Martin Bullock, a "wildlife and pet photoshopper" from British Colombia, creates "animals that don't exist" – and probably never should. Clever, cute, disturbing abominations, his photoshopped intra-species critter mashups are… Read the rest of the article: Martin Bullock photoshops cute nightmare hybrid creatures

For seven television seasons, some follow-up movies, and other projects, Canadian musician and actor Mike Smith played "Bubbles" (and co-wrote) in the mockumentary comedy/drama The Trailer Park Boys. Before the… Read the rest of the article: Bubbles covers David Bowie's "The Man Who Sold the World."

PM Press has just released Where Are the Elephants?, the new memoir by the prolific and widely recorded English songwriter, folk singer, and children's author Leon Rosselson. "Fierce and funny,… Read the rest of the article: "Where Are the Elephants?" is Leon Rosselson's memoir

From earth, you come and earth you shall return, or some such humanistically grounded scientific phrase leads to a scientifically grounded human question: how many homo sapiens have come from… Read the rest of the article: How many people have lived on the earth since the proverbial dawn of time?

Skateboarding continues to circulate and reform the transitions of concrete, wood, and metal across the globe, hopping curbs and fences, flying and twirling across the air, and, like stoked acrobats,… Read the rest of the article: Skateboarding in The West Bank, Palestine, Walls Cannot Keep Us From Flying.

Pop culture, capitalism, and entertainment in the 1990s created unanticipated and strange fellow travelers. In this clip of outtakes from Saturday Night Live, posted by Nirvana Biglove, NBA star Charles… Read the rest of the article: Charles Barkley's 1993 contact high and Nirvana's SNL outtake

With coastal swells that locals have indicated have not happened since the 1990s, California's shorelines have experienced unprecedented participation by "the atmospheric river" in the reclaiming of the continent and… Read the rest of the article: Surfing the "atmospheric river's" ocean waves

Sri Lankan mangroves are the home for fishing cats. As the mangroves have been devastated by human activity (poachers), environmental catastrophes, and climate change "…there is one creature in these… Read the rest of the article: Conservation efforts for the Sri Lankan cats that hunt underwater

If we do live in a post 9-11 world, where the never-ending global war continues, targeting "terrorism" all over the planet, it might be worth remembering that white nationalist terrorism… Read the rest of the article: The prosecution of Daniel McGowan and the Earth Liberation Front.

It seems that the sheriff Adams Country Sheriff's department relied on investigatory research that included Afroman's 2000 video, "Because I got high," in their background work to raid his home… Read the rest of the article: Afroman's new videos about a sheriff's raid and lemon cake

I have been following this Twitter handle, Bayt Al Fann (The Art House), with daily interest, being introduced to architecture, language, history, manuscripts, art, and much more. What I have… Read the rest of the article: Bayt Al Fann, questions, and Thomas Jefferson's Qur'an

Perhaps a sad shared experience of whatever time we live in is that we all have experienced the public display of loud cars and drivers making sure the world knows… Read the rest of the article: The unbearable loudness of that Dude Revving a Car

Rebekah Farrugia and Kellie D. Hay recently published Women Rapping Revolution: Hip Hop and Community Building in Detroit to point out and emphasize how women are marginalized and written out of Hip… Read the rest of the article: "When you make a space safe for Black women, it's safe for everyone."

"The Only Downside is That, I Could Die…" Danny Way set the bar high in 2005 when he built a mega ramp to jump the Great Wall of China. Well,… Read the rest of the article: Bike stunt rider Matt Macduff, seven years after the Loop of Doom left him with 13 fractured bones

This video clip is one of the best sports visuals of the year—so far. Granted, we're only a few days in, and it is a TV ad from the late… Read the rest of the article: "Bowling would be better if it was hockey!"

Maps help me learn. Visualizing historical processes with geographic representations and symbols can help tell different stories and facilitate remembering details about those new stories. Visualizing the attempts at total… Read the rest of the article: Time-lapse map of the colonization (and decolonization) of Africa

When men enter beast mode, check out this "roar factor" of masculinity, the moments and times when men inhabit their guttural, beast-like selves. This video, "I need this guy's card,"… Read the rest of the article: When men enter beast mode

Almost twenty years ago, on February 15, 2003, tens of millions of people around the globe organized mass demonstrations protesting the imminent attack by the Coalition of the Willing on… Read the rest of the article: We Are Many is a documentary focusing on the global anti-war protests in 2003

The anti-war movement that pressured the US government and Pentagon to end the Vietnam war began within the military ranks. Before college students refused the military, burned their draft cards,… Read the rest of the article: "Sir, No Sir!" is a documentary about the U.S. military's own opposition to the Vietnam war

Do hippopotamuses have anxiety about the dentist? Hippo-endodontist? Hippo-periodontist? Or, is it the dentist who might have concerns facing down a beautiful animal weighing anywhere from 3k to 9k lbs… Read the rest of the article: Pablo Escobar's hippos need tooth filling, castration