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That “Sell By This Date” Label Is an Unregulated Guesstimate
Photo via Lars Plougmann/Flickr It’s no secret that Americans waste a lot of food. We’ve been known to pitch at least forty percent— totaling $165 billion worth—of the food we produce. A new study from...
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A New Law Will Allow Teens to Erase Their Digital History
Image via Wikipedia. Internet users will now have a certain degree of control over their online personas, as long as they are under 18 and live in California. Yesterday, California Governor Jerry...
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Can There Be a Non-US Internet?
Screenshot of BRICS cable network map, via After discovering that the US government has been invading the privacy of not just Americans, but also Brazilians, Brazil is showing its teeth. The country...
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The FAA's Restrictions on Electronics on Airplanes May Be Lifted
Photo via Ron Cogswell/Flickr After years of frustrated flight attendants telling you, for the last goddamn time, to turn it off, the Federal Aviation Administration may finally throw up its hands and...
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The North Korea-China Nuclear Trade War in One GIF
Ever feel like you can't keep up with all the doom and gloom echoing around the internet? Motherboard's here to help. With GIFs. Welcome to THIS WEEK IN HELL, a feature that brings you hard-hitting...
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Citizen Scientists Helped Produce a Database of 300,000 Galaxies
Did you identify this galaxy? Photo: University of Minnesota Ever want to identify your own galaxy, but figure you'd have to work for NASA? Actually, you don't have to. In fact, you don't even need a...
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This Flexible Display Can Be Stretched, Too
Broken screens are still the bane of our devices' existence, which makes the many promises of flexible screens all the more tantalizing—even if they haven't shown up yet. Here's one more to add the...
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The History of Mankind As Explained By Math
Ancient Egyptian art, via Wikimedia The thing that's so great about history is that understanding it can help us predict the future, and then hopefully not screw it up as badly as we did the past. A...
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Brain-Damaged "Gourmand Syndrome" Foodies Can't Register Your Disgust
"Ein Gourmand" by Henri Brispot, via Wikimedia Commons Until his forties, the patient known as “RG” was a marathon runner. But at 42, he became a gourmand, a real foodie. He bought food guides, drove...
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How Thresher Sharks Use Their Enormous Tails to Hunt
Scientists have previously confirmed that thresher sharks use their massive tails to hunt. But for the first time, footage has been captured of the sharks using their tails in an actual hunt, and we...
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Data Brokers Are Combining Your Online and Real-World Actions Into a...
Photo via flickr Here's a scenario that could feasibly happen in the near future: You're thinking about taking a trip to India. You read a couple travel pieces about the ancient temples, and buy some...
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India's Incoming Solar Power Plant Will Be Bigger Than the US's Ten Biggest...
Image: Bright Source Energy India announced that it intends to build the biggest solar power plant in the world in Rajastan, the sprawling western state that borders Pakistan. The Times of India...
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Oh Look, Humans Have Set Another Rhino Poaching Record
Photo via Karl Strohmayer/USFWS Considering that we humans have proven again and again that we're highly skilled at decimating wild populations of animals, you'd figure we'd chill out a bit, assured in...
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The Industrial Revolution May Be What Abruptly Melted the Glaciers in the Alps
Photo: Gabriel Calderón/Flickr It's now pretty well established that black carbon pollution is a serious component of climate change. In fact, all the soot from open-air cookstoves, old diesel...
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Where Is the Center of Each United State?
Map by the author (Update: An earlier version of this map containing some inaccuracies has been replaced.) Have you ever spent an extended period of time trying to find, or simply meditating on the...
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There's an Internet Gender Gap 200 Million Wide, the UN Says
Photo via Flickr Women have been slogging through a society rooted in inequality and riddled with sexism long before the internet was invented, so it's not too surprising that we're seeing same thing...
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Renewable Energy Cuts Emissions Even If Fossil Power Plants Have to Cycle More
The Notrees Wind Storage Demonstration Project via the Energy Department It’s a concern as old as renewable energy itself: What do you do when the sun don’t shine and the wind don’t blow? On a...
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Crowdfunding Is About to Go Bananas
Although it's still best known as the go-to cash source for indie bands, Zach Braff, and guys who want to build their own robots, crowdfunding took a big step into the mainstream this week, thanks to a...
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Things Scientists Are Less Sure of Than Climate Change
Image: Wikimedia If you are one of the few humans who has not yet been persuaded by the overwhelming scientific evidence that our activities are heating up the planet, or are under the impression that...
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Here's a Drone Doing Its Best Hunchback Inside Notre Dame
I've said it a thousand times before, and I'll say it again: If you're going to share a legally questionable first-person video drone video of yours to the world, that's all well and good. But please...
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