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Egyptian Surgeons Will No Longer Practice on Sheep, Thanks to PETA
Healthcare is super expensive in the U.S., but part of the price pays for the comfort of knowing that our practitioners honed their skills in top universities, not by practicing on livestock. If...
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We All Live in Manti Te'o's Fake Reality
Look at it this way: Manti Te'o is a millenial. He's a late millenial, born on the last year that qualifies one for the next great generation, but he's got all the symptoms. To borrow the New York...
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Facebook Search Exposes Hypocrites, Your Private Data to Strangers
Eyebrows were raised across the techsphere when Facebook announced it was launching a new search feature—which was to be expected, seeing as how such eyebrows are raised every time Facebook...
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Future Sex: Abortion in America
The 40th anniversary of the Roe v. Wade decision should be a meaningful moment for our country to take a step back to appreciate and discuss abortion rights in our country. But it’s not necessary to...
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We Can Now Store Data on Single Strands of DNA
Remember iPods? I do, and I remember them well. I remember the time I first I saw one. It was in Switzerland, of all places, and I was at a high school dance, of all things. I was dressed up as Lance...
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The Rhino Horn Crisis and the Darknet
Image: Hein Waschefort, art by Colin Snyder Last fall, I logged into an underground message board in the anonymized recesses of the Internet they call the deep web or the dark web, in search of...
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Somebody Whose Name Rhymes With Ronald Frump Will Pay You $20 to Pretend You...
So I don't have enough evidence to technically confirm that Donald Trump is personally willing to pay you $20 to attend a midtown Manhattan protest against the construction of wind turbines in...
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The UN Is Going After American and British Drone Programs
(via) The timing couldn't be much more perfect. As American hunter-killer drones pummel Pakistan's tribal areas with renewed aplomb, and with Britain doubling both its spy- and kill-drone missions in...
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The Deadliest Natural Disaster in Human History
The 1960 Valdivia earthquake in Chile was the strongest record earthquake, but not the deadliest. Imagine this. You're a fisherman from the city of Huayin, located in the Ming dynasty, exactly 457...
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A UK Company Proposes Using Smoke Screens to Prevent School Shootings
Mass shootings across the US have sparked all manner of outcries, outrage, demands, arguments and discussions, most of them directed at politicians and the NRA. People want solutions. The debate we're...
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A Nuclear Power Plant Made Snow Fallout in Pennsylvania
If you live in Pennsylvania, some of the snow that gently fell upon your town last night was probably made by a nuclear power plant. You're looking at Doppler radar catching a Pennsylvania nuclear...
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Aleksey Vayner, Whose Tale the Internet Mocked, Has Died at 29
Aleksey Vayner, the Yale graduate who garnered the Internet's mistrust for a video résumé he made called “Impossible is Nothing,” died on Saturday at the age of 29. According to IvyGate, the website...
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The Best of Vine, Twitter's 'Video Instagram,' May Give You a Seizure
Video is hard. It always has been, especially back in the day when it was actually film that needed to be processed and physically cut in order to edit it. VHS and eventually digital video made...
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The Best Sumo Wrestlers Are No Longer Japanese
Hakuho Sho, a Mongolian and one of the world's top sumo wrestlers, takes down an opponent. Image: Repubblica Sumo wrestling is going global, and that’s a good thing, says a Harvard researcher. As part...
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Namco Is Planning Adult Versions of Classic Arcades
If you were born before 1990, chances are you've long bemoaned the disappearance of a meaningful pillar of your upbringing: video arcades. There used to be 13,000 of them across the country, back in...
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Vietnam Is Heating Up Its 'Domestic Poison' Cauldron
Lethal doses of sodium thiopental at a US execution chamber (via) The syringes sit empty, ready for filling. The staff have all been trained, and are standing by. On Vietnam's death row, everything is...
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Japanese Trees Show Evidence of a Massive, Medieval Gamma Ray Burst
An artist's impression of a star going supernova and shooting out a gamma ray burst. Via It’s amazing the things scientists can use to learn about the universe around us–in this case, trees. While...
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Remember, Coal Spills Can Ruin Everything Too
Oil spills and nuclear meltdowns hog the spotlight when we're talking energy disasters, but let's not forget about black old coal here. Sure, coal does its worst over the long term: the dirty...
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Watching Films from the Street
Street View hack showing Jim Jarmusch's Mystery Train (via) Hacking Google Street View is nothing new. For years, dorks with too much free time have been turning the popular, free mapping service on...
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Is DDoS the New 'Sit-In'?
In December 2010, Keith Downey, a self-taught programmer logged into an Anonymous chat room from his home in Jacksonville, Fl. to join a giant attack on PayPal. Anonymous had called for reinforcements...
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