Original spin: Was the universe born whirling? We know that the Universe is both expanding and accelerating (and thanks to a team who recently won the Nobel Prize, that the expansion is accelerating, too). As if that weren’t enough to try and wrap your brain around, it turns out that it may also be spinning. [...]
For today’s edition of Deal of the Day, Amazon has the Pirates of the Caribbean Four-Movie Collection (Blu-ray + Digital Copy) for just $91.99. That’s 46% off the collection’s usual retail price of $169.99. Set sail with Captain Jack Sparrow for more adventures than ever before with this Pirates of the Caribbean Four-Movie Collection. Inside [...]
Featured at the Esquire House’s “Ultimate Bachelor Pad” in NYC, the one-of-a kind Obscura CueLight projection system turns a game of pool into an amazing interactive art display. [Via GTDW]
Doubling in size instantly is bad for your health. [Source: Dorkly]
Another day, another beautiful time-lapse video. Enjoy! This is a collection of timelapse pieces that I shot between late June and early August, 2011, in Eastern Wyoming, and Western Nebraska. All sequences were shot on the 5D Mark II, in RAW format. The lens used, in all but two shots, was a 24mm f/1.4L II, [...]
This video shows what other planetary bodies would look like if they’d orbit our world at the same distance as our moon. Enjoy! [Via Crenk]
[Via Visually]
Another awesome metal cover from [GaS] Friend Ferdk16. Enjoy! [Ferdk16]
Unofficial title sequence for ‘The Adventures of Tintin’, featuring elements from each of the 24 books. [James Curran]
[Source: Virtual Shackes]
So, remember about three weeks ago, when some neutrinos traveling between Geneva and the Gran Sasso Lab in Italy arrived about sixty nanoseconds quicker than the speed of light? That was weird. However, on the 14th, Ronald van Elburg at the University of Groningen at the Netherlands seems to have figured it out. His team calculated [...]
The good news for BlackBerry owners is that they’ll be getting more than $100 of compensation for the recent outages. The bad news is that it isn’t in the form of cash or credit, but rather a selection of apps. And customers don’t even get a choice of apps. Instead they’ll be able to download [...]
