Neil deGrasse Tyson on Dark Matter & Dark Energy
Thanks to Neil deGrasse Tyson, this is one of the simplest, most straightforward summaries of one of the greatest questions facing modern science today.
Thanks to Neil deGrasse Tyson, this is one of the simplest, most straightforward summaries of one of the greatest questions facing modern science today.
Sheena Iyengar studies how we make choices — and how we feel about the choices we make. In the following video, she talks about both trivial choices (Coke v. Pepsi) and profound ones, and shares her groundbreaking research that has uncovered some surprising attitudes about our decisions.
The world of entertainment has given us plenty of classic crossover clashes over the years. ESPN brought us Rocky Marciano vs Muhammad Ali, while movies presented both Freddie vs Jason and Alien vs Predator, though sadly the two winners didn’t move on to meet in the final. Now Capcom is releasing the fighting game Street […]
After watching this, here’s one question to you: Why does Hollywood keep making live-action superhero movies when CGI is now clearly advanced enough to make absolutely anything possible? [Via Reddit]
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If you’re in the United States you might know that there’s this very confusing copyright law called the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, or DMCA, that (in short) criminalizes certain means of circumventing copyright protection (i.e., digital rights management, or DRM, i.e., that stuff that wouldn’t let you play your MP3s wherever you want). The DMCA […]
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This short video, slowed down exactly 300 times, shows the birth and death of a lightning bolt. Enjoy! [Via Scienceblogs]
An Australian university has estimated that just 0.3% of files shared through BitTorrent are definitely legal. But torrent advocates have questioned the methodology of the study. The report (PDF), from the University of Ballarat’s Internet Commerce Security Laboratory, involved a random selection of 1,000 torrent files. Of those: 890 were confirmed to breach copyright 91 […]
Even if you weren’t at Comic-Con this past weekend, you probably saw a good bit about it – especially on Twitter. Though if you missed some of the excitement, here are a few tidbits from around the web, as a follow-up to our earlier more in-depth coverage. Avengers casting. In what seems to be one […]