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Destroy All The Things
Destructive testing holds a special place in my heart. The idea is to take a material and push it beyonds its limits, recording the moment of failure. General Electric has started a new campaign gratuitously running these destructive tests on innocent every-day objects. Crushing a block of ice is fun. Image credit: General Electric Sure, … Continued
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How An Artist Blanketed Los Angeles In Wildflowers
Driving around L.A. during the last month, you might have noticed a flash of fluorescent yellow and neon pink breaking up the monotony of lawns. It’s a project called Wildflowering L.A. which planted 50 lots around Los Angeles in native seeds. This week, the plantings hit peak bloom, transforming swatches of property across the city … Continued
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The First Pterodactyls May Have Lived Far From Oceans
To date, virtually all pterodactyl fossils have been found near oceans. But the discovery of a previously unknown Jurassic-era species called Kryptodrakon progenitor indicates that some of these ancient flying reptiles lived and evolved far from marine environments. Say hello to Kryptodrakon, an early pterodactyl that lived some 163 million years ago. It was a … Continued
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The Dead Are Getting Out of Control on Resurrection
This was an episode of Resurrection that started with a small, intimate drama, and ended with explosive happenings for everyone. But there’s absolutely no way next week’s season finale will provide any answers. Spoilers ahead… SO MANY DEAD PEOPLE. That’s how this episode ended: with hundreds of Returned all showing up at once, from all … Continued
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The Oculus Rift’s Newest Trick: Adding Lag to Real Life
Lag is the worst. Anyone who has ever used technology can tell you that first hand. But what if your whole world lagged. With the Oculus Rift you can find out. Spoilers: It sucks. As part of a project/ad for fiber internet provider ume.net, four volunteers donned an Oculus Rift outfitted with an outward-facing camera, … Continued
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Aliens + Interrogative Music @ SETI
When you reference Ezra Pound’s statement that “The artist is the antennae of the race” at SETI, the “antennae” part takes on a whole richer meaning. SETI hosts weekly colloquium at its Mountain View, California, offices, and a few times a year those talks put aside interstellar science and are, instead, organized by SETI’s artist-in-residence. … Continued
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This Week’s TV: Maria Hill Is On SHIELD And Supernatural Gets A Spinoff
Maria Hill, fresh from her stint in Captain America 2, returns to Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. this week and Santanico Pandemonium has a deadly dance on From Dusk Till Dawn. Plus, Supernatural prepares its spinoff and Vikings and Resurrection close their seasons. Details below! Top image from Metal Hurlant Chronicles. Tonight Adventure Time (6 PM, Cartoon … Continued
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Amazing timelapse of massive 7-ft long Lego Serenity spaceship
Adrian Drake’s Lego Firefly-class transport spaceship, “Serenity”, is a 70,000-brick, 7-foot long, 135-lb masterpiece. Now, he’s rebuilt the badass behemoth and filmed it for one epic timelapse. Filmed over 14 months, each image was taken at 60-second intervals. Watch how it soars. She may not be the shiniest ship in the ‘verse, but she’s one … Continued
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The Giant Sparking Globes that Dominate Boston’s Museum of Science
Visitors to the Museum of Science in Boston are always in for a hair-raising treat when they enter the facility’s Theater of Electricity. This small amphitheater is actually the permanent home of the largest air-insulated Van de Graaff generator on the planet—a pair of 40-foot high spheres crackling with up to 5,000,000 volts of electricity. … Continued
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Watch From Dusk Till Dawn’s Remade Snake Dance, Now With CG Snakes
The only reason to remake the 1996 vampire movie From Dusk Till Dawn into a TV series is to have an excuse to reshoot Salma Hayek’ famous vampire snake dance. And so they did, and here it is, now with double the snake caressing action. Eiza Gonzalez is the new Santanico Pandemonium, and also there … Continued
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What Are The Most Annoying Technological Innovations?
There’s new tech that’s used for good, tech that can seem a little sinister, and then there’s tech that’s just, well, kind of annoying. I’m speaking of the car alarm that goes off in the night, or the little woosh sound that tells you that someone in the room just got an email. Tell us … Continued
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The ghost of Brutalism is alive and well in Granada, where Mediomundo Arquitectos have drawn on the past without sacrificing modern technology, since it houses the schools of physiotherapy, nursing, podiatry, and geriatric care at Granada University. Despite its foreboding exterior, the entire building is ventilated naturally—one detail you won’t find in most Brutalist buildings … Continued
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You Can Get Your Own 3D-Printed Van Gogh For Under $200
See that painting right there? It’s fake as hell, but you might never know the difference. And you can get your very own Van Faux for $200, max, thanks to a Russian startup called Prixel. No one will ever know the difference (probably). Prixel has developed a technique that perfectly mimics the artist’s brushstrokes in … Continued
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Everyone On Game Of Thrones Is An Amateur Compared To Littlefinger
Last night’s Game of Thrones had a lot of scenes where people tried to consolidate their power. Some people make alliances, others bully their followers, and still others try to send their enemies on suicide missions. When your hold on power isn’t secure, you have to be crafty and ruthless as fuck. Spoilers ahead… Among … Continued
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E0102: The Supernova Cylinder
This fluff-ball in space is E0102, the debris left over from a massive stellar explosion in the Small Magellanic Cloud. It’s located 190,000 light years away in the constellation Tucana, and it’s a favourite target of NASA’s Chandra X-Ray Observer. E0102 was one of the first objects Chandra looked at, mere months after the telescope … Continued
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These guys turned a jet into a car—or a car into a jet, who knows
I don’t know what this is. I don’t know where it comes from, I don’t know what’s doing on the road, I don’t know its propulsion method, and I don’t know who is Maverick and Goose here. But I know that, even while it looks ridiculous, I want a ride. SPLOID is a new blog … Continued
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How Google’s Self-Driving Car Is Tackling the Chaos of City Streets
We’ve all heard about how well Google’s self-driving car does on the highway. But is that so impressive? Heck, put on cruise control and an audiobook, and any car seems like it can drive itself on an Interstate. The latest update from Mountain View, however, suggests that this miracle vehicle is entering a new phase … Continued
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Steven Spielberg To Direct Roald Dahl’s The BFG
Well, this is sensational news. Steven Spielberg may return to genre dramas with the writer from E.T. Even better, he’ll be adapting the Roald Dahl book The BFG. Variety is reporting that Spielberg will re-team with Melissa Mathison, who last worked with Spielberg on E.T., to bring Dahl’s beloved giant tale to life. For those … Continued
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Wow, this movie was filmed with the same actors in 12 years
Boyhood is a new film by Richard Linklater coming out on July 11. Critics are raving about it, with a surprisingly perfect 100% score in Rotten Tomatoes. But regardless of how good it is, this movie has already made cinema history: It was filmed with the same actors over a 12-year period from 2002 to … Continued
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NPR Got the Internet 20 Years Ago: Read the Memo
Exactly 20 years ago, NPR staffer Dennis Fuze circulated a memorandum to his colleagues announcing that the venerable public broadcasting powerhouse would be getting something called “internet.” In 2014, the memo seems adorably naive—which just shows you how much technology has evolved since 1994. There is a lot of choice language in this memo but … Continued