Dam Simple

from WIRED This Dam Simple Trick Is a Big Green Energy Win Only a small fraction of dams actually produce electricity. Transforming them into hydropower plants might stop new ones from being built. by MATT REYNOLDS PHOTOGRAPH: MAURO PIMENTEL/GETTY IMAGES IN NOVEMBER...

Why Martians Look Like Martians

from The U.S. Sun Kids born on Mars after Elon Musk’s SpaceX missions would have brittle bones, weak eyesight and ‘green’ skin tone by Mark Hodge How a human child born on Mars may look ELON Musk’s plan to move mankind to Mars could end up with...

The Venusians Are Coming

from The Daily Beast via Yahoo! News Are We About to Find Life on Venus? by David Axe Photo Illustration by Kelly Caminero/The Daily Beast/Getty Phosphine is a colorless, flammable, toxic gas that smells like rotting fish. Humans manufacture it to use in pest control...

Napolean’s Hat

from The New York Post NYC media mogul buys rare Napoleon hat for $1.4 million By Jon Levine Bryan Goldberg was insistent to The Post that he scored a bargain with the hat. BDG This ‘Napoleon’ is looking dynamite in his new $1.4 million hat. Gotham media mogul Bryan...

Kubrick Ranked

from Paste Magazine Every Stanley Kubrick Film, Ranked By Paste Movies Staff Director Stanley Kubrick, a man who made just over a dozen feature films during his four-decade career, remains one of those rare titans who has entered the lexicon, infused with meaning by...