This startling footage was recently captured by a security camera outside a Dallas, Texas home. While some might think that the video simply depicts extraterrestrial visitors or even birds, we… Read the rest of the article: Home security camera captures weird tiny humanoid creatures frolicking on the driveway
Musician and civil rights activist Nina Simone's Fodder On My Wings from 1982 was one of her mostly forgotten albums until its reissue this year by Verve Records. In celebration,… Read the rest of the article: Joyous animated video for Nina Simone's "Color Is A Beautiful Thing"
New York City's Metropolitan Transportation Authority suspended three railroad workers for building out a secret "man cave" in an old locksmith storage room under Grand Central Terminal. Their hidden break… Read the rest of the article: Railroad workers' "man cave" discovered under NYC's Grand Central Terminal
Qantas airline retired its fleet of Boeing 747 airplanes and listed several fully-stocked bar carts for sale to the public. Starting at US$685 (or 169,000 Qantas frequent flier points), the… Read the rest of the article: Qantas sells decommissioned 747 airplane bar carts, stocked
From a statement that Stevie Wonder released yesterday, titled "The Universe Is Watching Us — Stevie Wonder In His Feelings": "As time is evolving, it seems so much has changed.… Read the rest of the article: Watch: Stevie Wonder's incredible statement on Breonna Taylor, the George Floyd uprising, the election, and the universe
Officials from Thailand's Khao Yai National Park, a UNESCO World Heritage site, packed up the garbage dumped by some campers and mailed it back to them. They identified the litterbugs… Read the rest of the article: National park mails trash back to litterbug campers
New York City's Metropolitan Transportation Authority is updating their rules to specifically ban pooping on subways and buses. In fact, doing a number 2 on the number 2 train, or… Read the rest of the article: It's now official: No pooping on NYC subways and buses
Welcome to Tinsel Town! La-La Land! The City of Angels! Lotusville! Hollyweird! The video descriptor says "1930s" but as one observant YouTube commenter writes: This ISN'T 30's…this is 1942 at… Read the rest of the article: Watch 1940s film footage of the streets of Hollywood
Researchers have long been developing 3D bioprinting technology to print cells in structures that can be implanted in the body. Now, bioengineer Tao Xu and colleagues at Tsinghua University in… Read the rest of the article: Medical 3D printer for inside the human body
Born on this day in 1926, the great John Coltrane. Here is Saint John performing his civil rights elegy "Alabama" composed after members of the Ku Klux Klan bombed the… Read the rest of the article: Happy birthday to John Coltrane
A new mini-moon on its way into Earth's orbit, first thought to be a small asteroid, may turn out to just be large hunk of space junk. Scientists first observed… Read the rest of the article: Earth's new mini-moon may actually be 1960s space junk
At CNN, Boing Boing pal and security researcher Bruce Schneier and Harvard media professor Nick Couldry write about acedia, "a malady that apparently plagued many Medieval monks. It's a sense… Read the rest of the article: Bruce Schneier: "The unrelenting horizonlessness of the Covid world"
Dave Addey is author of Typeset in the Future: Typography and Design in Science Fiction Movies, a book exploring the typography of films like 2001: A Space Odyssey, Blade Runner,… Read the rest of the article: The typography of Star Trek
The idiom "like watching grass grow" means that something is very boring. But this video, created from 1980 single images, reveals that watching grass grow can be fascinating! (At least… Read the rest of the article: Watching grass grow is actually super interesting!
The 59 foot-tall Gundam robot under construction at Gundam Factory Yokohama just took a few steps and kneeled, all with grace and power. Yes, the video is reportedly sped 2… Read the rest of the article: Watch Japan's giant Gundam robot walk and kneel
Remember Generra Hypercolor tshirts that would change color in response to heat? Tufts University engineers have created a similar fabric integrated with a variety of chemical sensors. For example, your… Read the rest of the article: Color-changing shirt tracks your heath and monitors the environment
Robert Wardhaugh is perhaps the most dedicated Dungeon Master in the world. He started a campaign in 1982 and never stopped. Around 60 people are currently playing The Game. "The… Read the rest of the article: This person has been running the same Dungeons & Dragons campaign for 38 years
Every morning around 7am, residents of the Welsh village of Aberhosan in the UK noticed that their broadband would fail. The problem went on for 18 months and even a… Read the rest of the article: Old television repeatedly knocked out entire village's broadband for 18 months
What is the ultimate answer to life, the universe, and everything? 42, of course. But why? In Scientific American, Jean-Paul Delahaye, computer science professor emeritus at France's University of Lille,… Read the rest of the article: A Hitchhiker's Guide to the Number 42
Do you remember the 21st night of September? From Wikipedia: Using a chord progression written by Earth, Wind & Fire guitarist Al McKay, vocalist Maurice White and songwriter Allee Willis… Read the rest of the article: Do you remember?
