For some children with severe epilepsy, the best treatment may be a very rare surgical procedure in which a large portion — even half — of the child's brain is… Read the rest of the article: People with half a brain. Literally.

On Sunday, a 16-year-old boy was arrested for allegedly using a remote control car to smuggle meth from Mexico. According to the US Border Patrol, the RC car likely made… Read the rest of the article: Teenager arrested for allegedly using RC car to smuggle meth from Mexico

This is Cecil H. Dill, a farmer from Traverse Coty, Michigan, who discovered his unique, er, talent for making music with his hands. In the year of 1914. In the… Read the rest of the article: The hand-farting farmer who found newsreel fame in 1933

Hint: Don't dig around in there with a cotton swab.

From Hussy Horse Designs, this delightful Wile E. Coyote decal.

Mysterious rolls of cash keep showing up on sidewalks in the small English village of Blackhall Colliery, on the North Sea coast of County Durham. In the last 5 years,… Read the rest of the article: Mysterious rolls of cash randomly appearing on sidewalks in tiny English village

Yutaka Hirose is a Japanese composer who was a key figure in that country's ambient/environmental music scene of the 1980s that in recent years has been rediscovered by crate-diggers around… Read the rest of the article: Music that inspired 1980s Japanese environmental music composer Yukata Hirose

Over at Medium, BB pal Douglas Rushkoff explores how today's propaganda — born in the 17th century to propagate the Catholic faith and reborn in the 20th century as "public… Read the rest of the article: Revisiting Operation Mindfuck

Last month in Deggendorf, Germany, Alexander Oswald, 19, and his friends encountered a beaver on the road in the middle of the night. Afraid that a a driver might hit… Read the rest of the article: Watch this kind fellow help an overburdened beaver

With The Watchmen now on teevee, I hope that many more people will dive into the magickal brilliance of Alan Moore who co-created the original comic in 1987 along with… Read the rest of the article: Inside Alan Moore's Head

According to the Ellen Macarthur Foundation, if current trends in single-use plastic continue, "there could be more plastic than fish (by weight) in the ocean by 2050." Having spent countless… Read the rest of the article: Young woman invents ingenious bioplastic made from fish scales and red algae

Some vegans have filed a lawsuit against Burger King because they cook the Impossible Burger Whoppers on the same grill as their meat burgers. According to the suit, the Impossible… Read the rest of the article: Vegans sue Burger King over meat contamination of Impossible Burger Whopper

This is the third time this season that Red Bull Racing broke the pit stop record, this time with a 1.82 second servicing of Max Verstappen's car during yesterday's Formula… Read the rest of the article: Don't blink or you'll miss this record-setting 1.82 second Formula 1 pit stop

In Arkansas, Henderson State University chemistry professors Terry D. Bateman, 45, and Bradley A. Rowland, 40, were charged on Friday with making methamphetamine. They had been put on administrative leave… Read the rest of the article: Two chemistry professors, neither named Walter White, busted for allegedly brewing meth

This year's episode of the grand meteor shower the Leonids will peak on Monday morning before dawn. The meteors are bits of debris dropping off the comet Tempel-Tuttle that intersects… Read the rest of the article: How to (maybe) see the Leonid meteor shower before dawn on Monday

Pack rats, aka woodrats, build their nests, called middens, from plant debris, rocks, animal parts, paper, and almost any other bits of detritus nearby. Frequently, they urinate on their middens.… Read the rest of the article: Rats' nests are rich with unrecorded history and urgent scientific data

It's historically been tough and slow-going to 3D print objects made from multiple materials. Now, Harvard researchers developed an ingenious nozzle that enables the 3D printer to spew out eight… Read the rest of the article: Robot millipede printed by 3D printer that can spew out multiple materials

On Monday, a 78-year-old man in Harford County, Maryland, withdrew a large sum of cash from his bank. That night, an intruder forced his way into the man's house and… Read the rest of the article: Bank teller allegedly attempted to burglarize customer who made large withdrawal

This decommissioned underground missile complex near Tucson, Arizona can be yours for just $400,000. The property sits on (under) 12 acres of land. A true fixer-upper, this unique piece of… Read the rest of the article: For sale: Decommissioned underground missile complex in Arizona

Graphic designer Reagan Ray compiled more than 100 logos of videogame consoles from 1976 to 2017. (Just a handful seen above.) Oh how I miss the days of the, um,… Read the rest of the article: Logos of videogame consoles from then and now