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WATCH: A lady goes insane trying to comprehendcomputers
"Why is it that men understand computers so easily, but women don't?" After being driven mad by her technophobia, a hapless woman is visited by the spirit of Ada Lovelace, who patiently guides the woman back to her miserable reality. Read the rest
Watch this to learn why people lovebacon
The Science of Bacon (more…)
A celebratory SCOTUS NYAN-bow for marriage equalitywheeee!
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How we learn to be helpless—and unlearnit
Learned helplessness keeps people in bad jobs, poor health, terrible relationships, and awful circumstances despite how easy it may be to escape. Learn how to defeat this psychological trap, thanks to the work of Martin Seligman. Read the rest
A new map of the United States showing where same-sex marriage islegal
EVERYWHERE. (more…)
Boo at the Confederate flag til it burns. It'll probably make you feel better
In BooFlag, just switch on your computer mic and boo at the Confederate flag. As you do, it will slowly be lowered, and eventually it will catch on fire and burn to a little pile of ash. Read the rest
Onion: "Only 47,000 social justice milestones to go"
“This is a watershed moment for civil rights that finally brings the dream of living in an equitable society one tiny fraction of a step closer to reality,” said civil rights lawyer Helene Najjar, adding that the country could now turn its attention to closing the income gap, ending racial discrimination in law enforcement, and providing equal educational opportunities for all children, among tens of thousands of other issues." Read the rest
Supreme Court OKs gay marriage, ends nationwidebans
The Supreme Court of the United States of America has ruled that same-sex partners have a right to marry anywhere in the nation. Read the rest
Parasite playingcards
The lucky attendees at this year's meeting of the American Societe of Parasitologists got a gorgeous deck of parasite-themed playing cards into their conference bags. Read the rest
How quickly can you turn a meme into an object and back into ameme?
Adorable Llama kisses zoovisitor
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Bilbo Baggins’ Hobbit hole would cost $14m if it were in the Shires ofEngland
A U.K. realtor valued the subterranean residence at £8.5m (~$14m), on the assumption that it is situated in Worcestershire, the county J.R.R. Read the rest
Video games without people of color are not‘neutral’
The myth of white neutrality persists in the world of gaming, where black characters in fantasy games can be deemed less "realistic" than dragons. Read the rest
America’s broken promise to veterans who survived race-based chemical weapons testing inWWII
"It took all the skin off your hands," says former Army soldier Rollins Edwards. "Your hands just rotted." Read the rest
Crush your browser’s dreams by running Quake full-screen init
WebQuake is doing the rounds, today, and to my horror I found we have never posted it. Consider this sad omission remedied. [details]
Paul Krugman, EconomicsFighter
I’m too dumb to understand what the article is about, but Walter Newton’s Street Fighter-style animations for “Paul Krugman Battles The Austerians” are fabulous.
Website claims to fix “stuck”pixels
JScreenFix purports to repair pixels stuck on a certain color using nothing more than javascript and HTML. Read the rest
Ovens have terrible userinterfaces
It’s from 2013, but Tim Ellis’s wrath at the insane, incomprehensible controls of modern ovens speaks for all of us.This Jenn-Air microwave sports 34 buttons. Read the rest
Would you pay $499 for a beautiful aluminumNES?
AnalogNT is an 8-bit gaming console precision-crafted from a single block of aluminum, resulting in something beautiful but no more capable than thrift store tat. Read the rest
Wil Wheaton ondepression
In a heartfelt and frank interview (conducted by our own Caroline Siede!), Wil Wheaton discusses the moment he realized he needed help with his clinical depression, and the moment he realized that the help was helping. Read the rest
Upcycling with comics fabric makes for great nerdy women’swear
What’s inside golf balls? Watch this guy slice open 10 of them, and findout.
This video from Golf Digest is oddly captivating.(more…)
RIP Patrick Macnee, ‘The Avengers’ John Steed,1922-2015
Patrick Macnee, who brilliantly portrayed dapper secret agent John Steed in the 1960s television series The Avengers, has passed away.
How to make a working quadcopter out of the Apple Watch packagingbox
“I Watch You,” a most nifty hack by Eirik Solheim. Read the rest
Cockatoo dances to Queen’s ‘Another One Bites TheDust’
Vintage Youtubeage from 2007. (more…)
How one person “cheatedsleep”
Polyphasic sleep is a method of training your body to requiring much less sleep by taking multiple short naps throughout the day instead of one long sleeping time at night. Over at Quartz, science-trained journalist Akshat Rathi reports on his year-long experiment attempting to “cheat sleep.” Read the rest
$8 microscope clips tosmartphone
I have one of these tiny inexpensive microscopes, and it is surprisingly good. But it didn’t come with a clip to attach it to a phone camera, like this. Read the rest
Rent a camping tent in someone’s backyard near Google X for$46/night
Need a place to stay near Google X in Mountain View? John Potter is renting out a 9′ x 7′ Coleman tent in his backyard on Airbnb for $46/night. Read the rest
Tarantula hawks swarm San Antonio
A few years ago the most horrific insect I’ve ever seen chased my family while hiking in Los Angeles. Its dark bluish wasp-shaped body was gigantic, its stinger visible even from afar. Read the rest
App for subscribing to a network of clean NYCbathrooms
For $25/month, you can soon have access to a network of guaranteed clean bathrooms in New York City through a new app called Looie. The service launches in July with seven bathrooms at cafes and restaurants in TriBeCa. Read the rest
Watch the first ever TV commercial for Super Mario Bros. from1985
Approximate translation: "It's the Family Computer's Dream Adventure Game, "Super Mario Bros."! With a mysterious power, he gains a great transformation! Explore the earth, underground, the sea, the sky, and much more to see in this complete world." Read the rest
WATCH: How to detect a secret nucleartest
MinutePhysics created a simple explanation of the complicated task of detecting secret nuclear tests. There's a push underway to demand that the US and other countries legalize such inspections worldwide. Read the rest
Glow-in-the-dark patterns burned into electrocutedwood
Imgur user PapJ06 created these interesting Lichtenberg figures by electrocuting wood blocks with a modified microwave transformer, then applying glowing powder and resin. Read the rest
Happy anniversary to the Rainbow PrideFlag!
On June 25, 1978, Gilbert Baker raised the first Rainbow Pride flag in San Francisco. Last week, MoMA acquired the flag for their collection, and they have a terrific interview with the designer. Read the rest
Supreme Court explained ininfographic
Recent rulings at the Supreme Court of the United States have left some people confused at its ideological composition, traditionally held to be perfectly balanced between four liberals and four conservatives, with a "swing vote" in the middle. In order to help explain what's going on, I prepared this useful info-graphic.
Researchers developing tiny robots to travel through body and fireprojectiles
Researchers demonstrated an early proof-of-concept system in which tiny robots inside your body, controlled by an MRI machine, could self-assemble into a Gauss gun and fire projectiles to clear blockages or deliver drugs. Video below. Read the rest
Mother and baby found alive in jungle 4 days after planecrash
Last Saturday a Cessna 303 plane crashed in a Columbian jungle. The pilot died, but when rescuers arrived at the scene, 18-year-old Maria Nelly Murillo and her baby son were missing. Read the rest
A $5 magnetic ring formagicians
For $5 this simple ring, with some elvish-style script, is a pretty strong magnet!Read the rest
The voice of Siri explains the art of thevoiceover
Voice actor Susan Bennett was the original voice of the iPhone assistant Siri. It's fun to hear her use different voices in this video, made by Vox. Read the rest
Teenage magician's mind-blowing coin magic
Teenage sleight-of-hand artist Moritz Mueller performs the One Coin Routine.
COOP's big new Devil Girl embossed print from Pressure Printing
From our pal COOP and the fine artisans at Pressure Printing, this new "Devil Girl Odalisque" large-scale relief print. Read the rest
Courtney Love attacked by anti-Uber rioters inParis
Courtney Love was in the wrong place at the wrong time earlier today. Leaving Charles De Gaulle airport via Uber, thousands of taxi drivers protesting Uber held her car hostage for over an hour, breaking the car's windows and slashing its tires. Read the rest
LISTEN: Marconi Catches aMurderer
In 1910 Scotland Yard exploited a new invention, the wireless telegraph, to capture the main suspect in a gruesome murder. Read the rest
Makeup artist transforms herself into Barbie:timelapse
For those uninterested in Kandee Johnson's 13-minute Barbie makeover video, here's a 90-second timelapse. For those uninterested in the timelapse, look at the image here. For those uninterested in the image, just move along.
Pico Iyer's brilliant USC commencement speech on his encounter with Leonard Cohen, turning off technology, and not getting distracted by potato chips
This year noted author and intellect Pico Iyer gave USC's commencement address. It's a great 17 minutes for graduating college students and anyone else. Watch it here.
The Mad Max Furiosa comic, created entirely by men, is terrible aboutwomen
DC Comics recently released a comic about Furiosa by an all-male creative team, and boy does it get everything wrong. Read the rest
Obamacare prevails at SupremeCourt
A major challenge to the Affordable Care Act was dismissed Thursday in a 6-3 ruling. Read the rest
Detroit police have issued a felony arrest warrant for artist ShepardFairey
Shepard Fairey is wanted by Detroit police for graffiti. The Detroit Free Press reports that he faces "two counts of malicious destruction of property, which carry a maximum penalty of five years in jail, plus fines that could exceed $10,000." Read the rest
STD-detecting condom story "debunked"
"This is pure tabloid bait, combining some of the tabloid’s favorite things," writes Peter Yeh. "smart children, sex, and shaming people." Read the rest
Man tries to wear high heels for a day,fails
"I'm already in so much pain," he says, leaving the house in the morning. "It's astounding."After mocking women for complaining about the shoes they feel expected to wear, Brandon Cohen, a video correspondent for BroBible, agreed to find out for himself what it was like. Read the rest
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