Say what you will about TikTok, but you can't deny its ability to surface real gems. A good example is the 1981 documentary Clotheslines by Roberta Cantow which I came… Read the rest of the article: Women talk about judging people's laundry, the art of hanging clothes, and chores, in vintage 'Clotheslines' documentary
The pastry world is buzzing with a new food trend—cube-shaped croissants. The cube croissant phenomenon began at the London-based bakery, Le Deli Robuchon, where an influencer accidentally made it a… Read the rest of the article: The rise of the cube croissant
Bhagavan "Doc" Antle, a wild animal trainer featured in Netflix's Tiger King docuseries, has landed in hot water in Virginia. The law has found him guilty of four felony counts… Read the rest of the article: 'Tiger King' star 'Doc' Antle convicted of felony lion trafficking
Paris has a new plan for the 2024 Olympics and Paralympic Games, but it's not just about sporting events. The city has announced it wants to introduce electric flying taxis.… Read the rest of the article: Electric flying taxis in works for 2024 Paris Olympics
London-based content creator Max Fosh embarked on an unusual months-long journey in the name of science and curiosity. Inspired by his previous culinary experiments, Fosh endeavored to turn commercially sold… Read the rest of the article: Hatching a fish from a can of supermarket caviar
UK broadcaster Channel 5 showed Titanic Sub: Lost At Sea on the very same day that all five Titan submersible passengers were announced dead. The documentary, created by ITN, a… Read the rest of the article: A Titan sub documentary has already aired and viewers had 'uneasy reactions': 'Too soon'
In an interview with ABC News, Titanic filmmaker James Cameron has expressed his shock over the recent tragedy of the Titan submersible that was lost while exploring the historic shipwreck.… Read the rest of the article: 'Titanic' director James Cameron 'struck by the similarity' of historic disaster and Titan sub tragedy
For decades, motorists in Oregon have been enjoying the luxury of having someone else fill up their gas tank, but soon, they'll get to experience the "thrill" of doing it… Read the rest of the article: Oregon motorists can soon pump their own gas, ending decades-long ban
Earlier this month, Shenzhen, China's tech hotspot, pulled back the curtain on the world's first piloted flying saucer which looks straight out of a sci-fi movie. Shenzhen UFO Power Technology… Read the rest of the article: Flying saucer takes flight over Shenzhen
In a new YouTube video, Ryder Calm Down, a creative technologist and software engineer, shows off a wild idea he came up with. He turned his pickup truck into a… Read the rest of the article: Turning a pickup truck into a giant dot matrix printer
Two years ago, Brendan, an ex-leader of a white nationalist group, experienced a significant shift in his radical views after participating in a University of Chicago study involving MDMA (also… Read the rest of the article: MDMA dose alters white supremacist's radical beliefs
UK professional freestyle mountain biker and YouTuber Sam Pilgrim discovered an unusual tandem mountain bike on Facebook Marketplace and couldn't resist snagging it for 50 quid (~$64USD). Alongside his younger… Read the rest of the article: Pushing a *side-by-side* tandem mountain bike to its limits
In this humorous video, YouTube personality Blake Messick takes ChatGPT for a stroll–literally. Unfortunately, for the robot, it ended badly. He rigged up an inflatable man to a remote-control toy… Read the rest of the article: A man gave ChatGPT a body. The streets gave it a beating
Georgia auto repair shop owner, Miles Walker, learned the hard way that revenge can be expensive. After deciding to pay former employee Andreas Flaten's final paycheck in 91,500 oil-covered pennies,… Read the rest of the article: Revenge backfires: $39k fine for business that paid former worker with delivery of oily pennies
Parts of Nevada and Idaho are currently playing host to an unwelcome visitor, the Mormon cricket. These flightless insects, which are actually katydids that look like oversized grasshoppers, have descended… Read the rest of the article: Swarms of Mormon crickets plague Nevada and Idaho
In Kenwood, a wine country town in California's Sonoma County, a tale unfolded that's straight out of a movie. Six years ago, during the chaos of the Nuns Fire, a… Read the rest of the article: Cat missing in wildfire reunites with family after 6 years
This is no fish tale but a bitter reality. At the Big Rock Blue Marlin Tournament in North Carolina on Sunday, a whopper of a 619-pound** blue marlin was disqualified,… Read the rest of the article: $3.5M prize money at stake as massive marlin disqualified from tournament
Human composting, or turning bodies into soil after death, continues to be a growing trend. Advocates for this natural process say it's kinder to the environment than a traditional burial… Read the rest of the article: Human composting grows in popularity as eco-friendly farewell option
Here's an honor no-one wants. A 62-year-old retired Sri Lankan soldier, Canistus Coonghe, scored two Guinness World Records for having both the largest and heaviest kidney stone ever recorded. The… Read the rest of the article: 1.76-pound, 5.26-inch kidney stone wins two world records
Dolly Parton was serious about being a rock star. The latest single from her new "Rockstar" album pairs her with Judas Priest's Rob Halford, as well as John 5 on… Read the rest of the article: Listen to this duet by Dolly Parton and Judas Priest's Rob Halford, backed by John 5 and Nikki Sixx: 'Bygones'
