Recognized with 3-Star culinary acclaim by the Michelin Guide since 2006, The French Laundry is one of the rarest of gastronomic gems with a genesis story that extends back to… Read the rest of the article: Sally Schmitt and the genesis story of The French Laundry

Impossible Science shows how to build a DIY enclosure that uses science to cloaks packages from porch pirates. Artifice relies on craftsmanship for maximum effect, and Jason Latimer brings the… Read the rest of the article: How to build a Porch Pirate Package Protector

With the recent announcement of projected border easing measures including visa-free travel, discussions about where to go when next in Japan lead to thoughts about our last trip to Kyoto.… Read the rest of the article: Slow-mo fountain at Nanzen-ji temple in Kyoto, Japan

Brick Experiment Channel drives 20 mechanisms with a single motor, coming one or two mechanisms short of Adult Swim's "Too Many Cooks" à la Lego. Seeing all those mechanisms animated… Read the rest of the article: Rube Goldberg x Too Many Cooks = 20 Mechanical Principles combined in a Useless Lego Machine

Dawid "Zales" Zalewski (pronounced "ZAHL-esh") knocked the everlasting Scheiße out of Koa "Da Crazy Hawaiian" Viernes to win the 2022 Arnold Classic Slap Fighting Championship. The winning slap's reportly sounded… Read the rest of the article: 2022 Arnold Classic Slap Fighting Champion knocks out competition to remain undefeated

The 660 metric ton Tuned Mass Damper within the Taipei 101 skyscraper moves effortlessly in the video above as a 6.9 magnitude earthquake rocked Taiwan on September 18, 2022, but… Read the rest of the article: Watch the Tuned Mass Damper inside a Taipei skyscraper react to this weekend's 6.9-magnitude earthquake

Researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology have repurposed a Microneedle drug manufacturing and delivery method to painlessly apply tattoo inks in pixel perfect arrays. Song Li, Youngeun Kim, Jeong… Read the rest of the article: Microneedle patch tattoos provide painless pixelated possibilities

There I Ruined It takes two disparate sources and makes them harmonize like the Bene Gesserit power of "the Voice". When asked on earlier if There I Ruined It produced… Read the rest of the article: There I Ruined It re-pitches "In The End" into YMCA for a catchy mashup

Ironically, the first time I experienced seasickness was after cackling with schadenfreude while layering smoked salmon and cream cheese on a bagel as our captain with 2 metal hooks for… Read the rest of the article: Seakeeper stops "hole in the water you throw money into" from rolling around

As a self-diagnosed hoarder, having a cultivated taste for some aspects of Marie Kondo's method is an odd amalgam that somehow works for me. Prior to finding this folding technique,… Read the rest of the article: How Marie Kondo folds a fitted sheet

Looking back towards the past, the stories told over the years about the Chupa Chups logo have woven themselves into the tapestry of society like half truths told with good… Read the rest of the article: The Chupa Chups logo in your mind's eye is probably a remix of Salvador Dalí's remix

Cunningham's Law: "the best way to get the right answer on the internet is not to ask a question; it's to post the wrong answer." The concept is named after Ward… Read the rest of the article: Watch Cunningham's Law fail when used in real life

Julia: So, corn's in the hot water. The water's off the heat. Put the lid on. Becky: That's right, we're going to let it sit for 10 minutes. Julia: And… Read the rest of the article: For delicious corn, boil water, add corn, turn off heat, and cover for 10-30 min

One of the most epic advertising campaigns of all time, "Gorilla" rescued Cadbury Schweppes in 2007 after a "leaking pipe at Cadbury's Marlbrook plant, near Leominster, Herefordshire and this was… Read the rest of the article: How Cadbury's "Gorilla" Ad Campaign got the love back

There's a line in Altered Carbon where Rodrigo Bautista fills in some backstory on Elias Ryker over drinks in the Hendrix: "Ryker." The cop jetted smoke out of his nostrils… Read the rest of the article: Watch comedian Sean Millea steal 1½ Beeples

I had a friend that once told the story of how she got pulled over by a cop the same day she flew back to Seattle from Korea, and when… Read the rest of the article: Watch Simon Taylor use his ethnic Aussie Accent to save some scratch

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This magnificent crow was captured at the Torrey Pines Gliderport near San Diego, California. The Torrey Pines Gliderport, is the most historic aviation site in North America, with nearly 100… Read the rest of the article: Watch: A crow keeps its distance on a California beach

Sanago sells a 3D printing pen with a WYSIWYG sales pitch in video format that has created a following on YouTube. The Red Light Green Light doll singing Micro Machines… Read the rest of the article: Sanago imitates art with plastic in real life using his 3D printing pen

Captured on the trail to the Hall of Mosses in the Hoh Rain Forest at Olympic National Park, this video shows flowing aquatic life dance as a swift current pushes… Read the rest of the article: Watch: Aquatic life at the Hoh Rain Forest