On Thursday night, punctuating the uprising against racial injustice, lightning struck the Washington Monument. A separate lightning strike near the White House that evening severely injured two soldiers from the… Read the rest of the article: Watch lightning hit the Washington Monument
A decade ago, Santa Fe author and antiques dealer Forrest Fenn, 89, hid a treasure chest containing $1 million in gold, diamonds, rubies, and emeralds somewhere in the Rocky Mountains.… Read the rest of the article: Someone found the $1 million treasure chest in the Rocky Mountains
In 1963, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. wrote his iconic "Letter from the Birmingham Jail," a profoundly important message that King's adviser and friend Dr. Clarence B. Jones called a… Read the rest of the article: This is Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s "symphony of social justice"
From Hamilton, Ontario, it's The Vaudevillian, an old-timey ragtimey troupe! Below, a clip from last week with the band now as a duo. They say that "as well as performing… Read the rest of the article: Enjoy some old-timey, ragtimey music from The Vaudevillian
Experimental fashion designer Anouk Wipprecht—most famous for her Robotic Spider Dress from a few years ago—has now created the Proximity Dress to help with physical distancing during the pandemic. The… Read the rest of the article: Fashion designer's robotic "Proximity Dress" automatically poofs out for physical distancing from the wearer
Université de Sherbrooke engineers demonstrated a wearable robotic third arm that weighs about the same as a human arm. According to Evan Ackerman writing in IEEE Spectrum, waist-worn hydraulic limb… Read the rest of the article: Wearable robotic "third arm" can punch through a wall
Time heals all wounds? Marvel at this 33-day time-lapse of a wound healing. The human body is magic. (Thanks, Harlow Sparks-Pescovitz!)
To paraphrase one YouTube commenter, innovative acoustic guitar maestro Luca Stricagnoli is the only guy permitted to play a Zeppelin song at Guitar Center. Don't miss his manipulation of the… Read the rest of the article: Astounding acoustic guitar cover of Led Zeppelin's "Whole Lotta Love"
Pegged on SEGA's 60th anniversary, the company announced a tiny version of their Game Gear 8-bit handheld console first released in 1990. It will sell for 4,980 yen (US$50). From… Read the rest of the article: SEGA announces Game Gear Micro version of their classic 1990s handheld console
Spanish police arrested Nacho Vidal — a porn star with a side hustle making penis candles — for suspected manslaughter following a "mystic ritual" in which participants smoked the psychedelic… Read the rest of the article: Porn star who makes penis candles arrested for murder after psychedelic toad venom ritual
Residents of Magangué, Colombia recently broke the compulsory quarantine to visit Jesus Christ who was hanging out in a tree. Praise be to pareidolia. From a El Tiempo via Google… Read the rest of the article: Jesus Christ appears in a Colombian tree
Yesterday, Ella Jones became the first black, and first female, elected mayor of Ferguson, Missouri where an uprising kicked off in 2014 after a white police officer shot and killed… Read the rest of the article: Ferguson, Missouri elected its first black mayor who is also the first female mayor
In 1984, Leonard Nimoy produced and starred in "Star Trek Memories," a TV special in which he reminisces about Star Trek: The Original Series and the first two Star Trek… Read the rest of the article: Watch Leonard Nimoy's 1983 TV documentary about Mr. Spock and Star Trek
A bit of a cliffhanger, although I feel like the cat is not particularly impressed by Splinter's flashy fighting style. Also, the way they trot off together makes me think… Read the rest of the article: Watch this street fight: Ninja rat vs. cat
In a new interview with the Journal of the American Medical Association above, Anthony Fauci, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NAID), said he expects the US will have… Read the rest of the article: Fauci expects COVID-19 vaccine by end of the year, 100 million doses to be ready in the US
3 Brothers-Radio Raheem, Eric Garner And George Floyd. pic.twitter.com/EB0cXQELzE — Spike Lee (@SpikeLeeJoint) June 1, 2020 Spike Lee released the above short film, "3 Brothers," combining footage of the arrests… Read the rest of the article: Watch Spike Lee's new short film combining "Do the Right Thing" with George Floyd and Eric Garner footage
AskSmithsonian always has a fascinating and eclectic collection of reader questions and answers from Smithsonian Institutions experts on topics ranging from scientific phenomena to art history to pop culture. (What… Read the rest of the article: Do libraries fumigate books to disinfect them?
From 1967 through the 1980s, Emory Douglas was the Minister of Culture for the Black Panther Party, the revolutionary social justice and political organization founded in Oakland, California. Douglas was… Read the rest of the article: The revolutionary art of Black Panthers graphic designer Emory Douglas, a short documentary
"Lost a window to the riot, didn't lose an opportunity," writes Memphis resident Tagawat on r/Memphis. (Thanks, Jeff Cross!)
Every day, people from all over New York travel to the ATM at the East 22nd Street branch of KeyBank in Manhattan and wait more than two hours for their… Read the rest of the article: Why is there a two hour line at this particular ATM in New York City?
