Some of you that are familiar with game theory have heard of ‘prisoner’s dilemma’ which basically gives an example of two people betraying each other in hopes of a greater personal gain when they would actually gain more by cooperating. Now University of Pennsylvania biologists Alexander J. Stewart and Joshua B. Plotkin have applied prisoner’s
From the moment I saw Demolition Man at a movie theater in Garland, TX on October 8th 1993, there hasn’t been a single day in my life in which I haven’t thought about the mysteries of the three sea shells. I don’t know how to use them, nor do I know enough about them to
Everyone welcome the 115th element of the periodic table, Ununpentium, and be happy you didn’t chose a profession that requires you to remember this stuff. Researchers in the division of atomic physics at Lund University have verified a 2004 discovery by a Russian scientist who claims to have found the existence of a super-heavy element that
Earlier this month we told you about the Harvard scientist that developed the world’s first brain-to-brain interface that allows humans to control animals through thought. Now researchers at University of Washington have developed the world’s first human brain-to-brain interface, with one person actually controlling another person purely through thought. When cyberpunks are hacking your thoughts in
Scientists in Russia discovered the secret of hover technology and they’re wasting it by trolling every person on he beach. Only in Russia would advanced technology be used to to pull off the biggest episode of Punk’d in human history. There’s not much known about this video aside from this military hovercraft approached the Baltic
There was a story that emerged at some point this year of a guy sleeping in his bed and a sinkhole literally engulfed his entire body. He was never seen from again. Emergency workers couldn’t even recover his body. The Earth literally swallowed him whole and never returned him, like every time you open a
It’s called SR9009 and it’s being developed at The Scripps Research Institute (TSRI) — and as of right now it’s only effective on lab mice. There’s a strong probability that it will also be effective on humans, but due to the FDA and a little thing called ‘Hippocratic Oath for scientists,’ scientists can’t just hop
When I was a kid I purchased The Anti-Gravity Handbook and read it as if it had some deeply subversive Talmudic knowledge that I needed to decipher. I expected the book to be filled with blue prints of preexisting floating cars and jet packs powered by anti-gravity. What I actually got was a collection of
When you’re the creator of PayPal and Tesla Motors, it’s tough to find time in-between your morning laps inside your Scrooge McDuck money pool and creating Hyperloop designs to manifest yet another scientific innovation — but somehow Elon Musk does it. Behold SpaceX’s ‘Grasshopper,’ a rocket that has the ability to launch, ‘hop sideways,’ and
America is the only country in which cheese enclosed inside of an aerosol can is perfectly acceptable. Some third world countries don’t have water to hydrate their families and we have entire theme parks filled with the stuff. It’s easy to hate the US for being entirely too awesome, but when Captain America is defending
A few weeks ago we told you Elon Musk’s ‘Hyperloop,’ a theorized transportation system that would enable a person to zip from Los Angeles to New York in less time than it would take you to watch an episode of True Blood. Today Elon Musk unveiled his lofty plans in a 52-page document complete with
What happens when you’re a vegetarian by choice, purely because of the way animals are treated before they’re slaughtered, and science creates lab-made burgers? What then? I know there are millions of you out there, I try to be one before I’m enticed by some sweet bovine after a wild night of whatever, but this
We teamed up with VXRSI to host a t-shirt design contest in which 100% of all profits went to the Save The Children fund in order to provide some form of relief to the millions of people that were displaced after the country’s worst ecological disaster on record. Now two years later the city of
Terence McKenna once said ‘If something can be told so as to be understood, it will be believed.’ Granted, McKenna also claimed he saw ‘self-transforming machine elves’ that appeared to be jeweled self-dribbling basketballs. The point I’m trying to make is if Orko from He-Man and the Masters of the Universe is the holder of
Don’t worry, it’s happened before. The sun’s magnetic field completely flips every eleven years — although it doesn’t make it any less frightening. Astronomically, the Sun’s change in polarity is a pretty massive event. At the peak of each solar cycle, and this upcoming reversal marks the midpoint of the 24th solar cycle — and