Before we get into the concept art here, you’ve gotta watch the trailer for Jodorowsky’s Dune, a new documentary chronicling the eponymous Chilean director’s crazy-ambitious attempt to bring Frank Herbert’s sci-fi classic to the big screen in the 1970s.
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For all those naysayers out there who couldn’t help but caterwaul over Facebook’s demise before the ink was even dry on it IPO opening, May 19, 2012 — including myself [see "How Many Dumb F*cks Rocked Facebook’s IPO Like It’s 1999?"] — our subesquent rude awakening was the world’s largest social network fooled a good many of us.
Have you ever heard of a twistlock? Unless you’re a stevedore, probably not. Yet this little mechanism is what makes it possible to stack shipping containers onto cargo ships larger than city blocks—enabling a global trade network that brought most of your belongings to your doorstep. And we have a relatively little-known Californian mechanical engineer to thank for it.
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As many northern climes are still reeling from the harsh snowstorms of 2014 – the Ukraine is no exception. Yet, today’s report has more to do with a climactic versus climate change. Like the Arab Spring
that also commenced in the dead of winter [December 18, 2010] and
spawned dozens of revolutions throughout Africa and the Middle East,
similarly, news of the Ukrainian uprisings are now being conveyed by
digital technology, social networks and citizen journalism.
On April 8th, the New York City branch of Bonhams will be hosting a "Space History" auction, and Gizmodo has been given a preview of the some of the historically unique, space age artifacts that will be for sale. From full-body Soviet space suits to a control panel once used on the space station Mir, the range of objects is pretty extraordinary; earlier space history-themed auctions at Bonhams have even included Neil Armstrong’s own flight notes taken to the surface of the moon.
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It won’t be cheap, but you could soon be the owner of a piece of World War II history in the Czech Republic. Oskar Schindler’s factory in the tiny village of Brnenec is going on the market. Yes, Oskar Schindler is the same Schindler who had a list.
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During the Cold War, the British military proposed placing nuclear land mines throughout the North German Plain to ensnare Soviet troops if they invaded. But how could they keep the bombs at the right temperature underground? Enter the idea of live chickens, which, if supplied with feed, could warm mines for about a week at a time. The project was scrapped—but the proposal was very real.
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New York’s Grand Central Terminal is one of the country’s largest and busiest public transit structures, and now it has a new website that honors its outsize legacy. Based on the Grand by Design exhibition that was on display at the station last year, the website includes historical documents, videos, stories, and rare, previously unseen photos of the building throughout the years.
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February is Black History Month and that history is intimately linked with surveillance by the federal government in the name of "national security."
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Remember the stereotype-busting, heartwarming 1981 Lego ad
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