The Cheesegrater is a beautiful glass wedge of a building that rises over 700 feet into the London skyline. It unfortunately has some safety problems. This week, its owners revealed that a third bolt of high-strength steel snapped because of “hydrogen embrittlement”—an obscure term, but one that ” causes fear among engineers .” Read more…
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Damn, Another Arm-Sized Bolt Fell Off London’s Cheesegrater Tower
Need to do some digital breaking-and-entering but don’t really have the skills? Don’t worry: Hacker’s List provides a space for you to find your dream hacker, ready to undertake your computer crimes for you Read more…
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This New Website Lets You Hire a Hacker in Minutes
I love my Swedes, especially when they get crazy. I’m not so sure about launching fireworks rockets under the ice of a frozen lake. That’s just dumb. Fun, but dumb. Go home and leave the fish alone, Swedes. You are drunk. Read more…
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This is what happens when you launch a rocket under a frozen lake
The first cement factory in Hungary has reached its sorry end. The monstrous industrial complex of Lábatlan was established by Balázs Konkoly-Thege on the right bank of river Danube in 1868, and in the very beginning, Roman cement was made here in a wood-fueled 16 chamber furnace. Today, the factory is a lovely ruin—which I visited to document before it’s demolished. Read more…
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Decay and Demolition Inside a Dying Cement Factory
In 1329, an Italian nobleman and dear friend of Dante suffered a particularly horrid bout of diarrhea that—it being the 14th century and all—promptly killed him at the tender age of 38. But now, thanks to Cagrande della Scala’s exhumed, mummified corpse and the 700-year-old poop found therein, we know this wasn’t your normal, everyday bout of fatal feces. This was murder. Read more…
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700-Year-Old Cold Case Clue Found in Mummy Poop
When customs officers at Futian Port in China saw a males passenger with “weird walking posture, joint stiffness, muscle tension …” they got suspicious. Turns out, he was attempting to smuggle 94 iPhones into the country—all of them strapped to his body. Read more…
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How Not to Smuggle 94 iPhones Through Chinese Customs
Welcome to Reading List , a breakdown of some wonderfully constructed words, phrases, and sentences you should really be reading this week. Before you get too excited, take a second to take a peek over all our exhaustive (seriously I’m still recovering) coverage of CES 2015 . But when you get a gadget overload, take a look at some of these great reads from around the web. Read more…
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Why California’s High-Speed Rail Matters
According to The New York Times , Google isn’t going to let Skype runaway with all the high-tech, language barrier-smashing fun . An upcoming update will allow the app to auto-recognize popular languages and translate them into text in real time. Read more…
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Google Translate Is Getting Upgraded To Take on Skype
The New York Times reports that several recent moves by Google suggest that it’s set to launch a new car insurance shopping site in the near future. Read more…
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Report: Google Car Insurance Is Imminent
Fat isn’t all bad . In fact, maybe you should celebrate it just a little bit: new research suggests that it plays a vital role in fighting off infections. Read more…
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Your Fat Is Fighting Off Infection