George Barris, Designer Of The Original Batmobile, Reportedly Passes Away
The most iconic custom car builder of the most iconic custom cars to grace a TV screen, George Barris, is reportedly dead.The news comes from a number of outlets citing a private Facebook post from his...
View ArticleIt's All a Numbers Game at the Annual Coral Orgy
The corals of Australia’s Great Barrier Reef are having their annual orgy. Although some corals brood their eggs in their bodies, or bud off clones, most of the Great Barrier Reef’s corals–140 species...
View ArticleThe Pacific Rim Comic Has Just the Right Mix of Tragedy and Giant Robots
Pacific Rim fans will know that setting any piece of tie-in material before the events of the movie usually can only end up one way: with most of its protagonists and their lovely giant robots dead,...
View ArticleWe Finally Know What Happened to Water on Mars
Mars today (despite the presence of a small amount of a liquid water) is a dry, frozen place. But this was not always the case. Ancient Mars was likely warm and wet, much like Earth. So what happened...
View ArticleTo This Day, I Am Terrified of The La Brea Tar Pits
Outside the La Brea Tar Pits and Museum, there’s an installation. In a still-bubbling lake of asphalt, a mammoth drowns to death while a crying baby mammoth reaches out its trunk. This is one of the...
View ArticleGorgeous, Grotesque Art That Ruins Your Childhood Can Soon Live On Your...
We’ve followed artist Dan LuVisi’s trippy, twisted, surreal takes on popular characters for a while. Now LuVisi’s collection, Popped Culture, is on Kickstarter. Let’s take a look at some of the...
View ArticleThere's a Kegel Exerciser Designed to Give Men Taints of Steel on Kickstarter...
Wait–men do Kegels? If you’ve heard of the exercises at all, it’s as a way for women to tone up their vaginas after they’ve been stretched to the max by childbirth. Minna Life, makers of the...
View ArticleThis is Your Brain Without Gravity
What happens to your brain when you have no sense of up? Researchers are scanning the brains of astronauts to track just how badly space messes with our ability to think.Without a sense of up or down,...
View ArticleA scifi story with an Amish hero?
A scifi story with an Amish hero? Sure, why not? Author and “off-gridder” Michael Bunker’s Pennsylvania has just been tapped for feature-film development. It’s about an Amish man whose dreams of...
View ArticleHorrified Doctors Find "Crazy" Tapeworm Cancer in Patient’s Brain
In a case that doctors are describing as “crazy,” a 41-year-old Colombian man was found to host cancerous tapeworm tumors in his brain and other bodily organs. The man, who recently died of...
View ArticleYour Next Heist Needs This Cash Carrying Bag That Blocks All Tracking Signals
If Ocean’s Eleven taught us anything, it’s that planning heists is tough but entertaining. The authorities have all kinds of devices that can be used to track your stolen loot, so item number one on...
View ArticleStudy Every Crack On Kylo Ren's Helmet With This Amazing New Collectible
The latest trailer from Star Wars: The Force Awakens featured our best look at at Kylo Ren’s mask. It’s cracked, weathered, frightening and that raised a ton of questions. Well, a brand new collectible...
View ArticleComet Orbiter Rosetta's Dramatic Finale Will Leave You Misty Eyed
Comet orbiter Rosetta has captured our hearts these past twelve months, but like all space probes before it, this one will eventually be put out to pasture. Of course, a productive scientific mission...
View ArticleSpotted Skunks Dance Better Than You, Then Spray You in the Face
Practiced for hours and feeling proud of your handstands? Spotted skunk will put you utterly to shame with its elaborate dance warning any who dare approach that it’s locked, loaded, and ready to...
View ArticleRelive Star Wars Through All of the Original 1977 Toy Commercials
You’ll have a newfound appreciation for the vast selection of Star Wars toys on store shelves these days after spending the next 15 minutes watching every last commercial for the original collection...
View ArticleThe Most Ludicrous James Bond Supervillain Schemes Of All Time
James Bond is known for his insane gadgets, but also for his totally unglued villains. When it comes to Rube Goldberg schemes, James Bond’s enemies reign supreme. To prove it, we’ve got a clip where...
View ArticleToday's Best Deals: Pet Gear, Perry Ellis, Soft Serve, 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 ArticleYes, Guinness’ Beer Recipe Uses Fish—And That Shouldn’t Bother You
Guinness recently announced that they were making a change to their two century-old recipe, one that wouldn’t make any use at all of fish bladders. Wait, said many people. Guinness has fish in...
View ArticleThat Time a Chunk of the Moon Went to the Space Station
Meteorites transport rocks all around this giant solar system of ours, but no rock’s journey is quite as strange as the lunar sample 10072,41 that went from the moon to the Earth, up to the space...
View ArticleThis Samurai Spider-Man Figure Does Whatever a Japanese Spider-Man Can
Tamashii Nation’s amazing Star Wars “movie realization” series, which takes the Galactic Empire’s most iconic designs and turns them into armor for classical Japanese samurai warriors, is absolutely...
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