My favorite blues singer Huddie William Ledbetter (1888-1949), aka Lead Belly, sung about traditional blues topics like relationships, prison, and poverty, but he also wrote about current events and newsmakers… Read the rest of the article: Lead Belly sings about Mr. Hitler (1942)
If you have young children, it's highly likely that at some point you will be sharing your home with lice. Best to know your enemy. From KQED: Head lice can… Read the rest of the article: The lousy lives of lice
In the Savvy Pscychologist, clinician Ellen Hendriksen of Boston University's Center for Anxiety and Related Disorders, looks at the profound psychological and physiological impacts of feeling awe, whether it comes… Read the rest of the article: Experiencing awe is linked to decreased inflammation
The drama club at New Jersey's North Bergen High School brought the classic sci-fi/horror story Alien to the stage for Alien: The Play. From Quartz: A student playing a xenomorph… Read the rest of the article: High school stages "Alien: The Play"
In a recent scientific study on overactive urinary bladder syndrome, researchers used the term "latchkey incontinence" to describe "the loss of urine that occurs when one arrives home and puts… Read the rest of the article: Do you suffer from latchkey incontinence?
Legendary singer Scott Walker, whose journey as a musician took him from blue-eyed soul to baroque pop to heady avant-garde experimentalism, has died at age 76. Walker counted the likes… Read the rest of the article: Scott Walker, pioneering art rock singer, RIP
From TMeeks01: This bit of ancient animation history was programmed in GW-Basic on a Mindset Computer. The "live" sets included full size props, such as the typewriter and schoolroom desk,… Read the rest of the article: A delightfully bad US Army animation starring a talking floppy disk (1985)
"Just a pair of hands — and a whole lot of clever imagination." (via Juxtapoz on Instagram)
York's Wild Kingdom Zoo & Fun Park in York, Maine is up for sale. For just $14.2 million, you could be the proprietor of this beachside attraction complete with the… Read the rest of the article: You could own this zoo complete with menagerie
A man working in an Aalen, Germany slaughterhouse was hospitalized with serious injuries last month after being kicked in the face by a cow. The curious thing is that the… Read the rest of the article: Revenge of the dead cow
For more than two decades, researchers have explored using DNA as a chemical computer. Until now though, DNA computers have only been capable of solving whatever mathematical problem they were… Read the rest of the article: Breakthrough programmable computer made from DNA running chemical software
The singer is María Olvido Gara Jova, aka Alaska, performing with her band Dinarama. Along with singing in another electro-pop-goth band Fangoria, Alaska has hosted a children's TV series, appeared… Read the rest of the article: Spanish pop-goth performance featuring Freddy Krueger in high-waisted jeans
The Stranger Things 3 trailer with a delightful original score by Michael Hearst of "Songs for Ice Cream Trucks" fame. "Survive, pack up your synths! Hearst, crank up the calliope!"
Ontario, Canada's Workplace Safety and Insurance Board created these splatterpunk workplace safety ads in 2012. "This is not a feel-good campaign," said WSIB Chair Steven Mahoney. "We'll feel good when… Read the rest of the article: Odd and gruesome workplace safety ads that aired on TV
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YEG3bmU_WaI They had me at the opening reference to Close Encounters of the Third Kind.
A new study suggests that humans can subconsciously sense Earth's magnetic field. While this capability, called magnetoreception, is well known in birds and fish, there is now evidence that our… Read the rest of the article: Humans have a sixth sense for Earth's magnetic field
Ponden Hall, a nine bedroom house in Stanbury, West Yorkshire, England, is considered to be the inspiration for Emily Brontë's Wuthering Heights and sister Anne's Wildfell Hall. The Brontës spent… Read the rest of the article: For sale: home that inspired Emily Brontë's Wuthering Heights
(VIDEO LINK) Michael Hearst, composer of the classic "Songs for Ice Cream Trucks" and author of the excellent Unusual Creatures, shares this delightful video of seemingly quite dangerous rides at… Read the rest of the article: Video of Coney Island rides from the 1930s and 1940s that would never fly today
Pioneering psychonaut Ralph Metzner who co-led the seminal psychedelic research at Harvard University in the early 1960s with Timothy Leary and Richard Alpert (Ram Dass) and co-authored The Psychedelic Experience,… Read the rest of the article: Psychedelics pioneer Ralph Metzner, RIP
"Consciousness is what allows us to be aware of both our surroundings and our own inner state." In the first of a three part video series, "Kruzgesagt – In a… Read the rest of the article: Where does consciousness come from?
