Chairudo built the world’s largest wooden-style coaster, inspired by El Toro at Six Flags, out of LEGO. His gigantic LEGO wooden coaster was made out of around 90,000 bricks, it measures 21 feet lo…
You know the saying: Don’t eat yellow snow. Unfortunately, a new study published in the journal Environmental Science: Processes & Impacts, suggests that you shouldn’t act…
A photo posted on reddit shows a woman shopping at a store who put together a Starfleet uniform from the Star Trek universe seemingly by accident. The pattern of the s…
Artist and director Isaiah Saxon has created a fantastic series of merit badges for nerdy achievements like rocketeer and surrealist. He created the badges for DIY, an onli…
For the past 24 hours, scientists have been lining up to sign this open letter. Put simply, the proposal urges that humanity dedicate a portion of its AI research to “aligning with human…
Sixty years ago, scientists at Bell Labs in New Jersey announced that the world finally had an efficient way to turn sunlight into electricity. On April 25, 1954, Daryl Chapin, electrical engineer,…
City in Japan’s Ehime Prefecture is a magical little island that is home to over a hundred cats. There are only about 15 human residents there, most of whom are senior citizens. A…
It’s kinda great to picture Anthony Hopkins bingeing out for two weeks solid to watch the entire series… Anthony Hopkins wasn’t a Breaking Bad fan until just a few weeks…
Our recent post on the history of the cuckoo clock inspired some research into other examples of early, non-timekeeping robot birds. For centuries, birds–pigeons and canaries in par…
Green energy solutions range from the outlandishly impractical to the simple and effective. But the best ideas for new green energy solutions will likely come in the form of passive technologi…
In 2007, Irrational Games released BioShock, a videogame that took the first-person perspective and remorseless slaughter of blockbusters like Halo and Call of Duty an…