Why Don't Toddlers Remember a Damn Thing? Asks Science

Researchers now have a hypothesis for the reason your 4-year-old niece insists on telling you the same story over and over every time she sees you. Alas, there are no new findings on how not to look bored.

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Concept Art Writing Prompt: Aliens Encounter the Cavepeople

While most stories about alien encounters set our first meeting with extraterrestrials in the future, some plant those early encounters firmly in the distant past. What happens when early humans come face-to-space-helmet with beings from another world?

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A cool and disturbing CG-animated take on A Scanner Darkly

Before Section Eight Productions settled on rotoscoping as the filmmaking technique to bring Philip K. Dick's A Scanner Darkly to the screen, the studio Rustmonkey created this black-and-white, CG test animation for the film.

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Long before V for Vendetta this newspaper seller wore a mustached mask

Alan Moore's comic V for Vendetta (and the subsequent film) inspired members of the group known as Anonymous to cover their faces with Guy Fawkes masks. Back in 1929, this newspaper seller hid his identity with a similarly mustached mask.

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