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REGULARS

Watch This Absurd 10-Minute Video On How To Land A Plane In An Emergency

Tim Morgan, a commercial pilot with years of experience, has created a ten minute video he claims will help anyone safely land a 737 in an emergency. The notion that someone could plop down in a cockpit, with zero experience, and pilot a 737 to a safe landing is ludicrous, but that doesn’t make this video any less fascinating.

SCIENCE & HEALTH

Orion Is Ready To Wear Its Shield

ATTILA NAGYTODAY 9:00 AM

Image Cache: The Orion Exploration Mission 1 (EM-1) spacecraft is about to get its heat shield, which is manufactured in large part by Lockheed Martin. Building the heat shield involved a so-called out of autoclave (OOA) cure process, a high temperature, high pressure method for manufacturing composite materials, such as carbon fibre and epoxy resins.

SCIENCE & HEALTH

Mice Prefer Videos Of Fighting To Videos Of Sex But They Prefer Drugs Most Of All

ESTHER INGLIS-ARKELLTODAY 8:30 AM

Researchers at Keio University spent weeks showing laboratory mice footage of mouse porn, mouse fights and mouse sniffing. They found out that mice can distinguish between social behaviours — and that they prefer seeing fighting to sex, unless drugs are involved.

SCIENCE & HEALTH

American Scientists Advised Guards To Shoot At Nukes If There Was A Security Breach

MATT NOVAKTODAY 7:30 AM

Back in late 2014 the National Security Archive published a historical documentary produced in 2010 that went largely unnoticed. The film explores the history of nuclear weapons safety. And if you haven’t seen it yet, it’s pretty frightening.

CARS

DARPA's New Autonomous Submarine-Hunter Could Change Naval Combat Forever

MICHAEL NUNEZTODAY 6:30 AM

In 2010, DARPA announced it was creating an autonomous, submarine-hunting war machine that would be manned with exactly zero people. Now, that vehicle is ready for action.

SOFTWARE & DESIGN

This UCLA Algorithm Sees Things Your Eyes Never Could

JAMIE CONDLIFFETODAY 5:30 AM

You shouldn’t always believe your eyes — because there’s much out there that you can’t see. A new, free algorithm created by UCLA engineers enables you to discern details in images that would be impossible to observe any other way.

SOFTWARE & DESIGN

This Impossibly Complicated Mechanical Clock Re-Writes The Time Every Minute

ANDREW LISZEWSKITODAY 4:30 AM

A cheap digital watch can keep far better time than even the most complicated of Swiss watches. But there’s still something undeniably appealing about watching all those gears, springs, and cogs spinning about — and this incredibly complicated clock that writes out the time has them in abundance.

ENTERTAINMENT

Watch The Movie References Used By The Simpsons Side-By-Side With The Actual Scene (NSFW)

CASEY CHANTODAY 3:30 AM

Video: Celia Gomez edited scenes from The Simpsons side-by-side with the movies those scenes are paying homage to and it’s just so much fun. We get to see how the hilarious animators of The Simpsonshave repurposed and refashioned those iconic movies to be set in Springfield. That means seeing our favourite characters on The Simpsons turn into set pieces in Raiders of the Lost Ark or Sharon Stone in Basic Instinct, as well as seeing how two cupcakes can be creatively used to recreate a NSFW scene in A Clockwork Orange.

ENTERTAINMENT

Wow, Look How Crazy Fast These Sheep Get Herded

CASEY CHANTODAY 1:30 AM

Video: Watching hundreds of sheep get herded around the grassland from above is a pretty magnificent view. It’s like watching a real life hourglass somehow spill out. There’s a slight chokehold at the opening point of the fence but the sheep all move so fast that it’s actually pretty impressive. Nothing can move from one place to the next as fast.

ENTERTAINMENT

Some Lessons In Smartphone Photography, Courtesy Of The X-Files

KATHARINE TRENDACOSTATODAY 12:00 AM

On Friday’s episode of The X-Files, Mulder proved himself to be basically as adept with a smartphone as any old man. Worse, possibly, than most. Here are some lessons you can take from Mulder’s abject failure.