art Duplicate Content splices 1960s video art with today's TikToks Ellsworth Toohey

art Toyo Ito's Expo Hall "Shining Hat" looks like a portal opening in the sky Popkin

animals Cat goes full threat-mode over owner's cat-shaped slippers Popkin

videos Tame crow hands the brush back and demands more grooming Popkin

music Ancient Loops turns the Playdate's crank into a sound instrument Ellsworth Toohey

History For centuries, a cracked Egyptian statue sang at dawn Ellsworth Toohey

Science Mysterious glowing balls rise from the Mekong every year Ellsworth Toohey

History The masked prisoner of Louis XIV whose name was never spoken Ellsworth Toohey

politics There is a real Swiss political party devoted to abolishing PowerPoint Ellsworth Toohey

music The schizophrenic Chicago artist who became an outsider rock legend Ellsworth Toohey

film For 32 years, every director who disowned a film became Alan Smithee Ellsworth Toohey

art For 60 years, an 84-year-old has let a deck of cards build his map Ellsworth Toohey

History A 20-mile maze under Budapest hid a secret WWII aircraft engine plant Ellsworth Toohey

History An expedition spent years looking for an Arctic island that didn't exist Ellsworth Toohey

History In 1835 a New York paper put bat-men and unicorns on the moon Ellsworth Toohey

google After the passage of the EU Copyright Directive, Google nukes Google News France Cory Doctorow

google Google changes news story ranking, Google News to favor 'journalism awards' and original reporting Xeni Jardin

religion What a Google News Alert for "Satanic" can teach you David Pescovitz

Russians returning to 1 horsepower amid gasoline shortages Rob Beschizza

grift ICE buys the cages, private prison company keeps the keys Jason Weisberger