Dick Dale, the "King of the Surf Guitar," has died at age 81. RIP, maestro. Dale's pioneering sound was inspired by his Lebanese uncle who played the oud and taught… Read the rest of the article: Legendary surf rock guitarist Dick Dale, RIP

Mysterious bundles of hair have been turning up on streets in Santa Barbara's Mesa neighborhood. It's not known yet if the hair is human, non-human animal, or synthetic. From KEYT:… Read the rest of the article: Mysterious bundles of hair turning up on Santa Barbara streets

The RaniPill is another syringe that you can swallow to deliver drugs to the bloodstream from the inside. It's triggered by an interesting and complex mechanism involving a chemical reaction… Read the rest of the article: Curious robotic syringe-in-a-pill completes successful human trial

I've had quite a few fun afternoons playing with dry ice from making spooky fog in the kitchen to exploding plastic bottles in the yard. But I've never had the… Read the rest of the article: Gooey, melty, sizzling, steamy fun with lava and dry ice

Joan C Gratz's animated short "Mona Lisa Descending A Staircase" is a lovely and trippy 2D claymation of iconic artworks transforming one into another. After spending a decade on the… Read the rest of the article: "Mona Lisa Descending A Staircase," a wonderful claymation from 1992

Birdpunk is the quite natural intersection of two subcultures, punk and birding. From a feature article by Steve Neumann in Audobon: The overlap between birding and punk might seem strange… Read the rest of the article: This is Birdpunk, the intersection of DIY, environmentalism, and birdwatching

After this weekend's snow in Chadron, Nebraska, Jason Blundell and his kids spent the afternoon sculpting a snow replica of their 1967 Ford Mustang GTA. Nebraska State Patrol Sgt. Mick… Read the rest of the article: Police officer gives pretend ticket to pretend car made from snow

so…the less i know the better by tame impala and sexyback by justin timberlake have the same bpm… pic.twitter.com/X9TmmUXfqs — ً (@benadrylled) March 10, 2019 Take 'em to the bridge.

New York City's ARChive of Contemporary Music (ARC) is a cultural treasure packed with actual treasures. Inside the walls of this not-for-profit private research library in TriBeCa are 3 million… Read the rest of the article: Save the ARC, the largest popular music library in the United States

Well played, IRLrosie!

I can open your eyes Take you wonder by wonder Over sideways and under On a magic carpet ride Credits: Hiskm and Dahlek88 (r/Aquariums, thanks Dustin Hostetler!)

On July 16, 1945, US Army detonated the first nuclear weapon in New Mexico's Jornada del Muerto desert. Codenamed Trinity, the test was part of the Manhattan Project. Three weeks… Read the rest of the article: Watch incredible restored footage of the first nuclear bomb detonation

My team surprised me with a cake made out of my favorite snack—twinkies! Looking forward to all this year has in store. pic.twitter.com/lQfyIrQ9Qe — Mitt Romney (@MittRomney) March 12, 2019… Read the rest of the article: Watch the weird way Mitt Romney blows out the birthday candles on his Twinkies cake

In this delightful project, Will Gudgeon turned a frozen chocolate easter egg into a fun and effective pinhole camera. The first step is to eat the contents. "The main challenges… Read the rest of the article: How to turn a chocolate easter egg into a pinhole camera

This unidentified fellow barely missed being crushed by bricks and rubble falling off a building on London's Stoke Newington High Street. According to the BBC, the collapse was likely caused… Read the rest of the article: Watch a pedestrian just miss getting crushed by a collapsing building

Next year, New York City public schools will initiate "Meatless Mondays" as part of their lunch program. Students will be served all vegetarian food for breakfast and lunch. (Note: photo… Read the rest of the article: New York public school lunch program will have "Meatless Mondays"

In 1984, Alexey Pajitnov, then working for the Russian Academy of Sciences, completed his masterpiece, Tetris. It was perfection and, sadly, could only go downhill from there, as the inimitable… Read the rest of the article: A brief history of the bizarre, unholy offspring of Tetris

In Bermuda, the enchanting Crystal Caves attract tourists with their huge stalactites and stalagmites above the clear water pools. As a child, Michael K. Frith frequently visited the caves and… Read the rest of the article: These otherworldly caves in Bermuda were the birthplace of Fraggle Rock

On November 14, 1980, John Lennon recorded three rough songs at the apartment he shared with Yoko Ono in New York City's The Dakota apartments. "You Saved My Soul (With… Read the rest of the article: Listen to the last song John Lennon recorded

Several years ago, I wrote a feature for Bloomberg Businessweek about soft robotics, "in which steel skeletons and power-hungry motors make way for textiles." The idea is that soft robots,… Read the rest of the article: Exquisitely engineered "soft" robotic arm is powered by air