On Monday, sneaky thieves robbed the Iga-ryu Ninja Museum in Japan's Mie Prefecture. In just three minutes, the crooks forced open the museum entrance, nabbed a 330 pound safe containing… Read the rest of the article: Sneaky thieves rob Ninja Museum

Here's big fun for families, protestors, and families who protest! At Instructables, friedpotatoes explains how to make massive sticks of sidewalk chalk with plaster of Paris, tempera paint, and a… Read the rest of the article: Make your own GIANT sidewalk chalk with a Pringles can, plaster of paris, and tempera paint

Forty years ago, architecture student Graham Birchall created an otherworldly "bubble house" design for his senior thesis project. Then Graham did the unthinkable: he built it. Now, the Bubble House… Read the rest of the article: Otherworldly "Bubble House" for sale

In September 1935, Modern Mechanix covered a new "electric glove" invented by Cirilo Diaz of Cuba. According to the report, it's intended for "use by police while handling rough characters… Read the rest of the article: Electric glove for police to handle "rough characters"

In 1954, English taxi driver George King received an extraterrestrial message in his mind: "Prepare yourself! You are to become the voice of Interplanetary Parliament." This was the seed of… Read the rest of the article: Gods from Space: fascinating short video about a religion sparked by extraterrestrials

Twenty years ago, Cameron Crowe wrote and directed Almost Famous, a fantastic, coming-of-age rock-and-roll tale based on his teenage years as a journalist for Rolling Stone magazine in the 1970s.… Read the rest of the article: Cameron Crowe on the 20th anniversary of "Almost Famous"

Last night, US Senator Elizabeth Warren, a former schoolteacher, gave her 2020 Democratic National Convention speech from an early childhood classroom. Just beside her left shoulder, you can see three… Read the rest of the article: Count the "Easter Eggs" in the background of Elizabeth Warren's DNC speech last night

Kurt Hughes, a talented naval architect, built this delightful lunar lander home on the banks of the Columbia River in Central Washington State. He was inspired by his daughter's experience… Read the rest of the article: Man lives in lunar lander on riverbank

"Travel Influencers Be Like" by Julie Nolke. The only bit missing is: "The people who live there are so poor but they are sooo happy."

This deeply bizarre, uncomfortably funny, and surprisingly compelling clip is "Dreams" from the second solo album, also called Dreams, by Grace Slick of Jefferson Airplane aka Jefferson Starship aka Starship.… Read the rest of the article: Watch this deeply weird and deeply 1980s music video by Grace Slick of Jefferson Airplane

It's been a year since the last season of Stranger Things and production of season four has obviously been held up by the pandemic. According to the show's creators Ross… Read the rest of the article: Stranger Things: the Duffer Brothers on the show's future

Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer on a live feed just before her Democratic National Convention speech: "It's Shark Week, motherfuckers." I love it when politicians break character.

Jack White and Third Man Records are holding an online auction for all the crap (and some good stuff) they dug out of the recording studio, storage space, and personal… Read the rest of the article: Jack White is auctioning off iconic White Stripes drum kit, pantyhose dispenser, "boring old typewriter," and more

Tay Zonday, your meme is ready! This week in Olten, Switzerland, cocoa powder fell from the sky. The strange and delicious phenomena was the result of a ventilation system malfunction… Read the rest of the article: Chocolate rain falls in Switzerland

"Look at the horizon glow." Created by Teo Domani. (YouTube, thanks Lux Sparks-Pescovitz!)

Benedek Lampert is a master at photographic 1:43 scale model cars in exciting Formula 1 race scenes using real materials. I especially appreciate his use of pipe smoke to create… Read the rest of the article: Fantastic tabletop photography of model race cars

In 2002, Jam Master Jay (aka Jason Mizell), the DJ in legendary hip hop group Run DMC, was murdered at his Queens, New York recording studio. Almost twenty years later,… Read the rest of the article: Twenty years after Jam Master Jay's murder, two men charged in the case

Massive lava tubes under the surface of the Moon and Mars could be prime real estate for future offworld habitats. "With heights that dwarf Dubai's Burj Khalifa, the world's tallest… Read the rest of the article: Lunar and Martian tunnels could contain offworld colonies

In 1991, four developers created the original Mortal Kombat, a fighting game that upset adults because of its ultraviolence before growing into a massive media franchise. The characters were digitized… Read the rest of the article: Watch the live action shots used to animate the original Mortal Kombat (1991)

What if Solo: A Star Wars Story starred a young Harrison Ford? It would make perfect sense in a timeline where Ewan McGregor played Obi-Wan Kenobi in Star Wars: Episode… Read the rest of the article: A young Harrison Ford stars in Solo: A Star Wars Story