My family came late to the Arrested Development series, and so we've been binge watching it on Netflix. The series is narrated by Ron Howard, and also narrates this very… Read the rest of the article: Arrested Development: Star Wars with Ron Howard

One of my favorite authors, psychologist Maria Konnikova (who I've interviewed many times for Boing Boing and Institute for the Future) is writing a book about the world of professional… Read the rest of the article: New Yorker writer Maria Konnikova is killing it at poker

In 2016 Jessica Pell fainted and cut her ear when she fell. She went to Hoboken University Medical Center, where was given an ice pack and a bandage. That was… Read the rest of the article: Hospital charged a woman $5,751 for an ice-pack and a bandage

A year ago Daniel J. Green — NBC News' self-described "overweight health editor" — said he "had stage 1 hypertension, prediabetes and elevated cholesterol numbers. I also weighed 244½ pounds… Read the rest of the article: Results of following US dietary and exercise guidelines for a year

Steve Brusatte is a paleontologist at the University of Edinburgh and a specialist on the evolution of dinosaurs. He has a new book out called The Rise and Fall of… Read the rest of the article: 10 things you'll be surprised to learn about dinosaurs

Diana A. Smith is a user interface engineer, and to show off her skills, she creates art using hand-coded HTML and CSS. The results are stunning.

Bus drivers in Japan have gone on strike in an unusual way. Instead of forming a picket line, they've draped blankets over the fare machines and are giving free rides… Read the rest of the article: Bus drivers in Japan go on strike by refusing to take riders' money

A proud young gentleman was triggered by an anti-fascism sign in the streets of Seattle. He decided the best course of action was to tear the big bad sign into… Read the rest of the article: Gentleman has difficulty destroying an anti-fascism sign

I'm always afraid of getting cut off at the last minute by lane-changers who aren't paying attention. It's happened to me more than once when I'm in the car pool… Read the rest of the article: Driver gets cut off and his car nearly tips over

Chris Notap shows how to make a pocket slingshot (inspired by the Pocket Shot) from a balloon and plastic plumbing parts. It's surprisingly powerful and accurate, even when you use… Read the rest of the article: How to make a pocket slingshot

China and Japan have a complicated relationship that goes back for centuries. Asian Boss interviewed people on the streets of Shanghai and asked them about their impression of Japan.

Dearborn Catholic high school in Michigan has a warning for its girl students — "If your dress does not meet our formal dance dress requirements — no problem! We've got… Read the rest of the article: Catholic school to hand out 'modesty ponchos' to girls at prom wearing 'revealing' dresses

Many Republicans and Democrats were offended by comedian Michelle Wolf's performance at the annual White House Correspondents' Association dinner. Professional liar Sean Spicer said it was a "disgrace." New York… Read the rest of the article: How Michelle Wolf blasted open the fictions of journalism in the age of Trump

Former New York congressman Michael Grimm is running for re-election and his constituents couldn't be happier about it. What are the qualifications that make this law-breaking lawmaker so special in… Read the rest of the article: All the reasons why felon Michael Grimm is the ideal GOP candidate

Journalist and advertising consultant B.J. Mendelson (author of Social Media is Bullshit) was interviewed in the C-Realm podcast about the ineffectiveness of using social media to promote your book or… Read the rest of the article: Social Media ads are a bad deal for small businesses and individuals

German sociologist Franz Carl Müller-Lyer (1857-1916) created an optical illusion that showed how changing the direction of angle brackets on line segments can make the segments look longer or shorter… Read the rest of the article: Cool animated examples of the Muller-Lyer illusion

Steve Mould made a video to teach you the essential skill of moving one eye independently of the other. You'll also learn interesting things about the mechanics and neurology of… Read the rest of the article: Learn how to move one eye without moving the other

Resistentialism is a theory to describe "seemingly spiteful behavior manifested by inanimate objects," where objects that cause problems (like lost keys or a runaway bouncy ball) are said to exhibit… Read the rest of the article: Woman fights hot tub cover on a windy day

Comedian Bill Cosby, 80, was found guilty of all three counts of aggravated indecent assault. He drugged and sexually assaulted Andrea Constand in 2004. He could be sentenced to 10… Read the rest of the article: Cosby found guilty on all three counts of aggravated indecent assault

The folks at Evernote have released a whitepaper called Triple Overload and What You Can Do About It. Triple overload is what happens when you combine data overload, communication overload,… Read the rest of the article: Tip for preventing burnout: collect information in big buckets, not tiny cups