One way to determine whether distant worlds may be home to extraterrestrials is to seek out the presence of biosignatures, molecules that indicate the existence of past or present life,… Read the rest of the article: Seeking out extraterrestrials by their stench
In Sultanpur, India, a wild boar caused chaos at a gas station. Employees were no match for the animal's piggish behavior and later it apparently attacked a girl nearby.
Vaporgoth composers take note for your next music video: the developers behind Microsoft Excel 95 left a marvelous easter egg hidden in the spreadsheet hell. Welcome to the "Hall of… Read the rest of the article: Microsoft's "Hall of Tortured Souls"
View this post on Instagram A post shared by Sour Solution (@soursolution) on Feb 17, 2019 at 10:27am PST Simon Isaksson of Sour Solution nails a 360 degree loop-de-loop. It… Read the rest of the article: Street skateboarder lands an incredible 360 degree loop-de-loop
Palm reader Tracey Milanovich, 37, of Somerset, Massachusetts, was arrested for conning $71,000 out of a client in cash and property. According to police, Milanovich "convinced the victim that her… Read the rest of the article: Palm reader arrested for scamming $71,000 to banish demon from victim's daughter
Arizona Game and Fish Department killed three mountain lions after at least one of them ate human remains near the Pima Canyon hiking trail near Tucson. The mountain lions did… Read the rest of the article: Three mountain lions killed after eating mystery human remains
Filmmakers Zita Bernet and Rafael Sommerhalder, aka CRICTOR, created this delightful short as a cinematic holiday card.
Legendary underground cartoonist R. Crumb in a rare video interview recorded a few months back during the Louisiana Literature festival at Humlebæk, Denmark's Louisiana Museum of Modern Art. From a… Read the rest of the article: Rare new video interview with R. Crumb
In this brilliant billboard for the new Dracula TV series, the 3D stakes create an ominous shadow. (And yes, there's an electric light in case the sun doesn't cooperate.) A… Read the rest of the article: Genius billboard advertising the new Dracula TV series
Jazz trumpeter Jack Sheldon, singer of the Schoolhouse Rock! classics "I'm Just a Bill" and "Conjunction Junction," has died at age 88. With roots in the 1950s West Coast and… Read the rest of the article: Jazz great Jack Sheldon, the voice of Schoolhouse Rock!, RIP
NASA Earth Observatory's Lauren Dauphin captured this lovely portrait of the Marree Man, a 2.2 mile (3.5 kilometer) tall illustration of a person etched into a South Australian plateau, southeast… Read the rest of the article: Beautiful NASA satellite image of the mysterious giant man of South Australia
For the last couple weeks, residents of Colorado and Nebraska have reported squadrons of large drones flying overhead. The drones are large, with a reported 6-foot wingspan, and their operators… Read the rest of the article: Mystery drone squadrons flying over Colorado and Nebraska
As a teenager, Mark Holmgren of Edmonton, Canada lost all use of his arm after a motorcycle accident. Last year, he decided to have the nonfunctional arm amputated. But he… Read the rest of the article: Man keeps bones of his amputated arm on display
Pope Francis apologized for slapping the hand of a woman who wouldn't let go of the pontiff's paw outside the Vatican's Nativity scene last night. "Many times we lose our… Read the rest of the article: Pope delivers a literal slap on the wrist, and he's sorry
The principal of Lafayette Elementary School in Washington DC has apologized after a fifth grade lesson on the Civil War and Reconstruction had some children of color role-playing "a person… Read the rest of the article: Elementary school apologizes after children of color were asked by peers to role-play as slaves for lesson
Creative agency Wieden+Kennedy NY developed this wide-mouth cup that enables NASCAR fans to take a sip without taking their eyes off the racetrack. I'd say that The Cup — a… Read the rest of the article: Plastic cup enables you to drink without obstructing your vision
A gentleman attempted to drive his pickup truck across the iced over Big Shag Lake in Marquette County, Michigan. Unfortunately, things didn't go as planned. From the Mining Journal: Crossroads… Read the rest of the article: Watch this truck fall through an icy lake and completely vanish
Wanda Diaz Merced is an astronomer at the International Astronomical Union (IAU) Office for Astronomy Outreach in Mitaka, Japan. Diaz Merced is blind and uses a technique to transform data… Read the rest of the article: Wanda Diaz Merced is a blind astronomer who hears the science of the stars
In 1978, Japanese electronic music maestro Osamu Shoji (1932-2018) released this killer analog synth reimagining of the Star Wars soundtrack. I find Shoji's take on the familiar themes to be… Read the rest of the article: Groovy synth Star Wars soundtrack from Japan (1978)
In the 1970s, the Soviets managed to intercept top secret communications in the US embassy in Moscow and nobody could figure out how. While an antenna was eventually found hidden… Read the rest of the article: Ingenious Cold War keylogger the Russians used to bug Selectric typewriters in the US embassy
