In 1835, Davy Crockett reportedly wrote a letter to his brother-in-law Abner Burgin telling him of a rather strange experience in the Mexic...
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Carvel's Fudgie the Whale ice cream cake is now also a beer
Fudgie the Whale is back. But this time it's not just a "whale of a cake," it's a whale of a beer . On Wednesday, Carvel ...
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Kamasi Washington's killer new soul-jazz track inspired by videogame arcades of yore
Cosmic saxophonist, composer, and spiritual jazz revivalist Kamasi Washington has released a new jam inspired by his teenage experiences a...
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This Alexa-enabled smartwatch is cheaper than an Apple Watch
Smartwatches are pretty neat, but some of us still appreciate the classic aesthetic that comes with toting around an analog timepiece. Mart...
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Baseball team to wear jerseys that look like Mister Rogers' sweater
The South Bend Cubs , a minor league baseball team in South Bend, Indiana, will be wearing special jerseys that look like Mister Rogers...
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PSA: Your birth control pills could be placebos
This one's for the ladies. According to Stat , Allegra is recalling 170,000 packs of their Taytulla birth control pills because the f...
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My science fiction story about EFF's proposed jailbreaking exemption
Every three years, the US Copyright Office lets the public beg for limited exemptions to Section 1201 of the Digital Millennium Copyright A...
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What Toto's "Africa" is really about
I admit that I dig Toto's "Africa" (1982). No irony. I've always loved it. And once again, the song is all over our news ...
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Tell your parents: Trump is lying to them about Medicare
The Center for Medicare Advocacy, Justice in Aging, and the Medicare Rights Center have issued a joint statement condemning the 2018 editio...
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Leaked memos reveal the deep divisions within Google over Pentagon contract
Google's decision to provide AI tools for use with US military drones has been hugely controversial within the company ( at least a doz...
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A Hyatt valet somehow parks a Porsche underneath an SUV in bizarre accident
Porsche's can be a tricky car to maneuver if you've never driven one before (I know – I parked cars for private parties as a teenag...
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Incredible rare 1930s color footage of the World's Tallest Man
As a kid, my favorite photos in the Guinness Book of World Records were the massive McGuire Twins on their motorcycles, the guy with the cr...
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Governments all over the world buy spy products that let them track and eavesdrop on global cellphones, especially US phones
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CfnVvptL-8E Senator Ron Wyden [D-OR] has sent a letter to the DHS with his view that "nefarious actor...
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Amazon bars Australians from shopping on its non-Aussie sites to put pressure on the government to rescind tax rule
Australian retailers are required to collect 10% Value Added Tax on every sale; Amazon's Australia store collects this tax, but the com...
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Telegram: ever since Russia's blocking demand, Apple has prevented us from updating our app
Last April, the Kremlin ordered a ban on the private messaging app Telegram , blocking millions of IP addresses that formed Amazon and Goog...
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Last night was Manhattanhenge: It. Was. Glorious.
I'm obsessed with Manhattanhenge, the two nights a year when the sunset aligns with the prevailing east-west streets of the New York Ci...
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Mesmerizing timelapse of Kilauea lava flows
Tyler Hulett shot " River of Fire " at Kilauea before the previous eruption, but it still stands as some of the best lava timelap...
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Watch what happens when you combine a yacht and a tank
If you're tired of dropping anchor offshore and having to take a dinghy or worse from your yacht to the beach, the Iguana Yacht may be ...
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Happytime Murders film successfully trolls Sesame Street into marketing the film
Sesame Street lawyers are not happy that Jim Henson's son Brian has a raunchy puppet film coming out called Happytime Murders. After th...
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Watch this intense film about a Russian steelworker
This striking visual profile of a worker at the gargantuan Magnitogorsk Iron and Steel Works by director Evgenii Bakirov features Vladimir,...
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36 Days of Type's annual crowdsourced submissions did not disappoint
36 Days of Type is a long-running collaborative design project where different artists render letters and numbers in a unique style. This y...
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Rail operator angers pound shop after comparing own poor service to Poundland chocolate
Poundland is a British discount retailer where everything costs a pound. Thameslink is a British railroad operator suffering from freqently...
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Watch people turn their bodies into black light art
Black Light Visuals travels to music concerts and lets festival-goers dip their arms into vats filled with their fluorescent dyes, leaving...
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Taking a ride on Space Mountain with the lights on
We've previously seen what Space Mountain looks like with its lights on from the vantage point of the Wedway Peoplemover. Now, we get ...
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Sandworms are real
In this video, a dead fish is used to tease a Bobbit worm ( Eunice aphroditois ) into revealing its vicious skill as an ambush predator. Fo...
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Grace Jones ominously asks: Do you know where your children are?
In many markets, 20th-century TV stations ran PSAs right before the local evening news reminding parents that they should probably know whe...
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New pole at Wal Mart struck 10 times in first week
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xIxuxfsSGNI&feature=youtu.be The Bayou Vista Wal Mart put up a new pole in its parking lot and vehicles...
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Delightful creatures frolicking in the waves
Swimming pigs, splashing horses, and diving bulls await in this lovely roundup of animals swimming , some of whom are a bit surprising to s...
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Watch this machinist create five extremely tiny nested cubes
A turner's cube is a traditional machinist's exercise to test consistency and tolerances when milling metal. But this two-millimete...
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Lost Voice Guy is headed to Britain's Got Talent's finals
In late April, I posted about a stand-up comedian who cannot speak without the assistance of his synthetic computer voice. His performance ...
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Bethesda reveals latest Fallout game
Bethesda released a teaser trailer for their next game in the Fallout series, Fallout 76, and man, I am so ready for it. Having been aroun...
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Brilliant fashion analysis of Little Edie from Grey Gardens
Grey Gardens is one of the greatest documentaries of all time, and one of its subjects is style icon Little Edie Beale. YouTube channel Th...
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Fanny pack sandals
Nike's new "Benassi JDI Fanny Pack" slide sandals may be the perfect footwear to don while sporting another hybrid fashion ch...
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Watch this guy demonstrate his state-of-the-art prosthetic fingers
Naked Prosthetics creates custom-fitted hand and finger prostheses that allow an impressive range of fine motor skills to be done by the w...
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Failed attempt to move boat engine with a pickup truck
Four men with a pickup try to move a boat engine. A woman videotapes it. The engine is suspended on a chain attached to a small crane in th...
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"Journalism Jesus" rises from the grave to tweak the nose of Russian intelligence officials
I’m starting a petition to have Arkady Babchenko henceforth referred to as "Journalism Jesus," Because holy shit, he just returne...
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240 compostable dog poop bags (unfilled)
These compostable sacks for poo are better than the ones I was previously using. They are made . Walking my dogs, and general at yard cle...
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NYC gynecologist files $1 million lawsuit against woman for 1-star Yelp review
Dr. Joon Song, a gynecologist in New York, has filed a $1 million lawsuit against Michelle Levine for leaving bad reviews on Yelp and other...
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Quantifying the massive premium paid to people who work in "bullshit jobs"
It's been five years since David Graeber's original, groundbreaking essay on "bullshit jobs" (socially useless busywork ...
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Gentleman jailed for YouTube stunt at Disney resort
Dillion Burch, 22, was arrested for telling guests at Disney's Contemporary Resort in Orange County, FL, that an "active shooter...
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Puerto Rico's Hurricane Maria death toll is 70 times higher than the official count
According to the Trump administration, Hurricane Maria killed 64 people; according to a careful, peer-reviewed study in the New England Jou...
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Which '3-2-1 Contact' theme is your favorite?
One of my favorite TV shows as a kid had a rockin' 80s style theme, 3-2-1 Contact made science exciting. https://youtu.be/KmQWtGn889E...
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An analysis of all those Internet of Things manifestos sparked by the slow-motion IoT catastrophe
The Internet of Things morphed from a ridiculous answer in search of a problem ("why do I want my fridge connected to the internet?...
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How much are teachers paid in every US state?
How much money are teachers in the US paid? The correct answer, of course, is "not enough." As nationwide teacher strikes continu...
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Map of Britain's roads... and nothing else
jamaps created this map that shows all the main roads in Britain and nothing else, giving the vague impression of something weirdly biologi...
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Autonomous boats in some cities could transport people, shuttle goods, and self-assemble into structures
MIT researchers designed and prototyped small, autonomous boats that they think could go a long way to improving urban mobility and reducin...
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Making tires out of duct tape and rubber bands
A group of guys from the YouTube channel Life OD first crafted a working tire out of $80 worth of duct tape, then they daisy-chained 100,0...
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Weezer fan convinced band to cover Toto's "Africa"
Weezer revealed their cover of Toto's 1982 hit "Africa" on Tuesday. It was a matter of "giving the fans what they wan...
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