Freezer burn, plastic glasses, jumbo shrimp and Trump's Board of Peace. Y'all know an oxymoron when you read one. Guess which one of these three contradictions has failed to come…
Watching these stadium seats get restored with flame scratches my brain in all the right ways. The color goes from washed-out and sun-bleached to vibrant and restored as soon as…
Mazeball is a simple website that lets you watch glowing, colorful balls bounce through a maze. It's best viewed in full screen if you want to stare at something mindless…
The girl said she came from a place called Saint Martin's Land, where the sun never rose, and everything sat in permanent twilight. She and a younger boy had been…
San Diego's vacancy tax points to a much bigger California problem A lot of California's problems are made worse when homes and storefronts become investments rather than places where people…
"This is a farewell kiss from the Iraqi people, you dog!" shouted Iraqi journalist Muntadhar al-Zaidi as he hurled his first shoe at George W. Bush during a Baghdad press…
An AI consultant told Axios that one of their clients "recently spent half a billion dollars in a single month" on Claude, the Anthropic AI assistant, because nobody had capped…
The pyramids used to be smooth, white, and blinding in the sun. Now they look like giant ancient staircases, and the usual explanation is that people stole the good bits.…
The second annual Oscar Mayer Wienie 500 is eleven innuendo-packed minutes of giant hot dogs racing around Indianapolis Motor Speedway, which is more or less what we call fine art…
Researchers at Kyoto University Hospital have begun the first human trial of TRG-035, a drug meant to grow new teeth in people who are missing them. Humans keep a set…
Liminal horror movie Backrooms is set to become A24's biggest hit, with $10.4 million clipping through in preview screenings, earning back its production budget, and signaling a $40-50 million opening…
OK Nintendo is a full-album cover of Radiohead's seminal 1997 release OK Computer. Instead of Thom Yorke's plaintive, soaring vocals, we have samples from Mario Kart and other N64 classics.…
In March 1935, Sue Bonnie pushed through three feet of snow to her friend's cabin on Fryer Hill outside Leadville, Colorado. She and Tom French broke a window and found…
This weekend's Blue Moon, the second full moon in one month, is also a micromoon, because it is at the moon's apogee, the furthest point from Earth in its orbit.…
The US Layoffs Tracker is updated daily with the latest disclosures under the WARN Act, which requires employers with 100 or more workers to give 60 days notice before major…
