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A New Species of Jungle Cat Was Hiding in Plain Sight
Camera trap images: A) Southeastern tigrina; B) Northeastern tigrina; C) Geoffroy's cat; D) pampas cat. Photo: Current Biology It took 35 years between the discovery of the last mammalian carnivore in...
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The White House Is Secretly Hoping People Won't Try to Enroll in Obamacare...
Image: Wikimedia The administration's self-imposed deadline for fixing the troubled Obamacare website is three days away, and while officials say the experience will be much better than the disastrous...
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Another Whale Exploded: Some Thoughts
Just in time to ruin your holiday appetite, here’s a video of a whale corpse that exploded yesterday in the Faroe Islands. The Faroe Islands play host to an annual pilot whale hunt, during which...
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What Social Networking Looked Like When the NYT First Wrote About It 10 Years...
An example Friendster profile circa November 2003 via Wayback Machine I guess the brisk march of technology is going to make all us look ridiculous eventually, so it’s really to the New York Times’s...
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Edward Snowden Doesn't Need a Doomsday Cache
Image via Wikimedia Commons Reports surfaced this week that Edward Snowden possesses a “doomsday cache” of agent identities. Put another way, US and UK officials expressed concern that if Snowden...
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Have Thanksgiving Dinner Digitally Next Year
Nearly as iconic as turkey and stuffing, Thanksgiving is a holiday known for travel delays. Everyone’s flying and driving and riding trains just as bad autumn weather turns wintery, and what would be...
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We're Past the Point Where Money Can Buy Happiness
Image via Flickr/Howard Lake Money really can’t buy you happiness, according to a new study—at least, not after a certain amount. In a paper published in PLOS ONE, economists Eugenio Proto from the...
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How Astronauts Are Spending Thanksgiving In Space
I was out with a few friends the other day and we started wondering how many people are in space right now. One friend guessed 12. Another, 200. (Don't judge—do you know?) We discovered that someone...
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Holiday Novelty Chemical Tryptophan Is Really Just How Your Brain Functions...
Jesse Newland/Flickr 'Tis the season for Thanksgiving-themed tryptophan myth-busting, because America's weird ass genocide holiday is too boring for holiday click-chasers to come up with anything new....
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Yes, You Can Really Make DMT From Tryptophan
So there you are, comatose and bloated like a beached whale after a marathon Thanksgiving binge. You've unbuttoned your pants. You're drowsy—you tell yourself it's the tryptophan kicking in. To think,...
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New Solar Array Designs Take Origami to Space
Via Youtube/BYU At some point in your life you’ve probably had a go at making an origami swan or frog. You’ve probably not got as far as folding a 25-metre solar array for a spacecraft. That’s...
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Tiesto, Deadmau5, Crookers and Lots More On DANCE (RED) SAVE LIVES2
Our colleagues at THUMP have partnered with DANCE (RED) SAVE LIVES, a campaign from the non-profit organization (RED) that is mobilizing DJs, producers and dance music fans to create an AIDS free...
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Seeing a Black Hole’s Birth Will Change What We Know About the Universe
The map on the left shows the sky before the gamma-ray burst; the one on the right shows it 30 minutes after. Image Credit: NASA/DOE/Fermi LAT Collaboration We know a fair bit about black holes, those...
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Dying Alone: Not Getting Laid Could Kill You Quicker
Image via Wikimedia Getting laid is supposed to kill you. Or at least be more likely to kill you quicker than not getting laid. It's not always the hep C kind of risky, but sex and the whole process...
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Beyond Bitcoin: A Guide to the Most Promising Cryptocurrencies
Image: Flickr. Price/Market cap data within: http://coinmarketcap.com/ripple.html Just as the success of Facebook helped spawn endless clones, Bitcoin’s arrival on the big stage comes with an...
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Black Friday Is More Political Than Ever
Photo via Flickr/Michael Holden Corporations and retail stores aren’t the only ones capitalizing on the day after Thanksgiving, otherwise known as Black Friday. The American consumerist holiday has...
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Resaving Religion: Superstition, Degraded JPEGs, and Facebook Fear Memes
There is some really twisted, wrong Demonlover garbage on the internet. We all know this as people that have, well, seen the internet at least once. But when I'm really looking to fuck my outlook up, I...
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Bitcoin Mints Its First Billionaire: Its Inventor, Satoshi Nakamoto
Who is Satoshi Nakamoto, Bitcoin’s enigmatic creator? Is he Dread Pirate Roberts, the founder of the Silk Road? (No, says Texan Hacker Dustin Trammell. Is he Gavin Andresen, Bitcoin’s lead open source...
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Watch an Amur Leopard, the World's Rarest Big Cat, Take Her Cubs for a Stroll
Snow leopards are some of the rarest big cats around, but they're not the rarest leopards in east Asia. That sad title goes to the Amur leopard, of which there are only a few dozen left. But they're...
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Comet ISON Has Quite Possibly Turned Into a Zombie
Timelapse of images from NASA's STEREO and the ESA/NASA SOHO show Comet ISON growing dim as it passes by the Sun. Yesterday, the comet ISON, hailed as the "comet of the century," made its brush with...
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