13th Annual SF Sketchfest, The San Francisco Comedy Festival
The 13th annual SF Sketchfest, a festival of sketch, stand-up, improv, and alternative comedy, takes place January 23 to February 9, 2014 in San Francisco.…
Giant Screens Display Fake Sunrises in Beijing When Smog Blots Out the Real Sun
UPDATE – It turns out that the screens are actually an ad for tourism in China’s Shandong province and not a way to provide a…
The Man Who Famously Skied San Francisco During the 1976 Snowstorm
San Francisco Chronicle freelance photographer William E. Reister captured photos of Chuck Cihak skiing San Francisco in 1976.
Paging Dr. MacGyver, The Latest in the World of DIY Medical Devices
Journalist Julian Smith explores the world of DIY medical devices in the article “Paging Dr. MacGyver” from The Magazine. Among the devices he describes—Robohand, the…
12-Year-Old Peyton Robertson Develops Ingenious Polymer Sandbag for Flood Defense
Peyton Robertson became the youngest person to win the Discovery Education 3M Young Scientist Challenge with his ingenious polymer sandbag.
Google’s Interactive Music Timeline Traces the Popularity of Music Over the Past 60 Years
Yesterday Google released Music Timeline, a fascinating interactive visualization that traces the popularity of music over the past 60 years. The visualization can show a…
Astonishingly Realistic Wood Sculptures of Paper Objects
Artist Randall Rosenthal carves and paints solid blocks of wood into astonishingly realistic sculptures of newspapers, cash, and other paper objects. His sculptures can be…
The Infinite Hotel Paradox, A TED-Ed Animated Lecture
Educator Jeff Dekofsky explains Hilbert’s paradox of the Grand Hotel, a thought experiment that illustrates some curious properties of infinite sets, in this TED-Ed animated…
Denham Psycho, A British Hipster Parody of ‘American Psycho’
British hipsters discuss the finer points of Japanese denim and Indonesian civet coffee in “Denham Psycho,” a spoof of the 2000 crime drama American Psycho.…
Dropping Two Pounds of Dry Ice in a Sink Full of Water
In the latest video by CrazyRussianHacker, host Taras Kulakov places two pounds of dry ice into a sink full of water, unleashing a waterfall of…