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It doesn’t matter how many times you’ve heard it—Like a Rolling Stone is a rousing anthem of a musical masterpiece that only seems to get better with age. Its new music video—actually, the first video ever of Like a Rolling Stone—is a masterpiece too. It will blow your mind. The bizarro premise is that you’re…
It’s not complicated, really. Public transportation makes more sense than driving. Why? Because driving is an inefficient use of resources. Because driving is soul sucking. Because we can fit an unbelievable number of drivers and would-be cars into one bus. This animated GIF reveals the basic mathematics of it all: more drivers means more cars…
New research into ancient genomes unveiled at the Royal Society in London has revealed a startling secret: We have an unknown, mysterious human relative that used to live in Asia. Scientists made the discovery while sequencing the genomes of the Neanderthals and Denisovans, two archaic human groups that interbred with Homo sapiens over 30,000 years…
These images of the aftermath of the eruption of Mount Sinabung in Sumatra, Indonesia, are as sad as they are strangely beautiful. The contrast between colorful figures and the grayscale of the ash-covered landscape is so striking that it seems unreal. Here’s the entire story told in photos. https://gizmodo.com/this-insanely-gigantic-volcano-explosion-just-happened-1465189438 The Mount Sinabung in Sumatra, in…
We know that climate change is already affecting Earth’s weather in a major way, but we don’t exactly know how bad things are going to get. However, scientists have a pretty good idea of the probabilities of Earth going to hell in the next few decades. This video shows them. “We wanted to find a…
Mount Etna, Europe’s most active volcano, erupted into life this past weekend, sending lava bombs about one-meter-wide soaring into the sky for the first time in over 20 years. At 11,000-feet-high, Etna is also Europe’s tallest active volcano, whose history of eruptions has been traced all the way back to the days of ancient Greece.…
This is not the first time that the US Army Research, Development and Engineering Command (RDECOM) has talked about their desire to get a real life version of Iron Man’s suit for soldiers, but now it’s giving a very specific timeframe: “The goal is to have a contract in place by next fall and have…
In what might be the most creative use of tissue ever, Fuyu Arai created this wonderful stop motion animation video for Nepia, a Japanese tissue paper company. It shows different animals like birds, dogs, kangaroos, frogs, etc. being formed through just tissue paper. The animation is so fluid that you almost believe that these tissue…
Tornadoes ripped through the Midwest of the United States earlier today and the damage it left behind is absolutely tragic. These pictures of Washington, Illinois, the worst area affected, show how a community gets shredded by natural disaster. The path is violent, the ground is scarred and the homes are just gone. From the aerial…
Here’s a tip you should file away in your folder for zombie apocalypse preparation and in your brain for future conversations for whoa, I didn’t know it was that easy: opening a can without a can opener. All it takes is some abrasive concrete rubbing of the can’s top and a firm squeeze of the…
So like… Uhh… Yeah… Oh my… this is just the van ride up to the Himalayas. As in, this scariness is only the beginning of something even scarier (that would be climbing the damn thing). Mick Fowler shot this video of his van driving up the mountain and it’s so close to the edge of…
If you were Queen Tiye of Egypt’s parents you wouldn’t want to go to the Otherworld just with some bread and beer and wine and jewelry. You would like to eat a good ribeye beef steak, prepared with a mixture of fat, beeswax, and Pistacia resin. That’s what Katherine A. Clarka, Salima Ikramb, and Richard…
Rock stars don’t age, at least our memories of them don’t. Sure, some of them get the harsh lines of life imprinted onto their face and others pass away as a shell of themselves much too early but our memories of rock stars never change. They stay forever young through iconic pictures, through the emotions…
The European Southern Observatory has published a new photo of ISON. This thing is going to be a huge show in November 28, when it gets really close to the Sun. I wish we could zoom in and discover the Silver Surfer right in the middle of that blue glow. https://gizmodo.com/incredible-photo-of-a-comet-you-can-see-in-the-sky-righ-1465491738
I like Zaha Hadid’s design for Qatar’s flagship World Cup football stadium, but I hate everything else about it, from the modern-day slaves being used to build it to the fact that nobody wants a World Cup in Qatar except the corrupt fat gangsters that rule FIFA. Anyway, now you can take a virtual walk…
This incredible photo by Stéphane Vetter—featured as NASA’s astronomy picture of the day—makes my head spin a little bit. The weirdly shaped clouds—a glowing tentacle! a spaceship!—combined with the curved aurora that seems to be coming from the mountain and the sun near the horizon makes the entire shot seem completely unreal. It was taken…
Deep Sea News has this incredible composite image of a Magnapinna squid, made from a freaky video taken 1.5 miles underwater by a Shell’s remote operated vehicle. This is the video, which I remember seeing a few years ago: According to Wikipedia, these beasts are harmless, dragging their long flexible tentacles to grab their prey.…
Redditor HepatitisC posted this photo taken from his Facebook feed: “He lost his house in the tornado yesterday but there’s some light at the end of the tunnel…the PS4 survived!” Obviously, he can only be so happy if he has full home insurance.
I love this photo by U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 3rd Class Shane A. Jackson: sailors standing aboard the guided-missile destroyer USS Bulkeley during a turn at full speed. It’s crazy to think that a 509-foot-long beast that displaces 9,200 tons can make such high-speed maneuvers. For reference: And here’s a video:
This is the Polaris Sportsman WV850 H.O. all-terrain vehicle. Its “reinforced steel exoskeleton can tow 1,500 pounds or slowly winch another vehicle up to 3,500 pounds.” But the coolest parts are the wheels, which make it the first vehicle with airless tires you can actually buy. https://gizmodo.com/the-first-airless-tire-vehicle-you-can-own-is-a-wicked-1466598045
