How did Beethoven, Mozart, Freud, Dickens, Darwin, Le Corbusier or Benjamin Franklin managed to be so productive and create some of the most important work in the history of art and science? Check out this great visualization by Info We Trust and find solace in the fact that some of them didn’t actually work that much. Read more…
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The daily schedules of the world’s greatest geniuses
Warner Brothers will adapt J.K. Rowling’s wonderful extended Harry Potter-universe Fantastic Beasts and Where To Find Them into a trilogy of “megamovies, ” according to the New York Times . What is a megamovie? Who cares! “The stories, neither prequels or sequels, will start in New York about seven decades before the arrival of Mr. Potter and his pals.” Read more…
Rosetta, the comet-exploring spacecraft, has finally gotten within sight of the comet it’s been traveling towards for the first time since waking up from its 2-year long slumber through deep space — and it sent back the pictures to prove it. Read more…
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Rosetta Just Caught Its First Glimpse of Its Destination Comet
Everyone breaks a phone every once in a while. But if you break your new HTC One it’s a little less soul-crushing. HTC says it will fix your cracked display for free in the first six months, even if it’s your fault. Read more…
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HTC Will Fix Your Busted Screen For Free in the First Six Months
More than 160 years ago, paleontologists found a partial fossil of a 70-million-year-old giant sea turtle, the only known example of its particular species. This week, they found the other half. Read more…
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Both Halves Of A Giant Sea Turtle Fossil Found 160 Years Apart
Check out the incredible footage of a ball breaking a glass filmed at an uncanny 10 million frames per second by the HyperVision HPV-X Camera of Shimadzu, a Japanese corporation that makes precision instruments, measuring instruments and medical equipment. Read more…
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Holy crap, watch a ball breaking glass at 10 million frames per second
Bitcoin is big money. When Mt. Gox went belly up , hundreds of millions in bitcoin up and disappeared. Now, the troubled exchange just happens to have stumbled into 200, 000 ‘coin it thought was lost , or roughly 116 million dollars. Read more…
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Mt. Gox Found Over $100 Million In Bitcoin In a Random Wallet
The oldest known incidence of cancer in a human has been found in a 3, 000-year-old skeleton . Analysis of the remains , which were found in a tomb in what used to be ancient Nubia , revealed metastatic carcinoma — a form of cancer that spreads to other parts of the body. The discovery shows that the disease is not strictly a modern affliction . Read more…
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The oldest known incidence of cancer in a human has been found in a 3,000-year-old skeleton.
Archaeologists working at a 14th century site in Denmark have uncovered numerous latrine barrels filled with their original contents. The human poop, which is described as being in “excellent condition, ” still retains a putrid odor despite its age. Read more…
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These 700-year-old barrels are filled with human excrement
Microsoft has a special deal for Windows XP users. If you buy a new PC, the company will give you a $50 gift card, 90 days of tech support, and free data transfer. Or, in the words of one Wall Street Journal reporter , “Microsoft is bribing people to stop using Windows XP.” Read more…
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Microsoft has a special deal for Windows XP users.