Harry Belafonte, Calypso/pop superstar and influential civil rights activist, has died. He was 96. Belafonte was born in 1927 in Harlem, New York to parents who had immigrated from Jamaica.… Read the rest of the article: Harry Belafonte, singer and civil rights activist, RIP

Above, Fox News's Harris Faulkner somberly shares the departure of Tucker Carlson from "the Fox family." Below, she exuberantly reports on Don Lemon's dismissal from CNN. (Thanks, Bob Pescovitz!)

England's Blackpool Zoo is hiring for people "comfortable wearing a bird costume" to act as "seagull deterrents." At Blackpool Zoo it goes without saying that we love all animals!" they… Read the rest of the article: Zoo hiring outgoing people to dress up in bizarre bird costumes as "seagull deterrents"

Located in the ritzy Claremont Hills above Berkeley, California, the Saxophone House was built in 1996 for an amateur jazz musician. It's now listed for sale at just under $2… Read the rest of the article: For sale: strange opulent house meant to resemble a massive saxophone

As we know, Swiss artist HR Giger created incredible concept drawings for Alejandro Jodorowsky's Dune project. While that Dune was doomed, KhromAI used Midjourney to generate another visual taste of… Read the rest of the article: A.I. visions of H.R. Giger's Dune (video)

"These ultra-high definition video scenes, captured between March 2022 and March 2023 during the International Space Station's Expeditions 67 and 68, let you imagine yourself as a station crew member… Read the rest of the article: NASA posts astonishing video of the world passing you by

Are cow butts an extraterrestrial delicacy? Madison County, Texas police are investigating a very strange rash of cattle mutilations in the region. A half-dozen cows across the areas were found… Read the rest of the article: Texas police investigating bizarre and mysterious cattle mutilations

Health codes prohibit dogs from entering most restaurants. But there's a new trend in restaurants that are actually for dogs, or at least feature dog menus. For example, at Dogue… Read the rest of the article: Restaurants for dogs are the absurd new thing, offering steaks, pork broth "beer," and pupsicles

"If the original Pokémon was remade with HD-2D technology, this is what it would look like," writes pixel artist Dott. For those not hip to the HD-2D scene, it's a… Read the rest of the article: Pokémon for Game Boy reimagined as a lovely melding of 2D pixel art and 1990s console game 3D backgrounds (video)

London-based Sounds Like These is a creative audio company which means they do commercial music composition, sound design, and post-production. Their clients include Nike, Netflix, and Google. As Matt Muir… Read the rest of the article: Creative audio company delivers auralgasms with its website

The University of Minnesota's Voyageurs Wolf Project released this trailcam video of a gorgeous black wolf wandering in the woods of northern Minnesota's Voyageurs National Park. The International Wolf Center… Read the rest of the article: Video of magnificent and rare black wolf in the Minnesota wild

On Tuesday in Istanbul, day turned into night for several minutes as a creepy dark cloud blanketed the sky. Is the end of the world nigh? Maybe, but this was… Read the rest of the article: Creepy weather event momentarily turns day into night in Istanbul (video)

What happens when worms use weed? Turns out, they get the munchies. University of Oregon neuroscientists soaked tiny nematode worms in liquid infused with cannabinoids, the active substances in the… Read the rest of the article: Worms high on weed get munchies too, report scientists

Civil War reenactor Gerald Leonard Drake, 63, of Winchester, Virgina pleaded guilty this week for placing a pipe bomb on the pretend battlefield. The bomb didn't explode but caused the… Read the rest of the article: Civil War reenactor put pipe-bomb on pretend battlefield to frame antifa

Today is April 20, 4/20, a high holiday for cannabis enthusiasts. The story goes that fifty years ago, a group of high school students in San Rafael, California, about 40… Read the rest of the article: The unreal real story behind "420"

Remember Viktoria Nasyrova, the dominatrix who tried to kill her lookalike Olga Tsvyk with a poison cheesecake and steal her identity? Yesterday, a judge sentenced Nasyrova to 21 years in… Read the rest of the article: Woman who tried to kill her lookalike with poison cheesecake sentenced to 21 years, swears at judge (video)

At the US Pentagon yesterday, the Department of Defense shared video (below) of a strange sphere zipping around above an unidentified location in the Middle East. The footage was captured… Read the rest of the article: New UFO footage released by US Department of Defense (video)

Please meet Tripedalia maipoensis, a newly-discovered species of box jelly fish that researchers found in a brackish shrimp pond in Hong Kong's Mai Po Nature Reserve. The box jellyfish (scientific… Read the rest of the article: New species of freaky cube-shaped creature with 24 eyes found in Hong Kong pond

First introduced in 1972, Boggle is a delightful game in which you try to find words on a grid of shaken dice (with each die having six letters on it).… Read the rest of the article: The secret reason that the Boggle letters were changed

On April 19, 1943, Swiss chemist Albert Hoffman ingested 240 micrograms of lysergic acid diethylamide, a curious compound he had synthesized for possible use as a respiratory and circulatory stimulant.… Read the rest of the article: The first intentional LSD trip was 80 years ago today (video)