The new LEGO Art World Map contains the most pieces ever in a set: 11,695. The completed piece is 25.5" x 40.5". Available June 1, the set will go for… Read the rest of the article: LEGO announces biggest set ever, a world map with 11,695 pieces

I loved it. Much better than Cats. I'm going to see it again and again.

On Wednesday, May 26, we'll be treated to a Super Blood Moon. This total lunar eclipse will be "super" because it's a full moon coinciding with the time that the… Read the rest of the article: Don't miss the Super Blood Moon on May 26!

In St. Johns County, Florida, students of Bartram Trail High School were surprised when they received their yearbooks to see that at least 80 photographs of female students (only) were… Read the rest of the article: Florida: high school staffer edited 80 yearbook photos of girls to appear more "modest"

Bar9Eleven is strip mall watering hole in in Fort Worth, Texas with a 9/11 theme. Bar 9-Eleven features photos of the terrorist attacks, a timeline of the day's events and,… Read the rest of the article: Fort Worth, Texas has a 9/11-themed bar

An NFT of the classic 2007 "Charlie bit my finger" video sold at auction on Sunday for $760,000. According to the Davies-Carr family whose children are seen in the clip,… Read the rest of the article: "Charlie bit my finger" NFT sold for $760,000 and will be "deleted" from YouTube, according to family

When I worked at Medium years ago, I was impressed by the comfy "nap pods" built into the office walls where we were encouraged to take rests as-needed. Right away… Read the rest of the article: Here's how to take the perfect nap

The fact that we have two ears on opposite sides of our head provides us with directional hearing to determine where a sound comes from. While we have two nostrils… Read the rest of the article: New device for smelling in stereo

M. Manoj landed a Guinness World Record for carving the lead inside two pencils into a single movable chain of 212 graphite links. A postgraduate student at Pookode, India's Kerala… Read the rest of the article: Astonishing! University student carved two pencils into a single graphite chain with 212 movable links

Destination Adventure's Dustin Porter visited the 153 Mile Store, a fully-stocked general store in the Cariboo, British Columbia, that hasn't been touched since the shop closed its doors in 1963.… Read the rest of the article: See inside a fully-stocked general store that hasn't been touched since 1963

View this post on Instagram A post shared by Роман Федорцов (@rfedortsov_official_account) Roman Fedortsov is a fisher based in Murmansk, Russia who has worked on a trawler for nearly two decades.… Read the rest of the article: Russian fisher posts snapshots of incredibly creepy and strange ocean animals

In The New Yorker, environmentalist and activist Bill McKibben attempts to understand the psychology of how some corporations (and individuals) can do what they do knowing that it's killing our… Read the rest of the article: The psychology of why we sabotage our planet

Following SARS-CoV, MERS, and SARS-CoV-2 (the cause of COVID-19), researchers have detected yet another novel coronavirus jumping from animals to people. In this case, the source are dogs. Spurred by… Read the rest of the article: Scientists detected a new coronavirus and it's jumping from dogs to people

Bald eagles are back in the US and that's good news for everyone except maybe for your small pets in certain parts of the country. CoyoteVest makes body armor for… Read the rest of the article: Protect your pets from predators with very punk body armor

"Everyone is Awesome" is LEGO's first LGBTQ-themed set. The rainbow flag set totals 346 pieces including 11 Minifigs. The set will be available starting in June to celebrate Pride Month.… Read the rest of the article: LEGO releasing its first LGBTQ-themed set in honor of Pride Month

Our hypertalented data viz friends at Stamen Design are known for their interactive cartographical experiments based on open source mapping data. One of my favorite projects is their classic Watercolor… Read the rest of the article: Lovely tool that displays street maps like watercolor paintings acquired by Smithsonian

The evolutionary story of asses, particularly anuses, remains shrouded in mystery. When did animals go from a one-hole digestive sac to the tunnel we know and love today? Over at… Read the rest of the article: Why do animals have butts?

JohnDopamine5 used the OpenAI Jukebox to transform the Spice Girls' "Wannabe" into the style of Nine Inch Nails over the course of the song. Bow down before the one you… Read the rest of the article: A.I. turns the Spice Girls' "Wannabe" into a Nine Inch Nails song

Optogenetics is a technique that uses light to switch on and off neurons in the brain that have been previously genetically engineered to be light-sensitive. Now, Northwestern University neurobiologist Genia Kozorovitskiy… Read the rest of the article: Scientists use light-controlled brain implants to change the social behavior of mice

For just $131, you can buy a replica of the Ridgemont Wolves letterman jacket worn by the great Forest Whitaker as Charles Jefferson in Fast Times at Ridgemont High (1982).… Read the rest of the article: Intimidate football players and ticket scalpers by wearing Charles Jefferson's jacket from Fast Times at Ridgemont High