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NORAD's Santa Tracker Dropped Google Maps for Bing
In 1955, a misprinted Sears ad telling children to call Santa on Christmas Eve accidentally gave the number for the North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD). The colonel on duty that night,...
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The 3D-Printed Gun Store Is Open for Business
A lot of people wondered if the 3D-printed gun would ever become a reality. It was about four months ago that a group of law students in Texas set out to design and contruct a gun using a 3D printer,...
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Tis the Season: How Songs Burrow Into Your Brain
I assume you've heard this song "Home" by Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros. It goes like, "Ahh, Home, Let me come Home, Home is whenever I'm with you. Ahh ..." It's probably the most parasitic...
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Merry Christmas from the Moon
The third stage of the Saturn V rocket shortly after separating from the Apollo 8 Command/Service Module, which was on its way to the moon. It would reach lunar orbit on Christmas....
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Recipes: Replace Fruitcake with Mealworms, the Protein of the Future
Oh, Christmas fruitcake, oh Christmas fruitcake. How beautiful your maraschino cherries. And yet how widely reviled and ridiculed you are. But there are stranger confections you could place on the...
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How to Replace an SNES Cartridge's Save Game Battery
One Christmas many moons ago, my parents bought me a Sega Genesis because they are really ridiculously awesome. (Is it obvious there's a "but" coming?) But, as it turned out, I ended up as the only...
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Watch a Skydiving Lunatic Set a World Record with 568 Consecutive Tumbles
The man you're watching flip in circles above is Horacio Llorens, a Spanish paraglider who just smashed the world record for consecutive infinity tumbles. An infinity tumble is basically a paragliding...
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China Wants to Frack, and Frack Hard
While fracking in the US remains a hugely contentious issue, a lack of groundwater regulation combined with an incredible thirst for energy production has led China to push for a massive fracking boom...
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An Astronaut Recorded Music in Space, and the ISS Sounds Like a Plane
Hadfield jams out in the ISS A couple days ago Canadian astronaut–and killer mustache wearer–Colonel Chris Hadfield posted a song he'd recorded aboard the International Space Station on Reddit. It got...
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Despite the Holiday Gluttony, Kids Are Getting Slimmer
If you’re a parent who celebrates Christmas, right about now your kids may be dealing with a gnarly sugar hangover from all the cookies, gingerbread, pie, candy canes, and chocolate Santas they gorged...
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Motherboard TV: Behind the Scenes of Alan Moore's "Jimmy's End"
Many of Alan Moore's comics have been adapted for the big screen, but it's no secret: not many of Hollywood's takes have met with his approval. So he went and wrote his own screenplay, the first one...
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China's Economic Boom Helped Cause 80% of Its Coral Reefs to Disappear
The Xisha Islands in the South China Sea. Image: Xinhua In the last three decades, China has seen staggering economic growth, but it's come at a cost. A swelling middle class has increased demand for...
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Why Did a Video of a Girl with Her Cat on a Treadmill Get 5.6 Million Views?
I just don't get the Internet sometimes. The New York Times's stunning "Snow Fall" interactive feature, which took an incredible amount of development work from a team of people, not to mention the...
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Why It Makes Sense to Manufacture Mac Minis in the U.S.
The notion that the manufacturing of Apple products would happen in the United States moved from rumor territory to the truth zone a few weeks ago, and now the fanboys are digging for details. This...
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In the Corporate Cult Wars, Starbucks' Secret Weapon Is Backfiring
This is a real thing: Starbucks baristas in the Washington D.C.-area are now being forced to write the words "Come Together" on coffee cups as part of the massive corporation's corporate Come Together...
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Virtual Body Technology Is Virtual Reality Made Better
Sometimes it's awesome to live in the future — or at least pretend to. It's a place where cars drive themselves, robots traverse the surface of Mars and our military is full of cyborgs. Now, thanks to...
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Disease Is Still a Major Reason Why Tropical Economies Are So Poor
The tropics: What a great place for a vacation, what a terrible place to live. According to the United Nations and the International Monetary Fund, respectively, they’re home to 41 of the world’s...
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Nobody Knows All There Is to Know About Video Games and Violence
In a Dec. 21 press conference that broke a week of silence following the mass shooting in Newtown, Conn., National Rifle Association vice president Wayne LaPierre was unequivocal: another industry...
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Astronomers Suspect They'll Find Earth's Twin in 2013
Concept art via NASA, ESA, and G. Bacon/STScI This year was a big one for exoplanets. Astronomers added a slew of candidates to the thousands-long list of potential exoplanets and confirmed fifteen...
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Congress Passed Five More Years of Warrantless Wiretapping
As the 112th Congress comes to a close it's on track to be the least productive legislative branch since the 1940s. Of all the bills that've made their way through the House and the Senate in the past...
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