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I love the newly city-approved Beach & Howe Tower in Vancouver, Canada, a gorgeous 54-story apartment building designed by Danish architects Bjarke Ingels Group. It gets extremely thin on its base to avoid a passing highway. From some angles, it looks like it may fall on its side. Enjoy the beautiful pictures. A diagram showing…
NASA has published this unique long-exposure photo of yesterday’s launch of a Soyuz en route to the International Space Station. It looks like a barley ear bending under the wind. Such a beautiful and delicate view of such a violent event. https://es.gizmodo.com/el-lanzamiento-de-la-soyuz-en-una-espectacular-foto-de-1460070569
Not only the Toyota FV2—for Fun Vehicle 2—looks like a conveyance from the movie Tron Legacy, but it can be part of that fantasy world too: You control this car/skateboard/motorcycle hybrid using your entire body. Plus, the vehicle changes its color at will. We’ll see it in action in the Tokyo Motor Show. https://jalopnik.com/the-crazy-toyota-concept-vehicle-you-drive-with-your-wh-1458792167
Despite all its weirdness, wacky architecture, extreme pollution, disregard of human rights, workers abuse, and the increasing disparity between the ultra-rich and the rest, China is one of the most incredible countries in the planet. This video is proof. Made by 56 photographers distributed in 49 cities, the time-lapse uses more than 200,000 photos to…
The problem with building man made structures in natural wonders like mountain ranges is that they can sore your eyes pretty quickly. Some parts of the world should be left untouched! But imagine a bridge like this one, designed to look like a cloud, on top of a few mountains. The views would be absolutely…
BBC’s Richard Hammond of Top Gear fame recently got to step inside a NASA’s Z1 spacesuit prototype that was pressurized to simulate what wearing the spacesuit would be like on Mars. Because Mars atmosphere is so thin, the suit needs to be pumped up inside to hold his body together. No matter to Hammond though.…
This is frightening. Nature just published a study by astronomers who have reanalyzed and recalculated the estimate of asteroids that could hit Earth and it’s a lot worse than we thought. Ten times worse. As in, researchers are now saying we are 10 times more likely to get struck by an asteroid than before. As…
Sure, complaining about cable is probably the quintessential first world problem but it’s like cable companies get off in screwing you over. South Park captures the cable screw job perfectly: every customer wants changes to be made with cable but every cable company is just enjoying how many different ways they can say no to…
Seeing things that shouldn’t be burned get melted down to nothing by fire is weirdly titillating. You don’t even have to be a pyromaniac to enjoy the perversion of the flames. Just look at how this tooth slowly disappears! It’s gross and weirdly wonderful in all the right ways. So bless the master torch wielders…
Our favorite flying human Yves ‘Jetman’ Rossy is up to his old tricks again of making us all feel like tiny little life wasters. This time, he took a majestic flying tour around Mt. Fuji in his quad rocket-powered jetpack that can go as fast as 185mph. Just look at him zoom across the sky…
This kid has achieved every kid’s dream ever. He starts to rock back and forth on a swing until he gets to the very top and starts doing 360 degree spins at full speed. But it gets better: a man comes and starts to push him so he goes even faster. At one point he…
You thought they were stupid, but it turns out that flies take decision on their own terms. They have free will, io9’s Esther Inglis-Arkell reports: they “seemed to be making spontaneous motions which indicated that somewhere, inside their little fly brains, they were deciding how to move based on their own free will.” https://gizmodo.com/the-crazy-device-that-shows-fruit-flies-have-free-will-1459261376
Sergey Dolya took some incredible photos in an expedition to the North Pole on board a Russian Arktika-class nuclear ice breaker. In the words of Buzz Aldrin, “Beautiful, beautiful. Magnificent desolation.” By the way, did you know that you can get a cabin on board these and other industrial ships? There are some travel agencies…
Self-described “alien artisan” Roland Deschane recently brought the world a brilliant juxtaposition: the cozy cabins of Thomas Kinkade and the raw brutality of the imperial forces. We’re talking Stormtroopers, Star Destroyers and AT-AT Walkers. We’re talking Dark Side. The idea alone deserves a slow clap, but the execution is almost flawless. You can almost hear…
This is one of the most satisfying things I’ve seen in a long time: watch Jar-Jar Binks—the biggest assclown in the galaxy far far away—getting killed in a deleted Star Wars scene that has been perfectly edited by fans.* Again. And again. So satisfying. So, why did they take this scene out? Or did they?…
Things are looking up in 2056 indeed. 2055, however… that year was pretty fucking bad. A cartoon by Poorly Drawn Lines.
Whoops, wish we could take that one back. This TED-Ed animation video teaches you the history of gunpowder. How it began as a Chinese invention for immortality, how it works in fireworks and how it morphed into the world destroyer and creator it is now. Watch it, you might learn a thing or two.
How often have you stared at a piece of technology and felt like you absolutely needed it? That’s just consumerism at work, my friends! How often have you stared at food and wanted to eat it? That’s human nature! So when you combine the basic instinct of wanting to eat with our developed desires for…
Though the world of comic book superheroes requires a suspension of disbelief, there are still rules even superheroes need to follow! Things just can’t happen when they don’t make sense! At least that’s what comic book legend Stan Lee thinks. And if he thinks like that, we should listen. Here he explains why he really…
Not all of us can stand and stare at artwork and pretend to be impressed and then stare again and then focus in on how the brushstrokes add up to the emotion of what the artist was feeling during his struggle when his father did not approve of his calling. Some of us want more…
