You may have heard about Nauru on a recent This American Life episode: the tiny Pacific island that was stripped of all vegetation and made virtually uninhabitable by phosphate mining,… Read the rest of the article: Nauru files: leaks tell abused childrens' stories from Australia's offshore concentration camp
In past years the New York Daily News has supported the police department's use of "stop-and-frisks." Three years ago a federal judge ruled that they were unconstitutional. The number of… Read the rest of the article: NYPD's illegal frisk program did not prevent crime
Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen funded the Allen Brain Observatory, a detailed, rich data-set derived from parts of a mouse-brain: what's striking is that the Allen Institute released all the data… Read the rest of the article: Why did it take a private foundation to do public science right?
People's Ride is a co-op ride-hailing company in Grand Rapids, Michigan: drivers own the service in common and collectively decide how to spend its profits (for example, on deploying an… Read the rest of the article: Profile of People's Ride: a co-operative, driver-owned alternative to Uber
1210 white and transparent pieces make up the LEGO Architecture Studio. This fantastic set is geared towards builders! Summer is here and I'm running out of ways to occupy the… Read the rest of the article: LEGO Architecture Studio
Royal Brunei Airlines's first all-women deck crew flew into Saudi Arabia this week. Unfortunately, they will not be allowed to drive there, since Muslim clerics in that country forbid it.… Read the rest of the article: Royal Brunei Airlines' first women flight crew lands in Saudi Arabia, forbidden to drive there
When the mood strikes you and you're looking to light up, you shouldn't have to hunt around for all the things you need: your pipe, your grinder, your favorite munchies,… Read the rest of the article: Even Cheech and Chong would be impressed with this "Happy Kit"
British science writer Ed Yong's new book I Contain Multitudes: The Microbes Within Us and a Grander View of Life is a history of gut flora and bacteria, which first… Read the rest of the article: Your microbial nation: how bacteria went from menace to superfood
Lenny Grekko says: "Last night we were camping in the Adirondacks and a bear opened the door of my neighbors car looking for food. He got in and destroyed it… Read the rest of the article: Bear tears automobile to shreds
Isn't this the way everyone who rides Ryanair boards their plane?
In 2007, Trump was suing a reporter who exposed unflattering facts about his true level of wealth. The Washington Post reports on a 2007 deposition, related to Donald Trump's failed… Read the rest of the article: In private dealings, Trump lies constantly and without apparent purpose
Lewis from Birmingham, UK is a young man who makes videos about tech support scammers. In this video, he interviews a scammer from Delhi, India who tells Lewis that he… Read the rest of the article: A tech support scammer explains his trade
Ah da dah dahr rah, escrong, ryahh, hrheh, sigit, i-wahn i-dinninumm. If Kanye is smart, he'll package these up a la George Clinton's three volume Sample Some of Disc, Sample… Read the rest of the article: Supercut: Kanye's favorite noises
The LA Times investigates the many, fragmentary, much-revised storyline of the Haunted Mansion, the greatest ride that Disney ever built (though Walt himself had to die before the constraints he… Read the rest of the article: The story of the story of Disneyland's Haunted Mansion
Public transit upholstery is a marvel of stain-resistance, long-wearing durability and bizarre abstract patterns meant to deny the shifting conventions of fashion: all these make it (semi-)perfect for "Bustour," German… Read the rest of the article: Designer makes clothes out of German transit upholstery fabric, rides trains
As the highly controversial deaths of black people at the hands of American law enforcement officers has crept into our public discourse this decade, so too has the revelation that… Read the rest of the article: America will finally gather statistics on which and how many people are killed by law enforcement
I've traveled to Japan many times over the decades and seen some really strange shit.
I was born in 1958, a tail-end Baby Boomer, and as a young boy—evidently like a lot of others—I faithfully read Famous Monsters of Filmland every month and spent an… Read the rest of the article: Returning to the Return of Dracula
Tom the Dancing Bug, IN WHICH all "Illegals" are directed to report to their local Deportation Center, for their necessary and just expulsion from the USA.
