Miscellaneous | Stuff I Like

Concorde's last flight: Is this the greatest aviation photograph of all time?

In 2003, Lewis Whyld took an instantly classic photograph of the Concorde on its last flight, soaring over the Clifton Suspension Bridge in Bristol, United Kingdom.

Miscellaneous | Stuff I Like

The Reason Why Ships Are Often Painted Red on the Bottom | Mental Floss

No matter the color of a vessel, the hull below the water line is often painted red. The reason has something to do with worms.

Now you know!

Miscellaneous | Stuff I Like

The Apollo 11 Landing Site: What's It Like Now? - The Atlantic

The American flag is bleached white. But some of the boot prints could remain undisturbed for tens of thousands of years.

Miscellaneous | Stuff I Like

The Art of Space Art

A history of the thriving subgenre of imagining what the surfaces of other planets look like.

Miscellaneous | Stuff I Like

10 Modern Board Games That Don't Suck!

If you’ve spent any time on Kickstarter perusing successful projects, you may have realized we are in a sort of board game renaissance. We’re not talking Trouble, Mouse Trap, or Life, these games c...

Science & Technology | Science

What's up with this weird green rock on Mars? Perseverance rover is trying to find out.

NASA's Perseverance rover is studying a strange rock on Mars as it waits for its companion helicopter to attempt its first flight.

Science & Technology | Science

Listen to the first-ever recording of a NASA rover driving on Mars

NASA has released the first-ever recording of a rover driving across the surface of Mars, and it sounds unlike any vehicle you've heard before.

Science & Technology | Science

NASA Curiosity rover celebrates 3,000th day on Mars with stunning panorama of planet

The glorious new image captures the 96-mile-wide Gale Crater and part of Mount Sharp, its central mountain.

Science & Technology | Science

Drug Reverses Age-Related Cognitive Decline Within Days - Neuroscience News

Short-term exposure to an experimental drug reverses age-related memory decline and cognitive deficits in mice. The drug, ISRIB, has previously shown beneficial effects in treating memory loss associated with TBI and other neurological disorders.

Science & Technology | Science

Record-setting asteroid zoomed past Earth — missing by just 240 miles, NASA announces

An asteroid known as 2020 VT4 flew 240 miles away from Earth last week, setting a record for the closest to fly past Earth without hitting it, NASA said.

Sports | Surfing/Skating/SUPing

A Look Back At Some Of The Best Musical Moments In Skateboarding History | Pitchfork

With skateboarding soon to be an Olympic sport, let's have a look at the best combinations of music and skating ever committed to videotape.

Sports | Surfing/Skating/SUPing

The Worst Wipeouts Ever

Why not watch people getting pounded in the surf from the comfort of your chair, is that wrong? Contains ouchy to the max.

Sports | Surfing/Skating/SUPing

Four Pro Tips on How To Become A Better Surfer

Simple, valuable advice from four of the sport’s most elite coaches

Sports | Surfing/Skating/SUPing

The 15 most common excuses for dropping in on fellow surfers

Taking off in front of a surfer who is riding a wave under priority is not a good thing to do. Drop-ins are an intolerable violation of the surf etiquette but still quite common these days.

Sports | Surfing/Skating/SUPing

The best cheap surf destinations

Surf travel can be inexpensive. Explore the most affordable countries in the world for surfing.

Miscellaneous | Guy Stuff

How to Travel Around the World With Just a 20lb Backpack | The Art of Manliness

Editor's note: This is a guest post by David Danzeiser. I hung up the phone with the travel agent. I had just finished booking 45,000 miles worth of flig

I should try this.

Miscellaneous | Guy Stuff

Watch people surf the most dangerous wave in the world

You are right to fear the ocean.

Miscellaneous | Guy Stuff

How to: Make DIY Barrel Aged Cocktails At Home (No Barrel Required...)

The tradition of barrel or cask aging distilled spirits, wine, and beer goes back thousands of years. Letting the liquid mature within wood is what gives them their distinct flavors,...

Miscellaneous | Guy Stuff

What Is Cocktail Attire? (with pictures)

For men, cocktail attire means a casual suit or a nice button-down shirt and tie. Women's cocktail attire generally means...

A guy should know how to dress.

Miscellaneous | Guy Stuff

Men, What Are We Afraid Of?: Men's Lives: GQ

How to overcome fear

Humor | Humor

Brutally honest job titles that are more accurate than the official ones - Lost At E Minor: For creative people

This list is marvelous. If you have ever wondered what a Head of IT does (Director of Turning Things Off and Back On), or what a Receptionist does (Executi

Miscellaneous | Miscellanneous Stuff

Radio Stations Abandoned Decades Ago Are Still Transmitting And No One Knows How

The strange sounds from these un-owned radio stations keep internet sleuths up at night. Are they actually used for espionage?

Miscellaneous | Miscellanneous Stuff

Four 2015 Energy Ideas 'Back to the Future' Got (Almost) Right

Hoverboards, flying cars, automatic fill-ups, and fuel from garbage—Back to the Future's energy ideas are close at hand.

So this isn't exactly science, and it isn't exactly tech...and it's kind of entertainment...so...

Miscellaneous | Miscellanneous Stuff

Top 10 Wrongly Built or Misused Stadiums

It's no secret that World Cups and Olympic Games often leave stadiums where no one needs them, and with Brazil 2014 coming to a close, it's hard not to agree with what many Brazilian protesters have...

Miscellaneous | Miscellanneous Stuff

This Abandoned Wasteland Was Once America's Largest Mall

The life and death of the American mall is a familiar story by now. A few decades ago, these shrines to consumerism dotted suburbia, only to be denied relevance by a push back towards city centers. But few images express the scale of this trend as much as

These pictures are very eerie.

Science & Technology | Technology

Facebook’s AI separates speech in recordings of up to 5 people

Facebook researchers describe an AI system that can isolate speech from recordings of multiple speakers on a single microphone.

Science & Technology | Technology

Here's how developers think Apple will handle Mac's switch from Intel to ARM

Apple’s holding its Worldwide Developer Conference (WWDC) on Monday, and it’s all virtual this time because of the coronavirus pandemic. Another thing that’s different this time is that everyone’s talking about one thing that’s more important than new iOS

Science & Technology | Technology

Robots deployed at Texas hotel to zap pathogens amid coronavirus outbreak

As the number of COVID-19 cases climbs, a robot designed as a powerful way to clean hospital rooms is being sent into hotel rooms.

Science & Technology | Technology

Here's How the iPhone 11 Pro Stacks Up Against the 4 Best Android Flagship Smartphones | Inc.

A comparison of which smartphone is best, and which you should choose.

Science & Technology | Technology

The Laser Weapon Is Really, Really Finally Here

Rejoice if you look towards the dystopia of the Star Wars universe, for laser weapons have finally, at long last, arrived. The laser, a weapon system perpetually “ten or fifteen years away” from operational use, is off the development treadmill and en

News | News

U.S. olympic athletes respond to fierce criticism after it is revealed that they are unvaccinated: 'It's one hundred percent a personal choice'

After it was revealed that a number of U.S. olympic athletes were competing at the games without being vaccinated, they faced fierce criticism online, which led several of them to fire back in defense of their choice not to receive the COVID-19 vaccine. T

I can’t believe that I agree with these people. But the athletes refusing to get the vaccine are absolutely correct: it IS their choice. Liberals used to understand that.

News | News

'Watching the Watchmen': The FBI’s Hidden Role in MI Gov Kidnapping Plot

An investigation by BuzzFeed News found the FBI informants who halted the plot to kidnap Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer planned meetings and purchased explosives for participants, giving extremists unsubstantiated evidence that the government “targeted” p

How many more partisan driven crimes will we find out later we’re actually driven by the FBI? We know that the FBI were also involved in the Jan 6 riots. Where is the GOP oversight?

News | News

MyPillow Products Will No Longer Be Sold by These Companies

Calls to boycott the company have grown in recent days after CEO Mike Lindell continued to push baseless claims that the 2020 election was stolen from President Donald Trump.

News | News

Gary Sinise releases video honoring oldest US vet for 111th birthday: WW2 vet Lawrence Brooks

On Sunday, actor and veterans advocate Gary Sinise honored Lawrence Brooks, a U.S. Army veteran who last month turned 111-years-old. Brooks, an African American, is America's oldest living military veteran.
Brooks' September birthday was initially celebra

News | News

The Upper West Side rebels in the face of de Blasio’s homeless plague

Hell hath no fury like a liberal neighborhood recently mugged by Bill de Blasio. Therein lies a salutary tale. Manhattan’s leftier-than-thou Upper West Side last month got a vagrant transfusion cou…

De Blasio is a hack.

History | History

5 Things You Didn't Know About Alan Shepard

Nov. 18 is Alan Shepard's birthday. HowStuffWorks Now shares some little-known facts about the first American in space.

History | History

10 Huge Misconceptions About Famous Medieval Figures

Renaissance thinkers didn’t heap much praise on the Middle Ages, but the period is full of inspiring figures who performed …

Business & Finance | Finance

Learn To Invest Like A Casino Rather Than A Gambler

At its essence, a stock’s price is the price at which a buyer and a seller agree to transact, because the buyer believes a company will do better than everyone else’s current expectations and the seller thinks it will do worse.

Entertainment | Entertainment

Things that 'Blade Runner' got right and wrong about 2019

The seminal sci-fi movie "Blade Runner" is set in November 2019. Here's everything the movie got right, and got wrong, about life today.

Entertainment | Entertainment

When The Day After Terrorized 100 Million Viewers With a Vision of Nuclear War | Mental Floss

Test your knowledge with amazing and interesting facts, trivia, quizzes, and brain teaser games on MentalFloss.com.

I remember this well. It terrified me.

Sports | Sports

Yankees turn a triple play you've never seen before

The Yankees turned their second triple play of the season, and you have to see just how odd it was.

Sports | Sports

The NFC East Is Officially a Masterclass in Football Ineptitude - The Ringer

Dak Prescott’s pursuit of the passing record at least made the Cowboys interesting. Prescott’s injury means Dallas is finished—as is any reason to watch any of these teams again.

Sports | Sports

B/R Staff Roundtable: Predicting Lakers vs. Heat Winner and NBA Finals MVP | Bleacher Report

Six months after the COVID-19 pandemic put the NBA 's regular season and postseason in jeopardy, we've finally made it to the 2020 NBA Finals ...

Sports | Sports

Will Empty Bleachers Change the Psychology of Sports? | WIRED

When German and US soccer kick off this summer, there will be no crowds. That might squelch the home-field advantage—and the emotion that drives players.

Sports | Sports

How can Patriots get Tom Brady, offense on track?

Sunday's win marks the first time in the QB's 20-year career that he played the entire contest and didn't lead the team in touchdown passes in a game.

Health & Fitness | Health & Fitness

Side effects include ... a potential treatment for baldness - CNN

A drug originally developed to treat osteoporosis may soon be used to reverse hair loss, new research finds.

Pets & Animals | Pets & Animals

Everything you think you know about bald eagles is wrong

Bald eagles look awesome. Heck, all eagles look awesome. It’s why they’re a good national symbol—they seem so fearsome and regal. But despite their image being absolutely freakin’ everywhere, the average American probably doesn’t know a whole lo

Science & Technology | Science & Technology

New AI ‘Deep Nostalgia’ brings old photos, including very old ones, to life

Deep Nostalgia can take photos from any camera and create a life-like animation. The AI program uses pre-recorded driver videos of facial movements and applies the one that works best for the still photo in question, so you can take photos of deceased lov

Science & Technology | Science & Technology

The race to building a fully functional quantum stack | TechCrunch

As we approach the age of quantum computing, it is no longer a question of ‘if,’ but rather one of ‘when’ this technology finally matures and ‘who’ will lead this emerging industry.

Science & Technology | Science & Technology

Small satellite launcher Virgin Orbit fails to launch rocket to space during first test flight - The Verge

Small satellite launcher, Virgin Orbit, plans to conduct the first test launch of its LauncherOne rocket on Sunday, May 24th. Unlike other rockets, LauncherOne is designed to take off from underneath the wing of a giant 747 airplane called Cosmic Girl.

Science & Technology | Science & Technology

The Hypersonic SR-72 Is Coming: A Mach 6 Monster? | The National Interest

It could be a game-changer. 

Science & Technology | Science & Technology

Trump said to propose roughly $3 billion NASA budget boost for 2021 – TechCrunch

President Donald Trump is set to request a budget of $25.6 billion for NASA for its fiscal 2021 operating year, the Wall Street Journal reported on Friday. It’s looking for nearly $3 billion more than the $22.6 billion NASA had for its current fisca