MIT aeronatuics professor Dava Newman designed this new spacesuit that's far sleeker and lightweight than today's bulky gas-pressurized outfits work by today's astronauts. Instead of gas pressurization, the new prototype… Read the rest of the article: Sleek new spacesuit design

Last month, a robber with a gun in Washington DC threatened a group dining on their patio. One of the hosts suggested that the robber join them for a glass… Read the rest of the article: Robber changes mind, asks for group hug

Artist Ellen Lynch of Saint Anthony, Idaho, collects "natural relics," including dead animals, that she finds near her ranch. She then arranges, photographs, and paints them to create digital prints.… Read the rest of the article: Ellen Lynch's natural reliquaries

A group of Pygmy musicians were temporarily lodged in a Republlic of Congo zoo while visiting Brazzaville for a music festival. Visitors to the zoo snapped photos as the 22… Read the rest of the article: Pygmies at the zoo

Police in Waldboro, Maine, have seized a severed hand that had apparently been, er, handed-down over fifty to eighty years. A construction worker found the hand in a box at… Read the rest of the article: Painter finds hand-me-down severed hand

Nat Torkington says, "In Collapse, Jared Diamond wondered what the person who cut down the last tree on Easter Island was thinking as he did so. On the Solomon Islands,… Read the rest of the article: Solomon Islands to be clearcut?

Last month, artist Damien Hirst unveiled the most expensive contemporary artwork ever made, a skull bedazzled with more than 8,000 fine diamonds. It's expected to sell for as much as… Read the rest of the article: Prank on Damien Hirst

Indonesia kopi luwak is a rare kind of coffee that apparently goes for $30/cup in some fancy Hong Kong hotels. The secret to its reportedly fine flavor is that the… Read the rest of the article: Expensive coffee from crap

Ghanaian Kojo Nana Obiri-Yeboah, a preacher in Uganda, is under investigation for intending to scam his congregation into believing he has magic powers by shocking them with a commercially-available magic… Read the rest of the article: Pastor accused of using magic trick to trick congregants

If you're in Beijing and eat steamed buns that taste like cardboard, they just may be cardboard. According to an undercover investigation aired on China Central Television, one particular supplier… Read the rest of the article: Cardboard Chinese food

MIT researchers are designing a "Digital Water Pavillion" for next year's Expo Zaragoza in Spain. The walls of the structure are sheets of water sprayed from suspended pipes. Software-controlled valves… Read the rest of the article: Building made from water walls

Between 1965 and 1967, Augustus Owsley Stanley III AKA the "Bear," homebrewed an estimated 1.25 million doses of LSD in the San Francisco Bay Area, fueling a revolution in consciousness,… Read the rest of the article: Rare interview with LSD pioneer Owsley Stanley

This Friday, Seattle's Roq La Rue Gallery presents a dual show of artists Nicoletta Ceccoli and Kukula. Ceccoli is best known in her native Italy Republic of San Marino as… Read the rest of the article: Kukula and Nicoletta Ceccoli at Roq La Rue Gallery

"Ginormous" has been added to the Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary. Here are some of the other words added this year: Bollywood, crunk, DVR, flex-cuff, RPG, and sudoku. The funny thing is… Read the rest of the article: Merriam-Webster new words for 2007

Fantagraphics art director Jacob Covey posted this creepy Dennis The Menace panel to the Fantagraphics Flog!. (Click image to see it larger.) It's scary how angry Dennis's dad is at… Read the rest of the article: Creepy Dennis the Menace panel

MAKE:/Craft founder and publisher Dale Dougherty has recently spent his Saturdays at the San Francisco's Exploratoirum museum for a series of six webcasts featuring makers around the Bay Area. The… Read the rest of the article: Maker Saturday videos from the Exploratorium

Kimberly-Clark Professional is introducing an automated toilet paper dispenser for institutional use. Like electronic paper towel dispensers, you wave your hand in front of a motion sensor and it spits… Read the rest of the article: Robotic toilet paper dispenser

Joshua Clay has a new show opening at thinkspace gallery in Los Angeles this Friday. The exhibition, titled Shadows, runs until August 3. Clay has been documenting the creation of… Read the rest of the article: Joshua Clay art show and site

Daniel Ellis of Cape Cod, Massachusetts wanted so badly to be excused from jury duty that he claimed to be homophobic, racist, and a liar. As a result, Barnstable Superior… Read the rest of the article: Man's excuse to avoid jury duty

This is only the second time I've seen one of these vintage Timothy Leary wristwatches on eBay. (The first time, I bought the timepiece for myself. I only wear it… Read the rest of the article: Tim Leary wristwatch