Month: February 2015
Although you won’t see the D.A.R.E. logo front-and-center on the Oxygen website, it is one of the key sponsors of the network’s irritating new fiasco, Street Art Throwdown, a contrived street art reality show that debuted two weeks ago. Yes, D.A.R.E., a group founded by police who hate graffiti, is funding a show that celebrates […]
An international team of scientists have observed, for the first time ever, what they think is a multistar system in very early stages of formation. The implications of the findings, published in Nature, may help researchers understand why some star systems have only one star (like ours), and other have two or more stars. ETH […]
It would seem like swiping left and right is part of the fun of Tinder, but if you want to optimize your time on the dating app, use a bot that automates the process. Vancouver-based developer Justin Long has created perhaps the most impressive Tinder Bot yet, using facial recognition algorithm Eigenfaces to search through […]
In Long Island, it typically takes a hurricane or really big storm to create the perfect conditions for surfers. Although the Blizzard That Never Was spared New York City, it dumped on Long Island. Despite the massive accumulation, surfers in Montauk used the opportunity to film themselves shredding gnarly waves in the snow. The footage […]
Ever since author Dan Brown brought freemasonry into the mainstream with his bestselling book The Da Vinci Code — which is really just a fictional rehashing of research done by the likes of Robert Bauval, Michael Baigent, and Richard Leigh — the idea of a shadowy cabal of powerful people running the world known as […]
The burnt down CitiStorage warehouse, which briefly transformed into an unlikely ice fortress at the Williamsburg riverfront, has reignited talks about finishing the Bushwick Inlet Park the New York Times reports. The park has been a decade-long dream. After a 2005 rezoning of Greenpoint and Williamsburg brought high-rises into the area, city officials promised residents […]
When facing accusations of potentially illegal activity from New York City officials in January, Airbnb defended itself by arguing that a majority of users rent apartments on occasion. The roomsharing service didn’t present any data at the time, but now community activist Murray Cox has scraped data from Airbnb’s site and put together an interactive […]
“Listen In” is a weekly feature in which we ask musicians to curate a mixtape-length YouTube playlist of songs they’re currently digging. Click the big play button above to hear the whole playlist or scroll down to see and hear individual tracks. This week’s playlist comes to you from Sunny Jain, leader of Brooklyn’s extremely […]
Although 2014 brought New York the fewest number of pedestrian deaths in over 100 years, one lawmaker says Mayor Bill de Blasio’s Vision Zero plan is doing “nothing” to keep the streets safe for pedestrians, DNAinfo reports. Queens Assemblyman Michael DenDekker has requested an audit of the expansive program, which has decreased the city-wide speed […]
Minnie, Caesar’s Bay. (Photo: Robert S) […]
