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ift.tt/2fEkKPL Industrial Light & Magic presents a fascinating breakdown of how hundreds of artists, scientists, and engineers from around the globe created the incredible visual effects for Rogue One: A Star Wars Story. We hope you enjoy the reel which…

ift.tt/2woG138 Dr. Emilio Ferrara probably would have. Ferrara has studied bots for years, today as research leader of the Machine Intelligence and Data Science group at University of Southern California. His research has proven amazingly prescient; just a day before the election,…

ift.tt/2hC3YRT Jason Davis • September 29, 2017 SpaceX CEO Elon Musk updates Mars colonization plans SpaceX CEO Elon Musk presented an updated version of his Mars colonization plans today, during a widely anticipated talk at the 68th International Astronautical Congress in Adelaide,…

ift.tt/2htucGp Described by ICP curator Christopher Phillips as “the long-lost Korean cousin of Magnum photographers such as Henri-Cartier Bresson” is the lesser known Han Youngsoo. South Korea’s rapid economic development during the past half century is unprecedented. The country went…

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ift.tt/2wTVr34 Today I’ll cover a fun magic trick. Here’s a video for it. The instructions are also in text below. I Will Read Your Mind – Math Magic Trick Pick a 3 digit number with 3 different digits. Now reverse…

ift.tt/2yvvWCa If you’re concerned about private communication, there are a growing number of options, like Signal and PGP. Or, if you’re two creative college kids, you could just build your own cell phone network. Matthew May and Brendan Harlow are…

ift.tt/2xA7CCa In space, nothing frivolous is tolerated. There’s plenty of beauty in the abyss of the universe, but relatively little of it is human-made. We build habitats, rocket ships, and satellites that can be beautiful in their own utilitarian ways,…

ift.tt/2xDI5Wr Last Friday, most major media outlets touted a major story about Russian attempts to hack into U.S. voting systems, based exclusively on claims made by the Department of Homeland Security. “Russians attempted to hack elections systems in 21 states in…

ift.tt/2wkGSSk Senate Democrats and their progressive allies spent the last week-and-a-half in a full-blown mobilization against an existential threat to the Affordable Care Act. Now that it has fizzled out, the lead author of the measure, known as the Graham-Cassidy…

ift.tt/2wU57uS Murray Peshkin, the last known surviving Manhattan Project scientist, passed away last week after a years-long battle with heart disease. He was 92. Peshkin went to work on the Manhattan Project when he was still a physics student at…

ift.tt/2fn1C4U The nuclear shouting between President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong-un often seems like a maddening version of whack-a-crazy-mole, in which an unhinged comment by one of them is hastily followed by a lunatic retort from the…

ift.tt/2wN5Rlp On the 37th floor of the Samsung Tower Suites, Alexa stares hopelessly at the inky black between her eyelids and the ceiling. Her eyes open, then close. She lays on her stomach, then curls into her side.  Alexa’s been…

ift.tt/2ym5Vov In his United Nations General Assembly speech last week, President Donald Trump loudly stated his intention to effectively dismantle the world order that the United States painstakingly built over the past century. Trump lauded nationalism before the assembled delegates…

ift.tt/2wQLnU7 In February of 2001, a group of British, French and Kenyan scientists announced a breakthrough discovery. An earlier excavation in Kenya had unearthed a series of bones believed to belong to our earliest human ancestors. The enormous implications of…

The fastest growing religion in the United States seems to be no religion at all. A 2016 study conducted by the Public Religion Research Institute found that a quarter of the subjects surveyed claimed no religious affiliation, and this surprising…

If you’re feeling gloomy about the state of the world, you can turn to author Peter Diamandis for a jolting shot of optimism. As expressed in his book titled Abundance, he believes our modern technological revolution can help to fulfill…

The origins of syphilis have long been steeped in mystery and myth. Calling upon recent archeological discoveries, painstaking study, and observations from experts across a wide array of academic disciplines, The Syphilis Enigma attempts to untangle this complicated narrative and…

Superstar hip hop recording artist J. Cole is no stranger to the spotlight. But in his new documentary 4 Your Eyez Only, he redirects this attention to everyday heroes of the black community. Crafted as a companion piece to his…

ift.tt/2xtVZtY Picture this: Trillions of years from now, in a universe where the stars have largely dissipated and all existence is shrouded in chilled darkness, the continuation of human life might still be a possibility. This scenario is explored in…

ift.tt/2wLZxe5 How many rectangles are in the following grid? How many rectangles are in the following L-shaped grid? These problems appeared on the TV show Superhuman hosted by Kal Penn (Kalpen Modi). The contestant Summer passed the “rectangled challenge”, taking…

ift.tt/2y12p6T The breach of the credit monitoring firm Equifax, which exposed extensive personal data for 143 million people, is the worst corporate data breach to date. But, incredibly, the mistakes and the superlatives don’t end there. Three weeks since the…