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The Secrets Behind Harry Houdini’s Ten Greatest Illusions
There is an unwritten rule among magicians never to reveal how a trick is done. So when a 2004 exhibition explained Harry Houdini's illusions, magicians around the world were apoplectic. David...
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The Hungarian-Born Painter Who Immortalized America's Space Program
In a way, artists are the most important men and women in the aerospace industry when it came to visualizing the visions of the near (or far) future from engineers, scientists and experts. The first...
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13 Amazing Paintings of Space Based On Actual Missions
Yesterday we looked at an artist who immortalized the US space program . Today, we meet an artist who does the same—except that this American illustrator, Paul Fjeld, bases his work on the actual...
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5 Concert Halls Designed For the Most Famous Composer of All Time
It's been almost 250 years since Beethoven was born in 1770, and as his big two-five-oh birthday rolls around, his birthplace of Bonn is planning a big, big party—including a $90 million concert hall...
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3 Clever Typefaces That Solve Every Day Problems
Humans have been writing for a long, long time—we were making lettermarks for thousands of years. Of course, that doesn't mean we've ever reached a consensus about the perfect way to write or print....
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16 of the Most Mortifying Wrong Window Stories We've Ever Heard
Yesterday, we asked your to bare your souls to us by revealing the most embarrassing chat-related mistakes you've ever made. From accidentally sexting your loved ones to chatting your dealer during a...
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9 Reasons To Be Nostalgic About the Early Internet
They grow up so fast, don't they? It just seems like yesterday that the internet was cruising at 56k speeds and loading horribly designed websites. Now, the web is all grown up, but there's been some...
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The Sad Fates of the World's Six Tallest Unfinished Buildings
Building a house is stressful. Building a skyscraper is a nuclear bomb of stress, problems, and carefully-coordinated chaos—chaos that is closely tied to the economy, and that is easily derailed by...
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Inside the Blood Factory That Keeps Track of the World's Rare Donors
When most of us think of "rare blood," we think of AB-positive or O-negative. But it turns out there are far, far rarer types than that. In Filton, England, there's a lab that handles blood donations...
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5 Awesomely Terrible Hacks From the World's Stupidest Hackathon
Most hackathons are where brilliant minds come together to try and invent something amazing that can maybe change the world. This is not one of those hackathons. This is the Stupid Shit No One Needs...
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5 Facts That Everyone Gets Wrong About Vaping
About a year ago, a couple of good friends invited me to help them run a vape shop and eventual e-juice manufacturer in my hometown (Louisville, Colorado). We in this industry believe vaping to be...
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8 Black Friday Tips to Help Stay Sane This Year
Black Friday (Thursday?) is quickly approaching, and whether you see it as a daylong spend-a-thon or a blight on American consumer culture, the fact remains—it can be crazy out there.Read more...
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27 Paintings From the Most Famous Space Artist On Earth (And Off)
"The nearest thing to an artist-in-residence from outer space." That's how Isaac Asimov once described Robert T. McCall, the renowned illustrator, conceptual artist, space-scene painter, official NASA...
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All The Best Images From NASA's Black Hole Friday
In a proud and noble tradition stretching back a whole two years, NASA yesterday did Black Hole Friday, rather than just flogging a few Apollo mini-figs for 25 percent off. We got science, we got...
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11 Gadgets That Died Too Soon
Perhaps the greatest tragedy in tech are the heaps of gadgets tossed on the metaphorical funeral pyre too early. Maybe it was poor marketing, an unfounded lack of support, or simply bad timing that...
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The History of NASA's Iconic Countdown Clock (And a Look at the New One)
A few days ago every space enthusiast got sentimental when, after 45 years of operation, the iconic countdown clock at NASA's Kennedy Space Center's Press Site was disassembled for removal. Perhaps...
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The 9 Most Expensive Buildings Ever Aren't What You'd Expect
Buildings are expensive but they're nowhere near as expensive as incompetence, as we learned this week thanks to new revelations about the $4 billion price tag of the World Trade Center transit hub....
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7 Famous Fictional Places You Can Explore With the Oculus Rift
Ever since I first played Goldeneye 64, I've been fascinated by exploring 3D cyber-versions of my favorite fictional places. The Oculus Rift makes that pursuit cooler than it's ever been. It's one...
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14 Maps That Reveal The Hidden Beauty of Big Cities
In these decades of freely accessible online maps, it's totally normal to be addicted to what Wikipedia describes as a "symbolic depiction highlighting relationships between elements of some space,...
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2014 As Told By Photos from the World's Highest Resolution Satellites
Our lives are chronicled from space these days. These satellite images from Digital Globe, operator of the world's most powerful commercial imaging satellites, tell the story of some of the year's...
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