The viral wall friction trick is taking over social media. From pencils to full-sized chairs, content creators are testing a wide range of objects to see if the trick works. Wall friction content ...

Marking the 40th anniversary of Back to the Future (1985), Michael J. Fox recently went back to the ’80s to reminisce about making the time-travel classic. In his new memoir Future Boy, now available, ...

Friction keeps the system moving. MIT’s research shows that 5% of GenAI pilots succeed by embracing resistance, both human and organizational, as well as technical, as the crucible of adaptation and ...

Magdalena Bay had a major winner with their 2024 album Imaginal Disk, which managed to land within the top 20 of the Uproxx Music Critics Poll. It’s been almost exactly a year since the project was ...

There's nothing quite like the drive to build something just to see if you can. YouTuber polymatt set out to create a floppy disk drive, the favored storage medium of yesteryear, from scratch, because ...

The question of which car first featured standard disc brakes is more complicated than you might think. While some American automakers were early to the party, it was a pair of European brands that ...

Tom Bowen is a senior editor who loves adventure games and RPGs. He's been playing video games for several decades now and writing about them professionally since 2020. Although he dabbles in news and ...

With the explosion in streaming over the last decade, people want to tell you that physical media is dead as a doornail. Yes, the market has shrunk dramatically and stores like Best Buy have stopped ...

Disk galaxies, like our own Milky Way galaxy, commonly consist of both a thick and thin disk of stars—each with different features, including stellar population and movement. Three major theoretical ...

The machine doesn’t care what it’s making—only that it’s making it fast. Frictionless systems optimize output. But meaning, memory, and margin live in the mess it leaves behind. The great smoothing is ...

A clinical trial on the VIA Disc NP treatment for discogenic back pain has shown impressive results, significantly reducing pain and improving back function. The non-surgical, minimally invasive ...

English is such a bizarre language. There are countless instances of pronunciation inconsistencies, idioms exclusive to the language, words that are spelled exactly the same but mean completely ...