Monkeon created a fun quiz to test your knowledge of fake news based on Snopes' fact checking. Play Snopes or Nopes! Snopes tend to title their articles in the form… Read the rest of the article: Play this fun fake news quiz: "Snopes or Nopes"

Hypertalented animator Ian/Worthikids created this short that looks like stop-motion but was done entirely in Blender. Voices by Japanese dubbing actors RASHA1M. (Thanks UPSO!)

While researchers have made great strides (sorry) in robotic exoskeletons that can help people with mobility challenges, the wearer still needs to control the prosthetic. "Every time you want to… Read the rest of the article: This self-walking exoskeleton infers your destination and takes you there

The real magic in this clip is Harrison Ford's reaction. (via Clarisse Loughrey)

Alex Melton reimagines Journey's "Don't Stop Believin'" if it were written by Blink-182. Some will win. Some will loseSome were born to sing the blues. Here's Journey's original as performed… Read the rest of the article: If Blink-182 wrote Journey's "Don't Stop Believin'," it would sound like this

During a religious festival yesterday on Mount Meron in northern Israel, a stampede killed at least 45 people. Approximately 100,000 people were visiting the mountain to celebrate the holiday of… Read the rest of the article: Stampede in Israel during religious festival killed at least 45 people

New Orleans police are seeking the whereabouts of Chewbacca who is suspected of aggravated battery with a knife. According to the NOPD, the incident occurred on Saturday night and Chewbacca… Read the rest of the article: Chewbacca wanted by police for stabbing someone in New Orleans

The Smithsonian Libraries' Trade Literature Collection includes catalogs, sales brochures, and other materials "that were once part of the merchandising of business." What a fascinating source of design, technology, and… Read the rest of the article: Library supply catalog from 1899

In this Hitchcockian moment, more than 1,500 migrating birds traveling through Torrance, California flew down a chimney and into someone's home. From Inside Edition: "There were birds coming out of… Read the rest of the article: Watch 1,500 birds invade a house through the chimney

In 1938, unusual atmospheric conditions enabled a few minutes of BBC television to be picked up in the United States. An early cine camera, pointed at a TV set, captured… Read the rest of the article: These four minutes of BBC TV from 1938 only still exist because of weird atmospheric conditions

Twitter has rave reviews for Andrew Giuliani's Will Ferrell impersonation.

In Passau, Germany, a jogger noticed a clear plastic bag containing a hand grenade. Police brought in the bomb squad who determined that the grenade was actually a rubber sex… Read the rest of the article: Bomb squad called in after jogger finds "hand grenade" BUTT it wasn't actually that

During Sunday's third flight of the fantastic Mars helicopter Ingenuity, it snapped the image below in which you can see the Perseverance rover that delivered the chopper to the Red… Read the rest of the article: Mars helicopter Ingenuity snapped a fantastic aerial photo of the Perseverance rover

For almost a year, NPR has invited musicians to contribute an original song to their "Morning Edition Song Project." The composition is meant to capture the zeitgeist through the artist's… Read the rest of the article: Listen to Beastie Boys keyboardist Money Mark's stunning contribution to NPR's "Morning Edition Song Project"

Authorities at New York City's JFK Airport nabbed Kevin Andre Mckenzie, 36, for attempting to smuggle nearly three-dozen finches jammed into hair rollers from Guyana to New York City for… Read the rest of the article: Man busted for trying to smuggle 36 birds into the US under his clothes for birdsong contests

According to the New Testament, Jesus, born a Jew, was ritually circumcised at eight days old. What happened to his foreskin? That mystery is the subject of University of PhD… Read the rest of the article: Where is Jesus's foreskin?

A gentleman scheduled to fly on a Guangxi Biebu Gulf Airlines flight from Weifang to Haikou, China was detained when staff was alerted that he had tossed coins wrapped in… Read the rest of the article: Flight cancelled, man detained after throwing coins into plane engine for "good luck"

Last year, Omni Hoverboards released video of their propeller-based hoverboard flying over water in a secluded area. The design is not unlike a quadcopter drone but, well, you stand on… Read the rest of the article: Watch someone fly on a real hoverboard on Los Angeles streets

When my father-in-law first moved to a house in Kentucky near a roundabout, he knew that many people in the United States aren't familiar with roundabouts, the circular intersections most… Read the rest of the article: Video: First roundabout in northeastern Kentucky confuses drivers

More than 30 years ago, Mauro Morandi was attempting to sail from Italy to Polynesia when he ended up on Budelli, a small private island off Sardinia. Morandi, now 81,… Read the rest of the article: Italian island "hermit" has been booted off after 30 years of living there alone