On August 5, 2026, a SpaceX rocket booster is going to smash into the moon at 5400 miles an hour. Bill Gray, an astronomer who notes that although astronomy is… Read the rest of the article: A errant SpaceX rocket booster is going to smash into the moon

Cardboard Wars is the best fan-made Star Wars creation since Troops. The 52-minute Star Wars parody on YouTube is a worthy successor to Spaceballs and Hardware Wars. Cardboard Wars tells… Read the rest of the article: Cardboard Wars is a loving parody of Star Wars all in cardboard

Rick Aschmann, a professional linguist, has created a comprehensive analysis of "North American English Dialects, Based on Pronunciation Patterns," as a hobby. The main feature is a map, available in… Read the rest of the article: This dialect map covers all of North America's English accents

Landsat, a joint program between NASA and the United States Geological Survey (USGS), has been continuously collecting satellite images of the Earth since 1972. NASA's "Your Name in Landsat" site… Read the rest of the article: NASA will spell your name with satellite photos of the planet

Reminders never work for me. I set a reminder, I get reminded, and if I don't do the thing right that second, it just sits there, eternally taunting me with… Read the rest of the article: Due is a reminder app that really works

Nestle wants people to take a break with a KitKat and put their phones away. And not just put them away, but keep them from connecting entirely. KitKat "Break Mode"… Read the rest of the article: Take a break from your phone with a KitKat wrapper that is also a Faraday cage

Brushing a cat is a tricky affair. Cats require consent for any kind of touching, and will attempt to murder you if you violate their bodily autonomy. This is essentially… Read the rest of the article: This cat brushing game has Flappy Bird vibes but scarier

City planning doesn't immediately come to mind when brainstorming ideas for a kids' book. New York City Mayor Fiorello La Guardia's Committee on City Planning saw an opportunity to educate… Read the rest of the article: This 1930s children's book on city planning is a delight

The first teaser trailer for Godzilla Minus Zero has been released, and everyone's favorite Kaiju is heading to the Big Apple. Godzilla Minus One was a much more serious take… Read the rest of the article: Godzilla is heading to the Big Apple, and the teaser looks incredible

According to a job listing on Japanese recruitment site HRMOS, the Pokémon Company is hiring an ecologist, possibly to work on Pokémon Pokopia. The job calls for a PhD in… Read the rest of the article: The Pokémon Company is looking for an ecologist with a PhD

Voracious readers already know that Libby is a great way to borrow electronic books, audiobooks, and magazines for free from their local library. However, libraries are forced to essentially rent… Read the rest of the article: This site supercharges your library card with reciprocal libraries

The Artemis II mission is nearing the end, with the Orion capsule, dubbed Integrity by the crew, due to splash down off the coast of San Diego at 8:07 pm… Read the rest of the article: This dashboard tracks everything going on with Artemis' Orion capsule as it returns to Earth

Magawa, the African giant pouched rat, saved countless lives and limbs by sniffing out landmines and unexploded ordnance in Cambodia. Cambodia has millions of landmines and unexploded bombs as a… Read the rest of the article: Statue erected to honor landmine-sniffing rat in Cambodia

Just hours into its historic mission to return to the moon for the first time in half a century, Integrity suffered a mission-critical failure — the toilet. Shortly after entering… Read the rest of the article: Artemis II's state-of-the-art space toilet broke

Kara Zor-El, AKA Supergirl, was not raised on a farm in Kansas by a loving family. She watched the destruction of her home planet, Krypton, and was sent to Earth… Read the rest of the article: Krypto is in trouble in the new Supergirl trailer and he had better be OK

The launch countdown for Artemis II, which will travel further from the Earth than any crewed craft since Apollo 17 in 1972. The Artemis program has been plagued with delays,… Read the rest of the article: Artemis II's launch countdown has begun and its next stop is the Moon

Another day, another SpaceX/Starlink explosion. Starlink reported on X/Twitter that "On Sunday, March 29, Starlink satellite 34343 experienced an anomaly on-orbit, resulting in loss of communications with the satellite at… Read the rest of the article: Another Starlink satellite has exploded

Here we are, in 2026, as Douglas Adams said, "nearly two thousand years after one man had been nailed to a tree for saying how great it would be to… Read the rest of the article: Mister Rogers is coming to YouTube and not a moment too soon

A UK company just won a £1 million prize for assistive glasses for people with dementia. The Longitude Prize was established as a "challenge prize" to encourage innovation to solve… Read the rest of the article: Augmented reality glasses can aid dementia patients — and their caregivers

I have a few daily games that I play and share. Wordle, Connections, and Clues by Sam are my favorites, but I am always looking to add something new. Thrice… Read the rest of the article: Thrice is a challenging but forgiving daily trivia game