Top 40 radio station playing the same 4 songs over and over and wondering about the things you would do if you didn’t have to commute. Imagine your brain numb. And then imagine seeing some psycho bike rider pull off some bike tricks off of a…
Your Google search history is probably littered with typos, questionable queries, embarrassing visits to malware-infected websites, porn, Facebook, porn, Facebook, basic math questions a 6-year-old would know, juvenile jokes and so forth. It’s not a proud place to be. But what if in order to make all those searches you do on Google, you had…
Here’s the thing about chocolate chip cookies: they’re delicious. Here’s another thing: unless you’re a professional baker maestro who bakes a batch everyday and tweaks their cookie recipe after every time to adjust the flavor, it’s going to be hard to come up with the perfect chocolate chip cookie recipe. It’s a numbers game, you…
This is a really weird looking machine: a “jamming-based robot gripper.” Or, as Empire Robotics calls it, a Versaball. I don’t understand how it works, but I can’t stop watching. https://gizmodo.com/these-spherical-robot-hands-let-you-build-things-with-1500601953
Doctors have found hundreds of gold needles nested in a 65-year-old South Korean woman’s knees. The woman suffers from osteoarthritis, so she visited an acupuncturist to relieve her pain. The acupuncturist thought it was a great idea to insert all these needles in her knees and leave them there, because that’s always a great idea,…
The old town of London never changes. Or at least, it changes very, very little. Just watch this side-by-side footage showing life in 1927 London and life in 2013 London to see how much the city has stayed the same. And sure, the streets might have slightly newer cars on them with street lights and…
According to the scientists at the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute, this is the first time any human has observed this phenomenon: a deep-sea squid (Gonatus onyx) killing an owlfish (Pseudobathylagus miller) using its beak to drill a hole into the latter’s spinal cord.
Adam Magyar is a wizard who knows how to freeze reality, capturing the passing of time into one single image, turning daily moments that are constantly ignored by everyone into fascinating views of humanity and the world that surrounds us. His techniques are pretty damn cool.
Photographer Olivier Grunewald first learned about the Kawah Ijen volcano in 2008. A sulfur mine by day, this infernal Indonesian mountain turns into a surreal alien landscape when the night comes. His pictures—taken in very dangerous conditions—are stunning: He and his friend Régis Etienne have gone back repeatedly to photograph and film this incredible unearthly…
Today, NASA’s Earth Observatory brings us this beautiful image of the Missouri River taken from the International Space Station. Its one of its bends occupied by “Lake Sharpe, an approximately 130 kilometer (80 mile) long reservoir formed behind the Big Bend Dam.”
A team of astronomers and engineers want to reproduce the atmosphere of a red giant like the one you are seeing in this Hubble image—right here on Earth. To make this happen, project Nanocosmos will build three five-meter-long machines working with hydrogen, carbon, nitrogen, oxygen, silicon, titanium, iron and other metals at 1500 C (2732…
