"I don't want everything I fucking see to be a stream of deliberately random shit pre-programmed to go viral."—Drew Magary at Jalopnik.

Marie Rudisill, Truman Capote's aunt, was in her nineties when she appeared on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno.

Astronomers tinkering with ice and organics in the lab may have discovered why comets are encased in a hard, outer crust.

Now this I'd go see.

Need an excuse to drop everything and fly to Hawaii right now? The annual week-long art event POW! WOW! is happening, and I'll be here on Oahu for it.

The UK is becoming the first country to legalize the creation of baby humans from three different adult humans.

Every 13 months, Earth and Jupiter have a close encounter. And that's happening tonight.

Sweethome.com's reviewer team picked the Magic Wand ($55) as the vibrator to recommend to most people, despite its "intimidating size."

A ProPublica story getting a lot of attention today around the 'net, and for good reason.

Ulbricht faces a possible maximum sentence of life in prison.

He exposed the Bush-era war-on-terror torture program, and for that act of bravery became the only American to serve time in connection with it.

A short film with stunning footage of French freediver Guillaume Néry riding fast currents along Tiputa pass.

Bouncing balls of kinetic squee.

The protagonist's "penchant for the new–new devices, new fashion, new friends–is challenged when he discovers the rustic appeal of old-fashioned things."

The unicorn motif is a play on the startup condom brand's name: Einhorn, which translated from German means "one horn," which is also a reference to the male wiener.

They're such magnificent creatures.

The horse is being a really good sport about it.

A TransAsia Airways flight carrying more than 50 people crashed in Taiwan's Keelung River after takeoff from Taipei's Songshan Airport Wednesday morning.

Can't stop watching.

Brava, nonna!