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Whoa, Internet Generation; McDonald's Just Nailed You
While I was browsing the ICanHasCheezburger property (for work), I came across two psychedelic ads for McDonald's, listed under "sponsored posts." Fondly remembering their failed Twitter ad efforts, I...
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The Confusing Science of Stoned Driving
Photo via Flickr / CC Let's start with a simple, unassailable premise: Operating a 3,000+ pound motor vehicle on public roads while dangerously impaired on any psychoactive substance—from opium to...
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The Adult's Guide to Making an Old Fashioned
Being an adult is hard. And in our vast techno-digital landscape, we've no one to guide us, to tell us what we need to learn to be proper, respectable grown-ups. To try and figure things out,...
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High Country: A Mind-Melting Journey Through the Silicon Valley of Weed (Part 2)
Please enable Javascript to watch this video Watch Part I of High Country here. David Bienenstock doesn't just smoke weed. He is weed. Cannabis is his mantra, his well-being and raison d'être. Hang...
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Rap Genius Has an Empire, the State In Mind
Tom Lehman, Ilan Zechory and Mahbod Moghadam onstage at TechCrunch Disrupt NY on May 1, 2013. Photo by Brian Ach/Getty Images for TechCrunch Forget about music for a moment. Anyone who’s been to a...
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Meet the Oldest Primate on Record Yet
Here's an artist's rendition of the old coot. Don't make fun of his feet, via Mat Severson, Northern Illinois University Say hello to one of your oldest ancestors: Scientists have discovered and...
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Control Your Heat via Waving and WiFi
Computer scientists at the University of Washington are devising a way for you to control your lights, your music, even your thermostat, with nothing but your Wi-Fi router, and a wave of your hand....
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Robot Journalists Are Closer Than You Think
It's impressive that someone took such a fitting photo back in 2008. Via Lindsey Turner/Flickr We all know robots are stealing our jobs doing physical stuff—like manufacturing, nursing, driving, yadda...
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Creating the Microscopic Shard Art of Jon Hopkins''Immunity'
For his latest album Immunity, electronic musician Jon Hopkins collaborated with biochemist turned artist Linden Gledhill and art director Craig Ward. Together Ward and Gledhill created a series of...
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Even Hedge Fund Managers Get Suckered by Nigerian Prince Scams
Image: Wikimedia Commons James Altucher is a hedge fund manager, entrepreneur, and self-help business book guru. He was a columnist for Financial Times, sold a startup called StockPickr for $10...
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The US Has "Little to No Chance" of Meeting Its Ethanol Production Targets
Photo: Tobin/Flickr As if corn ethanol needed another strike against it, a new study in Environmental Science and Technology takes a look at how climate change will effect corn yields in the US. The...
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Hiding Data with Temporal Cloaking Might Thwart Surveillance
Simulated light waves undergoing a temporal cloaking effect. In the middle, light intensity is reduced to zero. Image from Lukens et. al As states seek even greater surveillance powers, citizens and...
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Half of All Americans Are Now Checking Their Smart Phones 150 Times a Day
Image: Flickr Fresh new data from the Pew Research Center reveals that a clear majority of American adults are now smart phone owners. A full 56% of America use iPhones, Androids, and the like as...
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Catching Particle Fever: A Chat with Higgs Boson Documentarian Walter Murch
Courtesy of Particle Fever The new documentary Particle Fever tells the story of the search for the Holy Grail of physics, the Higgs boson. Even before the moment when scientists flipped the switch...
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The Court Transcript of Everything Bradley Manning Told Adrian Lamo Is...
Image: Courtroom Sketch, US Military Earlier this week, Adrian Lamo took the stand to testify in Bradley Manning's court martial. Lamo, of course, is the attention-seeking ex-hacker who turned Manning...
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Finally: Weed Goes to Space
In today's let's-send-seemingly-random-shit-to-space news, here's 95 cannabis seeds, one cannabis clone, and one fat joint getting lifted 19 miles above the Earth aboard a weather balloon. Because...
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Sulfur Batteries Could Power Your Smartphone Four Times Longer
Chengdu Liang shows off his newly-created lithium sulfur battery, which could let you play smartphone games way longer, via Oak Ridge National Laboratory If you're anything like me, you know that when...
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How We Came to Misunderstand Meritocracy
Much to the chagrin of the man who coined the term half a century ago, we’re missing the point, according to an old op-ed that has been circulating on Twitter this week. “I have been sadly...
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The Video Game Helmet That Can Hack Your Brain
Reshil-Marie Torrevillas, a research assistant in Nicole Prause's lab, wears an Emotiv. For brain scientists Greg Siegle and Nicole Prause, understanding the brain is really tricky, and it's...
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Is Anyone Really Surprised the NSA Is Currently Spying on Millions of Americans?
Image: Emory Allen/Flickr Verizon is currently handing over millions of customer phone records to the National Security Agency, on a daily basis, thanks to a secret court order revealed by a...
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