This Video Essays Looks At How Films Tell A Story By How They Arrange Their...
I’m loving this recent trend in video essays that go behind the scenes of how films are made: it’s been giving me a new appreciation for the movies that I watch, and it gives me a better understanding...
View ArticleAll Five Naked-Eye Planets Are Up at Dawn to Greet You
Are you awake before dawn? Good. Go outside. Look east. Bask in the astronomical wonder of seeing all the brightest planets out at the same time, pinpricks of worlds drifting up from the horizon....
View ArticleNASA Has Completed Welding Together The Orion Spacecraft's Crew Module
The launch of NASA’s Orion Spacecraft isn’t slated for another two years, but preparations are well underway for the first mission into deep space: engineers have just completed welding together the...
View ArticleDarth Vader Delivered A 3D Printed Arm To Boy In Need
This is awesome. Alvin Garcia Flores had been born without an arm, and the folks at Limbitless Solutions printed up and provided him with one in a presentation before his entire school. Members of the...
View ArticleLevel Up Your Writing By Applying For These 3 Writer's Workshops
If you’re a speculative fiction writer who is looking to improve their writing skills, there’s three workshops out there that are now accepting applications. These Odyssey Writing WorkshopHosted in New...
View Article19 Science Fiction Shows And Movies To Binge On While The Blizzard Has...
Winter Storm Jonas pretty much has the East Coast stuck inside this weekend, which means that you’re probably sitting in front of your television scrolling through Netflix. Allow us to help.Here’s some...
View ArticleWatch Adam Savage Ecstatically Unbox A Martian Space Suit
Adam Savage, of Mythbusters and Tested, is a known space suit geek, and he’s expressed his love for the design of the suits on The Martian quite a bit on social media. Now, Fox has sent him a suit to...
View ArticleAn Astronaut Is Shrunken When He Lands On The Phantom Planet
Released in 1961 by William Marshall, The Phantom Planet follows an astronaut who’s captured by an invisible asteroid and shrunken down to six inches by the object’s strange atmosphere.Give the film a...
View ArticleWar Is Coming In The First Warcraft TV Spot
Warcraft is hitting theaters six months from now, but the first TV spot for the film has just hit the web, showing off some new footage of the anticipated Duncan Jones movie. I’m a huge fan of Duncan...
View ArticleDoomed Stars Glisten Like Diamonds in Latest Hubble Photo
Behold Trumpler 14, a dazzling star cluster located 8,000 light-years from Earth. Situated within the Carina Nebula, it’s home to one of the highest concentrations of massive, bright stars in the Milky...
View ArticleOne-Punch Man Cosplayers, You Might Need This
Maybe not! It depends, really. But since this Korean cosplayer has a head full of hair, she needed a bald cap to pull off her One-Punch Man outfit. [Photo: Naver][Photo: Naver]Over on Naver, via...
View ArticleWe Met Uranus, Our Solar System's Weirdest Planet, 30 Years Ago Today
On January 24th, 1986, Voyager 2 swept past our system’s seventh planet, Uranus, on its way through the solar system. It was the first and last time we visited the gas giant, and we found it’s one of...
View ArticleIn Nowhere Men, Scientists Are the New Pop Idols
Rock and roll and science are commonly thought of as polar opposites: one sexy and dangerous, the other nerdy and inscrutable. But a great comic-book series imagines that the world would be a million...
View ArticleThe weird life of pioneering female pulp fiction writer CL Moore
CL Moore was one of the only women who ever wrote for famous pulp fiction magazines Weird Tales and Astounding Science Fiction during the 1930s. Now Andrew Liptak has a great article about her life...
View ArticleErik Wernquist's Video For OVERWERK's Winter Is Mesmerizing
We really love Erik Wernquist’s trips out to Mars and the solar system, and when he has a new video out, we perk up. His latest, Winter, from the electronic musician OVERWERK is a beautiful music...
View ArticleAfter 4419 Days, The World's Oldest Torrent Is Still Being Shared
On December 20, 2003, a torrent file was created for an ASCII version of The Matrix. In January 2016, after countless other albums, movies and TV shows have come and gone, it’s still active.Since...
View ArticleSunday's Best Deals: Activewear, Fallout 4, CamelBaks, and More
Cheap activewear, CamelBak hydration packs, and $40 Fallout 4 lead off today’s best deals. Bookmark Kinja Deals and follow us on Twitter to never miss a deal. Commerce Content is independent of...
View ArticleSamurai Vader And Ronin Boba Fett Realize Star Wars' Japanese Influence...
Would the original Star Wars trilogy have been better if George Lucas had steered closer to its samurai movie inspiration? It certainly would have looked cooler, as demonstrated by Bandai’s Tamashii...
View ArticleFour Idiots Dismantle an Alien Super Suit in This Exclusive Clip From Lazer Team
Lazer Team, a crowd-sourced sci-fi comedy from the team behind the web series Red vs. Blue, is almost here. It opens January 29 and will hit YouTube Red after that. But we’ve got one of the most...
View ArticleEveryone in This Animated Short Is Stuck in a Time Loop
We’ve seen things with these intricately intertwined time-loops of action before, but the remain fascinating to see executed. Every character is locked in their predestined routine, their actions...
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