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Introducing Hate, the Map
Holy shit, Americans are assholes (via Floating Sheep) In a lot of ways, the Geography of Hate affirms what we already know: Americans are fucking racist. Homophobic and ableist, too. But while that...
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Hacker Andrew Auernheimer Has Been Placed in Solitary Confinement, Possibly...
Weev, courtesy the Washington County sheriff's office Andrew Auernheimer, also known as weev, is currently serving more than three years in prison for hacking-related charged. Perhaps due to his...
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The Student Loan Bubble Looks Awfully Like the Housing Crisis, Top Bankers Say
The US’s tepid economic recovery could become derailed by yet another bubble. This time it’s student loans, warned the Federal Advisory Council, a group of a dozen bankers who meet quarterly to advise...
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The 'Ice Tsunami' Is the Most Beautiful Disaster You've Never Heard Of
Image: Ice Tsunamis forming, YouTube screenshot The Great White North was pelted by 'ice tsunamis' over the weekend: walls of ice forming on the Great Lakes were pushed inland, destroying a couple...
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What's Going on in 'Les Horlogers'?
Seriously, what the hell is going on here? Decide for yourself: In Les Horlogers ('the Clockmakers'), a new animated short by Renaud Hallée for the National Film Board of Canada, we lurch, tumble, and...
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We Don't Need More Laws to Regulate Drone Photography
Image via NASA For all the legal questions surrounding the use of drones, the legality of their use for photography and surveillance has the most direct effect on American citizens. It's still a murky...
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This Is What It Feels Like to Be Lifted On Top of the Tallest Building in the...
Construction workers finally placed the spire onto One World Trade Center aka the Freedom Tower aka the world's most belated middle finger to terrorists. Standing at 1776 feet high, it is now the...
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The Unlocking Technology Act Will Help Stop Corporate Bullying and Reform the...
George Hotz in 2007, right around the time he became the first person to unlock an iPhone. Image: Scott Beale / Laughing Squid It used to be taken for granted that a person—or “consumer,” to adopt...
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The Department of Justice Secretly Spied on the Associated Press
US Attorney General Eric Holder In what is being called a "massive and unprecedented intrusion" into a news organization, the Department of Justice has admitted that it seized two months' worth of...
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Humans Have Been Transforming the Planet for the Past 5,000 Years
Photo: dvs/Flickr Human activity has sent atmospheric CO2 concentrations to levels unseen in millions of years, and we've learned that this will harm two-thirds of all plants and animals. But as it...
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15 Years Post-Seinfeld: What's the Deal With Time Passing?
Photo via Wikimedia Commons Fifteen years since the last new episode aired (and disappointed) a nation, the main characters of “Seinfeld” are back on the walls of the New York subways. At the Nostrand...
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These Guys Want to Obliterate Passwords
Image via EdwinMSarmiento/Flickr After 50 years of hiding our valuables behind passwords, a world without the ubiquitous security measure may sound scary to some, utopian to others. In any case, a...
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Researchers Try to Bust Depression by Unravelling Sleep Cycles
If you’ve spent time within the bleak doldrums of major depression, you almost certainly have some understanding of the unique relationship that one suffering from major depressive disorder (MDD) has...
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The World's Rarest Element Might Help Fight Cancer
The Resonance Ionization Laser Ion Source, which was instrumental to the new study, at ISOLDE, courtesy the University of York Never heard of astatine? You're not alone—it's the rarest...
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Iceland Is Droning So Hard Right Now
via Sverrier Karl Not that sort of droning--no double-tap strikes, here. No signature strikes. I'm talking about leading-edge natural resource management and power inspection. When it comes to these...
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The Conspiracy Theory About Obama Hoarding Ammo Is Causing Real Trouble
The Infowars folks aren't taking government ammo hoarding lightly. Last month, conservative blogger Matt Drudge tweeted that he predicts 2013 will be the "year of Alex Jones," the conspiracy theorist...
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Mount Everest's Glaciers Shrank by Hundreds of Feet in the Past 50 Years
Photo: Göran Höglund/Flickr Here's another piece of the picture of the Himalayan glaciers melting: Researchers from the University of Milan have documented the extent of glacier retreat on Mount...
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How Chat Rooms and Brooklyn Neighborhoods Ended America's Obsession With Cars
Image: Flickr For decades, the automobile has reigned supreme over the hearts and minds of America's youth. But sometime over the last decade, the car's dominance finally began to slip—and its twin...
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Colgate Is Trying to Patent Caffeinated Toothbrushes
Image via mbsurf/Flickr There are few drugs more readily available to 21st century Americans than caffeine. It long ago made the jump from coffee and sodas into energy drinks and guarana-infused...
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Skylab, NASA's First Space Station, Was Nearly a Disaster
The Skylab Space Station launched on May 14, 1973. It was the last time a Saturn V rocket flew. Via Wikipedia Today marks 40 years since NASA’s first space station, Skylab, was launched into orbit. It...
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