Olympic Athletes Show Us Perfection
Competitive athletes in peak physical condition are surely sporting the most ideal, perfect bodies. They spend hours a day training and shaping their bodies into the strongest, leanest, most effective...
View ArticleWorld Order Video Gives OK Go a Run for Their Money
We’ve seen this video today mostly in the context of “OMG Japanese OK GO!” and we supposed we’d have to agree, but then we looked up Genki Sudo, the leader of World Order, on Wikipedia. Turns out he’s...
View ArticleModern Men and Women Look More Similar to Each Other
Skeletally speaking, that is. According to anthropologists at North Carolina State University, who have been studying skulls of men and women in Spain and Portugal from centuries past, the...
View ArticleShakespeare Makes Your Brain Smarter
William Shakespeare‘s unique use of language (or misuse, depending on whom you ask) activates a response in the brain that can “shift mental pathways and open possibilities” for further mental...
View ArticleThe X-Men Show Off Their “Magic Tricks” [Video]
This is a new clip from X-Men: First Class in which the X-Men show the CIA what they can do. And this particular trick may have appealed to J. Edgar Hoover over at the FBI. (Yahoo! Movies, DC Women...
View ArticleWokka Wokka Wokka: Urban Pac-Man [Video]
Sergej Hein, David Moya, and Julian Holland made a live-action Pac-Man short film. Gustavo and Davide ran around their city in Pac-Man and Inkey costumes. This is what happens when people get bored in...
View ArticleThe Gender Gap in Spatial Reasoning is Cultural, not Genetic
For a long time, it’s been accepted that a gender gap existed in spatial reasoning — women frequently underperformed, so therefore, it must be a biological difference between men and women. But now, a...
View ArticleWoman Completes Chicago Marathon, Then Gives Birth to a Baby
Here’s another story about a woman who won’t let impending motherhood get in the way of getting the job done: Amber Miller, who was nearly 39 weeks pregnant, ran half the Chicago Marathon this weekend...
View ArticleThis Is How the Mighty Fall: Not With a Roar But With One Small Last Breath
I’ll admit to not having much experience with the particular fandom (I won’t mention it specifically here, because I think the slow reveal is actually one of the movie’s strengths) this fan movie is...
View ArticleLadies Lounging (Uncomfortably) With Laptops
Ahhh, stock photography. Slightly more attractive people doing regular people things! But do you ever see a stock photo that makes you wonder, “Do people really do this?” Well, this collection of...
View ArticleThe World’s Oldest Yoga Teacher Is This 91-Year-Old Great-Grandmother (Says...
The Official Definitive Authority on the Extreme, Guinness World Records, has found the world’s oldest yoga teacher — or at least, as both Jezebel and the Associated Press point out, the world’s...
View ArticleTSA Confiscates Woman’s Cupcake, Promises It Will Get A Good Home…IN MY BELLY
Last week, a woman flying from Las Vegas, Nevada back to her home in Massachusetts had her frosted cupcake snack confiscated by the TSA because it was a “security risk.” Yadda, yadda, yadda, the TSA...
View ArticleWhen You Wish Upon a Shooting Corpse Star, and Other Facts About Human Death...
Mortician Caitlin Doughty is providing us a huge service: answering our questions about what happens to our dead bodies when we are no longer around to find out for ourselves. She’s been running a web...
View ArticleAlmost As Good As Gills: Scientists Create a Microparticle That Supplies...
Progress is making us lazier and lazier, amirite? Remote controls, smartphone machines, cheese in cans. And now, science is making it possible for our blood supply to receive enough oxygen to our...
View ArticleArnold Schwarzenegger Is Going To Play Conan The Barbarian Again
Look, I’m just gonna say it. Someone needs to shoot Arnold Schwarzenegger with some elephant tranquilizers and give him an intervention. The 65-year-old actor is going to reprise his role as Conan the...
View ArticleAnne Hathaway Joins the Cast of Steven Spielberg’s Robopocalypse; Can She...
Anne Hathaway just keeps getting nerdier. First she plays Catwoman. Then Fantine in Les Misérables. (Musicals are no less nerdy for not involving superheroes or sci-fi.) And now she’s joined the cast...
View ArticleThe New Terminator Film Will Actually Be a Reboot Trilogy
News on the upcoming Terminator movie has been vague up to now. We’ve known that siblings David and Megan Ellison are producing, that it has some writers, that it may or may not be a reboot, that Fast...
View ArticleGeena Davis Is The Most Badass Baddass To Ever Badass [VIDEO]
You might recall we recently posted a photo of Geena Davis donning her old A League of Their Own costume while holding her professional archery gear. Well now we know the context. The actress and...
View Article[Updated] How Siri Got Her Voice [VIDEO]
Here’s an interesting feature on “machine language,” put together by The Verge. They touch on a lot of interesting things (and there’s a small clip of Ricardo Montalban) but if you’d like to jump...
View ArticleKILL IT WITH FIRE: The Animatronic Twilight Baby [VIDEO]
If you’re easily frightened, don’t play this video. All others, prepare to be scarred for life. The supernatural baby we got in The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn was terrible…just…terrible. But what we...
View ArticleThis Blade Runner Watercolor Animation Will Blow Your Mind
This 35-minute-long version of Blade Runner was constructed by artist Anders Ramsell from a whopping 12,597 watercolor paintings, each approximately 1.5×3 centimeters small. Something about Blade...
View ArticleNeila Rey’s Nerdy Workouts Make Me Actually Want to Work Out, and That’s...
Enable JavaScript to check out our fancy slideshow. 1.Wonder Woman 2.Run You Clever Boy And Remember I see what they did there. 3.Ithilien Ranger Aka, Aragorn and his Dunedain bros. 4.TV Workout Just...
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