Way back in the days of no fiber optic internet, bountiful pirates and completely unregulated whaling, sailors had a rough time communicating to their betrothed back home. Once a shiphand… Read the rest of the article: The informal post office in the middle of the ocean

Heavily tattooed skin isn't something typically associated with the upper crust. Pirates, soldiers, I don't know, dice-throwers and the like, sure, but King George V? I'd think that the closest… Read the rest of the article: Tattooist to Victorian England's wealthiest patrons

From the din of a Nashville honky tonk on March 21st, Gov. Bill Lee signed The Ensuring Likeness Voice and Image Security Act, or ELVIS, for short. The bill prohibits… Read the rest of the article: Tennessee bans using AI to impersonate an artist's voice or likeness

It's hot. The windows are all down, the AC barely works, it's 110˚F in the shade and 94% humidity. Everything is terrible and you still have another 6 hours of… Read the rest of the article: Why can you go to jail for fixing the McDonald's soft serve machine?

Portland, OR and New Orleans-based musician Cyrus Nabipoor has managed to take an iconic Smiths song and make it his own. This ambient track is at once recognizable and entirely… Read the rest of the article: Listen to this ambient jazz cover of "There is a Light That Never Goes Out"

If you'd like to hear an absolute bummer of a cautionary tale, sung slow and steady by a world class vocalist, give "Cruel Mother" a listen. ØXN is the project… Read the rest of the article: Traditional folk tunes get a psychedelic dirge reimagining

Damien Hirst is a brilliant businessman. He's exceptionally good at selling his pieces and being his own brand. Damien Hirst is a name associated with wealth and fame, and has… Read the rest of the article: Artist Damien Hirst falsely dated recent sculptures to noteworthy period

Reputable and sketchy academic journals alike are publishing AI-generated research papers feature obvious Chat GPT-penned phrases such as "as of my last knowledge update" and "I don't have access to… Read the rest of the article: AI-generated research papers are being published everywhere

Scientists are encouraging us to further assert our dominance in the food chain by eating pythons. Raising livestock is an ecologically taxing process, with conventional farming. Cows, pigs, all the… Read the rest of the article: Let them eat snake: python farming an "efficient" food source

Student groups across the country have been targeted for their political leanings these last few months. Their universities have labeled the coalitions formed in the name of Palestinian liberation, critical… Read the rest of the article: University of Pennsylvania affiliates face McCarthy-style treatment

"What is Butoh?" You might be asking. Great question, here, maybe this Tedx talk will help. Butoh is difficult to define form of dance-theater. Its practitioners don't have a consensus… Read the rest of the article: Watch: Intense wordless introduction to Butoh, a form of Japanese dance theater

$23/hr! In the greater Los Angeles extended universe? That's a living wage! Love a bit of good news. Large hotels in long beach, meaning hotels with one hundred rooms or… Read the rest of the article: Long Beach set to raise hotel worker minimum wage to $23

This is just the solution to Los Angeles' congestion problem that I was thinking of! More cars! But without drivers. Google's self-driving taxis will make their debut on the busy… Read the rest of the article: Driverless taxis coming to Los Angeles

Big news from Peoria! The police department is hiring, and it seems they're desperate enough to go with a blatantly violent recruitment campaign. Call of Duty, that's a video game…… Read the rest of the article: Peoria police department recruiting ad features Call of Duty

Joby Carter is master of an unusual trade, one that's become more and more niche over the decades. He's a signwriter, or signpainter, a master of hand lettering techniques. Specifically,… Read the rest of the article: Demonstration on the lost arts of signwriting and circus decoration

If you don't know already, Bill Wurtz is that musician/artist guy who made that history of the entire world, i guess, video back in 2017. It's cool, y'know, if you're… Read the rest of the article: Insightful interview with Bill Wurtz of "history of the entire world, i guess" fame

I've picked up the habit of traveling abroad while I'm at home. Google Maps offers a pretty comprehensive outline of the world, so on the occasions when I'm home and… Read the rest of the article: The contentious rock in the middle of the ocean

Want to go on an extremely niche and charming adventure? Go venture out to Wales and put Samana's album on your headphones. Somewhere within the deluxe edition of the LP,… Read the rest of the article: LP from Welsh band Samana includes map to find hidden obelisk

If it is, welcome to the Ryan meetup, the largest gathering of Ryans in the world. Run entirely by Ryans, for Ryans (And, on occasion, Rians and Ryanns, so long… Read the rest of the article: Is your name Ryan? Come to the gathering of the Ryans.

"It's where Elvis lived" Youtuber Ryan Hailey hails from beautiful, humid, sunny Memphis and has a lot of places to recommend from his hometown. Mostly, his pro tips consist of… Read the rest of the article: Hilariously lackluster tourism video for Memphis