… Read More → "All Star Wars movies are becoming Little Golden Books"The first six Star Wars movies are all being adapted into 24-page Little Golden Books so you can read Star Wars to your children before bed and give them SPACE DREAMS. They’ll cost around $5 apiece ($3.74 on Amazon) and will be released July 28th.
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Everyone has been guilty of it at some point. You’re in the middle of a conversation about politics or music or art, and someone asks, “Have you heard of…?” And despite your complete lack of knowledge of that band or law or artist, you say, “Sure!”
As it turns out, the more you know about a subject, … Read More → "Study finds experts overestimate their knowledge"
From the second we’re born, our cells are given their marching orders for how to grow, mature, and maintain our bodies. But at a certain point, the repairs become faulty, and we age and eventually die. Now a team of Korean researchers has found a way to modify a particular type of enzyme in roundworms to double their lifespan—and they suspect the same mechanisms might work in humans.
… Read More → "Tweaking one enzyme doubles a worm’s lifespan"
In most well-run cities, there’s a trash can on nearly every street corner. Given their ubiquity, trash cans provide a unique opportunity for urban amenities. City workers already come to check on them regularly, and new trash receptacles are often fairly hardy metal boxes to which you can attach sensors, solar panels, and more. Here are four ways cities are using trash and recycle bins for more than just waste … Read More → "4 Garbage bins that do more than just collect trash"
Remember how we said 2014 is the hottest year on record? Already, we can tell that 2015 is probably gonna be worse.
It’s possible we might yet be saved from setting another heat record, but it’s not looking good so far. Yesterday, the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) released its temperature data for last month, meaning … Read More → "How hot is too hot for humans?"
An application called ‘Mars Trek’, which was released by NASA on Friday, lets you explore the red planet from your computer or mobile phone.
The volcanos and craters of Mars can now be explored on a mobile phone or computer, thanks to a new application recently released by NASA which combines data from several Mars missions to produce a map of the red planet.
via Read More → "Never get lost on Mars again with NASA’s new red planet map"
At first glance, it’s a picture of Earth. Not much different from all those pictures of Earth you’ve seen over the years.
That is, until you realize that most of the pictures of Earth you’ve seen over the years have been the same photograph — the “Blue Marble” taken by Apollo 17 astronauts in 1972, more than four decades ago.
There are not many photographs showing a fully illuminated Earth, … Read More → "Four decades later, a bew ‘Blue Marble’ photo of Earth from NASA"
Artist Sam Van Aken has created the amazing “Tree of 40 Fruit“, a hybrid tree that can grow over 40 varieties of stone fruits in various shades of pinks, purples and oranges. Using the process of chip grafting, Van Aken propagated the tree in order to preserve a number of heirloom varieties that have been marketed out of existence.
When you’re taking a shower, it might be easy to get distracted—getting clean is the best time to imagine yourself as a superhero, or winning an argument that happened a week ago. But while you’re daydreaming, you’re wasting a lot of water.
Read More → "Artist creates a shower curtain that evicts you if you stay in too long"
An ongoing investigation into the security of Chrysler vehicles bears some pretty startling conclusions. In a couple of weeks, security researchers will reveal the details of a zero-day exploit that affects some 471,000 cars. Put bluntly: Hackers can take complete control of the cars from thousands of miles away.
Longtime car hackers Charlie Miller and Chris Valasek recently … Read More → "Hackers have the power to remotely hijack half a million Chrysler cars"
