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Huge Communities of Crayfish Are Living Right Underneath The Prairies
If you ever spend a humid night walking around the American prairie, you might run into one of these. It’s a prairie crayfish, and it and all of its friends have been living under your feet.We see...
View ArticleHere's What Happens When You Throw Water Into Hot Oil
It’s a bad idea to try to put out an oil fire with water, and this video will show you why. It will also show you a drop of water crazily growing and shrinking, over and over, inside some hot oil.Here...
View ArticleThe World's First Rap-Battle Action Musical Is Here—And It's Spectacular!
What you see here might not compute. It might not seem real. But let me tell you that not only is Tokyo Tribe real, it’s magnificent. An off-the-wall, insane film that’s simultaneously a rap musical...
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Spend Your Weekend Breaking Down Identity And Bodies With Some Radical New...
The annual Photoville festival, filling a bunch of Brooklyn shipping containers with artwork, is happening this weekend. And one of the containers is being curated by artist Claire Christerson, who...
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The night time view of the Aurora Borealis
I wasn’t exactly sure what I was looking at. And then things started to make sense, you can see the city lights outline the US and the geographical footprint of other places and then this swirl mixture...
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Saturday's Best Deals: Buy Your Own Modem, $19 Bluetooth Speakers, 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 ArticleThe Guardian Is Your Thought Provoking Animated Video For This Weekend
This short film threw me through a loop with its minimalist and surrealist animation. The Guardian, directed by Alessandro Novelli, is a really well executed short, and it’s well worth watching several...
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We Really Wish This Sci-Fi Air Show Existed In This Reality
Airshows are always really awesome to visit, but what if you could walk up to your favorite science fiction spacecraft? That’s the aim of the Sci-Fi Air Show, a digital project that puts fictional...
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Risk: Star Wars Edition Lets You Conquer an Entire Galaxy, Not Just Earth
You know the sense of satisfaction you get from conquering an entire planet while playing Risk? Well imagine what it must feel like when you take over an entire galaxy. If that’s not enough reason to...
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Could Cory Doctorow's Little Brother Become The Next Hunger Games?
Hollywood’s appetite for YA dystopian thrillers isn’t dying down anytime soon. According to Deadline, Paramount Pictures has picked up Cory Doctorow’s novel Little Brother for a potential franchise....
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Video: The process of hand making a book the old fashioned way is a lost...
Anthony Bourdain’s Raw Craft takes a look at Arion Press in San Francisco in its latest episode and examines how this tiny printing shop carries on the legacy of printers of the past. It’s almost...
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Mother Says Book on Cancer Cell Research Is Too 'Pornographic' for Son's School
A Tennessee woman is claiming that The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, a biography of a black woman whose cervical cancer cells were taken without her consent and used for medical research (a book...
View ArticleWatch How Builders Made That Fantastic Armor From Lawbreakers
In the release trailer for an upcoming game called Lawbreakers, you’ll spot a trio of armored soldiers riding down an elevator. It’s a cool shot, but what’s even cooler is that that armor actually...
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The Long Way To A Small Angry Planet Is This Year’s Most Delightful Space Opera
There’s no two ways around it: Becky Chamber’s debut novel, The Long Way To A Small Angry Planet is probably the most fun that you’ll have with a space opera novel this year. It’s exciting,...
View ArticleBat Blood Ignores Everything That Made Bad Blood Great
The folks behind How It Should Have Ended have gone and parodied Taylor Swift’s crazy music video Bad Blood, dumping in just about every reference that you can think of and ignore what made the...
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Listen To The Solar System Sing With This Fantastic Simulation
This is a seriously cool visualization of the solar system. What if you turned the planets into a sort of music box? That’s the point of Solarbeat, which turns the movement of the planets into music....
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In 1893, 2.5 million pounds of horse manure filled NYC streets per day
Think New York summers are pungent now? Imagine what it must've smelled like at the turn of the 20th century. Before the introduction of the automobile, horses were leaving about 2.5 million pounds of...
View ArticleThe Dozens Of Famous Characters In This Video Make One Hell Of A Party
I really appreciate a good mashup. Hell’s Club puts together dozens of famous characters into one club, and it’s spectacular. The editing here is excellent, jumping from character to character, often...
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Watch These Book Jackets Come To Life As Gifs
Chilean artist Javier Jensen has taken some of his favorite books and put a bit of movement to them, animating their covers. Speaking to The Guardian newspaper, Jensen noted: “I wanted to go back to...
View ArticleIt’s long been noted that NASA does a lot of work for a small amount of...
It’s long been noted that NASA does a lot of work for a small amount of money, but with budget uncertainties and the potential for shutdowns, there’s real scientific losses. Writing for the New York...
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