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U.S. Accountants Finally Realized Climate Change Is a “High Risk” to the...
There are a number of plausible scenarios that may have led the Government Accountability Office to finally recognize that global climate change poses a “high” level of risk to the nation’s fiscal...
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The White Stuff: A Timeline of Almost Every Jack White Gimmick
Jack White's Third Man Records just released a three-song 7" record by Butthole Surfers frontman Gibby Haynes. But this isn't your average Butthole Surfers Valentine's Day comeback single—true to...
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CNN Drove the Same Electric Tesla Model S from D.C. to Boston No Problem
The fracas between the New York Times and Tesla continues on—John Broder, the author of the Tesla takedown, is expected to weigh in on the controversy for the third time later today. Elon Musk,...
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Russia's Dyatlov Pass Incident, the Strangest Unsolved Mystery of the Last...
This photo developed from a found roll of film shows the group setting up their final camp on February 2, 1959. Nearly 1,000 people were injured in Russia today when a meteor exploded somewhere over...
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Sublime Vehicular Poetry: This Is the Russian Dashcam Supercut Perfected
It's been an intense day in Russia, with something like 1,000 people injured after a meteor (!) exploded in the sky. It should come as no surprise that some of the best footage of the meteor came from...
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The Biggest Climate Protest in U.S. History Will Hit the White House this...
In 1970, tens of millions of Americans rose up in protest against the industrial pollution that was degrading the nation's environment. They took to the streets, they organized demonstrations, they...
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Why Your Television Needs to Stop Playing Doctor
The TV knows stuff about you. It's not as much as Facebook, of course, but it knows that if you're home during the day, there's a higher chance you're disabled or retired. Or if you're up at three in...
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The Last Sea Lab Just Barely Floats On, as NASA's Wild Asteroid Simulation...
Studying the oceans up close has arguably never been more important, what with all the effects of ocean acidification, climate change's "evil twin." It can also be difficult. And it's not cheap,...
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To Hunt Chinese Hackers, Exploit Their Human Flaws
Hackers are human beings, just like you and me. This simple but integral fact provides the foundation for cyber security as we know it. Because no matter how many firewalls they can build and zombie...
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The Curious Communist Product Placement in the Photos That Prove Hugo Chavez...
Venezuela’s Ministry of Information just released images of Hugo Chavez to prove he was indeed alive and well; here, he can be seen smiling wide as he reads a Cuban newspaper with his daughters in a...
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Is This How We Equalize the United States?
Looking around the US map, we see the lines of latitude and rivers that make logic of its divisions. When I reach for the words to explain my studies in geography, I often depend on the words of...
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Sound On Intuition Translates Body Movements Into Music
Don’t know anything about playing instruments but still want to make music? No worries, let your body do the hard work for you. That’s basically the idea behind Pieter-Jan Pieters’ graduate thesis at...
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Imagine a World Filled with $150 Cars
About five years ago, an Indian car company stunned the world when they released a car that cost just $1,800 new. The Tata Nano and its two-cylinder engine was then and remains today the cheapest car...
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The Glass of the Future Will Be Made of Solar Panels
The humans of the clean and prosperous future will never build windows or walls with plain old glass. Not when they can use solar glass instead. There are already a wide array of projects, most of...
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Spectacular Videos of Other Things That Have Exploded Entering the Atmosphere
Last Friday, that meteor that exploded over Russia was clearly the number one story on the Internet. How could it not be? 1,000 people were sent to the hospital by an exploding meteor, and, best of...
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Just Some Candy Bars
Some days you wake up and it's a federal holiday and you're all like, "Know what? I'm having a Snickers for breakfast, because hail William Howard Taft." I know I just did. In that spirit, here are a...
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Determinism and Its Enemies Are Still Waging War over the Soul of Science
Opponents of genetic determinism argue that it ignores the effects of colonialism. At either extreme of the nature vs. nurture debate, each proposes there are things in life we cannot control,...
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The F-35 Stealth Fighter Is Designed for No One
You can have three planes in one, but it will cost you. Renewed budget stress in Washington and the looming sequester that proposes fairly drastic cuts to the defense budget (along with everything...
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Video: President Coolidge Needed a Teleprompter
We've only had 44 presidents in our country's history, which makes it all the more fascinating that some of them (like Chester Arthur) aren't particularly well-recognized. Calvin Coolidge, who was...
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All TV and No Play Makes Jack a Lousy Boy
Looks like grandma had it right: Too much TV really is bad for you. It’s possible that TV is making us smarter in some ways because it’s so much more complicated and engaging than it used to be, as...
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