When you're part of an elite special ops team, extreme discretion is a way of life. Unless you're the guy who killed Osama bin Laden. Because at that point, let's face it, the world owes you a wicked bender. More »
Eleven movie watchers had their eye movements recorded using an Eyelink 1000 (SR Research) infra-red camera-based eyetracker while watching There Will Be Blood. Each dot represents a person's eyes and the size of the dot shows how long they've stared at that point. I wonder how the magnetic Daniel Day-Lewis would stack up next to a hot chick. [David Bordwell via The Daily What] More »
Back in the 18th century, a German doctor called Johann Gottlob Leidenfrost described how water behaves when it hits a mass considerably hotter than its boiling point. But first, watch the 3000-frames-per-second video and see if you can realize what's happening. More »