When Frederick III is commanded by the pope to attack the Ottoman Empire, Frederick consults the stars and finds that fate is not in his favor. His court astrologer, Regiomontanus, proposes a solution: Why not voyage into space and move the stars themselves?
Watch the rotation of a binary asteroid and its orbiting moon
On May 31st, the asteroid 1998 QE2 passed within six million miles of Earth. A few weeks ago, we got a peek at some of the radar images of this unusual binary asteroid
This coffee jockey finds herself far from Starbucks, astride an espresso machine that doubles as transportation. What stories happen in the course of her day?
More than meets the eye, Daleks in disguise
From the Deviantart gallery of Meghan Murphy comes the most evil of all Dalek plans: Doctor Who Cosplay. Seriously, are there no limits to their machinations?
Surprisingly beautiful photographs of decaying cans of human remains
In a warehouse at the Oregon State Hospital (originally called the Oregon State Insane Asylum) contains an unusual library, one comprised not of books, but of copper canisters of unclaimed human remains. Photographer David Maisel has photographed what is left of the deteriorating portions of the asylum, as well as the…
A stop-motion animated short, entirely hand-drawn on sticky notes
There's a wonderful simplicity to Eduard Taberner's short film Sticky Man. His main character is hand-drawn, traveling via an ever-growing pile of yellow sticky notes through a stop-motion world.
Continuum turns its time-traveling cop into... a superhero?
Season two of Continuum launched last night on Syfy, with a modest sort of scene-setting episode. A new status quo is established for Kiera, Alec, and the lovable gang at Liber8. We get a bit more development of the mystery of why Kiera was sent back in time. And this show seems to want to be a superhero epic all of a…
How common is your birthday?
Do you ever feel like you're always running into people with your birthday? It might not be you; it might be the date that you were born. Matt Stiles' birthday heat map gives us a picture of which birthdays are the most and least common in the United States.
The goddamn Batman and other comic characters invade Adventure Time
Adventure Time has proven as delightful in comic book form as on TV, between Ryan North's core AT comics, Meredith Gran's Marceline and the Scream Queens, and the Danielle Corsetto-penned Playing with Fire. So what would happen if other comic book characters wandered into the Land of Ooo?
Somewhere on a distant island sits a dungeon. Each day, adventurers tackle the dungeon's perilous floors, killing monsters and finding treasure. Frequently, they'll die, but they always come back to life, right at the dungeon's entrance. At night, they drink and they fight and they hookup. Is it an adventurer's dream? Or the swords-and-sorcery corner of Hell?
