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22 photos that show the evolution of New York City’s Time Square ball drop
AP Every year, over a million people pack into New York City’s Times Square to revel in the new year. 2017 marks the 100th anniversary of the ball drop — the tradition of watching a glowing sphere that slides down a pole until midnight. Let’s take a look at how the celebration has evolved over […]
Don’t lose a finger: The 200-year evolution of the can opener
Enlarge / In the 19th century, decades after the invention of canning, there were virtually no can openers. Canned food, like these sardines, came with its own “key” to peel back the tin lid. (credit: Wikimedia Commons) Over the Thanksgiving weekend, odds are that you watched a perfect red cylinder of cranberry sauce wobble itself […]
Star Wars 8 The Last Jedi NEW behind-the-scenes video – Evolution of the Crystal Fox
More and more mini-trailer and features keep being released by Lucasfilm as the release of Star Wars The Last Jedi approaches. The latest is a behind-the-scenes clip on how the crystal foxes known as Vulptices, or a Vulptex, are brought to life. The video opens with the familiar face of Finn star John Boyega, who […]
The Evolution of Thor: From Serious Warrior to Silly Superhero
When Chris Hemsworth‘s Thor made his hammer-smashing debut in the Marvel Cinematic Universe in 2011, his character was ripped directly from comic book pages, staying true to his origins and persona – a noble warrior whose sole reason for existing is to protect his home world of Asgard, his people, and the rest of the nine […]
Like genes, language evolution involves random chance
Enlarge (credit: flickr user: Caro Wallis) Linguists know a huge amount about the historical changes that have shaped the English we speak today, but there are still plenty of questions to be answered. In some cases, new tools that linguists stole from biologists are letting us ask questions that we haven’t been able to address […]
New ‘Justice League’ Batman Featurette Shows the Evolution of a New Dark Knight
A new Justice League video takes us behind the scenes of the highly anticipated DCEU film and gives us an extended look at Ben Affleck‘s Batman in all his bulky glory. New footage, and scenes of Jeremy Irons‘ extremely droll Alfred abound! When Ben Affleck was first announced as the new Batman, fans were less than enthusiastic. […]
Evolution experiment has now followed 68,000 generations of bacteria
Enlarge / Colorized scanning electron micrograph of Escherichia coli (E. coli), grown in culture and adhered to a cover slip. (credit: NIAID / Flickr) On February 24, 1988, Richard Lenski seeded 12 flasks with E. coli and set them up to shake overnight at 37ºC. But he seeded them with only enough nutrients to grow […]
How blockchain promises to speed up tech evolution
GUEST: The blockchain space has been innovating at an incredible pace over the past year. The total number of initial coin offerings (ICOs) was probably less than 10. If someone had told you that insurance company AIG was conducting a multi-country smart contract test, you’d have thought they were crazy. Certainly, the idea of putting […]
Sonos, Alexa, and Spotify: An excruciatingly slow evolution
ANALYSIS: Perhaps no one was more excited than I was by the official announcement that Amazon’s Alexa would work with Sonos speakers. And now, almost two weeks later, no one may be as frustrated as I am. It had been more than a year since Sonos, realizing it had badly missed the boat on voice-powered […]
