What's worse than cyborg spiders? Dead cyborg spiders! …Unless you're part of the "necrobotics" (yes really) lab at Rice University, in which case, dead cyborg spiders can actually be a… Read the rest of the article: Scientists convert dead spiders into cybernetic grabbers

Thanks to RU Sirius and Mondo 2000 on Twitter, I just found out about @GumbysBand, an account that posts The Gumbys (Gumby and Pokey's band from the 50s/60s kids claymation… Read the rest of the article: Gumby and his band perform NIN's "March of the Pigs"

Established under a 2008 Memorandum of Understanding (MOU), the long-term partnership between the State of Hawai'i and the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), the Hawai'i Clean Energy Initiative (HCEI) is… Read the rest of the article: Hawai'i receives final coal shipment for its last coal-fired power plant

Marjorie Taylor Greene is spreading stupid again, and this time it might cost her fans their health. "You are not supposed to talk about how it really gets spread around,"… Read the rest of the article: Marjorie Taylor Greene's lesson on how to get monkeypox — "gay sex orgies" — will surely backfire

Vitas is a Latvian singer who has an undeniable talent for tongue clucking. In the music video for The 7th Element (which was recorded in 2001), Vitas clucks his tongue… Read the rest of the article: Vitas is a Latvian singer who has an undeniable talent for tongue-clucking

Andy Thurlow was an incredible inventor who made hundreds of original musical instruments. Sadly, he passed away in  March 2022. Here is a documentary about his recent inventions. Thurlow created… Read the rest of the article: Andy Thurlow was an incredible inventor who made hundreds of original musical instruments

The music video for 1-800  by Dog Police (1985) is a brilliantly weird gem. The song is super catchy, too. The Dog Police were a short-lived new wave band from… Read the rest of the article: The music video for 1-800 by Dog Police (1985) is a delightfully weird gem

The Infinitizer is a magnificent installation at Meow Wolf Las Vegas created by artists Alex and Allyson Grey. This totally immersive art piece features a room full of sculptures of… Read the rest of the article: Alex and Allyson Grey's magnificent Infinitizer installation at Meow Wolf

Before Max Headroom shilled for Coke, collaborated with the Art of Noise, and had his own ABC TV series in the US, he starred in a fantastic and prescient 1985 UK TV… Read the rest of the article: Max Headroom reboot in development

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Earlier this month, on the topic of cloud seeding to "grow" rain in the dangerously parched United Arab Emirates, Esquire questioned whether the technology actually works: The UAE has a… Read the rest of the article: Perhaps cloud seeding really works: "Very unusual heavy rain" causes major flooding in the UAE (video)

At the intersection of avant-garde music and graphic design lies "graphic notation," the visual expression of a musical composition that's outside of conventional music notation systems. Theresa Sauer's book Notations21—inspired… Read the rest of the article: Strikingly strange sheet music

The combo of Eminem's "Lose Yourself" and tango dancing is nothing short of captivating! The two dancers are Sara Grdan and Ivan Terrazas and this is their 2016 performance at… Read the rest of the article: A sultry tango set to Eminem's 'Lose Yourself'

The City of Las Vegas, New Mexico, says it only has a 50-day supply of clean water and has declared a state of emergency. According to city officials the entire… Read the rest of the article: Las Vegas, NM says it only has 50 days of clean water before it runs out. Meanwhile Las Vegas, NV is flooded

Calling this a delayed reaction would be putting it mildly, but four months after Will Smith slugged Oscar host Chris Rock in the head over a joke he didn't like… Read the rest of the article: Will Smith finally apologizes to Chris Rock: "I'm trying not to think of myself as a piece of sh*t" (video)

"Homer," the Dillard's employee accused of calling a 10-year-old boy who bumped into him a "fucking n—–," has been fired. "The allegations made against our former employee were promptly investigated,"… Read the rest of the article: Dillard's employee who called a Black child the N-word was fired

Japanese culture has a fondness for homonyms (a word that sounds the same or is spelled the same as another word but has a different meaning), which is how we… Read the rest of the article: Happy Meat Day

No need to defund the police in small-town Kenly, North Carolina. The entire police department quit after a Black woman, Justine Jones, was hired as city manager. At least some… Read the rest of the article: Entire police department quits after Black woman hired as city manager in North Carolina

John Avlon, who covers CNN's "extremist beat," hosts this video about the origins and intentions of the far-right Proud Boys, which one former member said has become "too much like… Read the rest of the article: Watch: CNN's 10-minute explainer of the Proud Boys

Attorneys for Nicole Shanahan have contacted the Daily Mail to let them know stories about an affair between the multi-millionaire CEO and the no longer gleeful purchaser of Twitter, Elon… Read the rest of the article: Nicole Shanahan was not horsing around with Elon Musk