All Queens Chess, A Unique Chess Game Solely Made Up of Powerful Queens That Can’t Be Captured
ThinkFun has created All Queens Chess, a unique strategy game that combines the rules of chess with the logic of tic-tac-toe. All of the game…
What a Popping Balloon Sounds Like Inside an Abandoned Nuclear Power Plant Cooling Tower
While visiting the new NWAA acoustic test lab built inside an abandoned, unused nuclear plant in Elma, Washington, project engineer Matt Ballos and audio specialist…
Farmer Pulls an Enormous Carrot Out of a Dirt Barrel
Back in 2014, Dan of Allotment Diary pulled his very first show carrot from a greenhouse dirt barrel after seeing a hopeful crack in the…
How Jack White’s Love for the Number Three Shows Up in Various Aesthetic and Musical Aspects of His Career
Music essayist Noah Lefevre of Polyphonic takes a tertiary look at musician Jack White and his obsession with the number three. In doing so, Lefevre…
Preview of the A100 Audio-Animatronic Hondo Ohnaka Robot at Disney’s New ‘Star Wars: Galaxy’s Edge’
In advance of the opening of Star Wars: Galaxy’s Edge at Disneyland in California and Disney World in Florida, a team of Imagineers offers a…
How a Missing Oxford Comma in Maine Employment Law Cost a Portland Dairy Over $5,000,000 in Overtime
In 2014, Oakhurst Dairy in Portland, Maine was named a defendant in a class-action lawsuit brought by their drivers, who claimed that they were due…
Jimi Hendrix Talks to Dick Cavett in 1969 About His Electric Church and How He Prefers Music to Politics
In a really wonderful clip from a 1969 appearance on the Dick Cavett Show, a brilliantly attired, shy Jimi Hendrix talked about his idea for…
A Marvelous Set of Optical Illusion Playing Cards
Illusion d’Optique is a marvelous set of playing cards that feature incredible optical illusions and hypnotic holographic designs that change color with movement. These cards…
Movement Act, A Hypnotic Star-Shaped Juggling Machine With 16 Crisscrossing Balls That Never Collide
Japanese juggling graduate student Shun Onozawa has created “Movement Act” an incredibly hypnotic, rhythmic juggling machine that simultaneously keeps 16 constantly crisscrossing balls in perpetual…
Talking Gargoyle at the Denver Airport Hilariously Engages With Skeptical Travelers and Curious Children
The Denver International Airport has always been very candid about the conspiracies and rumors surrounding the questionable adornments of unusual murals, statues and of course,…