Note: It wasn't actually Google Maps, it's the Russian equivalent called Yandex Maps. I just said Google Maps in the title because because if I'd said Yandex you'd be all, 'Dammit, the GW's been drinking again' (which I have but I'm trying to play it off). A woman in Russia r... / Continue →

This is a video of marine biologist Roger Hanlon chasing an octopus when it gets all super sneaky and camouflages itself in some plant growth. Then Roger gets too close and it flicks on its BACK OFF ME warning colors before inking him and swimming away. Then there's a bunch m... / Continue →

Yay, now let's fill the oceans with concrete and put a stop to this madness. I wrote about flying squid way back in 2010, but now they're back in the news after marine biologists have confirmed that the squids are actually flying (up to 30m/98-feet!) when they leap out of the ... / Continue →

Because I have to run to a doctor's appointment this afternoon (72-hour erection) and I need to get some posts up, here's a Rube Goldberg machine created by kinetic artist Joseph Herscher to turn a single newspaper page. Damn yeah I'll copy/paste the process to make this artic... / Continue →

Seen here looking suspiciously like the silhouette of Bat Boy wielding a Green Lantern power ring to return to the Matrix or some shit, a drawing of a monkey plays with his virtual arm. Because monkeys can do that now. They've always wanted to, and now they actually can. *do... / Continue →

Mad scientists at the University of California Berkeley are now able to create videos of what your brain "sees" after watching a video IRL using a bunch of complicated-ass computer models. Plus -- PLUS -- videos of Steve Martin with a mustache. Because what would science be w... / Continue →

*scratching beak* "F***ing forcefields." This is a picture of some woman's home window after an owl flew into it. Rest easy though, the owl's apparently okay. Read: it wasn't found dead by the water hose. But it was late delivering a letter to a certain lightning-scarred w... / Continue →

Note: Much larger version HERE in case you're looking for an out-of-this-world (but not solar system) wallpaper. This is allegedly a real picture (although I have my doubts -- NASA) of a massive storm on Saturn that has wrapped around the entire planet and caught up with its t... / Continue →

Scientists (mad ones, obv) have developed a way to plug "memory chips" into the brains of rats, instantly expanding their memory-creating and storing capabilities, with the future possibility OF BEING ABLE TO ADD ACTUAL MEMORIES. Holy gracious. Dr. Berger's description is alm... / Continue →

This is video of a science experiment demonstrating laminar flow (not to be confused with heavy flow, which may warrant a super-max tampon). Since I suck at fluid dynamics to the point of hosing my legs every time I take a piss (even sitting!), here's a copy/pasted explanation... / Continue →