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One Of The Basic Maths Rules You Learned In School Is Wrong

There are probably a lot of things you learned in school that you don’t even remember, but the “order of operations” — also known as PEMDAS — is likely to be one that stuck with you; you’ll mess up even simple equations without it. The catch? Well, it’s wrong.


Watch This Badass Pilot Save The Day With A Ballsy No-Wheel Landing

Last night, the pilot of US Airways Express Flight 4560 was having some bad luck. The landing gear on his turboprop twin-engine plane just wouldn’t go all the way down. So with some quick thinking and righteous piloting skills, he went in for a wheel-less, sparky touchdown, and pulled it off without a hitch.


This Table Designs Itself With A Corrosive Chemical Dance Party

There are all kinds of ways to design a table, but most of them don’t include resonant frequencies or specially-designed abrasive enzymes, much less both. Bonus Table 571 isn’t most tables though, and that’s exactly how it gets its very specific pattern.


Ex-Valve Engineers’ Crazy AR Glasses Put Tiny Projectors On Your Face

Want some more tech to put on your face? Neither full-on goggles like the Oculus Rift nor slender no-AR-yet specs like Google’s Glass, CastAR takes a whole different approach to modified-reality tech by slapping tiny projectors on your face, and The Verge got to take a peek.


Meet The Teen Whose Invention Could Charge Your Phone In Seconds

While you are hanging out on the Internet (in your underwear, maybe?) on a Sunday, kids that are smart than either you or I are out there getting ready to change the world. Eesha Khare, for instance, not only invented a super-capacitor that could someday charge your phone in 20 seconds; she also one $US50,000 for it.


This Is Everything Star Wars Episode VII Should Be

Not too long ago, Patton Oswalt riffed on his idea for a great plot for the upcoming Star Wars VII film, on Parks and Recreation. Now, it’s got a whole bunch of… digital effects that turn it into the film we all deserve. It’s alright JJ, we’ve got this one on lock.


Start Your Day Right With A Daft Punk Laser Bubble Party

Lasers, bubbles, edge-tracking, and Daft Punk are all pretty awesome in their own separate ways, but put together, they can put one one hell of a useless, random, but awesome show.


The World’s Fastest Wi-Fi Puts Your Sluggish Router To Shame

For the most part, we’re all happy if we can get Internet that’s fast enough to stream some HD video. But faster is always better, and a new, world-record setting network developed in Germany is so blazing fast you wouldn’t know what to do with it. It can deliver 10 HD films in a second.


How Much Would It Cost To Build The Starship Enterprise?

So you want to build the Enterprise. Don’t we all! Well good news: according to some quick, messy, napkin maths, it’s possible. Kind of. The bad news? It’s going to be stupid expensive. But not unfathomably so! Start scrounging up your space-pennies.


Earth’s Atmosphere Is Slowly Escaping Into Space

Take a deep breath. You’re lucky to be able to. Without a handy blanket of atmosphere gases to swaddle us all, we’d be no more than a twinkle in evolution’s eye. But that wonderful blanket of gas is slowly escaping, molecule by molecule, and there’s not much we can do about it.


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