A group inside the MIT Media Lab has created a system called aeroMorph that folds materials into origami shapes when inflated. In their words: We introduce a bending mechanism that creates multiple, programmable shape-changing behaviors with inextensible materials, including paper, plastics and fabrics. We developed a software tool that
Racist, homophobic, and anti-Semitic slurs appear outside Twitter's headquarters in Hamburg, Germany—actual tweets painted there by an Israeli-German satirist who had previously reported them to Twitter as hate speech, but got little in reply.
There's a small island (U Thant/Belmont Island) on New York City's East River that technically you're not allowed to visit because it's a sanctuary for migrating birds. Over the years it's been leased by a Buddhist spiritual group, smashed
Trump threatens North Korea with "fire and fury," North Korea responds with its own fire plan—to envelop Guam in flames—and Trump then returns fire with tweets bragging about the United States' nuclear arsenal. Meanwhile, Tillerson urges Americans to "sleep well at night." For
The It’s Okay to Be Smart team explains how glaciers move. See also, why mountain goats follow humans around parks: for the pee.
A trailer for Loving Vincent, supposedly the world's first fully oil-painted feature film. H/t coudal.
Apparently in the hell that is retirement, The Wire's Police Commissioner Ervin Burrell wanders small town America greeting friends and playing pool, whatever it takes to promote The War on Drugs. Fine, we're nerds.
For your reference files: a four-season index of every song used for the closing credits of Silicon Valley.
A supercut of blackout scenes from 18 movies.
Robots not only can crack safes faster than humans, they do it differently. I.e., smarter. By demonstrating his safecracking bot and showing people how to make their own, Seidle says he's certainly not trying to aid burglars. Instead, he sees his work as mostly harmless DIY fun,
