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A figure evolves through a frenetic series of transformations in the incredible hand-drawn animation “Raw Data” by Jake Fried. The Boston-based animator uses an unusual…

Canadian astronaut Chris Hadfield explains how and why ordinary human sight changes aboard the International Space Station in his latest video, “The Five Senses in…

Carlo Zapponi has created Bolides, an animated data visualization of every recorded meteorite that’s struck the Earth since 2,500 BCE. According to the Meteorite Bulletin,…

In Part 1 of his video series on bizarre borders, C. G. P. Grey looks at countries that are completely surrounded by another country (like…

Students Tim Bouckley, Millie Clive-Smith, Mi Eun Kim and Yuta Sugawara at the Royal College of Art in London have created Eidos, a system of…

The Answer Is No is a Twitterbot that calls out shoddy journalism by answering headlines that end in a question mark with the answer: “No.”…

The first trailer for Ender’s Game, a film adaptation of the classic science fiction novel by Orson Scott Card, has just been released. The film…

Redditor SamuEL_or_Samuel_L has created a series of images that make celebrities look like bobbleheads. More of the digitally manipulated images can be viewed at imgur.…

Ori Allon and Robert Reffkin have created Compass, a web service that aims to solve the problem of finding and renting an apartment in New…

“U.S.S. Enterprise, the Federations heavily armed Apple Store, full of Mac Geniuses who rise through the ranks.” In celebration of Star Trek Into Darkness beaming…