Pandora was the first mortal woman, breathed into being by Hephaestus, god of fire. The gods gave her gifts of language, craftsmanship and emotion. From Zeus she received two gifts: the trait of curiosity and a heavy box screwed tightly shut — never to be opened. But what treasure could never be seen by human […]
By John Lister Contributing Writer, [GAS] There are very few generalizations which I hold true in life, but one of them is that if you aren’t slightly obsessed with the aftermath of a nuclear apocalypse, we probably won’t be friends. Whether it’s the result of inborn geekiness or the era in which I grew up, […]
Artist Max Siedentopf installed what he calls “Toto Forever” in the middle of the Namib Desert, an installation that, thanks to solar power, could play Toto’s Africa for all eternity. From Max Siedentopf and BBC News: “[I] wanted to pay the song the ultimate homage and physically exhibit ‘Africa’ in Africa,” explains the 27-year-old artist. […]
Imagine a world where when people go outside, they’re somehow driven to deadly violence (to themselves or others) as soon as they get a glimpse of something that no one has ever seen and lived to tell about it. This is the premise of Bird Box. Now a Netflix film starring Sandra Bullock, Sarah Paulson, […]
https://youtu.be/koPmuEyP3a0 A fantastic new ad campaign from Gillette taking a look at the culture of toxic masculinity. As a geek, I’ve been bullied a lot when I was younger. It was a time when being a geek was not such a good thing, and I’m glad to see companies such as Gilette taking a stand […]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SC7N2BzqISA In this video from the folks over at AllTime10s, we take a look at 10 of the scariest abandoned amusement parks in the world. There’s nothing scarier than an abandoned theme park, and these 10 are set to give you nightmares. From a deserted theme park on the edge of a notorious suicide forest, […]
If you know Hamlet’s famous soliloquy, you’ll know the outcome of this short fan film by director Maxime-Claude L’Écuyer right away. This fan film is an interesting one; it takes a very different (and very grim) approach to what we usually see in Star Wars fan films. To be or not to be: Star Wars […]
Loki the mischief-maker, writhes in Thor’s iron grip. The previous night, he’d snuck up on Thor’s wife and shorn off her beautiful hair. To fix what he’d done, Loki rushes to the dwarves and tricks them into making gifts for the gods. Wanting to best their smith rivals, the dwarves make a set of golden […]
In ancient times, wildcats were fierce carnivorous hunters. And unlike dogs, who have undergone centuries of selective breeding, modern cats are genetically very similar to ancient cats. How did these solitary, fierce predators become our sofa sidekicks? Eva-Maria Geigl traces the domestication of the modern house cat. [TED-Ed]
As if we are that old… Whatever! [CH]