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io9Barry Allen Can’t Run From Despair In Ingmar Bergman’s The Flash Movie
I don’t know who would have the idea to combine beloved DC Comics super-speedster The Flash with the cinematic stylings of acclaimed but morose Swedish director Ingmar Bergman, yet alone decide to act on that idea and film it, but I’m ever so glad they did. Even if The Flash TV series is a bust … Continued
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Tech NewsThe Middle of this Massive Indoor Maze Reveals How To Get Back Out Again
Getting lost in a museum is easy, and aimlessly wandering from wing to wing is a nice, relaxing, not-at-all-claustrophobic way to spend an afternoon. Alternatively you could venture into The BIG Maze at DC’s National Building Museum, an on-site installation filled with winding paths, dead-ends, and a cool reveal at the end of the road. … Continued
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The Weird Reason Why So Many Turtles Are Delaying Flights at JFK
Remember whendozens of mating turtles shut down a whole runaway at JFK International Airport in 2009? It was only the start of a turtle invasion that has vexed travelers and perplexed biologists for years. But we may have figured out why turtles are all over the tarmac, and it has to do with raccoons. Turtles … Continued
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ScienceBiologyBaby Pygmy Seahorses Have The Most Amazing Camouflage
You might have to look really hard at this video of the California Academy of Sciences‘ newest residents – the first ever born in an aquarium – to find the tiny fish. The adults are dwarfed by a pencil eraser; imagine how tiny the babies are! Their camouflage is so perfect that they evaded scientists … Continued
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Explore the Largest Cruise Ship In the World With Google Street View
At 1,184 feet long and weighing in at 222,900 tons, Royal Caribbean’s Allure of the Seas is the largest cruise ship ever built. It’s able to carry 5,400 passengers—plus crew—and with on-board amenities like a skating rink, a miniature golf course, surfing simulators, and a merry-go-round, there’s little need to ever leave the ship. Does … Continued
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If You Love Science, This Will Make You Lose Your Sh*t
Over the past few years, social psychologists have come under fire for publishing work based on falsified and non-reproducible evidence. And now one social psychologist has published an awe-inspiringly clueless rant about this situation that will leave you smashing your face into your desk. At issue in this essay by Harvard’s Jason Mitchell is the … Continued
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A Shipping Container Coffee Table Completes Your Den’s Industrial Look
Ornately carved wood and beveled glass are the typical ingredients that go into a coffee table—but that doesn’t suit everyone’s tastes. If your living room, den, or even office has opted for more of an industrial look, a tiny shipping container table is the perfect place to stack magazines and coffee table books. There are … Continued
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Physicists Have Created A Tractor Beam Using Water
In recent years, scientists have used lasers to construct crude tractor beams that, one day, might be used as grappling hooks in space. Now, for the first time, physicists have succeeded in creating the same effect using water. Thanks to Star Trek and Star Wars, the term “tractor beam” immediately conjures up images of spacecraft … Continued
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Why Bikes Make Smart People Say Dumb Things
Scott Simon’s bio on the NPR website describes him as “one of America’s most admired writers and broadcasters,” and it’s tough to argue with that. As a Peabody-winning journalist with decades of experience, Simon’s credentials are unimpeachable, and as the Saturday host of Weekend Edition, he regularly shows himself to be all the things you … Continued
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Why Exactly Would Anyone Ever Trust Falling Skies’ Alien Invaders?
That was the big question I kept asking as I watched the latest episode of this gritty alien-invasion war drama. Plus, why doesn’t Tom Mason put together a soccer team to escape from the prison camp? That would have been way cooler. Spoilers ahead… Nothing in Falling Skies makes any sense any more, unless you … Continued
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Every Last Song From Stephen King’s Dark Tower Series, Compiled
Stephen King’s Dark Tower series is a sprawling saga that moves from genre to genre, but it’s also a veritable juke box of American music, pulling in everything from jazz standards to ’80s hair metal to show tunes to old country. Here’s every song that makes an appearance in the series. In response to a … Continued
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SciencePhysics & ChemistryExplaining Particle Accelerators With a Vacuum and 1,000 Foam Balls
If you know what a “Time Projection Chamber” or “Proton Synchrotron Booster” is, you’re probably a physicist. And if you can explain them to non-physicists, you’re a hero. This complicated glass model attempts to make understanding particle physics a little bit easier—with the help of a vacuum cleaner and 500 feet of tubing. Niklas Roy, … Continued
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Digital Rapture Is Mind-Expanding Science Fiction At Its Finest
Science fiction is the literature of ideas, and therefore of possibility. After all, we human beings live on a small rock spinning throughspace at a breakneck speed, in a galaxy doing the same, in an unfathomably sized universe made of up dark matter we can’t even detect. It’s mind-boggling to think about, but science fiction … Continued
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7 Photos Showing How Detroit Hollowed Out During the Highway Age
While searching for images of highway interchanges in urban areas, I came across these historic aerial photos of Detroit on a message board, showing how the city fabric has slowly eroded. It’s a remarkable record of a process that has scarred many other American cities. 1949: Here’s what the east side of the city looked … Continued
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This Cozy Log Cabin in the Swiss Alps Is Completely Made of Concrete
If you didn’t know know better, you’d think the Refugi Liepthaus in the Alps was just another quaint log cabin from afar. But if you get close, you’ll realize that those ridges on the walls are not logs but a beautiful brutalist exterior. It’s awesome. Refugi Liepthaus is an award-winning house designed by Nickisch Sano … Continued
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Tech NewsSploid
This woman is a human photocopier
I can’t help but to admire the technical prowessof Malaysian illustrator Monica Lee. Whether you are a fan of photorealistic art or not, and independently of the grid she uses to reproduce the photos, it’s impossible to ignore her skills. Her control of graphite and paper is complete, like a human photocopier. One of these … Continued
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io9Urban Innovations That Could Turn Your City Into A Bicycling Paradise
Bicycles may be part of the future of transit, and designers and city planners are constantly looking for ways to make cycling safer and more appealing to commuters. Here are a few innovations—beyond bike paths—that could make cities better for bikes. Top image: The Netherlands’ Hovenring. There are a number of basic things that cities … Continued
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Tech NewsHelicopter Lawn Darts Give You Time To Duck and Cover
Remember lawn darts? Unless you grew up during the 1980s you don’t because the government decided that people lobbing giant darts with four-inch pointed metal spikes on the end was a terrible idea—so they were banned. But these Copter Darts appear to provide a similar type of lazy summer afternoon gameplay, minus the risk of … Continued
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The One Fatal Flaw That Nearly Sinks The Last Ship
Thus far, The Last Ship is way more fun than I’d dared expect. It’s very much a swashbuckling naval adventure, in which the apocalypse provides an excuse for a single destroyer to go off on its own, without any outside orders. There’s just one huge problem: the villains, whose behavior makes zero sense in a … Continued
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Tech NewsSploidFall in trance with this time-lapse video of wood being planed down
Colossal caught this hypnotizing time-lapse video created by Keith Skretch, made by shaving a wood plank millimeter by millimeter and photographing every step. Hypnotizing. SPLOID is a new blog about awesome stuff. Join us on Facebook
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