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Star Trek as Italian Film

‘Star Trek: Insurrection’ Reimagined as an Unhinged Italian-Dubbed Food Comedy

September 16, 2026

Danny MacAskill Endless Night eBike Norway

Danny MacAskill Rides Norway’s Rugged Granite Slabs Beneath the Midnight Sun on an E-Bike

September 16, 2026

Cartoonish Ceramic Vessels

Cartoonish Ceramic Animals With Distorted Features That Function as Household Accessories

September 16, 2026

Camp Hero Stranger Things

How the Montauk Project Conspiracy at Camp Hero Inspired ‘Stranger Things’

September 16, 2026

Eruption on Accordions

Finnish Accordion Duo Performs Badass Cover of Van Halen’s ‘Eruption’

September 15, 2026

Origami Typewriter

An Intricate Origami Typewriter Meticulously Folded From a Single Sheet of Paper

September 15, 2026

2026 Fall Foliage Map

An Interactive Map That Predicts Fall Foliage Timing Across the Contiguous United States

September 15, 2026

This has to do with three previously independent transit systems that existed before they were unified under the larger MTA banner in 1940: two private systems, the IRT (Interborough Rapid Transit Company) and the BMT (Brooklyn-Manhattan Transit Corporation). The IND (Independent Subway System) was the public subway system.

Why New York City Subway Trains Use Letters and Numbers But Share the Same Colors

September 15, 2026

NYC Alphabet

A New York City Place for Every Letter of the Alphabet

September 14, 2026

Pet Jumping Spider Rooms

Woman Builds Incredibly Detailed Tiny Rooms For Her Pet Jumping Spiders

September 14, 2026