There you are, in your boat, kayaking, in the water, in New Zealand or whatever. Here it comes, a seal! Or is it a sea lion? Does this matter? More on that later. What does it have in its—oh. It’s an octopus! What...
Last year, Gizmodo launched Earther, a new website dedicated to the environment, the people and entities working to save or destroy it, and those who will be most impacted by its destruction. We’ve survived a lot in the past 12 months, from Scott Pruitt’s EPA to rising CO2 levels and natural disasters changing the…
A family of Eastern grey squirrels in Wisconsin got a little too close-knit this weekend after five juveniles got their tails tangled together. The squirrels are fine, we PROMISE, so don’t feel too bad for gawking at them.
MoviePass failed me last night—and now I know why.
In a way, cities are giant science labs, providing an environment for organisms that’s unlike anywhere else on the planet. Even though cities have been around for thousands of years, the way that humans are urbanizing our planet in recent decades has become radically transformative for entire ecosystems. Urban living…
A new interactive climate change exhibit will open at the American Museum of Natural History (AMNH) this week, becoming the museum’s first permanent installation dedicated to modern day, human-caused climate change. It’s replacing a climate-centric portion of the museum’s Hall of Planet Earth, which features a ton of…
They’re a bit late to the party, but Instagram has finally answered our prayers by adding a mute feature to its main feed. According to an announcement made by the company this morning, users will be able to hide posts in their feed from accounts that they still want to follow but don’t want to see any content…
As you’ve probably heard, it’s Groundhog Day, the one day a year where it’s fine for everyone in the country to obsess over a big ol’ rodent.
Welcome to WTF, Emily?, the column where the Lifehacker staff’s closest thing to a teenager explains what the hell the teens are doing online. Every other week, recent college grad Emily Lipstein will take a deep dive into something teens are up to, breaking it down beyond a moral panicky segment on the 11pm news.
Newly proposed guidelines under consideration by the Unicode Consortium, the non-profit group that maintains Unicode as the international standard for symbols across software platforms, could soon radically change the way we use emojis. Yes, I mean that Unicode may finally update emoji standards to let your favorite…
For many, the holidays are one of the more stressful times of year. Between cooking for a motley crew of relatives, having to deal with that one uncle who doesn’t believe in climate change, and figuring out how to stay sane through it all, Thanksgiving isn’t the laid-back day with friends and family that Nicole…
Dogs and cats are the best and I just can’t get enough of them. For months, my Facebook feed has been chock full of posts from every cat and dog-oriented page you could possibly dream up. It’s been a great way to pretend that the world isn’t burning down around us! There’s no better coping strategy for 2017 than…
“Speak now/if the white supremacists are using you as a symbol for hate” would be a good way to sum up the thread tweeted out yesterday morning by Feminist Taylor Swift, a parody Twitter account launched in 2013 which rewrites Taylor Swift lyrics to correlate them with feminist topics such as rape culture and the wage…
Fiona the Hippo is about to become a STAR!
After long years of research, your efforts have paid off: the archaeological site you’re digging in has turned up a stash of rare, striking bones, no doubt the beginning of a groundbreaking discovery. Only then, you find the KFC wrapper, revealing that this “ancient burial ground” is just the leftovers of someone’s…
On Monday, the USDA brought us some much needed good news, when it reported data suggesting that honeybees might finally be bouncing back from colony collapse disorder. Today, a team of scientists countered with some seriously bummer pollinator news. A new study published in the journal Nature indicates that…
Chicago just became the latest American city to start charging consumers a penny per ounce of any sweetened drink they buy in a “pop tax.” Chicagoans are upset about this, but not because taxes like this have been demonstrated to target lower-income communities. According to DNAinfo, a number of Walgreens locations…
Charli XCX released a music video for her new single “Boys” on Wednesday and in the time since, I have not been the same. For one, I must contend with the fact that I now know what Charlie Puth looks like—and that I think he’s attractive, god help me. I must also grapple with my (totally plausible) queer-girl…
Last week, we covered the kidnapping of Millennium the African-spurred tortoise from an environmental center in Queens. I’m happy to report that he’s made it back home unharmed, according to the Alley Pond Environmental Center’s Facebook page!
Tort-heist!
