The Man Who Was Killed By His Own Beard

A 16th-century Dutch mayor named Hans Staininger had the most magnificent face full of whiskers the world had ever seen — a hirsute magnificence that ultimately proved to be his undoing

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13 Movie Scenes, Revised To Obey The Laws Of Physics

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13 Movie Scenes, Revised To Obey The Laws Of Physics

It might be worth your time to read Seven Brief Lessons In Physics, just in case.

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Movies do a bangup job of convincing us that the impossible is not only possible, but plausible. We're here to throw a bucket of cold water on that, and show you how iconic movie moments would have looked if the laws of the natural world hadn't been recklessly broken.

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