Surprise! NASA just issued a last minute asteroid notice: Today, a 100-foot (30 meter) asteroid called 2014 DX110 is going to fly by Earth closer than the Moon. The closest point will be 217, 000 miles (about 350, 000 kilometers) at around 4PM Eastern Standard Time. Read more…
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NASA announces asteroid will fly by Earth today closer than the Moon
Confirmed: Dark chocolate is good for your heart. Really good. What’s better, scientists have discovered that people who eat 70 grams of chocolate every day increase their vascular health dramatically by “restoring flexibility to arteries and preventing white cells from sticking to the walls of blood vessels.” Read more…
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New study confirms that dark chocolate is very good for your health
Hardscrabble Pictures added sound to this old black and white silent film of San Francisco’s Market Street in April 14, 1906, just four days before the big earthquake that destroyed 80 percent of the city. It’s really wonderful—put on your headphones and listen to the calm before the storm. Read more…
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This is how San Francisco sounded just before getting destroyed in 1906
The first iPhone was a true breakthrough that shaped the multitouch-dominated world we live in. It took its clues from everyday objects to create a familiar experience that was instantly understood (and copied.) Years later it got stuck in those successful metaphors but, instead of working in another breakthrough, Apple just copied some bits from the companies who copied the iPhone. This video explains this story in a fair way. Read more…
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How the first iPhone copied everything—and the last one did too
SkyGuide’s creator Nick Risinger had to travel more than 60, 000 miles by airplane and car to collect 37, 000 individual photos to create this single image, the largest true-color image of the entire sky ever made: 100, 000 by 50, 000 pixels. Read more…
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Largest true-color photo of the sky ever took 60,000 miles of travel
A new photo captured by Artyom Anikeev shows Russia’s new Sukhoi T-50 stealth fighter—America’s F-22 Raptor’s nemesis. According to The Aviationist, its new camouflage—inspired by a typical white tip Red Sea’s shark—will make it look “as a rhomboidal shaped aircraft, smaller than the actual airplane” from a distance. Read more…
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Newly captured photo shows Russia’s new badass shark stealth fighter
No, this is not a photoshop. You are looking at a fresh tomato—a cosmomato ? A tomatonaut ?—floating in space, orbiting at 4.791 miles per second, 230 miles above your heads. Why the hell is there a tomato in space? Read more…
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Why is this fresh tomato orbiting in space at 4.8 miles per second?
If you were Queen Tiye of Egypt’s parents you wouldn’t want to go to the Otherworld just with some bread and beer and wine and jewelry. You would like to eat a good ribeye beef steak, prepared with a mixture of fat, beeswax, and Pistacia resin. Read more…
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This is what a 3,400-year-old steak mummy looks like
Not everything in Russia is crazy people in cars, anti-gay mobs and a Nazi government with no respect to human rights. Here’s something that I wish we had: a machine that gives you a subway ticket for 30 squats in less than two minutes. Read more…
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You can buy subway tickets with squats in Moscow
Keiichi Matsuda is excited about this invention and I can’t blame him: A solid table that reproduces a virtual version of anything that you put under its sensors—in realtime. You can see how it reproduces the hands moving in the clip above, but there’s more: Read more…
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This morphing table can create a virtual version of you in realtime