‘Game of Thrones’ Finale Reactions: Yeah, We’re Gonna Need to Talk About That One Well, as we hoped would happen, Game of Thrones celebrated the coming of winter by bringing some serious heat. At nearly 80 minutes, “The Dragon and the Wolf” was the series’ longest to date, and it packed in what it could from …
What Ligers, Grolar Bears, and Mules Show Scientists About Evolution In 2006, a hunter shot what he thought was a polar bear in the Northwest Territories of Canada. Closer examination, however, revealed brown patches on its white fur, uncharacteristically long claws and a slightly hunched back. The creature was in fact a hybrid, its mother a …
What I Learned at Gerrymandering Summer Camp At 6’5″, Aaron Dennis towers over the whiteboard beside him. Blue marker in hand, the 22-year-old hunches slightly to jot down suggestions being shouted by a group of people deep into a brainstorming session. Dressed mostly in nerdy T-shirts (one reads Science! with a test tube in place of …
The Internet Responds to James Cameron’s ‘Wonder Woman’ Critique In This Week’s News Roundup Welcome back, internet fans. We’ve got a lot to catch up on, so let’s get started. First of all, to set the scene, it’s been the kind of week where an attempt to avoid backlash causes backlash and everyone in Texas is, …
What the Controlled Chaos of Burning Man Reveals About Cities Every year, for the past 26 years, something truly remarkable happens: an entire city appears out of the desert. I’m speaking, of course, of Black Rock City, in Nevada’s Black Rock Desert, erected for the quasi-ritualistic celebration of art, radical inclusion, and free-to-be-you-and-me-ness known as Burning …
iPhone Home Studio: All the Gear You Need to Record a Hit Song Cut your next hit song anywhere with gear that turns your phone into a recording studio. 1. Ernie Ball Music Man St. Vincent Signature Guitar Designed by Annie Clark herself, this mahogany guitar is one versatile ax. The trio of DiMarzio mini humbuckers …
Even Artificial Neural Networks Can Have Exploitable ‘Backdoors’ Early in August, NYU professor Siddharth Garg checked for traffic, and then put a yellow Post-it onto a stop sign outside the Brooklyn building in which he works. When he and two colleagues showed a photo of the scene to their road-sign detector software, it was 95 …
How Will Houston Handle the Deluge of Hurricane Harvey? Hurricanes are ranked according to their wind speed. But a truer measure of their destructive potential would also include their moisture level. Just before making landfall on Friday night, Hurricane Harvey jumped up to become a category 4 hurricane, with sustained winds of 130 miles per hour. …
Space Photos of the Week: NASA Takes Better Eclipse Photos than You Millions of people stared up at the sky on Monday for a chance to watch the first total solar eclipse in the contiguous United States since 1979. And while countless photos were taken of the event, none are quite so impressive as those captured …
Violent Alt-Right Chats Could Be Key to Charlottesville Lawsuits In the weeks leading up to the Charlottesville, Virginia, white nationalist march that left one counter-protestor dead, organizers discussed inserting screws into flagpoles to be used as potential weapons and concealing firearms in the case of a “gunfight,” according to chatroom logs. In the days after the …