It's not just pitch correction: with modern music-making software, it's as easy to snap analog recordings of instruments to a time signature as it is to program EDM. When everything… Read the rest of the article: How software sterilized rock music

"That's incredible, I mean, I've felt these bricks, these are real bri—", says TV host Steve Uyehara as the brick turns to dust at his lightest touch. [via Reddit] "Oh!… Read the rest of the article: TV host accidentally makes fool of "brick-breaking" martial arts master

George Best, a soccer legend from Northern Ireland, was immortalized in bronze, but it more closely resembles Pazuzu, the hideous demon infesting the Exorcist series of movies. Sure, it's not… Read the rest of the article: Soccer legend's grotesque statue mocked

There's a long list of chemicals you can't put in cosmetics in Europe that are found widely on American store shelves—often from the same companies. Oliver Milman reports on "enfeebled"… Read the rest of the article: US cosmetics "full of" ingredients banned in Europe

The Procedurally-Generated Dog Simulator is a fun illustration of pathfinding and cellular automata. All you do is walk around a cave, being followed by a single-pixel pup who is liable… Read the rest of the article: Two procedurally-generated dog-walking simulators

He calls it YouTube's most unusual bicycle commute. It's a fair claim, too, what with pedaling daily through cavernous limestone mines repurposed as The Springfield Underground, a secure business park… Read the rest of the article: Watch: cycling to work through cavernous limestone mines turned into a business park

A Bloomsburg University professor was fired for having sex with two of his female students, but a Pennsylvania court has ordered that it reinstate him. Pennlive: The Commonwealth Court ruling… Read the rest of the article: Pennsylvania Judge: professor who had sex with students must be reinstated

58-year-old Republican lawmaker Douglas McLeod was arrested this week after allegedly punching his wife in the face for not undressing quickly enough when he wanted sex. McLeod, Mississippi state representative… Read the rest of the article: Republican lawmaker "punched wife in the face" for not getting undressed fast enough when he wanted sex

Boeing's 737 Max won't fly in European skies until the Aviation Safety Agency completes an independent review of its flightworthiness, reports Bloomberg, underscoring a loss of confidence in its U.S.… Read the rest of the article: European regulators: 737 Max won't fly again until we approve it

The founder of a Silicon Valley bio-testing startup stands accused of misleading investors, cutting scientific corners in the quest for growth, and even romancing a fellow executive. Theranos? Nope. uBiome,… Read the rest of the article: Theranos but for poop

It's a 2d projection of a rhombic hexecontahedron, first generated by Mathematica's namesake programming language back in the 1980s, when it was as damned close to magic as anything in… Read the rest of the article: The history of Spikey, the Wolfram logo

In this footage from 2016, tornado-hunters get rather too close to a big'un near Wray, Colorado: "we're out of gas!"

Watching this video is the closest thing to shrooms I've yet experienced online. Not so much in the content, but rather the way hallucinatory changes to reality outpace your conscious… Read the rest of the article: Deepfakery applied to Bill Hader impression of Arnold Schwarzenegger

It's not quite natural selection—creator Johan Eliasson picks which cars get to reproduce—but there's something amazing about these virtual cars learning to drive around a track without even knowing they… Read the rest of the article: Watch neural-net racing cars learn to drive

Here's an interesting example of how journalists sometimes use a version of the facts to support faleshoods. Check out the following, posted by Daily Mail reporter David Martosko, quoting a… Read the rest of the article: Reporters who quote ums and ahs only make themselves look bad

A warning for the good people of Wyoming! You never know when a trigger-happy Colorado cop might drop by to see the sights. Emily Mieure, from The Jackson Hole News… Read the rest of the article: Colorado cop Vanessa Schultz couldn't imagine why Latino teen might be running in Wyoming. So she pulled her gun on him.

I've tried a few times to make useful yet portable things out of wood and never really succeeded. To cut a long story short, what I never realized was that… Read the rest of the article: Get a ryoba handsaw right now

Thanks to a "the use of new strategies discovered by a brute-forcing bot," this computerized speedrun of Arkanoid (on the NES) comes in at 11 minutes and change. To be… Read the rest of the article: Watch a year of brute force beat Arkanoid in 11 minutes

Two weeeks ago, it was a coffee cup. For the finale, a final insult: water bottles visible on-stage throughout the last episode's ███████ scene.

Here's the first 14 of 100 proofs that the Earth is a globe, with the rest still to come author David Morgan-Mar. [via] 1. The Blue Marble The most straightforward… Read the rest of the article: 100 proofs the Earth is a globe