The Science Behind “Goosebumps”

With Halloween upon us, there’s likely a hair-raising situation waiting to give you goosebumps, chicken skin or make your skin crawl. Those might seem like silly terms, but they all come from the fact that, when we’re scared (or cold), muscles tug at our hair follicles, causing our hair to raise and giving our skin a bumpy texture similar to that of a featherless chicken. …

The Best Horror Movie Monsters

Halloween isn’t just for trick-or-treating and haunted houses, it’s the most appropriate time to binge-watch classic horror movies. Grantland has taken some of the trouble out of finding the perfect film with their comprehensive “Best Horror-Movie Monsters” list. The monsters chosen had to pass five strict rules: no humans, no real-life animals, no “benevolent” monsters, no temporary monsters (like werewolves) and, lastly, no classic horror …

Control the Way Your Content is Shared with Saga

A new self-hosting framework called Saga is giving artists, musicians, writers, filmmakers and other creatives more control over the way their content is shared. Saga works similarly to YouTube or any other embeddable media viewer, but it also offers a back-end dashboard where project owners can alter or restrict the use of their work if they don’t agree with the context of its use. For …