A digital art project by Carnegie Mellon University student Miles Peyton lets you upload and interact with animated GIFs of human body parts. Titled “Parts, Parts, Parts,” the project is available on …
Boundary-breaking creative talent gathered at this year’s Berlin Alternative Fashion Week (BAFW) to showcase the future of independent design through fashion, music and art in an atmosphere not bogged down by big …
In her article “Music to die for: how genre affects popular musicians’ life expectancy,” Dianna Kenny examines the correlation between musical genres and the deaths of their most popular acts. Kenny—who is …
Launched within just a month of each other, new social media platforms Meerkat and Periscope both favor live-streaming videos over text or photos, giving users an in-the-moment experience and urgency to participate. …
Stop what you’re doing and head over to Google Maps because, for a limited time, Google is turning your neighborhood streets into the 8-bit world of Pac-Man. You can activate the new …
If a baseball pitcher threw a 90-mph fastball at you, chances are you’d see nothing, but to a trained professional, each swirling pattern of red and white means something vastly different. To …
Like many museums, arenas and other public venues around the world, US music festivals Coachella and Lollapalooza have both banned selfie sticks from their premises. Lollapalooza’s website states that no “GoPro attachments …
IKEA is providing the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees with 10,000 flat-pack Better Shelters as part of an ongoing collaboration through its Housing for All Foundation. After initially being tested by …
Though it may not seem like it, the Earth’s soil is a precious and magical material that we all depend on to sustain human life, yet we still treat it like, well, …
Night vision eyedrops are now a real thing thanks to Science for the Masses, an independent biomedical research lab in California. After speculating that Chlorin e6—a chemical that naturally forms in algae …