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Elon Musk Says Rockin’ Drive-In Restaurant, Roller Skating, and Theater Coming to Tesla Supercharger Station

Back in September, Tesla announced it was planning to create upscale convenience stores for its supercharger stations around the country. It was all pretty vague, but this weekend, Elon Musk got a little more specific. Specifically, he’s thinking there should be roller skates while you charge. Tesla’s chief technology officer J.B. Straubel told attendees at … Continued

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After Jumanji and Rampage, the Rock Will Fight Even More Animals in Jungle Cruise

For two years, Disney has had a deal in place with Dwayne Johnson to make a movie based on its iconic theme park ride, Jungle Cruise. Just when it was starting to seem like it would never happen, he’s now officially signed on—and production will begin in 2018. The film does not yet have a … Continued

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Welcome to Nordstrom, Can I Interest You in This Fancy Rock?

The American home is replete with all manner of overpriced baubles and trinkets. But is your idlic suburban ranch house truly complete with an $85 rock in a bespoke leather pouch? Nordstrom thinks not. “Medium Leather Wrapped Stone,” as it’s referred to on the Nordstrom store, is made by artist Peter Maxwell out of “smooth … Continued

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Disney’s Moana Is Damn Near Perfect

Normally when reviewing a movie, you come up with a healthy mix of positive and negative things to say about it. In the case of Disney’s Moana, though, I’m really struggling to come up with the latter. It’s just that wonderful. Where to begin? Well, it’s probably no surprise that the animation is gorgeous. Water … Continued

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The History of Rock and Roll Told in an Incredibly Clever Way

Using a Facebook News Feed of sorts, Ithaca Audio breaks down the history of rock and roll in 15 minutes using 384 rock stars, 84 guitarists, 64 songs, and 44 drummers in one crazy and totally awesome mashed up song. The Facebook timeline bit is cute but what’s really cool is how the songs blend … Continued

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That’s No Moon, It’s a Rock Band

Last week, classic rock band Styx met the man who named a moon after them – well, sort of. Pluto’s smallest moon, Styx, is really named after a mythological river, in keeping with International Astronomical Union naming conventions. But the SETI institute’s Mark Showalter, who discovered Styx (the moon) in 2012, says he’s been a … Continued

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Use These Tips And Never Lose At Rock Paper Scissors Again

Your days of never getting shotgun are over, thanks to this new video from Numberphile that breaks down the best strategies for winning at Rock, Paper, Scissors. Host Hannah Fry explains below, but the essential tips are: if you lose, the person who just won will almost certainly play the same move in the next … Continued

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Fun guy spins his head like a metal rock star while doing construction

It doesn’t get any more metal than this. This headbanger filmed a video of himselfspinning his head and making his hair whip in dizzying circles while working construction jobs. It’s so hardcore badass but also incredibly goofy and fun all at the same time. He rocks out with his caulk out. SPLOID is a new … Continued

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How To Boil Water With A Rock

The most effective way to clean found water is to boil it. But, how do you do that if you don’t have a metal container? Or any container at all? With a rock of course. Tools: You’re going to need a fire and obviously the ability to start one. Bonus points if you carry a … Continued

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There’s a Whole New Type of Stone And It’s Made From Our Plastic

Congratulations, humanity: After millennia of building cathedrals and toiling over great works of art and science, we’ve finally created something that will far outlast us. It’s called Plastiglomerate, a stone made out of molten plastic, and yes, we should probably be ashamed of ourselves. In a study published yesterday in the Geological Society of America, … Continued

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Incredible space stone seems like it has a nebula trapped inside

This is just a stone. Not a photo of a stone with a Hubble Space Telescope image pasted over it. Not a hologram made inside some piece of glass. Not a portal to another dimension. Just a stone. It’s like a some spacetime wizard captured a piece of the Universe and trapped it inside. The … Continued

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Bowie Reveals The Secret Origin Of Ziggy Stardust In This Great Cartoon

The man responsible for the greatest scifi album of all time is Ziggy Stardust. And the man responsible for that man is of course David Bowie, who explains his creation of his iconic 1970s glam rock character in this 1998 interview with Joe Smith, now animated by PBS’s Blank on Blank. The interview covers — … Continued

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This dude wore a different band T-Shirt for a 1000 days in a row

Like music? Buy albums? Go to concerts? Wear band T-shirts? Sure. But do you have a thousand different band T-shirts that you can wear for a thousand days in a row? Didn’t think so! Isac Walter does though. And he did it. He crushed it. Here’s what a thousand T-shirts looks like: You can see … Continued

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Mario Bros World rock is yet another proof that nature is amazing

Frank Valenzuela is known to many people in Tucson asThe Miner. He doesn’t look for gold—although I’m sure that he would be happy to find it—but mineral awesomeness. Like this amazing rock, a chalcedony on chrysocolla stalactites, which he sold for $5,000. Frank Valenzuela obtained this specimen from a fellow miner at the Inspiration, where … Continued

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If Stonehenge Is Actually a Giant Instrument, What Does It Sound Like?

We know that the rocks of Stonehenge were carried there from over 200 miles away, but we’ve never known why. Now, researchers say they believe it was for the special sonic qualities of a particular kind of stone—and that Stonehenge might have served as a bell-like instrument. We first heard of this theory in December, … Continued

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NASA reveals the mystery of the rock that suddenly materialized on Mars

At last, NASA’s scientists have revealed the mystery of the mysterious rock that materialized out of nowhere right in front of the Mars Curiosity rover—the infamous jelly doughnut rock rock that surprised everyone at mission control, prompting NASA Mars Exploration Rover lead scientist Steve Squyres to exclaim “wait a second, that wasn’t there before, it … Continued

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Rock mysteriously appears in front of the Mars Opportunity rover

Left: a photo taken 3528 days after the Opportunity rover arrival to Mars. Right: the exact same spot 12 Mars days later. Notice the difference? NASA JPL scientists did too: “It’s about the size of a jelly doughnut. It was a total surprise, we were like ‘wait a second, that wasn’t there before, it can’t … Continued

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These Rainbow Mountains Are China’s Secret Geological Wonder

At the Zhangye Danxia Landform Geological Park in Gansu, China, tourists flock to see China’s own version of the Grand Canyon: A mountain range of densely packed layers of minerals and rock that are dramatically striated into a layer cake of magenta, maroon, and lemon-colored stone. As a new UNESCO World Heritage Site, Danxia is … Continued

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The Moon May Have Been Made of ‘Magma Mush’ For Millions of Years

We’re used to thinking of the moon as a cold and unassuming lump of rock—but new research suggests that it could have been made of a strange magma mush for hundreds of millions of years before it solidified into the object we now see every night. Professor Sara Russell, head of the mineral and planetary … Continued

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What Happens When a Hardcore Rock Band Doesn’t Pay Its Sound Engineer?

This song is supposed to be a hardcore rock song. And though it has the punching anger throat sounds of any respectable hardcore rock song, it so obviously doesn’t have anything else that quite resemble the music of core hards. Instead, the song is mixed with an EDM dance track. That’s because the band didn’t … Continued