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19 People Tasting Edible Play Dough for the Very First Time
Jan 13, 6:00PM
We all ate play dough as a child. Anyone who says otherwise is lying—to themselves and everyone else. But there's no reason to be ashamed! The makers of Play-Doh and its off-brand variants know that children (and if we're being honest, adults) are going to want to stick every sort of candy-colored goo they can get their hands on directly into their gaping maws. It's why play dough is deliberately non-toxic and, unfortunately, wholly devoid of any flavor whatsoever. It doesn't have to be that way, though.
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Who Do You Actually Email Nowadays?
Jan 13, 5:40PM
My email is full of spam and bills and newsletters I mean to read but never do. Rarely do I use my personal account to actually, you know, communicate with my actual friends and family. What about you?
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Scientists Flattened a Desert With Bulldozers to Study Sand Dunes
Jan 13, 5:20PM
Six years ago, a patch of land in the Inner Mongolian desert became unnaturally flat. Researchers, for the sake of science, had razed 40 acres—or the equivalent of eight city blocks—of desert. Then, for three and half years, they set up cameras and watched as small piles of sand grew and grew into full-fledged sand dunes.
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Blasting the Brain with Ultrasound Enhances Sensory Abilities
Jan 13, 5:00PM
In an experiment straight out of a comic book, Virginia Tech scientists have found a way to improve sensory abilities. All it takes is a detailed map of the brain, an ultrasound gun, and a willing patient. What could go wrong?
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AP Boston's Twitter Account Had the Best Butt Tweet of the Year
Jan 13, 4:41PM
Somebody at the Associated Press's Boston bureau is having a pretty weird Monday. A little before lunchtime their very real Twitter account announced this highly incomprehensible scoop. The tweet has since been deleted, but we're waiting on an official retraction.
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Build For Locals and Tourists Will Come: Vegas's Plan for Its Downtown
Jan 13, 4:30PM
Between the Downtown Project's area and the Arts District is the new Las Vegas City Hall, a gleaming mirage of a building surrounded by a forest of photovoltaics. This is where the city leadership moved after it leased its old City Hall to Tony Hsieh's company Zappos—a move that you can't help but imbue with some heavy symbolism.
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A Face-Tracking Marshmallow Cannon Aims Straight For Your Mouth
Jan 13, 4:00PM
Normally, you wouldn't want to have a cannon aimed at your face, much less a cannon that can see your face and follow it around. But a team of mechanical and electrical engineering students at Olin College decided to challenge that notion with their marshmallow-firing Confectionary Cannon. It's worth getting in this sucker's sights.
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Scientists to create a dying star's atmosphere here on Earth
Jan 13, 3:48PM
A team of astronomers and engineers want to reproduce the atmosphere of a red giant like the one you are seeing in this Hubble image—right here on Earth. To make this happen, project Nanocosmos will build three five-meter-long machines working with hydrogen, carbon, nitrogen, oxygen, silicon, titanium, iron and other metals at 1500 C (2732 F).
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How Old Will You Be When You Publish Your Great American Novel?
Jan 13, 3:30PM
Society places a bizarre amount of weight on when a writer or artist creates their first real successful work—blame our obsession with youth or tiger moms or whatever. Still, it's interesting to see if there's a correlation between your age and the best work of your career there's—this diagram helps us do just that.
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NSA Phone Spying Is Useless In Preventing Terrorist Attacks, Study Says
Jan 13, 3:00PM
As you probably suspected, the NSA's massive phone record collection "has had no discernible impact on preventing acts of terrorism," according to a new study. In fact—and perhaps more interestingly—the agency's real problem isn't a lack of information. It's an excess of secrecy.
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5 of the Worst Traffic Jams in History
Jan 13, 2:42PM
When not being used for poorly thought-out political revenge, traffic jams are making the lives of commuters suck on a daily basis. But sometimes, bad traffic can get spectacularly bad—even worse than fake traffic study bad. In honor of those times, we've collected some of the worst traffic jams in history.
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Sony Xperia Z1S Review: Big Camera In a Sleek Package
Jan 13, 2:00PM
Sony finally got one mostly right when it came to tablets last year, but the Japanese company has struggled more with phones. The Xperia Z is the closest thing it's had to a success, and ultimately, it left us wanting more. So, we were excited when we first saw the Xperia Z1S, which on paper looked like a champion. A 20.7MP camera without a bulbous backside? Tell us more...
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These Cloud Waves Over Venus Are Caused By Its Unseen Mountains
Jan 13, 1:57PM
How do we know that there are mountains on Venus? It is completely blanketed by high-level clouds and, at visible wavelengths, we cannot see its surface at all. Here is indirect proof for their existence.
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Gawker White House: We Can't Force Jimmy Kimmel Off the Air | Jalopnik James Bond Can Now Break The
Jan 13, 1:34PM
Gawker White House: We Can't Force Jimmy Kimmel Off the Air | Jalopnik James Bond Can Now Break The Speed Limit In Britain, Legally | Jezebel South Beach Strip Club Shut Down Amid Human Trafficking Allegations | Lifehacker Unfriend Notify for Facebook Sends an Alert When You Lose a Pal
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Nokia's Alleged Normandy Android Phone Leaks
Jan 13, 1:31PM
Could Nokia be planning to release an Android handset with a bespoke build of Google's operating system, akin to Amazon's Kindle tablet line? That's the latest trickle coming in on the Finnish company, as more insider leaks and purported press shots hit the web.
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Pioneering Womb Transplant Surgeries Prove Successful
Jan 13, 12:37PM
Nine women in Sweden have successfully undergone transplant surgery that saw them receive donor wombs from their relatives.
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From Dream to 3D Reality: The Fascinating Origins of Pixar
Jan 13, 11:40AM
Before a story about toys, before monsters went corporate, before anyone went searching for Nemo, and before twenty seven Academy Awards, Pixar was a high-end computer hardware company whose clients included the government and the medical community. The story of Pixar isn't exactly full of superheroes, adorable robots, or talking bugs. The tale of the most profitable and critically adored animation studio in the history of the world (yes, by sheer gross numbers, more so than Disney) is one filled with financial difficulties, fired Apple employees, digital printers, and an animated left hand. And it all started with a Mormon graduate student at the University of Utah.
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Two Espressos Enhance Your Long-Term Memory
Jan 13, 11:12AM
Many of us would he hard-pressed to function without our morning coffee, but now there's compelling evidence that it could actually help enhance your long-term memory.
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Just four months after its introduction, Sprint is axing its 'One Up' early upgrade plan, instead pu
Jan 13, 10:37AM
Just four months after its introduction, Sprint is axing its 'One Up' early upgrade plan, instead pushing its new "Framily" plan (which doesn't offer any option for early upgrades without paying for unlimited data). That didn't last long.
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How Computers Create Convincing Light and Shade in Graphics
Jan 13, 10:10AM
Creating rich, lush computer-generated images is no mean feat, and one of the most fundamental aspects is light and shade. This video explains how programmers and designers tackle that crucial problem.
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Netflix scored its first Golden Globe win last night, with Robin Wright scooping Best Actress in a
Jan 13, 9:42AM
Netflix scored its first Golden Globe win last night, with Robin Wright scooping Best Actress in a TV Drama for her work in House of Cards.
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The Privacy Paradox: How US Surveillance Acts Contradict Each Other
Jan 13, 9:23AM
The report from the President's Review Group on Intelligence and Communications Technologies on the U.S. government's mass spying—domestically and around the globe— has much that's good in it. As the folks handling the only ongoing case where National Security Letters have been declared unconstitutional, we also especially appreciate the recommendation that NSLs may only be issued after judicial review and subject to significant additional limitations. We appreciate their strong endorsement of strong, non-backdoored encryption. And we never thought we'd see a presidential panel explain the risks posed by the government's stockpiling of Zero Days rather than making sure that they are fixed.
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In an interview with Bloomberg, Blackberry's CEO John Chen said that the future of the brand is in h
Jan 13, 8:56AM
In an interview with Bloomberg, Blackberry's CEO John Chen said that the future of the brand is in hardware keyboards. "I personally love the keyboards," he said, "so you will look to Blackberry going forward to do keyboards — I wouldn't use the word exclusively, but predominantly." Welcome to the past!
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Sometimes the Only Explanation For Your Computer Fault Is Witchcraft
Jan 13, 8:40AM
Despite being so user-friendly on the whole, computers are incredibly complex systems. So complex that sometimes—just sometimes—the only explanation for a fault is that it must be haunted or something. Just blame the ghost in the machine. [XKCD]
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This postcard took 44 years to reach its recipient because of the Stasi
Jan 13, 3:40AM
In 1969, Günter Zettl was a 18-year-old student in Waren an der Müritz, a little town in East Germany. Zettl liked to listen to prohibited Western radio stations and one day he decided to participate in a music contest by sending a postcard. Unfortunately, the communist version of the NSA got it first.
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