Just sayin'. Read the rest

In children, symptoms of sleep deprivation include hyperactivity and impaired interpretation of social cues. Read the rest

Here’s episode 6 of Circuit Playground, a charming show that teaches kids about electricity. It’s produced by our friends at Adafruit. In this episode, Ladyada teaches Adabot about electrical grounding.

Fun with poop and bats and flesh-eating plants of the Pacific. Read the rest

The embattled interim CEO of Reddit, who became all the more embattled after the sacking of a popular admin left unpaid mods outraged, is leaving the company. Read the rest

I’ve taken a couple of lockpicking workshops. It was supremely rewarding when I successfully opened a lock using lockpicking tools. Here’s a transparent padlock that shows you how the internal components work, making it easier to learn how to pick locks. Read the rest

The American Psychological Association asked a former US attorney to investigate ‘collusion with the Bush administration to promote, support or facilitate’ torture. Read the rest

This quacked me up.

Stephenson’s new novel doesn’t generate the kind of excitement for the future that we’ve come to expect from the author of Snow Crash, The Diamond Age, and Anathem. Read the rest

Logos flicker on failing monitors, propped up in a quilt of urban junk. Light glitters on seawater beneath jutting pylons. Flowers swell up from the broken floorboards of an abandoned church… Read the rest

“Once I started playing the role of Invisible s.o., it was strange and, due to a five-minute timer on every message, stressful.” Read the rest

On July 14, 2015, New Horizons will take the first close-up pictures of Pluto, exactly 50 years to the day after Mariner 4 flew by Mars and took the first close-up pictures ever of another planet.Read the rest

The Danish Sculpture by the Sea festival includes a massive piece called Infinite Bridge extending out into the Thors Møllebæk River. Read the rest

After doing some digging, why not relax with some charcuterie and vodka? A knife acts as a cap for a handle flask on this clever Russian shovel.

Sharkcano! National Geographic ocean engineer Brennan Phillips sent a camera into Kavachi, an active underwater volcano in the Solomon Islands. He was surprised to find species of sharks living in the volcanic plume. Read the rest

Alex of Weird Universe wrote: “Sounds to me like Anna Hindman had good cause for wanting to divorce her husband [in 1938], namely a) his belief that 4 hours sleep is all anyone needs, and b) wiring her bed to shock her every 4 hours to prevent her from sleeping longer than that. Read the rest

Quora asked the question. Bits & Pieces selected a few example answers:Read the rest

Schuylkill County Prison in Pennsylvania feeds inmates portions that are “not even enough to fill a 5-year-old child,” according to a group of prisoners who have filed a federal civil rights lawsuit. Read the rest

“It doesn’t matter if I know the person: I’ve walked right past my husband, my own mother, my daughter, my son, without being able to recognize them.” — 47-year-old consultant, writer, and part-time EMT, with developmental prosopagnosia. Alexa Tsoulis-Reay interviewed her for Science of Us.Image: Shutterstock

Ted Cruz must not have a lot of confidence in his new book, A Time For Truth. Rather than let the book makes its way to the top on its own, he and his publisher Harper Collins resorted to sneaky tactics to ensure high sales. Read the rest

A Gallup poll reports that half of Americans don’t worry that our roads will become less safe as more states legalize weed. Read the rest

It’s been extra windy in Denmark recently, and the country’s 3,768 wind farms are producing more power than its residents can use. Read the rest

For seven year Disney World segregated postal carrier Gurdit Singh from visitors and other staff members because his facial hair and turban violated the resort’s “Disney look” policy. Read the rest

Easy as it may be, New Republic has a guide for absolute beginners who feel comfortable having at least read the manual.

The makers of Holus, a “holographic display,” broke all the rules in the book. They posted fake CGI renderings of what’s described elsewhere as a “Pepper’s Ghost”-style optical trick, yet claim to “convert any digital content from a computer, tablet or smartphone into a 3D hologram.” The viewing angles and qualities depicted are technologically unlikely. They only wanted $40k, but research and manufacturing costs could surely not be so tiny, suggesting crowdfunding as a VC-marketing vehicle. Most oddly, they even used a Kickstarter “Staff Pick” badge; when challenged, Kickstarter disclaimed interest in the unofficial use of the badge. The big question, from Joanie Lemercier, an artist and engineer who specializes in projections and holograms: is Kickstarter covering a scam? Read the rest

Tomorrow’s will be even better. And the day after that, and the day after that… Read the rest

Quick! When you think of cereal, who says, “Theeey’re great!” Who’s the suave yet finicky cat peddling Nine Lives? The patch-eyed comic punk selling gum? Read the rest

Joel Johnson, freshly out of Gawker’s top editorial role, reports on what Apple may achieve by facilitating ad- and content-blocking in the next version of iOS: leverage over publishers. Read the rest

I had a big smile watching Modern Family writer Danny Zuker runs comedic circles around Donald Trump on Twitter. The presidential candidate’s rejoinders to Zuker’s spot-on zingers consisted of name calling — “boring,” “moron,” “loser,” “very dumb,” “stupid.”Read the rest

Tatyana Fazlalizadeh is a Brooklyn artist who tried something new to speak up for herself—and address street harassment—through art. Read the rest

N&B Gaming commemorated US marriage equality with a fabulous GTA V rainbow dance party, till the cops showed up. Stick around for hilarious outtakes. Read the rest

Can you solve "the prize puzzle of British criminal jurisprudence"? Read the rest

Melissa McCarthy, Kristen Wiig, Kate McKinnon, and Leslie Jones! The photo (and more) were posted to gaming forums NeoGAF. Looking forward to this.

Sock ‘im! A right! A left! A … gahhhh! You let ‘im too close!

Jesse Vincent has productized the scratch-built split keyboard he built and is kickstarting a production run.

German MEP Julia Reda’s brilliant recommendations for reforming EU copyright have passed the European Parliament, and the dastardly attempt to make it illegal to take “commercial” photos in public places has been killed.

Tom Selleck, best known as Magnum P.I., has apparently settled, at least tentatively, with the Ventura County water district after the actor was accused of stealing water from a fire hydrant and trucking it to their 60-acre ranch. Read the rest

As previously posted, Pope Francis plans to chew coca leaves and already drank tea infused with coca, the raw ingredient in cocaine, during his visit to Bolivia.Psychedelic historian Michael Horowitz points out that Francis is following in the footsteps of Pope Leo XII who appeared in an advertisement for the coca-infused French wine Vin Mariani, popular in the late 19th century. Read the rest

From Russia’s masters of science fiction comes a manorhouse murder mystery parody that puts Clue to shame. The Dead Mountaineer’s Inn is every bit as clever, and queer, a novel as I’ve come to expect from the brothers Strugatsky. Read the rest

Lena says, “HuffPost Highline just posted an article about Jackie Fuchs (aka Jackie Fox), who was a member of 70s band The Runaways. Read the rest

I was a mechanical engineer in the 1980s. I was a quality assurance engineer and a development engineer in the disk drive industry. Read the rest

The age of 3D is upon us, and the 3Doodler is changing the way we draw with its one-of-a-kind functionality. With the 3Doodler, you can freestyle scribble or draw solid, stable objects and crafts by extruding heated plastic filament in mid air. Read the rest

It’s about time.South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley, just now: “”The Confederate flag is coming off the South Carolina Statehouse. Tomorrow morning at 10:00am, we will see the Confederate Flag come down,” she added, “with dignity.”Read the rest

The new number is a lot higher than the 14 million figure investigators offered last month. Read the rest

If someone in your life is confused by the recent Supreme Court ruling legalizing same-sex marriage throughout the USA, show them this helpful video in which Grover and Jesse discuss what marriage is. (more…)