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You're (Probably) Not Invited: End Times Living with the Doomsday 1 Percent
Come Friday, the notorious Mayan doomsday prophecy will either send shock waves of apocalyptic destruction across Earth, killing millions and bringing an end to life as we know it, or the date will...
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Instagram Rewrote Its Terms of Service, But the New One Still Isn't Great
After the Internet collectively flipped shit over Instagram's new Terms of Service, the company has updated the ToS to roll eliminate one of its most contentious clauses, the one that discussed...
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Watch This Trailer: How 'Django Unchained' and 'To the Wonder' Sell Themselves
People tend to complain that modern trailers spoil the films they're advertising. Though I don't necessarily agree with this statement, I also understand where these viewers are coming from. Take, for...
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The Year 2012 in 50 GIFs
Two thousand and twelve was and still can be heavily defined by a full fledged renaissance of the Graphic Interchange Format, or the GIF, the 25-year-old image format that was recorded in November as...
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The Flood of Guns Is Only Going to Rise in America
In the United States at least, it is hard to remember a year that saw more unspeakable and tragic death at the opposite end of a lunatic's barrel than this one. I'm not going to recount these horrible...
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Ones and Zeros: Spider Decoys, Kickstarter Isn't Amazon, and NASA's New...
Our roundup of the best and the worst on the network at the end of the world. See last week's here. ONE: The NYTimes reinvents the webpage And it’s beautiful. The Guardian's year-end review isn't too...
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Happy Launchversary to Apollo 8, the First Manned Mission to Leave Orbit
For space nerds, the holiday season is synonymous with Apollo 8. It was the first manned mission in history to leave Earth’s orbit and a huge step towards NASA’s lunar landing just eight months later....
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The End of the World is a Game
Well, it seems like that Winter-Solstice-Mayan-Calendar-Fiscal-Cliff-Superstorm was a total bust. Even still, rest assured that society will likely continue apace with claims that "this is it," that...
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Why Can't Washington Leaders Compromise? We Don't Really Want Them To
With last night’s news that Congressional Republicans had failed to agree on “Plan B” legislation to help avoid the so-called “fiscal cliff” before Christmas—legislation that was, itself, viewed as...
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Millions of Crabs Are Invading Antarctica Right Now
There aren't supposed to be crabs in Antarctica. It's been too cold for the beclawed crustaceans to congregate round the southern pole for some 30-40 millions years. But now, thanks to some...
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This Is What Climate Change Cost the U.S. in 2012
2012 was a nasty, disastrous year when it came to weather, and climate change almost certainly made it nastier and more disastrous. Right off the bat we do the disclaimer: calculating the costs of...
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Well Of Course Someone Is 3D-Printing Records
No matter how many music formats have come since, nothing has a place in people’s hearts quite like the classic vinyl record. Try as we might to move on, we can’t seem to let it go. And now, perhaps...
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The Revolution Will Be Illustrated: Stephanie McMillan's Occupy Cartoons
History decays into images, said Walter Benjamin, but what about comics? Stephanie McMillan has been covering politics through her comics since 1992, but where does the medium fit into the era of...
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Science Discovers New Type of Magnetism, Computers Cower with Fear
Leave it to a bunch of MIT kids to discover a new type of matter and a new type of magnetism during winter break. Okay well, it wasn't exactly a bunch of kids, and they actually started working on...
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Climate Change Is Stealing Even More Water from America's Desert Cities
Standing on the bank of the Colorado River as it sluggishly enters the canyon country of Utah, a muddy non-torrent about 75 feet across, it's supremely weird to think about its significance...
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Happy Wookie Life Day: The Star Wars Holiday Special Was the Worst Thing on...
The old VHS tape of Star Wars that lived at my grandfather’s house was a fixture of our family's strange Christmas celebrations, a kind of post-present refuge from another in many communal viewings of...
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The Doomsday Clock Is Still at Five Minutes to Midnight
The world didn't end last week, obviously. In fact, the not-end-of-the-world was so dull and uneventful that the whole Mayan calendar thing was already little more than a footnote by mid-afternoon...
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Boeing's Secret to Better In-Flight Internet? The Humble Potato
Aside for those few among us who like the excuse to be offline for a few hours, people love having the Internet when they travel. Wi-fi Internet, which already blankets many terminals, has started...
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North Korea's Rocket Program Probably Had Help from Iran
A South Korean official checks part of the North Korean rocket retrieved from the ocean. Image: Reuters The North Korean rocket story keeps on going: First it became clear that the satellite sent into...
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Skyping Santa, Pooping Logs, Blackface Elves: The Holidays Are Awful
I live in a country where parents take their kids to a shopping mall, a very large indoor structure containing generally corporately-owned stores and restaurants, and wait in long lines for the...
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