Two-tone icon Terry Hall, lead singer of The Specials, and later Fun Boy Three and The Colourfield has died at age 63. Hall was a beloved cultural pioneer who bridged… Read the rest of the article: RIP Terry Hall, lead singer of The Specials and The Colourfield
Five passengers on a United Airlines flight to Houston, Texas landed in the hospital after "severe turbulence" tossed the plane around. (Today's unfortunate news comes after several dozen people were… Read the rest of the article: Five passengers injured by "severe turbulence" on United Airlines flight following several dozen on Hawaiian Airlines yesterday
Last night was the first night of Hanukkah! Here's my friend Ann Druyan, co-creator of Cosmos and creative director of the Voyager Golden Record, and her daughter Sasha Sagan, author… Read the rest of the article: Light the Hanukkah candles with Ann Druyan, Sasha Sagan, and Laurie Anderson! (Video)
Death Grips is a killer experimental hip hop band from Sacramento, California. Below is one of their classic cuts, "Beware" (2011), which samples Jane's Addiction's "Up the Beach" and opens… Read the rest of the article: Listen: Joe Biden and Cornpop vs. Death Grips and Jane's Addiction
In 1975, Steven Spielberg's Jaws became a massive movie sensation. Unfortunately, its portrayal of a great white shark as a killing machine with an insatiable taste for humans led to… Read the rest of the article: Steven Spielberg feels guilty about how Jaws made sharks look bad and led to their senseless deaths
Hannah and Dave Rowett were walking their dogs through Clumber Park in Nottinghamshire, England when they spotted a strange ghostly figure materialize and cross their paths. Video below. "Clumber Park… Read the rest of the article: Eerie ghostly figure strolls across path of dog walkers (video)
Scientific journal Nature published its list of "Ten People Who Helped Shape Science in 2022" to highlight key events in science through the compelling stories of those involved." Click the… Read the rest of the article: People who shaped science in 2022 and ones to watch in 2023
Someone left their heart in Humphreys County, Tennessee. Workers found a human heart in a pile of road salt at a state transportation department facility. Medical examiners identified the heart… Read the rest of the article: Human heart found in salt pile
Afshin Esmaeil Ghaderzadeh, age 22, is now officially the world's shortest living man. He's 2 feet, 1.6 inches tall. Amazingly, he's only the fourth shortest man ever confirmed by Guinness… Read the rest of the article: Meet the world's shortest man
Visitors to Vancouver's Central Valley Greenway trail were shocked to find dozens of dead crows along the path. Nobody knows how or why so many crows died in a small… Read the rest of the article: Nobody knows what killed dozens of crows along a Vancouver trail
Last night in Los Angeles, Dave Grohl joined Billie Eilish on stage in a tribute to the late Taylor Hawkins. Their duet of "There Goes My Hero" is magnificently moving.… Read the rest of the article: Watch Billie Eilish and Dave Grohl perform "There Goes My Hero" last night
Benoit Mandelbrot once said, ""Fractal geometry is not just a chapter of mathematics, but one that helps Everyman to see the same world differently." To help navigate the chaos (and the… Read the rest of the article: Antique map of the Mandelbrot set
Harvard bioengineers have invented the first "Vagina-on-a-Chip." The inch-long device contains living human vaginal tissue and a microfluidic system to deliver a flow of "estrogen-carrying material." The aim is to… Read the rest of the article: Scientists invent first "Vagina-on-a-Chip"
Poughkeepsie, New York police arrested Raymond White, 46, for selling crack on Weed Street. According to the Mid Hudson News, "White's arrest is the result of an ongoing investigation into… Read the rest of the article: Crack dealer arrested on Weed Street
The Soyuz MS-22 spacecraft currently docked at the International Space Station has sprung a leak. According to NASA, it's "fairly significant" leak of coolant that led to the postponement of… Read the rest of the article: Soyuz spacecraft has sprung a bad leak while docked at the International Space Station (video)
Film director John Waters, the legendary pope of trash, shared his ten favorite films of 2022 in ArtForum. Here are the top three: 1PETER VON KANT (François Ozon)By far the best… Read the rest of the article: John Waters lists his favorite films of 2022
Mathematician/author Cliff Pickover posted the mind-melting optical illusion below. It's an example of the "Hermann grid illusion," first described by Ludimar Hermann in 1870 when he was reading a book… Read the rest of the article: This mind-melting optical illusion is called the Hermann Grid
On December 28, 1979, BBC TV aired Kate, aka the "Kate Bush Christmas Special." Then 21-years-old, Kate's album Lionheart had been released the prior month and she was immersed in… Read the rest of the article: Here is the wonderfully avant-garde Kate Bush Christmas TV Special from 1979 with special guest Peter Gabriel
A Martian dust devil rolled right over the Perseverance rover and the robot's microphones recorded its strange sound. It's an otherworldly whisper from 53 million miles away. Perseverance's camera imaged… Read the rest of the article: Listen to the sound of a Martian dust devil
Remember when Elon Musk encouraged his "independent-minded" acolytes to vote "for a Republican Congress" in the 2022 midterm elections? Turns out, Musk couldn't be bothered to vote himself, according to… Read the rest of the article: Republican proselytizer Elon Musk didn't bother voting in the 2022 midterm elections
