You Have To See This French Animated Steampunk Movie
The French, steampunk anime April and the Extraordinary World is the rousing, science-based adventure you wanted Disney’s Tomorrowland to be. It’s simultaneously an exciting roller coaster ride, while...
View ArticleAirbus's Perlan 2 High Altitude Sailplane Soars For The First Time
The Airbus Perlan 2 glider made a successful first flight on Wednesday, paving the way for a promising future of high altitude soaring. The manned aircraft was towed to an altitude of 5,000 feet before...
View ArticleSoar Over The Surface Of Pluto’s Moon In This Close-Up Flyover Video
The latest feed from the New Horizons mission is here, allowing us all a view of what it’s like to fly over the largest of Pluto’s five moons, Charon. And it’s amazing.So amazing, in fact, that it’s...
View ArticleWhat Happens When Guillermo del Toro's Crimson Peak Plays The World's Best...
If Guillermo del Toro wasn’t making movies, he’d be a Fantastic Fest attendee. He’s just one of those guys who lives and breathes, not just cinema, but weird, creepy, tense and gory cinema. So for him...
View ArticleThe Nile River is a Glowing River of Light Snaking Across a Darkened Planet
Our planet is truly gorgeous. The rich orange lights of cities marking the complex geography of humans scrabbling in the dust, the bright white clouds drifting with the winds, and the pale green...
View ArticleJonathan Coulton's Brand New Portal Song Is a Fantastic Companion to "Still...
Who doesn’t love Jonathan Coulton’s contributions to the Portal games? They’re fantastic, entertaining songs, and he’s just written another one. You Wouldn’t Know was written for Lego Dimensions, and...
View ArticleIn 1972, Science Fiction's Best-Known Authors Went On One Hell Of A Cruise
In 1972, a number of notable SF authors and scientists boarded the S.S. Statendam for a unique experience: witness the night launch of Apollo 17. Some of the biggest names in science fiction and...
View ArticleThis is Video Highlights How Incredibly Slowly Philae Landed on its Comet
A new real-time video of Philae’s descent shows it took the probe longer to drift from Rosetta down to the surface of Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko than it would’ve taken you to walk the same...
View ArticleA Firefighter Is Captivated By Flames In This Gorgeous Animated Short
In Wildfire, a firefighter is utterly captivated by the flames which surround her, and it’s an obsession that begins to spill into her personal life. This short film is brilliantly animated, and it’s a...
View ArticleJoin The Brainery Online Writer's Workshop To Level Up Your Short Fiction
Looking to level up your short fiction game? The Brainery Online Writer’s Workshop has a course in short fiction starting up this week!The short fiction workshop will be taught by Valerie Valdes and K....
View ArticleThe Supermoon Eclipse Is This Weekend and Here's How to Watch It
Got plans for the weekend? You do now, friend! There’s a Supermoon Eclipse on Sunday night into Monday morning—and we’re all going to watch it. Here’s how, when, and also why to catch the Supermoon...
View ArticleOpen Channel: Blood-Red, Supermoon Eclipse Edition
So, tonight is the big #superbloodmooneclipse event that happens only every couple of decades. The next time this event will happen? 2033. Staying up tonight? Share your pictures and thoughts in the...
View ArticleMobile Gaming Didn't Kill The Vita -- Sony Did
I have long been a fan of the PlayStation Vita. So this quote from one of Sony’s head honchos about portable gaming seriously bums me out.Here’s Shuhei Yoshida at a recent Q&A, as transcribed by...
View ArticleThe Secrecy Surrounding New Star Wars Toys Is Even More Intense Than You Imagine
The mega-merchandisers behind the Star Wars tie-in empire have not yet begun to toy, according to a fine behind-the-scenes feature by Michael Grothaus in Co Design.The post takes us inside the...
View ArticleDeleted Age of Ultron Scene Explains Why Thor Was Playing in That Pool (Kind Of)
Avengers: Age of Ultron was pretty disjointed in places, but the disjointed-est moment had to be the scene of Thor thrashing about in that pool, hallucinating something-or-other, for no apparent...
View ArticleWhy Did This Woman Live the Lie That She'd Been Murdered ... for 31 Years?
In 1984, 24-year-old Petra Pazsitka was living in Braunschweig, Germany, studying computer science—until the day she was reported as missing after failing to return from the dentist. At one point, the...
View ArticleThis Week's TV: Is Agent Simmons Gone For Good on Agents of SHIELD?
How on Earth (or Asgard) is SHIELD going to get back its most amazing science expert? And will she be the same when she returns? Plus can Sleepy Hollow bounce back? Also, Parasyte makes its nocturnal...
View ArticleOn Masters of Sex, Virginia Makes A Run For It, And I Don't Blame Her
How bad can one day of work at Masters and Johnson’s Reproductive Biology Research Foundation be? At this point in the season, bad enough to convince Virginia Johnson to park her kids with her dad, and...
View ArticleThis Worm Is Shockingly Bad at Being a Worm
This worm is known informally as the “fried egg worm.” From the color scheme alone, you can tell it doesn’t want to be a worm, and its behavior proves it.Scientists only cataloged Archipheretima...
View ArticleHigh Rise Is One Of The Most Manic, Dark, And Oddly Watchable Films You'll...
The most amazing thing about Ben Wheatley’s High Rise is its tone. Its feeling. Some how it’s a film that’s intense, funny, scary, disturbing, and aloof all at the same time. Sometimes though, that mix...
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