On Monday, we reported that for the first time, a plant seed had germinated on the moon, an early experiment to test whether food could someday be grown on the… Read the rest of the article: That first plant grown on the moon? Already dead.

Lorna Doom, badass bassist of influential Los Angeles punk band the Germs, died yesterday. Formed in 1976, the Germs — Doom, Darby Crash, Pat Smear, and Don Bolles in the… Read the rest of the article: Lorna Doom, bassist for the Germs, RIP

Over the weekend in St, Petersburg, Kentucky, Cody Lutz, his fiancee, and her sister built a beautiful 9-foot snowman in their yard. When Lutz returned home from work this week… Read the rest of the article: Jerk tries to drive through giant snowman not realizing it was built on a tree stump

Everyday carry? From Atlas Obscura: This CIA-issued tool kit was issued to CIA officers during the height of the Cold War. It was a way for spies to get themselves… Read the rest of the article: This CIA toolkit is built for concealing in a spy's butt

Amy Brooks was born without arms or legs. In a series of wonderful videos, she shows how she goes about everyday activities like folding laundry, cooking, showering, and writing. After… Read the rest of the article: Woman with no arms or legs demonstrates how she folds laundry, showers, writes, etc.

If you're into the dark fringes of true crime media… The forthcoming documentary "Conversations With A Killer," about serial killer Ted Bundy, is based on 100 hours of two journalists'… Read the rest of the article: New Ted Bundy documentary based on deeply creepy unheard jailhouse recordings

Once a month, Delta Air Lines holds a "garage sale" at one of its facilities near their flight museum adjacent to Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport. The New York Times' Jackie… Read the rest of the article: Delta Air Lines has a monthly garage sale

Swiss freeskier and filmmaker Nico Vuignier of Centriphone fame, delivers "Heatseeker," an exhilarating night skiing adventure illuminated by fiery shots from a flare gun. Edited by Nicolas Vuignier & Jules… Read the rest of the article: Watch fantastic night freeskiers illuminated by fiery flares

Director Fabio Friedli animated 3,000 images to tell the story of humanity "from a seed to war, from meat to love, from indifference to apocalypse." "It is such an excessive… Read the rest of the article: Watch this marvelous animation that summarizes humanity in five minutes

The California turret spider build tiny towers on the forest floor that extend underground into a burrow. At night, they climb up into the tower and await their dinner —… Read the rest of the article: These sneaky spiders wait inside tiny towers to attack their prey

A woman in China reportedly suffering from a rare medical condition supposedly can't hear male voices. Most hearing loss occurs at higher frequencies when the delicate hair-like stereocilia of the… Read the rest of the article: Woman with medical condition can't hear "male voices"

In a heavy-duty new scientific paper published this week, University of Oxford researchers argue that the association between adolescent well-being and digital technology use is tiny. Really tiny. From Scientific… Read the rest of the article: Rigorous new scientific study: Link between kids screen time and their well-being is highly overstated

A cotton seed has germinated on the moon. The sprout is inside a canister on China's Chang'e 4 lander that touched down on the far side of the moon earlier… Read the rest of the article: This is the first plant grown on the moon

Namibian-German artist Max Siedentopf created "Toto Forever," an installation that plays the song "Africa" on repeat in the middle of southern Africa's Namib Desert. From the BBC News: Mr Siedentopf… Read the rest of the article: Toto's "Africa" plays on repeat in the middle of the Namib Desert… indefinitely

Every year, visitors to Rome's famed Trevi Fountain toss in more than $1.7 million in coins. Historically, the Catholic charity Caritas has taken that money to help poor people. Now… Read the rest of the article: Rome and the Catholic Church fighting over change tossed into the Trevi Fountain

If you played poker with Steve Albini — esteemed guitarist for Big Black, Rapeman, and Shellac, recording engineer for Nirvana, Pixies, and PJ Harvey — he would take all your… Read the rest of the article: Steve Albini, legendary Big Black guitarist and Nirvana engineer, is also a poker champion

Second Chance is a smartphone app developed by University of Washington engineers to detect an opioid overdose. The researchers tested the app at a public supervised injection facility in Vancouver,… Read the rest of the article: Mobile app for detecting opioid overdose

On this 1966 LP, British actor Roddy McDowall — later known for playing Dr. Cornelius and Caesar in the original Planet of the Apes films — delivers a wonderful reading… Read the rest of the article: Listen: HP Lovecraft's "The Outsider" and "The Hound" read by Roddy McDowall

Maximum Rocknroll, the seminal punk print 'zine launched in 1982, is ceasing publication of its paper edition. This truly marks the end of an era in punk culture and underground… Read the rest of the article: Pioneering punk print 'zine Maximum Rocknroll is ceasing publication after nearly 40 years

Elon Musk's SpaceX let go 10% of its 6,000 person staff today. In May of last year, the company stated that it has had "many years" of continuing profitability and… Read the rest of the article: SpaceX laid off 10% of its employees