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Carrie Fisher Will Return as an Elderly, Possibly-Demented Princess Leia
The next Star Wars trilogy may end up awesome or totally terrible, but at least the old crew is buying into the idea. Harrison Ford will return as Han Solo, even if he wants to die, and now it appears...
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Why Does Daylight Saving Time Still Exist?
It's that time of year again. The time when I see all the positive tweets coming through in regards to daylight saving time. Originally introduced by Germany and the Central Powers to cut coal...
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Amateur Videos of the Russian Meteorite Actually Helped Science
A fireball streaking across the sky as seen from a driver's dashboard. via It’s been a little over a week since a sizable rock fell from the skies and exploded less than 15 miles above the Chelyabinsk...
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Stop Saying You "Believe" in Global Warming
UPDATE: Embarassingly enough, it turns out that I got clowned by a right-wing bumper sticker. The thing above can be purchased from none other than WorldNetDaily.com. Get it? Seasons are the only real...
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Microgrids Will Be a $13 Billion Industry in Five Years
A microgrid, ready for boom-time. Image: Wikimedia Commons Remember how home solar panels and small wind turbines are kind of like the 1996-era internet? How what we call distributed generation...
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Republicans Hate Lunch, Democrats Dig Croissants, and Other Observations from...
Chick-Fil-A fans protest gay marriage with fast food. Only in America, right? Via the AP Public Policy Polling published the results of a rather amusing poll today which, rather than looking at things...
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47 Turtle and Tortoise Species to Receive Greater Legal Protection
A spotted turtle keeping it real reptilian, by John J. Mosesso, NBII The CITES meeting in Bangkok has produced a lot of news about elephants, both good and bad. But the CITES treaty covers scores of...
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Google's Rumored Music Streaming Service Could Give Spotify The Chills
Would you be willing to let Google take over more of your life? Google thinks so: It's rumored to be creating a subscription-based streaming service that would undoubtedly give Spotify a run for its...
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Drones Over South By Southwest
Not in a literal sense. I'm talking about drones in the abstract, which is to say, killer drones, the kind that neutralize terrorists in other countries (and possibly this one), or that fly too close...
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Anti-Immigration Laws Are Speeding the Rise of the Robot Workforce
A Harvest Automation nursery robot lasts at least five years, works tirelessly in hot, humid greenhouse environments, and costs a onetime sum of $30,000. Guess whose jobs the Harvest bots are going to...
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Why Microsoft Is Letting Chinese Censors Spy on Skype Users
Ever talk to a friend in China over Skype? Congratulations! You've been surveilled by the People's Liberation Army. How's it feel, this Orwellian dimension? Not very awesome, right? Well, at least...
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Gaze Into These 244 Clocks and Be Revived
You don’t necessarily need 288 clocks to tell the time, but you do if you’re design studio Humans Since 1982 and you’re creating your kinetic installation A Million Times. It’s a larger iteration of...
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The Wild and Crazy World of AR-15 Modification
The AR-15 has become the most infamous gun in America in the last few month. The rifle, originally designed for United States troops in Vietnam, has been flying off the shelves since the Newtown and...
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The Knife Slices Open Gender with a Proper New Video
It is so weird that the Knife in the year 2013 seems vintage. It was only 2005/2006 when the Swedish electropop-for-lack-of-a-better term duo crossed over into the realm of big-deal indie music (and a...
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Watching 'House of Cards' from Across the Digital Divide
So, I just finished Deadwood again, a most reworthy rewatching even given the supremely unjust non-conclusion. This means that it's time for a new serial drama. The problem is that I'm pretty much out...
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This Week in Our Uncontrollably Warming Planet
Image: Reddit Another week, another onslaught of news about how catastrophically fucked our human-stuffed toaster of a planet is. News that everyone promptly and casually ignored. How could they not?...
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Iowa Is Selling One of the Oldest Government-Owned Fiber Optic Networks
Google already has a presence in Iowa, including the data center above. Might it try to scoop up a huge fiber network for cheap? Image via Google Right now, Iowa operates one of the nation’s oldest...
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What Are the Chances That an Asteroid Will Obliterate Your City?
Image: NASA One point three in a billion. Tim De Chant does the math at Per Square Mile: So you're telling me there's a chance. The leading dinosaur extinction theory has cast a long shadow over our...
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Angelo Musco's Millions of Naked, Swirling Bodies Evoke Birth, Transmigration
Tehom, 2010 Otto Rank, an early psychoanalyst and student of Freud’s, asserted in 1924 that simply being born was a traumatic event—marked, as psychologist Frederick Woolverton summarized it, by “the...
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David Gray in Iraq
"Artefacts" (low-quality excerpt), YouTube user concretezen At the center of Cyprien Galliard's show at MoMA PS1, which closed yesterday, is a piece called "Artefacts." The 32-year-old...
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