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If You’re Trapped With Duct Tape Over Your Mouth, Here’s How to Get It Off

A YouTube video shows that actually you can totally get the tape off your mouth without using your hands
October 17, 2012 | By Rose Eveleth

Smithsonian Channel: Upcoming October Shows

Get an in-depth look at the Smithsonian's Landsdowne Portrait, the Greensboro Lunch Counter and the Titanoboa Snake on the big screen (your big screen) this month
October 16, 2012 | By Guest Blogger

A New Great Depression and Ladies on the Moon: 1970s Middle School Kids Look to the Year 2000

The ideal future according to a ten-year-old: shorter school days, lower taxes, and lots and lots of robots
October 12, 2012 | By Matt Novak

This 105-Year-Old Made Marilyn Monroe’s Earrings

Meet Sadie Mintz, a jewelry maker who saw her handiwork on the cover of LIFE magazine
October 09, 2012 | By Emily Spivack

It’s Definitive: Rose and Jack Could Both Have Survived in Titanic

Perhaps Jack was just dumb for not climbing onto the raft
October 09, 2012 | By Rose Eveleth

Predictions From The Father of Science Fiction

Hugo Gernsback's predictions give us a look at the most radical of technological utopianism from the 1920s
October 04, 2012 | By Matt Novak

Recapping “The Jetsons”: Episode 02 – A Date With Jet Screamer

The Jetson family's descent into sex, drugs and rock & roll
October 01, 2012 | By Matt Novak

How Do Our Brains Process Music?

In an excerpt from his new book, David Byrne explains why sometimes, he prefers hearing nothing
October 2012 | By David Byrne

Recapping “The Jetsons”: Episode 01 – Rosey the Robot

Meet George Jetson! The first installment of our 24-part series on the show that would forever change how we view the future
September 24, 2012 | By Matt Novak

50 Years of the Jetsons: Why The Show Still Matters

Although it was on the air for only one season, The Jetsons remains our most popular point of reference when discussing the future.
September 19, 2012 | By Matt Novak

The Pee-Chee Folder: Illustrated by the Most Interesting Man in the World

Illustrator Francis Golden could barely remember the project that became an iconic school supply
September 19, 2012 | By Sarah C. Rich

Cartoons of Mohammed, Anti-Jihad Subway Ads and Other Provocations, Past and Future

Today, as protests continue across the Muslim world in reaction to a translated movie trailer posted on YouTube, French Magazine Charlie Hebdo announced that it was publishing cartoons depicting the prophet Muhammad
September 19, 2012 | By Mary Beth Griggs

LISTEN: The Freewheeling, Foot-Stomping Dust Busters

The Brooklyn string band brings it all back home
September 2012 | By Leah Binkovitz

The Worst Dinosaur Ever

There are plenty of awful movie dinosaurs, but the tyrannosaur in a 1990 rip-off of The Fly is the worst of all
September 17, 2012 | By Brian Switek

What’s Their Bacon Number? Let Me Google That For You

If you've ever wondered what someone's Bacon number is, you now have to look no further than a quick Google search
September 17, 2012 | By Rose Eveleth

Spielberg’s ‘Lincoln’ Nails the President’s Surprising, High Voice

For his new movie role as Abraham Lincoln, Daniel Day-Lewis obviously did his homework
September 14, 2012 | By Colin Schultz

The World’s Oldest Color Movie Dates to 1901

A goldfish, a macaw, and some happy children were captured in color video from the early 1900s
September 13, 2012 | By Colin Schultz

What We Do (And Don’t) Know About the Movie Muslim Innocence

Everything you thought you knew about Sam Bacile, the movie , and the riots, is probably wrong
September 13, 2012 | By Rose Eveleth

How an Obscure Video Sparked International Protests

Sam Bacile's movie was hardly seen at all in the United States, yet it incited a string of riots and the assassination of an American ambassador
September 12, 2012 | By Rose Eveleth

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David Byrne Offers Advice on How to Enjoy Music

What is it about place that makes music special? The rock star dissects what he enjoys about what he hears, from opera to jazz to radio hits
September 12, 2012 | By Seth Colter Walls


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