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What the hell is this underwater unicorn from the infernal deeps?

Scientists have identified a mysterious animal captured in the arctic waters of Canada’s Hudson Strait region. They thought this gelatinous beast was a goblin shark, but now they claim it’s a Rhinochimaeridae—commonly known as “long-nosed chimaera” or “underwater unicorn from the infernal deeps die you bloody bastard die” fish. Some people thought this was a…

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These are all the deaths in Game of Thrones

Redditor Ma Petit Choufleur did something really cool: mark all the deaths in the Game of Thrones novels and then take this cool photo. Yeah, that’s lots of deaths. “All the marked deaths are present tense confirmed deaths. No flashbacks, and no implied deaths,” he says.

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The International Space Station looks so cool when astronauts sleep

I’ve never seen the International Space Station at “night,” when astronauts and cosmonauts go to sleep, so when I saw that I immediately though “that’s so damn cool!” “The dots near the hatch point to Soyuz if we have an emergency,” says astronaut Mike Hopkins.

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Watch a volcano birth an entire new island

Off the coast of Japan, an exploding volcano has formed a new island about 650 meters in diameter. You can see it spewing and spouting black volcanic ash all around as it fills itself out. Pretty cool. Fuji News Network says the island is forming near the Nishinoshima Volcano. The footage below was captured by…

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Ew, this human cheese was made with belly button and toe bacteria

Get ready to hold a little vom down in your throat. These carpet-looking thingamajigs are actually cheese made with human bacteria, such as the kind you’d find in your belly button or in your nose or in your salty tears or on your skin or on your toe. It’s beyond gross and, if you really…

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One chart exposes the racial preferences of online dating

Quartz has dug up a rather sad chart that reveals the racial preferences of online daters. Judging from data from Facebook dating app Are You Interested, you can see how different races respond to each other under the veil of the Internet. Most women respond positively to white men, while most men respond positively to…

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Kawasaki built a time machine and stole a bike from the future

Akira, Tron, I don’t care what pop reference you pick. The new Kawasaki J Three Wheeler EV—presented today at the Tokyo Motor Show 2013—is absolutely insane. And the way you ride this amazing thing is even crazier. Check it out in Sport Mode: The bike has different modes depending on your style and mood, and…

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Amazing new miracle material will keep you dry no matter what

There are a lot of water-repellent surfaces, but nothing as incredible as this new miracle material that—according to research published in Nature—repels water way beyond “what was previously thought possible.” As you can see in the clip above, the water bounces completely off the surface as fast as possible, leaving nothing behind. Its inventors say…

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Tears of joy and tears of sadness look different under the microscope

We can cry because we’re happy. We can cry because we’re sad. We can cry because we’re cutting onions. We can cry just because we need to cry. They’re all completely different emotions… but are they different tears? Photographer Rose-Lynn Fisher wanted to find out in her series The Topography of Tears. She put dried…

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Five crazy buildings that were actually made by Russians, not aliens

English Russia has a splendid selection of the Top 25 Fantastic Soviet Buildings. I think the word they were looking for wasn’t fantastic but crazymadmegalomaniacal. They look straight from the imagination of a sci-fi writer with double utopian-dystopian personality. It was hard to pick, but here are my five favorites: 5. Crematorium in Kiev, Ukraine.…

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What are the odds of taking this truly rare image?

Fine art landscape and adventure photographer Scott Rinckenberger took this awesome one-in-a-million photo during a long trip from Seattle to the Mexican border: a perfectly lit and exposed image in which a meteor entered the atmosphere just in time for the shot. Here’s his take on it: I’ve been shooting photos for 20 years. I’ve…

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The Mars Curiosity rover is having problems, halts operations

After getting out of a recent reboot into safe-mode status caused by some anomaly, the Mars Curiosity rover has halted operations for a few days after a new problem has been discovered: a soft short.* NASA engineers are running tests now. https://gizmodo.com/the-mars-curiosity-rover-has-landed-live-coverage-fr-5932039 But fear not, my fellow cosmonerds. According to Mars Science Laboratory Project Manager…

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The secret trick to finding Waldo faster than anyone else*

I find this statistical study by Slate’s Ben Blatt fascinating: Waldo—Wally in Europe—isn’t placed randomly on the page. That means that you can find him faster if you follow this simple trick: Don’t look at the corners or the center of the drawing. Leave those till o the end, in case you don’t find him…

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This Airbus A380 landing looked like it was about to crash

I hate crosswinds when landing as much as I love seeing videos of planes safely landing under crosswinds, feeling a knot in my stomach as I see the pilot struggling to keep control and imagine myself inside the plane. Like this giant Thai Airbus A380, which looked like it was about to crash in Narita…

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15 awesome facts about the International Space Station

Did you know that the ISS goes so fast that it would go the Moon and back in a day, that you can connect a hairdryer in Newark to a power plug in NYC using its electrical cables, that is almost as big as Princess Leia’s spaceship, or that three crew members will eat the…

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Unbelievable: Each scene in this video is made from one still photo

This scene of an approaching owl is not a video. It’s a still image. Seriously. One still image manipulated to appear like a video scene. In fact, each scene in the following video is made from one photo only. It’s unbelievable. How did they achieve this incredible feat? Make Productions turned still photos from the…

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Recreating pictures from your childhood as an adult is always great

Two thoughtful sons came up with a wonderful gift for their mom: they would recreate old childhood photographs of themselves, from 20 years ago, as adults. They would visit the same spots as the pictures, wear similar clothes as their kid self once did, pose the same way as they did two decades ago, and…

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Watch toy robots hilariously poke fun at our smartphone addiction

Quick, where’s your phone? Within arm’s reach? On your desk? Next to your computer? Charging? Or possibly, in your hand at this very moment? Yeah, we can’t get enough of our phones. Big Lazy Robot VFX poked fun at humanity’s addiction to smartphones in this clever toy robot video iDiots. Yeah, we know what we…

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An artist recreated Blade Runner with 12,000 water color paintings

Holy wow this is impressive. Artist Anders Ramsell animated Blade Runner by painting 12,597 different water color paintings and stringing them together into beautifully fluid sequences. It’s incredible, you feel like you’re watching Blade Runner, you get to hear Harrison Ford and follow the story but you’re seeing it like never before—in moving art. The…

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US Navy’s new carrier kind of looks like a Star Destroyer from the back

We have seen a lot of its bow, but check out this unique view of the stern of the USS Gerald Ford—the first unit of America’s new aircraft carrier class. It’s surprising to see the new location of the island and how wide the stern is. Oh, and it kind of looks kind of Star…

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What the hell is this underwater unicorn from the infernal deeps?

These are all the deaths in Game of Thrones

The International Space Station looks so cool when astronauts sleep

Watch a volcano birth an entire new island

Ew, this human cheese was made with belly button and toe bacteria

One chart exposes the racial preferences of online dating

Kawasaki built a time machine and stole a bike from the future

Amazing new miracle material will keep you dry no matter what

Tears of joy and tears of sadness look different under the microscope

Five crazy buildings that were actually made by Russians, not aliens

What are the odds of taking this truly rare image?

The Mars Curiosity rover is having problems, halts operations

The secret trick to finding Waldo faster than anyone else*

This Airbus A380 landing looked like it was about to crash

15 awesome facts about the International Space Station

Unbelievable: Each scene in this video is made from one still photo

Recreating pictures from your childhood as an adult is always great

Watch toy robots hilariously poke fun at our smartphone addiction

An artist recreated Blade Runner with 12,000 water color paintings

US Navy’s new carrier kind of looks like a Star Destroyer from the back

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