This June, Harcourt releases The Boy Who Played with Fusion: Extreme Science, Extreme Parenting, and How to Make a Star. Written by journalist Tom Clynes, the book got its start… Read the rest of the article: Book Preview: The Boy Who Played with Fusion

The Cannonball Loop originally opened at New Jersey's Action Park in 1985, but then shuttered after a week amid safety concerns (caution trolling more likely). This image is of a… Read the rest of the article: It's back: looping water slide returns to New Jersey

\ Publisher Taschen will release Psychedelic Sex (NSFW) later in March, written by Eric Godtland and Paul Krassner. Photos are lifted from posters, comics, and men's magazines between 1967 and… Read the rest of the article: Coffee table book documents goofy collision of sex and 60s psychedelia

An early proposal for the US highway system came from the National Highways Association. That wasn't a government office and didn't have much influence on congress, but as an evangelizer… Read the rest of the article: Proposed 1913 highway system separates cars and trucks

It takes certain hubris to commit a crime with a 7-ton, 20 mph max speed vehicle. On January 4 in Lake Wylie, South Carolina, unknown suspects tried to smash open… Read the rest of the article: Tonka criminals attempt to crack ATM with backhoe

Following news reports last summer of Arctic craters, a February 23 report in the Siberian Times documents several more depressions as shown in photos and satellite images. Scientists believe the… Read the rest of the article: Siberian Crater Watch: More giant holes found

Map maker Javier Arce created a world map locating 212 cities referenced in 7,681 pop songs. Click on a city and you can instantly play the related songs through Spotify.… Read the rest of the article: Map pins pop songs that mention cities

A University of Cambridge zoologist analyzed almost 400 videos of juvenile mantises jumping onto a pole for a March 5 study in the journal Current Biology. Malcolm Burrows concluded that… Read the rest of the article: Mezmerizing slo-mo of young praying mantises in action

Billy X. Curmano, from Winona, Minnesota, plans to spend 24 hours on a bed of nails (and a pillow of tacks) later in March. To prepare for the big sleep,… Read the rest of the article: Artist keeps vigil on a bed of nails to protest frenetic culture

Likely offering more immediate gratification than subscription boxes for fishing tackle, vitamins, or hypoallergenic makeup, Mythoard sends a box of tabletop game materials to your door each month for $25… Read the rest of the article: Subscription box service for role-playing gamers

Machine Era, a workshop in Richmond, VA, is pre-selling its Titanium Multi-Tool right now on Kickstarter. The campaign has already met its goal, but there are a few tools still… Read the rest of the article: Machine Era's multitool is reduced to the essentials

Not since the Amphicar has a boat led such an interesting double life. The short film Skate Heads shows a number of wooden structures that transform into skate ramps and… Read the rest of the article: Wooden boats and other structures transform into skate ramps

A report by the Brookings Institution analyzed a sample 20,000 ISIS-supporting Twitter accounts, and sought to answer the question of how suspending accounts impacts the community. The data visualizations, included… Read the rest of the article: ISIS vs Twitter: A cautionary tale told through data visualization

In a great reuse of old infrastructure, a carpenter in West Bend, Wisconsin is turning his family's vacant grain silo into a play room. He started the project last summer… Read the rest of the article: A Wisconsin grain silo renovated into three-story fort

When Apple releases Apple Watch and Apple Watch Sport in April, expectations will be high. Today, over a dozen watches attempt to monitor heart rate through the wrist, using optical… Read the rest of the article: Apple Watch will have to nail heart rate

User Toulouse shows off a fairly slammin' cell phone dock on the OnePlus One Android smartphone forum. Even though it's for the new OnePlus One phone, the build can be… Read the rest of the article: Lego cell phone dock spins 360

One of the most versatile tools and fasteners is the humble hose clamp, invented in 1921 and marketed as the Jubilee Clip. Besides their intended uses in plumbing and automotive,… Read the rest of the article: Hose clamps are a billion-dollar business

At the 2015 Wearable Device Technology Expo in Tokyo in January, a tech firm introduced a small lapel worn sensor that can tell when the wearer's laughing, talking, or in… Read the rest of the article: Wearable laugh sensor knows when you're feeling good

I love the "reverse Photoshopping" of these comics — digitally adding normal physiques — as performed by Bulemia.com. The group says it wants to call attention to bodies so far… Read the rest of the article: Classic superhero bodies photoshopped for believability

Firefighter Jostein Alvestad built this igloo in his backyard by filling 32 plastic buckets with colored water each night. In a Chicago magazine story, he describes the fun of sleeping… Read the rest of the article: How to make a technicolor igloo