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Honest trailer uncovers the real meaning of The Lion King’s songs
We’re fans of Honest Trailers because they cut through all the bullshit from every Hollywood blockbuster there is. No movie is untouchable—including The Lion King. Like so many (all?) of Disney movies, it is so full of wrong. Their versions of the movie songs are especially hilarious. Enjoy! SPLOID is a new blog about awesome … Continued
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This is the Winning Entry for a Contest to Explain Colour
Every year, Alan Alda holds a science communication challenge, posing surprisingly tricky questions and asking for answers appropriate for elementary school audiences. This year’s question was, “What is colour?” and Dianna Cowern produced the winning video. To learn more about Dianna Cowern, a physicist who has been producing videos as Physics Girl for the last … Continued
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Tech NewsApple
20 Beautiful Yosemite App and Icon Concept Designs
Apple announced OS X Yosemite along with iOS 8 last Monday and designers are already coming up with beautiful app concepts and gorgeous icon designs for some existing Mac apps. In OS X Yosemite, along with the overall design changes, the apps are also overhauled to match the flat interface. With OS X Yosemite’s new … Continued
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Here’s What How To Train Your Dragon 2 Needs To Be A Hit
How To Train Your Dragon 2 needs to do well if DreamWorks doesn’t want to risk sliding down a slippery slope from which there is no return. With three of their last four movies resulting in financial losses, this sequel to the 2010 blockbuster can breath some fire back into DreamWorks if it brings its … Continued
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Comcast Wants To Turn Home Routers Into Public Wi-Fi Hotspots
In the coming weeks, Comcast is rolling out a new feature that turns residential customers’ new Xfinity Wi-Fi routers into public hotspots. The rollout starts in Houston on Tuesday, and the company says it’ll be in millions of homes across the country by the end of the year. That’s a big hotspot! It’s easy to … Continued
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sound.tumblr.com
This is the fourth or fifth time I’ve taken a fresh start at my sound.tumblr.com account. This time I feel — as I suppose I have each time, for varying lengths of time — like I’ve finally sorted out how to manage it, what use to make of it. I’m pretty unsatisfied by simply reposting … Continued
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NASA releases spectacular X-ray image of an entire spiral galaxy
This is The Whirlpool—the common name of M51, a spiral galaxy estimated to be 50,000 to 100,000 light years across. The purple dots that make it look like the biggest neon sign in the Universe are X-ray sources as seen by NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory. From NASA’s Astronomy Picture of the Day: Hundreds of glittering … Continued
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Making Music from “Making Waves Make Waves”
Larry Johnson, whose music is often credited to L-A-J, has taken the nascent modular synthesis experiment that I recently posted, “Making Waves Make Waves,” and reworked it into something considerably more nuanced and complex, for which I am quite thankful. I’ve had field recordings reworked by others in the past, but this is the first … Continued
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Tech NewsGoogle
Google Just Bought a Swarm of Satellites To Make Maps Way Better
Today, Skybox Imaging announced it’s being bought by Google for a cool $500 million in cash. Known for its high-resolution satellite imagery and video, Skybox’s fleet of satellites could make Google Earth a whole lot crisper—and help fulfill Google’s vision of worldwide satellite-based internet access. The five-year-old startup had been planning a fleet of 24 … Continued
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How Historians Are Using Nuclear Fallout to Find Fake Art
Today’s modern art forger is capable of producing fake works of art so perfect that even trained experts are unable to spot them. Even down to the most minute details of the pigments, binders, and canvass, these fakes are almost better than the works they’re based on. But thanks to a byproduct of the Atomic … Continued
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Higgs Boson Mug Serves Up Two Scoops of Science With Your Coffee
They say breakfast is the most important meal of the day, but why just feed your body after you’ve rolled out of bed in the morning? Feed your mind, too, with ThinkGeek’s heat-sensitive color-changing Higgs Boson mug which enlightens you with details about the Large Hadron Collider and what it’s hunting for. At all times … Continued
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Every frame in this stop-motion music video is embroidered
This sci-fi themed music video combines heavy metal, embroidery and stop-motion animation to produce something quite unusual. In fact it is the first frame-by-frame embroidered music video and it took 45 million stitches to tell the story of the band’s journey to mars to terraform the planet. The video was inspired by traditional band patches … Continued
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The Coolest Paintings From Google’s Project to Immortalize Street Art
Street art is mutable by definition. But Google Street View, the archiver of all worldly street-borne phenomena from gentrification to wildlife, wants to change that with its Google Street Art Project—an archival website of the world’s street art from Buenos Ares to Atlanta. The project, which launched today on a stand-alone site affiliated with Google’s … Continued
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Extremely rare photo of two armed F-16s escorting a Boeing Dreamliner
The Aviationist caught these cool selfies of two Royal Netherlands Air Force pilots escorting a Boeing 787-8 Dreamliner in F-16 fighter jets fully armed for air interception duties. But don’t worry, it’s not a terrorism alarm. They were just welcoming the country’s first Dreamliner. SPLOID is a new blog about awesome stuff. Join us on … Continued
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Deals: Nest Thermostat Up To $67 Off, Treadmill Desk, LED Flood Lights
Amazon today is taking $20 off the Nest Learning Thermostat. That’s pretty decent as far as Nest deals go, but if you have an Amazon Visa Card, you can add in promo code THI20ARC to bring the price all the way down to $183. [Nest Learning Thermostat, $229 or $183 with Amazon Visa and Promo … Continued
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Your Heart Won’t Skip a Beat When You Spill On Fake Keyboard Coasters
Despite their remarkable ability to survive daily abuse, you still can’t help but feel a little panicked when you’ve accidentally spilled a drink across your keyboard. Unless your keyboard’s made from soft, flexible silicone and is specifically designed to be used as drink coasters, and not for typing. The complete set of these four interlocking … Continued
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An Artificial Landmark in the Arctic
Ice sheets don’t have many landmarks, but the IceBridge flight path between the Humboldt and Petermann Glacier contains one straight out of history: the 1947 crash site of the B-29 Superfortress, Kee Bird. Operation IceBridge is a NASA mission to monitor ice, making annual flights since 2009 to track changes in glaciers, ice sheets, and … Continued
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Tech NewsDesign
How a Better Food Tray Is Saving Virgin Atlantic Millions
Every ounce counts when you’re hoisting several hundred tons of steel into the air and flying it across an ocean. So does every second flight attendants spend waiting on the people inside. Those ounces and seconds add up—and that’s why Virgin Atlantic spent $168 million on a transformative redesign of its meal trays. It sounds … Continued
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Tech NewsPrivacy and Security
The NSA Won’t Hand Over Data Because It Literally Can’t Keep Track of It
Last week, a US District judge ordered the NSA to stop destroying data that pertains to a pre-Snowden lawsuit against the agency. There’s just one teensy weensy problem with that: Apparently NSA’s systems handle so much data that it literally cannot find what it’s supposed to stop deleting. The data, which the NSA collects under … Continued