Here is a profile of the CEO of a credit card processing company, who told a lot of people something that may have been a lie. It includes the following photo caption: “Gravity staffers plank during meetings to encourage each other to speak quickly.”
You're Not Going to Become Weightless on January 4th
You may have a seen a story going around Facebook that promises you'll be able to float in the air on January 4th as a result of a planetary alignment that will "decrease gravity" for 5 minutes. Unfortunately, it is total bullshit.
BAFTA Names Movie About Space Starring 2 Americans "Best British Film"
The BAFTA Film Awards, which are currently underway at the Royal Opera House in London, has given Gravity six out of its eleven nominated awards already, mysteriously one of which is for Outstanding British Film. Winners receive a peeled-off graft of Shakespeare's skin dipped in bronze, and are then play-knighted with…
Astronauts Begin Emergency Space Walk at International Space Station
Two astronauts have begun an emergency spacewalk to fix a malfunctioning pump module on the International Space Station, wearing suits that have also malfunctioned recently.
Study: Everything You Know Is a Lie
In an absurd twist to everything you know and love, physicists tackling what sounds like a question for the chronically stoned—"What if the entire universe is just one big hologram?"—have come to a tenuous conclusion that, yeah, that might actually be the case.
Amazing Gravity Companion Film Tells the Rest of the Story
Gravity screenwriter Jonás Cuarón has finally revealed the identity of Sandra Bullock's distress call companion from the film's final climactic minutes with a short companion film that may take home its very own Oscar.
Gravity topped the box office for the third straight weekend as it gained traction with three separate audiences: "adults," "women," and "fanboys." Not as many people saw Carrie because it’s way lame compared to a movie filmed in space.
Reporter Asks Gravity Director If It Was Difficult Filming In Space
During a recent press conference to promote his sci-fi thriller-drama Gravity, director Alfonso Cuarón was finally asked the one question reporters have bizarrely neglected to put forward: What was it like filming a movie in space?
Scientific inaccuracies didn’t stop Gravity from topping the box office for the second week in a row, raising its overall gross to $123.4 million. Captain Phillips, the Tom Hanks drama based on the hijacking of a cargo ship by Somali pirates, came in second with $26 million.
Neil deGrasse Tyson has turned to Facebook—not Twitter—to express his regret for not first tweeting about “the hundred things” Gravity got right. In his almost-apology, he writes that the “right to be criticized on a scientific level is a high compliment indeed.”
Neil deGrasse Tyson Thinks Gravity Is Scientifically Inaccurate
It might be the number one movie this weekend, but the Gravity is full of crap. Or so says Neil de Grasse Tyson, the famous astrophysicist and Reddit deity.
Gravity took in $55.6 million this weekend, making the film's first weekend the highest October haul of all time, and the biggest opening ever for co-stars Sandra Bullock and George Clooney.
Gravity and the Force of Manipulation
I still felt Alfonso Cuarón's Gravity in my body the day after I saw it last week.
Alfonso Cuarón's Gravity won raves after its Venice Film Festival premiere last night. Be excited. Be very excited. In space, no one can hear you get excited. Etc.
Jose Canseco Just Explained Gravity to the Internet
Do you have questions about gravity? Have you thought about why nothing REALLY big exists today in nature? Have you ever wondered how 30-foot leather birds were once able to fly? If so, today is your lucky day because Jose Canseco, the world's best Twitter user, has taken to the internet to explain his fascinating…
You're Nobody Without a Rocket Ship
Rocket starships! Robot wings! Radar X-ray! Huge amoebas! Gravity detector! Solar Himalaya! Nanoparticle assembly! Leader faces! And a solo-visaged octo-tentacled beast that will haunt your very nightmares! It's your Tuesday Science Watch, where we watch science—and beyond!
If You Don't Want a Personal Jet Pack Then You're Dumb
Gravity existence! Personal jetpacks! Squirrel love! Treadmill shrimp! Lion theories! Worm brains! Dwarf stars! Futuristic pots! And x-ray food from the very near future! It's your Monday Science Watch, where we watch science—without any fancy science degrees!
Sandra Bullock to Boldly Go Where No Sandra Bullock Has Gone Before
It's a very exciting adventure for her! Also today: a sad story about Mike Myers, a sad story about Jimmy Smits, a somewhat happy story about Maura Tierney, and a sad story about a beloved Brooklyn neighborhood.
Keanu Reeves Will Never Have to Act in Another Movie for the Rest of His Life
After he does this one movie, that's it. It can never get better. Also today: Natalie Portman might be shot into space and left there, TV actresses get TV deals, Joan Holloway gets a new assignment, and nerd news.
Gravity Is Fake But Cake Is All Too Real
Gravity controversy! Fecal news! Fatty cake brain! Shady brainy babies! Lottery science magic! Shirts, singing! Who knows what secrets the universe holds? The Tuesday Science Watch does! Because we watch your science—clad in pop tune follicles!
