You know what's always a hit? Photo booths at weddings. You know what's always fun? Slow motion. You know what would be amazing? A slow-motion photo booth at a wedding. It can document all the cheery drunkenness and celebratory antics and encouraged public displays of affection and confetti and suits and ties and dresses and makeup and alcohol and wonderful time that all weddings and/or parties should be.
We know Ultron will be the big villain in the sequel to The Avengers. We also know that it will be Tony Stark that creates him rather than Hank Pym. What we didn't know was who would be portraying the robotic villain...until now.
Ultron will be played by the Emmy Award-winning actor, James Spader. Spader has earned three Emmy Awards for Boston Legal and The Practice. Spader was also recently seen in Steven Spielberg's Lincoln as well as TV's The Office.
No other information on how he will portray the villain, whether it'll just be voice work and CG or someone in costume.
Avengers: Age of Ultron opens in theaters on May 1, 2015.
Whether or not you think that certain endagered animals are worth all the fuss— *cough*pandas*cough*—judging by the internet's recent, excited tittering over a potential panda pregnancy, the majority of people are very much pro-animal kingdom diversity. So much so, in fact, that a team of Japanese scientists has begun freeze-drying certain endangered animals' sperm in the hopes of one day bringing them with us to other planets.
Facebook has an awful lot of noise, especially if you're "friends" with people you don't really care about. If you want to clean up your News Feed, Facebook actually has a handy tool to help you do just that.
Have you ever thought you need a vacation after your vacation? Studies show the stress of a trip can leave you worse off than if you didn't take one in the first place. Because we have so little paid time off in America we try hard to make our vacations count, but we need to do that without sacrificing our well-being.
We all like to think we're most creative when we're happy, but research suggests otherwise. Instead, we're likely at our best when we're angry or a little upset. So the next time you need to do some brainstorming, you may want to try it when you're in a bad mood instead of waiting for the sun to come out.
This looks like your brain on drugs, but it's actually a rare solar eclipse from last June in which Venus moved between the Sun and the Earth the way the Moon usually does. Venus looked like a thinner and thinner crescent until it was perfectly aligned with the Sun, creating a Venusian annular eclipse with a ring of fire. The Solar Dynamics Observatory imaged the Sun in three colors of UV light, producing data for this image. The next Venusian solar eclipse will occur in 2117, so you'll have time to enjoy this photo for awhile before it's challenged by something even crazier. [APOD]
Sometimes your stuff gets smelly. Whether it's because you're smelly or just a victim of some wayward stench, it sucks, and it's a problem worth fixing. You, dear Giz readers, responded to my desperate call for solutions, and here a few of the stand outs y'all came up with.
The grandfather paradox is well-known and has a good dramatic hook, but it's a rather ineffective controlled experiment. The Polchinski Paradox gives us a time travel paradox based purely on laws of motion, without any of that tiresome free will. Plus, it involves billiards.
What started as an investigation into developmental mouse biology has become a lot more than that. Biologist Katsuhiko Hayashi discovered a way to turn mouse skin cells into sperm and egg cells — and actually used these modified cells to create a living baby mouse. The question is, can it work in humans?
Econophysicists studying the way people accumulate a new form of digital currency say they have observed the famous rich-get-richer effect for the first time
