Everybody loves to talk about other people. It’s human nature. But our society seems to stigmatise gossip, branding it as common, rude and just a little bit shameful. Turns out, though, it’s not all bad. More »
Scientists have found that if you lean to the left, you think Michael Jackson had fewer #1 hit singles than if you lean to the right or stand up straight. More »
Think only jerks can catch a break in this cruel world? Nope. David Rand, a Harvard University researcher, studied the behaviour of 800 individuals he recruited through Amazon’s Mechanical Turk to prove it. More »
Do you know where you fit in chronologically with the seven billion or so human folk running around sweet Terra? BBC has a really cool tool that lets you plug in your birthday to get an approximation of which number human you were to sprout up on the planet. More »
Anthropologist and Gizmodo friend Félix Pharand is mapping the effect of humans on planet Earth. His latest video — which shows cities, transmission lines, pipelines, roads and railways with amazing detail — is simply spectacular. Play it at full screen. More »
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Our friend Jason Silva – writer, filmmaker and founding host/producer of Current TV – is making a new documentary celebrating humans reaching their ultimate potential, the inexorable evolution that is turning us into gods. He’s quite optimistic about it. I’m not so sure – JD. More »
Human skin is apparently a very energy-efficient conduit for transmitting data. A recent experiment achieved a rate of 10Mbps, which may put my internet connection to shame. The experiment used small, flexible electrodes and took place at Korea University. More »
