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Okilly Dokilly Explains How to Best Be Ned Flanders
The incredible Ned Flanders-themed heavy metal band Okilly Dokilly (previously) sat down with Rolling Stone to talk about how to best embody Ned. Each member…
A Brilliant Rotating Egg Clock That Uses Fading Photochromic Paint and a Violet Laser to Tell the Time
Jirà Zemánek of the Czech engineering group A²C who previously decorated stroboscoric Christmas ornaments during the holidays, used his EggBot Pro by Evil Mad Scientist…
Jimmy Fallon and Mayor Pete Buttigieg Insult Each Other in Different Languages in Tonight Show Promo
While heading towards the stage door, Tonight Show host Jimmy Fallon encountered South Bend, Indiana Mayor and Democratic Presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg as he was…
Tom Scott Visits the Cartoonish Steel Sculpture That Looks Like a Sheet of Paper Sitting on Top of a Hillside
In 2012, we wrote about Horizons, a steel sculpture by artist Neil Dawson that looks like a floating piece of paper sitting on top of…
Fascinating NASA Study on How Space Affects Health Using Data From Astronaut Twins Mark and Scott Kelly
Wired senior writer Robbie Gonzalez had the amazing opportunity to speak with Dr. Francine Garrett-Bakelman who worked on “The NASA Twins Study”. This study took…
Bewildered Dog Has No Idea What to Do After He Finally Catches His Elusive Tail
My friend’s dog, Max, finally caught its tail, and then didn’t know what to do with itself anymore. pic.twitter.com/Cl2HOZimW0 — Satellite Man Law Man (@omw2innisfree)…
Negativland Warns About Data Privacy in a Dystopian Music Video for the Spoken Word Song ‘More Data’
A rather dystopian video by Ryan Worsley for the Negativland spoken word song “More Data”, warns of data privacy violations within a surveillance state. The…
Cat Saving Up to Get Other Tattoo Sleeve Done
This cat is going to look really rad when they have enough money to get the other tattoo sleeve done on their arm.
Freddie Mercury Illustrated as Comic Book Covers
The talented Brazilian artist Butcher Billy (previously) imagined the late, great Freddie Mercury as comic book characters that are featured on the front cover. This…
An Industrious Mouse Tidies Up a Retired Electrician’s Tool Shed Each Night
Retired electrician Stephen McKears discovered that small metal items in his tool shed had been neatly arranged by an industrious mouse.