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A wonderful photo by Boing Boing reader Erik Wilson shared in the BB Flickr Pool, captured at Maker Faire Bay Area this weekend.

But the appeal of Daybreaker is partying hard without self-destruction.

Daybreaker is a wonderful monthly series of early-morning, alcohol/drug-free dance parties that take place at various locations around New York City and has really hit a groove with “morning people” who want something different to get them going and with those who just haven’t wanted to end the night. Created in 2013 by General Assembly co-founder Matthew Brimer and Super Sprowtz CEO Radha Agrawal, who found themselves at 2 A.M. needing a creative place to put their combined energies to work.

Brimer and Agrawal came up with the idea last fall after the two were out late partying and found themselves eating falafel at 2 in the morning. They started wondering why they had to stay out so late just to dance at a club, and why they felt kind of nasty afterwards (a 2 a.m. falafel can do that).

So they found a venue, hired a DJ, and organized their friends into the first Daybreaker in December. They’ve since done six parties, and the crowd seems ready for more. – Daily News

The parties have been a huge success and now Daybreaker is looking to expand into other cities. Sign up at Daybreaker website for more information and to be notified about future Daybreaker parties. The next one is in June 2014.

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Host John Oliver discusses climate change in a statistically representative manner with special guest Bill Nye on a recent episode of Last Week Tonight with John Oliver.

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Distractify has created a fourth compilation of very weird Japanese commercials. It features an anthropomorphic pug strutting around town while using his cell phone, a strange Star Wars-themed advertisement for canned sea chicken, and more. We previously wrote about Distractify’s ongoing series of extremely strange Japanese commercials.

My favorite sequence from Noah is Darren Aronofsky‘s adaptation of the story of creation from the book of Genesis. In my review for the film, I said:

One of my favorite parts of the film is Aronofsky’s beautiful retelling of the beginning of Genesis, which will please pro-science and will likely piss off creationists. Its this kind of passionate visual storytelling that mixes bible verse with science fact to present one of the most well-known stories in existence in a completely new light. For me, the beauty contained in the construction of this segment is worth the ticket price alone.

Now you don’t need to go to the movie theater to see this incredible sequence, as Protozoa Pictures has made it available online for free. But if you like this three and a half minute clip, do your self a favor and go see the film. Watch Darren Aronofsky’s the story of creation embedded after the jump.

The following sequence happens on the Ark, after the flood has overtaken the earth. Noah takes the moment to retell a story to his family —  the first story ever told: the story of creation. You might recognize the story from the beginning of the book of Genesis, but Darren Aronofsky’s adaptation supplements the words with beautiful visuals from the scientific world. Even if you don’t believe in the bible or a higher power like God, you can appreciate the merging of science theory and religious theology in this hopeful adaptation:

Darren Aronofsky’s The Story of Creation From Noah

Noah official synopsis:

Noah is a close adaptation of the Biblical story of Noah’s Ark. In a world ravaged by human sin, Noah is given a divine mission: to build an Ark to save creation from the coming flood. The screenplay was written by Aronofsky and Ari Handel and revised by Academy Award®-nominated screenwriter John Logan (GLADIATOR, HUGO). The film is inspired by the story of Noah. While artistic license has been taken, we believe that this film is true to the essence, values and integrity of a story that is a cornerstone of faith for millions of people worldwide. The biblical story of Noah can be found in the book of Genesis.

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YouTuber Elle Gee offers an insightful protip on how to deal with cat calls and unwanted attention in the hood.

A second trailer for Christopher Nolan‘s Interstellar hits theaters next week, and now the first official poster has been released. Check out the Interstellar teaser poster below, and read a brief description of the new trailer.

Here’s the first poster for Interstellar. Click to see it in high res.

You’ve gotta love the color scheme here as well as the simple, eye-catching design. Everything you need to know about the movie – which isn’t much – is right there. It’s about space. It’s about humans stretching their reach. The cast is amazing, it’s in IMAX and it’s from Christopher Nolan. Plus, if you look closer you can see what seems to be a father and daughter, or maybe a man and wife in the rural setting.

Plus, that tag line just resonates: “Mankind was born on Earth. It was never meant to die here.” It’s a very striking poster.

The poster was released in advance of the first full trailer for the November release. That’ll hits theaters May 16 with Godzilla and The Washington Post got an early look:

The trailer unspooled to show Matthew McConaughey driving his truck through corn fields while a lush orchestral score swelled in the background. Later, the fields had caught fire, an ominous dust cloud could be seen looming over a baseball game, and McConaughey (playing a character named Cooper) was reassuring his daughter that he loved her — right before being shot into space in order to save the world.

It sounds like, even in the new trailer, we won’t see Nolan’s vision of space. Not that we need to. So far, you can tell Nolan and his team are being very careful marketing this film. And they can afford to be. They have the reigning Best Actor winner, an insane supporting cast (including, but not limited to, Anne Hathaway, Jessica Chastain, Ellen Burstyn and Michael Caine) and one of the most popular and marketable filmmakers in the world. Just give us a glimpse and we’ll line up around the block.

What do you think of the Interstellar teaser poster?

And here’s the teaser trailer again:

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The Illustris project is an incredibly detailed and realistic cosmological simulation of the formation of galaxies in our Universe by a talented group of researchers and scientists. Essentially, it’s a computer model designed to build virtual universes based on what we know about such things, and the ones that the project constructed follow the rules as they are currently understood remarkably well. There are still some anomalies in the simulations, however, such as low-mass galaxies building up too soon.

According to Mark Vogelsberger, a physicist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and one of the people behind the simulation, a current top-of-the-line PC would take nearly 2,000 years to process the necessary data, and the 8,000 processors that the simulation used took several months to do so.

Images and videos of the simulations are available on the Illustris website.

The calculation tracks the expansion of the universe, the gravitational pull of matter onto itself, the motion of cosmic gas, as well as the formation of stars and black holes. These physical components and processes are all modeled starting from initial conditions resembling the very young universe 300,000 years after the Big Bang and until the present day, spanning over 13.8 billion years of cosmic evolution. The simulated volume contains tens of thousands of galaxies captured in high-detail, covering a wide range of masses, rates of star formation, shapes, sizes, and with properties that agree well with the galaxy population observed in the real universe.

image via Illustris Collaboration

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The original Godzilla suit actor Haruo Nakajima poses for a picture with a model figure from the 2014 reboot.

Screen Junkies and Smosh joined forces to create an honest video game trailer for Bethesda Game Studios‘ popular action role-playing video game The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim. We previously wrote about their honest video game trailer for Mario Kart and Grand Theft Auto V.

From the developers of everything Elder Scrolls comes a game so immersive you’ll forget to eat, sleep, or make any friends at all. You’ll spend countless hours trapped in a far off land; and when you finally emerge from the game, you’ll only find disappointment and boredom back in the real world.

Paris-based tattoo artist GueT works on a tattoo on in slow motion in a video from earlier this year.

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On a recent episode of the discussion-based After Hours series, Cracked staff members sat down to talk about six ridiculous stereotypes that you still see in every movie.

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