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The political genius Barack Obama credited with “nailing” the 2012 presidential election has left the New York Times for sports giant ESPN. But why did FiveThirtyEight’s Nate Silver go? Ask him yourself, right now! https://deadspin.com/espns-nate-silver-is-here-to-answer-your-questions-951328525
Hollywood legend Marilyn Monroe used to be known as Norma Jeane Dougherty, and during World War II she toiled at a California defense factory. But shocking new historical evidence shows that the future movie star helped build the first mass-produced aerial drones—and there are pictures to prove it. https://gizmodo.com/marilyn-monroe-assembled-drones-during-world-war-ii-696681799
Do you have free will? How the hell did we become sentient self-aware humans? Why do you sleep and dream? These are three of the eight crucial brain mysteries we haven’t been able to figure out yet. You don’t need a brain to know we don’t have a clue about the brain. https://gizmodo.com/8-things-we-simply-dont-understand-about-the-human-brai-949442979
You don’t have to have a house, an spouse, children and a car to be happy. In fact, you may get all that and still be unhappy. But here are six things you can do now to make you happier today, according to scientific research. https://lifehacker.com/six-unconventional-scientific-ways-to-be-happier-948843276
No apocalyptic angels playing the trumpet. No seas of blood. No cats cohabiting with dogs. If you could live 1.1 billion years, this is what you would see when the world ends, step by step, destroyed by the star that now nurtures life on Earth. https://gizmodo.com/what-the-death-of-the-sun-will-look-like-471796727
It may seem fun and cathartic to exorcise your demons by joining the Awkward Years Project, but posing with awkward high-school photos will prove to be equally awkward 20 years from now. https://jezebel.com/awkward-photos-then-and-now-945337333
“If your biggest fear is getting older, the best thing that can happen to you is getting older,” Tracy Moore says on Jezebel. Utter poppycock. As any forty-plus person would tell you, you should and will hate getting older. Of course you will. Fear it and hate it. And let’s not talk about the idea…
Marcus Jordan—the son of legendary NBA player Michael Jordan—just posted a picture of his dick on Twitter. Anthony Weiner approves this message. https://deadspin.com/marcus-jordan-tweets-his-dick-then-about-mistake-goes-941472919
For the most part, this collection of iconic photographs colorized by various authors will probably leave you cold. But some of them—like this atomic bomb explosion in the Bikini Atoll—surpass the original black and white images. In this case, it’s perhaps because the starker contrast between destruction and paradise. https://gizmodo.com/iconic-black-and-white-photographs-colorized-911645264
Many people don’t like to watch football, but NBC thinks they can make everyone like it by using awesome eye candy, like replays using the bullet time effect, the same one you saw in the Matrix. If you don’t like football, would this convince you to watch? https://gizmodo.com/matrix-like-360-replays-are-going-to-take-over-sunday-n-935949674
Phil Fish is the creator of a very popular and much loved video game called Fez. He’s also the target of a lot of internet hatred. The latest hate burst has been so intense that he’s calling it quits, canceling the second part of his original masterwork. Fish is not only scrapping Fez II, but…
From the 15-inch-long 2-inch-wide King Dong to Dragon Tongues and Buttkrakens, some of the sex toys out there are wonderfully terrifying. Enjoy this nightmarish catalog from afar—or order some! https://jezebel.com/the-scariest-sex-toys-weve-ever-seen-nsfw-926168180
An incredible fact from a fascinating new Buzz Aldrin interview: the Saturn V was only making 7 inches to the gallon at the moment of launch. Of course, the fuel economy improves dramatically when you actually take into consideration the entire distance travelled. https://gizmodo.com/did-you-know-that-the-saturn-vs-fuel-economy-was-7-inc-935695163
It’s been almost two years since America launched its last astronauts into space. If you want to feel especially emotional, watch these videos showing the shuttle’s ascent in glorious HD: from her point of view, from the ground, and a beautiful tribute with all the launches combined into a single one. https://gizmodo.com/absolutely-mindblowing-video-shot-from-the-space-shuttl-5893615
A clear sign of someone who doesn’t really know how to prepare an actually good omelet: “crack three or four eggs into a bowl, add a splash of water and a glug of milk.” That’s as disgustingly wrong as putting eggs in paella or lemon inside fresh fish. Want to learn how to make a…
Back in the 60s, the media thought rock’n’roll would destroy kids’ minds. Before that it was comic-books. Now the brain poisoning plague is Minecraft, a Lego-like construction video game that most adults can’t understand and kids are addicted to. Like crack, they say! https://kotaku.com/minecraft-is-now-mine-crack-says-local-news-everywhe-927656796
This talented man is showing how to evade detection by the urinal sensors. It’s just another weird moment from Japanese television, which is universally known to be very weird. But some of these shows are crazy even by these standards of weirdness.
“They celebrated the first successful cryogenic freezing. He had no way of letting them know he was still conscious.” —from a series of two-sentence horror tales.
The latest craze for cruel, privileged youth is to viciously slap their friends in the face, preferably with handfuls of stinging chemicals. Unlike earlier methods of popular cruelty, the new fad must be captured on video and posted to an increasingly popular new back alley of the Internet.
Ugh, sweat: Why does it stain our white shirts and ruin so much of our lives? The problem, it turns out, isn’t even the sweating. Sweat all you want and it won’t stain your white T-shirts! The secret actually has nothing to do with sweating and everything to do with your poor choices at the…