A Samurai Watches Everything Change In Thundercat's Video For Them Changes
Thundercat’s delightful video for Them Changes has been playing here all day in the background. The direction from Carlos Lopez Estrada is fantastic, and the music isn’t bad either.
View ArticleQualcomm Unveils its First Computer Board for Drones
Qualcomm, one of the world’s leading developers for smartphone chips, marched into the consumer drone market this week with a platform that could soon be steering a new generation of UAVs with bigger...
View ArticleBritain's Royal Mail Celebrates The Force Awakens With A New Set Of Stamps
It’s time to get a pen pal in the UK. The Royal Mail has announced that they’re going to be issuing a new set of Star Wars themed stamps! Starting October 20th, the service will issue 12 new stamps,...
View ArticleScience Fiction's Best Editors Are Tweeting You Some Recommendations
We’re living in a new ‘golden age’ of short science fiction. Fear not: there’s a new Twitter feed, curated by some of the genre’s top editors, recommending the best new SF: SFEditor Picks. The editors...
View ArticleOver 200 New "Moonquakes" Discovered in Apollo 16 Data
The Apollo moon missions ended over 40 years ago, but incredibly, scientists are still learning from them. Case in point: A team of researchers has unearthed 210 previously unknown “moonquakes” in a...
View ArticleHow visually similar Indiana Jones 4 was to the original movies
Very few people enjoyed Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull. Actually, I’m not sure if there was a single person who ever watched an Indiana Jones movie before who liked the movie. But...
View ArticleHere's Your First Glimpse Of The Live Action Jungle Book Film
The first trailer for Jon Favreau’s live action Jungle Book is set to drop tomorrow, but Disney has released a Vine to whet our appetites for the film. There’s not much in the six seconds. Lots of...
View ArticleMessage to Aliens Needs to Reflect Gender Equality and Diversity, Experts Say
If intelligent aliens are out there, we don’t want them to think we’re a bunch of backward fleshy bigots. A competition organized by the Breakthrough Initiative is offering a million dollar prize to...
View ArticleSunday's Best Deals: Apple Laptops, Gilmore Girls, Gaming Mouse, and More
Here are the best of today’s deals. Get every great deal every day on Kinja Deals, follow us on Facebook and Twitter to never miss a deal, join us on Kinja Gear to read about great products, and on...
View ArticleWhere do you go when you want to do some research on the history comic books...
Where do you go when you want to do some research on the history comic books and comic art? Michigan Live highlights the The Michigan State University Libraries’ Comic Art Collection, which houses a...
View ArticleSuper Mario Bros. Turns 30 Today -- When Did You First Play?
On September 13, 1985, Nintendo released Super Mario Bros. for the Family Computer (Famicom) in Japan. My first encounter with the heroic plumber came a year later at a local bar. The game that many...
View ArticleThe Ready Player One Film Has Found Its Art3mis
Steven Spielberg has found his leading actress for his upcoming adaptation of Ready Player One: Olivia Cooke. She’s expected to play Art3mis, one of the novel’s leading characters....
View ArticleWhat Heritability Looks Like
I am talking to people looking for actual geneticist to do actual genetics work. This is very strange. Genetics, the study of inheritance, is rarely done anymore. This brings me to a problem of how I...
View ArticleAll The Ways Vancouver Is Like A Weirdly Familiar Character Actor
Rejoice! Tony Zhou has released his latest installment of Every Frame A Painting: this time, the focus is on how Vancouver always used as a setting for cities around the world, but never itself. It’s...
View ArticleNow You Can Help Scientists Track Animals in Mozambique From Your Sofa
Everyone wants to help the environment, but all of that actually doing stuff takes a lot of effort, right? Then good news as a new project has launched which will let ordinary people, with no...
View ArticleRoadside Picnic Is The Latest Novel To Become A TV Show
Soviet-era novel Roadside Picnic by Arkady and Boris Strugatsky is the latest novel to be adapted for television, according to Deadline. The adaptation will be written by Jack Paglan (Transcendence),...
View ArticleGo Download the NASA Graphics Standards Manual Right Now—For Free
One nice thing about government agencies is that many neat things they produce are ultimately free to the citizens. Keeping with that tradition, NASA just released the graphics standards manual behind...
View ArticleStarCraft II: Legacy Of The Void Launches November 10
The second expansion pack for StarCraft II will officially launch on November 10, Blizzard revealed today during the World Championship Series season three finals live on Twitch. The release date...
View ArticleKickstart This: Hugo Awards Long List Anthology
We all know about the Hugo Award finalists: the tiny handful of stories published every year that voters select above all others. But what about the other books recommended? A new anthology is set to...
View ArticleThis is How Ebola Resists Treatment with Antibody Cocktails
Ebola can evolve quickly to “escape” the antibodies in treatments like ZMapp, but researchers are a step closer to understanding how mutations help the virus resist treatment.Antibodies are proteins...
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