The ‘Prehistoric Beaver’ That Helped Mammals Inherit Earth
Whatever wiped out the dinosaurs left the stage clear for this little fella and his pals, and ultimately – us.
Whatever wiped out the dinosaurs left the stage clear for this little fella and his pals, and ultimately – us.
Chef Anthony Bourdain takes a tour of a traditional distillery and meets the men behind the mash tun.
Live solely on chips eaten out of polystyrene boxes, for example.
In the early hours of Friday morning, Scott Kelly captured this stunning shot of Hurricane Joaquin rumbling across the Bahamas. I have to admit, I'm a wee bit jealous of that view. Read More >>
For when being completely grown up becomes too much.
The yanks might not get irony but they're not bad at a bit of wordplay.
Answers on the back of a postcard addressed to Gizmodo Towers.
Edward Snowden gained 1.3 million followers in his first week on Twitter, while making a clanger: forgetting to turn off email notifications. 47 GB of follow, favourite, retweet and DM emails later, we’re pretty sure he learned the lesson. [Engadget]
If you’ve been debating whether to get a flu vaccine, you should watch this beautifully terrifying animation of a virus taking over a cell and sending millions of its progeny off to spread the infection.
These blockers are enabled or disabled through the Safari section of Settings, but if you want to temporarily view a site in the way its makers intended then there’s a quick shortcut.
It’s pretty simple even if we don’t want to acknowledge it: movies are basically set up in the same way and a hero’s journey follows a pretty universal 12-step process.
Athens is the ancient home of Plato and Aristotle, but in this photo taken from the International Space Station, it’s a sprawling modern metropolis. Read More >>
We knew Tarantino had a foot fetish, but now we get to see how he shows it off in his films.
A few months ago biologists used #JunkOff to show off weird and extravagant plant and animal genitalia. Now they've moved onto what animals actually do with their genitals.
It's like a time machine back to childhood in the 80s and 90s.
It’s a common phenomenon: a touch that normally feels a bit painful can feel much nicer when you’re sexually aroused.
