The iPhone 6 is Coming, Lock in Max Value on Your Trade-In Today
What's better than getting the iPhone 6 on the release date? Getting it at a significant discount by recycling your old phone for maximum trade-in value, obviously.
You Won't Have a Long Face If You Watch BoJack Horseman
BoJack Horseman, the latest Netflix original series, is a good show. Unlike Netflix breakouts like Orange is the New Black and House of Cards,
it's not getting a ton of attention... but it deserves a wide
viewership, or at least as wide a viewership a droll adult animated
comedy can get. The cast is dynamite. Will…
Ferguson Police Are Wearing Body Cameras
Police in Ferguson, Mo., started wearing body cameras this Saturday during the most recent protest following the killing of unarmed teenager Michael Brown Jr. by one of the city's police officers, Darren Wilson.
You Can Pay $200,000 to Replace Your Blood With Antifreeze
Death
is unfathomable and terrifying. We try to stave it off with vitamins,
checkups, and exercise, to diminish the awful permanence with beliefs in
afterlives and miracles. For some people, that's not enough. There will
be no accepting mortality for believers in cryonics, the process of
preserving human bodies at low…
This is why not everything we call awesome is actually awesome
How many times did you use the word awesome today?
Five, ten, fifteen times? We use the word awesome so often and, most of
the time, so incorrectly that the term has lost its original sense—
maybe forever. Comedian Jill Shargaa explains why in this hilarious TED
talk.
Apple Is Investigating the Celeb Nude Leaks
Apple is investigating several iCloud account violations that may have resulted in hackers spreading leaked photos of naked female celebrities online.
Mystery (Partially) Solved: Stonehenge Was a Complete Circle
One of the mysteries of Stonehenge has been solved because someone was too lazy to get a longer hose.
Chemist uses liquid nitrogen instead of ice in ALS bucket challenge
Moe Qureshi—a chemist at the University of
Toronto—gave his ALS bucket challenge a shocking twist when he decided
to use liquid nitrogen instead of ice. I would be terrified just by the
thought of pouring liquid over my head at -321°F (-196ยบC), but Moe
survived the challenge unscathed—thanks to science.
How Decaf Coffee Is Made
If you've ever wondered how it's possible to make decaf coffee—which you can buy in whole-bean form—when the caffeine is inside the damn bean, then you're not alone. Fortunately, there is an answer, and it's in this video.
The Russian Space Sex Lizards Are Dead
I hope you're sitting down on a piece of comfortable patio furniture this Labor Day, for I have tidings of great sorrow: the Russian space sex lizards have died.
Read Richard Feynman's Best-Known Lectures For Free
In 1964, Richard Feynman gave a series of seven,
hour-long lectures at Cornell University that have gone down in history
as a wonderfully accessible introduction to physics. Now, you can read
them online for free.
You Can Buy This Adorable, Original Soviet Spacesuit For Your Dog
Is
your dog made of tough stuff? Is it calm under pressure? Is it smart,
patient and loyal? Then maybe it would make a great space dog—and if so
this is just the outfit for your precocious pooch.
This Desk Tidy Folds Into Shape From a Sheet of Laser-Cut Steel
This
neat, angular desk tidy is truly 3D—but it hasn't always been that way.
In fact, it's put together from a 0.8mm-thick carbon steel, laser-cut
beforehand to make it easy to fold into shape.
The Late Great American Promise of Less Work
Some French companies just banned employees from responding to work emails after work hours. A city in Sweden is trying out a 30-hour
work week in earnest. But while the prospect of working less and
enjoying more leisure time used to be the great futuristic promise of
midcentury America, today it's little more than a…
Report: The Asus Smartwatch Will Cost Less Than $200
We knew that Asus was working on an Android Wear smartwatch, and now we have some details. According to China's Central News Agency, the ZenWatch will be announced on Wednesday and sell for less than $200.
This Is How I Imagine a Gate Into Another Dimension
Today's Astronomy Picture of the Day, brought to you by NASA and photographer Jeff Dai, is simply breathtaking: vivid, majestic, otherworldly.
Why Beer Isn't Sold in Plastic Bottles
Plastic
as a material has pretty much changed the way we live our lives- it's
cheap, can be moulded into practically any shape and is, for the most
the part, easily recyclable (when people bother to). So why is it that
we still use glass bottles and cans to store our beer in? Is it to do
with aesthetics? Taste? Or is…
What separates a social network from a messaging application? The EU is about to find out, having sent a 70-page long questionnaire to competitors and customers of Facebook to work out if its WhatsApp purchase is legit in terms of competition law.
This Google Glass App That Measures Human Emotions Is So, So Creepy
It's not like we need any more reminders about how creepy
Google Glass can be, but developers never stop surprising us. An new
app from Germany's Fraunhofer Institute that uses facial tracking,
proprietary tools and Glass, can measure human emotions. In real time.
Sony's really rather great Rx10 just got better: it now only costs $1,000 (down by $300), and a firmware update means it shoots shoot super high-quality XAVC-S video, too.
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