Oh, these are amazing! The photo you see above was taken by photographer Paul Seibert. He was so up high in the sky to take these gorgeous shits, that he was required to wear an oxygen mask to fly the aircraft legally. “This particular shot has never been taken bef … | Continue reading
The Galactic Menagerie is a parody trailer for a Wes Anderson Star Wars film. I have honestly never seen a Wes Anderson film, but I have read enough of the internet to know that his visual style is formal, symmetrical, pastel, and a bit art deco. Oh yeah, it's quite pretty, with … | Continue reading
Embed from Getty ImagesThe horror film The Pope's Exorcist, starring Russell Crowe, is currently in theaters, and has drawn mixed reviews for different reasons. The International Association of Exorcists is upset that the film "distorts and falsifies" the reality of exorcism. The … | Continue reading
Yes, that's billion with a b. The good people at the World Mosquito Program have a vision for the future of our world and it involves the mass production of mosquitoes on a previously impossible scale.Nature reports that the WMP's new facility will produce the mosquitoes and rele … | Continue reading
In the 1930s, the German government, controlled by the Nazi party, began confiscating all the gold they could, especially from Jews. In 1935, it became illegal for any German to accept or retain a Nobel Prize. At the time, a Nobel prize was made of 23-karat gold and weighed 200 g … | Continue reading
The most mundane Wikipedia articles can end up being the most fascinating. The couple whose pictures illustrated the "high five" captured the public's imagination and they became a meme. Likewise for the guy you see if you were to look up "shrug." His is the only picture in that … | Continue reading
From our new art site Artgonaut (check it out!), here's an art installation by Pierre Brault on a building in Paris that cleverly use the Sun to cast a shadow that reads "Slow Life"️ The Super Mario Bros theme song is now in the National Recording Registry. Miss C was kind enough … | Continue reading
The non-religious side of Easter celebrations are all about cute spring symbols. There are Easter eggs, flowers, bunny rabbits, baby chicks, and frankly babies of all kinds, mostly in pastel colors. However, those symbols are difficult to recreate in mass-produced cakes by rushed … | Continue reading
There is a point to discovering what kind of cosmetics people use back in the day as we can catch a glimpse of what their manufacturing process would look like, as well as the materials they used to create these products. Scientists were able to recreate a perfume that is close t … | Continue reading
Insane. A new cosmic photo taken by the James Webb Space Telescope showed an instance of our space being warped and bent. The image features a cluster of galaxies looking like something heavy almost made them move closer together. In the huge photo, we can compare it to … | Continue reading
Not really. You can, however, delete the history listed on your computer if you’re worried about somebody seeing some websites or queries you deem embarrassing, like a medical question or some NSFW content. You can delete your browser’s search history by clea … | Continue reading
The Colôrobètch is a bogey that personifies the bise or icy wind. Known from Namur, Belgium, it nips unprotected children with its red beak until their skin becomes red, cracked, and bleeding.A Book of Creatures is a project by an artist named Emile. She draws legend … | Continue reading
You don't have to be young to have the wrong idea about the 1980s. Some of us who lived through them only found out the real story later, or else got our timelines mixed up. At the time, it was just the way the world was: stranger danger, mullets, and the ozone layer. Those thing … | Continue reading
Embed from Getty ImagesIn the 1950s, the CIA launched Project MKUltra, in which they experimented with LSD as a possible truth serum, mind control drug, or biological weapon. The head of the project was biochemist Dr. Sidney Gottlieb, who has been compared to "Q" from the James B … | Continue reading
A few years ago, I posted a link to an article about Dr. Rebecca Lee Crumpler, the first Black woman to become a medical doctor in the US. The post links to an article on a now-defunct site that displayed a picture of a woman who is not Dr. Crumpler. Rebecca Lee Crumpler was a gr … | Continue reading
It's been said that you can tell that a photographic image was generated by artificial intelligence if the number of fingers or teeth are wrong. The industry is well aware of that, and recent updates have dramatically improved how many fingers humans have in such images. But they … | Continue reading
Beloved actor Tom Hanks won back-to-back Oscars for Best Actor: for Philadelphia in 1993 and then for Forrest Gump in 1994. He's also won a half-dozen Emmys and a bunch of other awards. Last night, Hanks won his first Golden Raspberry Award, known as the Razzies, which are given … | Continue reading
In the relatively early days of the medical profession, doctors weren't all that trusted and got little respect. That went double for medical students, who were condemned for cutting into dead bodies to study them. We've posted many times about how they got those bodies, from gra … | Continue reading
Embed from Getty ImagesIt's only natural to be horrified at the idea of being buried alive. Yet at one time, like flagpole sitting or dance marathons, it was a competition for publicity and bragging rights. The fad reached its peak in the 1960s. Although the stunt was not new, ea … | Continue reading
To people who have never eaten fermented meat, the traditional Inughuit dish kiviaq may seem disgusting and possibly dangerous. But the people of northern Greenland have perfected the process of making kiviaq over thousands of years, and enjoy the flavorful fermented bird meat. T … | Continue reading
They say March comes in like a lion and goes out like a lamb. It certainly was windy in Kentucky on Friday. Redditor ThirstGoblin was driving from Huntsville, Alabama, to Toledo, Ohio, with his fiancée and stopped at in Bowling Green, Kentucky, to get something to eat. Odd … | Continue reading
Experience: I gave birth to the world’s ‘8 billionth baby’ https://t.co/conNZAQsDq— The Guardian (@guardian) February 24, 2023 On November 15th last year, the world population crossed to over eight billion people. Most people who read about it wondered in … | Continue reading
LEGO makes a very special kind of brick that can shoot objects out forcefully. These spring-loaded shooters work on the same simple principle as a ballpoint pen that clicks open and shut. Simple, but still fun. And like any cool toy, someone will go way overboard with them for ou … | Continue reading
Phil Vance says that he is "an artist obsessed with process, pattern and rhythm." In his works, we the rhythm of words, including those that are spoken, sung, and written. Here is Winston Churchill, a statesman, soldier, and writer. He won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1 … | Continue reading
The narwhal is considered to be one of the world’s most bizarre marine mammals. For starters, it has this one tusk sticking out from the top of its skull. Some scientists compare the tusk to a jousting knight’s lance, as it can extend from six to nine feet straight from its head. … | Continue reading
Researchers from the University of Queensland discovered a type of mushroom that can magically regrow new brain cells. In new research done by Frederic Meunier and his team, they’ve found out that the edible “lion’s mane” mushrooms (Hericium erinaceus) were highly effective in he … | Continue reading
How do you measure love? All through history, it's been tried one way or another, from spells and amulets to trials to consultation with psychics. But as soon as we learned to harness electricity, machines to measure love, or more often sexual attraction, have sprung up everywher … | Continue reading
When you're camping in the woods with no facilities, you need to be very careful which leaves to use for toilet paper. If you move to a new home and the back yard is full of weeds, you can't just start pulling them up willy-nilly, or run a lawn mower over them while wearing short … | Continue reading
Sora News 24 encountered a rumor that a particular plot of land in the city of Nagasaki was Russian territory. It sent a reporter to investigate and found a clump of abandoned shacks. What was the purpose of this place?It turns out that the imperial government of Japan gave it to … | Continue reading
Would you call this "breaking the fourth wall"? This image definitely pops out to the audience in a novel way.Andrew Scott, an artist in Rochester, New York, has a new series of images titled Breakthrough. They show the subjects literally breaking through the glass cover for the … | Continue reading
In the Shakespeare play Hamlet, Ophelia is a tragic character who drowns herself after the death of her father and rejection by Hamlet. In 1851, John Everett Millais reproduced Ophelia's death in a painting that captured the horrific despair that drove her to suicide. For a model … | Continue reading
Believe it or not, LEGO blocks weren't the first toy that consisted of small interlocking plastic building blocks. That was Kiddicraft blocks, patented byBritish toymaker Hilary Page in 1947. Over in Denmark, toymaker Ole Kirk Christiansen switched from wood to plastic toys and s … | Continue reading
Roses have always been expensive on Valentine's Day, even before we live in the Age of Inflation. But thankfully, there are some creative alternatives to giving your lovey a bouquet of flowers. So, forget roses! Here are 9 unusual Valentine's Day Bouquets (which include the pizza … | Continue reading
An island named T-3, informally called called Fletcher's Ice Island, is an anomaly because it was never an island at all. It was an iceberg that had calved off an Arctic glacier in the 1950s. Since it was so big -11 kilometers long and five kilometers wide- the US Air Force put a … | Continue reading
Every year, the night before the Academy Awards are announced, the Golden Raspberry Awards are bestowed on the previous year's worst movies. Well, tomorrow we will find out who the nominees are for the Oscars, so today we get the nominations for the Razzies, as they are called. N … | Continue reading
Humans, and many other animals, evolved to seek out and enjoy anything sweet, because the sugars those foods contain provided us with much-needed calories and energy. That's a useful adaptation because in the natural world, sugar is relatively rare and comes in fruits and other p … | Continue reading
It's a well-known stereotype: a man going through a midlife crisis often buys a sports car, preferably an expensive one. We've also heard the joke that a fast car (or a big truck, in some circles) means the driver is compensating for something. Those stereotypes must have inspire … | Continue reading
Imagine The Simpsons if the show was a live-action sitcom starring Tom Selleck as Ned Flanders and Christopher Lee as Mr. Burns. The rest of the cast members are not quite as recognizable, but they fall somewhere in that uncanny valley between the new and the familiar, between th … | Continue reading
Well, here’s a new link to add to the food chain. Viruses are found everywhere, and it comes as no surprise that there will be an organic matter that will eat them. Researcher John DeLong at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln found a microbe that actually has them as part of its … | Continue reading
The Roman Empire is renowned for many things. For the cities it has conquered, the art and culture it has cultivated greatly, and even the structures it built that still leave people in awe today. We look at The Colosseum and marvel at the possible fights and events held there, s … | Continue reading
We make jokes about Spam, but you can't argue with its success. As a cheap alternative to whole meat products, it's no worse than sausage, bologna, scrapple, or any of the many recipes people have concocted to avoid wasting meat when butchering a pig. Besides, it's delicious and … | Continue reading
There were a lot of dangerous toys in the mid-20th century that you won't find on store shelves today, but here's one we haven't posted about before. The Cox E-Z Flyer probably wouldn't kill you, but could injure you in a number of ways. This model airplane was marketed to childr … | Continue reading
You've never seen a Rube Goldberg contraption like this one. It just keeps going and going, throughout the house, using some rather weird elements that I wouldn't want to test, much less rely on. For example, I have never met such a well-mannered and reliable robot vacuum. Maybe … | Continue reading
Most of us just melt when we see cute babies, cute kittens and puppies, and even cute adult animals. It's perfectly normal, and totally human. Oh yeah, also cute toys, animation, and advertising. It's just wired into us. In this TED-Ed lesson, we learn how that happened, how "cut … | Continue reading
At the conclusion of the investigation into the Whitechapel murders in 1888, the team from the London Metropolitan Police had a very unusual gift made for Chief Inspector Frederick Abberline. It was a walking cane topped with a head carved in the likeness of Jack the Ripper. The … | Continue reading
When you're trying to break into Hollywood or network TV, every bit of experience and exposure is crucial, and you jump at every opportunity. So maybe you get a chance to play on a TV game show, and you jump on it. Thirty years later, when you're a big star, someone will pull tha … | Continue reading
It's that time of year again, in which Barry Petchesky compiles cases from the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission’s database of emergency room visits to bring us a list of things people had in their bodies that required medical intervention in 2022. In other words, thi … | Continue reading
TRUE ANGEL IN BUFFALO 💯 A THREAD: A local woman received a call on Christmas Eve, “Hi, you don't know me but I have your brother.” The woman’s brother’s name is Joey. He is 64 years old and mentally disabled. pic.twitter.com/iAVQTsf2xH— Kimbe … | Continue reading