Our cities' sewers are some of the most incredible structures in the built environment. In a new book, "An Underground Guide to Sewers: or: Down, Through and Out in Paris,… Read the rest of the article: The beauty of sewers before the first flush

The r/StarWarsLeaks Subreddit is erupting with the leak of what is reportedly an early draft of the Star Wars Episode IX script, as penned by the original director and writer… Read the rest of the article: This is (allegedly) the original Star Wars Episode IX plot by Colin Trevorrow and Derek Connolly

40 years ago today – bauhaus 1919 @ the romany 13.1.1979Watch this video on YouTube On January 13, 1979, Bauhaus (then called Bauhaus 1919) played their second live gig, at… Read the rest of the article: Watch the earliest footage of Bauhaus playing live (1979)

The Uganda Revenue Authority recently nabbed a smuggler attempting to bring banned cosmetics into the country from the Democratic Republic of Congo. The cosmetics were stuffed inside footie pajamas to… Read the rest of the article: Smuggler busted carrying fake child stuffed with illegal cosmetics

Composer Janek Schaefer drew from the work of John Cage, DJ Shadow, The Orb, Marina Abramović, Steve Reich, Chris Watson, and so many other greats to create this powerfully evocative… Read the rest of the article: Listen to this strange and compelling mix of field recordings, cut-ups, and sound art

Burt Ward, who played Robin on the 1960s Batman TV series, claims that the ABC television network insisted he take pills to shrink his genitals so they wouldn't be so… Read the rest of the article: TV's Robin had to take pills to shrink his genitals while Batman stuffed his underwear

This 350 pound Warsaw grouper was caught with a hook and line off the coast of southwest Florida a couple weeks back. According to the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation… Read the rest of the article: Florida man catches 350 pound grouper with a hook and line

The New South Wales Government is dropping thousands of pounds of carrots and sweet potato from helicopters to feed the endangered Brush-tailed Rock-wallabies that are starving as a result of… Read the rest of the article: Australia fires: Carrots and sweet potatoes dropped from the air to feed starving animals

News Alert – Breaking NewsWatch this video on YouTube In 2006, Erik Helwig created the Rickroll. Maybe. Over at MEL Magazine, Brian VanHooker's "An Oral History of Rickrolling" takes us… Read the rest of the article: An oral history of Rickrolling

The eight planets and two dwarf planets…Watch this video on YouTube James O'Donoghue, a planetary scientist at JAXA (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency), made this excellent clip comparing the rotations, tilts,… Read the rest of the article: Excellent animation comparing the rotations of the planets in our solar system

選手村ベッドは硬さ調整可 東京五輪パラ、寝具を披露Watch this video on YouTube The 10,000+ athletes at the Tokyo Olympics will sleep on bed frames made of strong cardboard. According to the Athletes Village manager Takashi Kitajima,… Read the rest of the article: Athletes at the Tokyo Olympics will sleep on cardboard beds

Watch this video on YouTube In June 1995, physicians Angus Wallace and Tom Wong were waiting for their flight to depart Hong Kong to London when they were asked to… Read the rest of the article: Incredible story of a successful in-flight surgery using fork, knife, coat hanger, and cognac

Hiro-chan is a very simple, inexpensive, and, er, faceless robotic baby doll designed to comfort elderly people. (Video below.) Unlike the very similar looking Amish dolls that lack faces for… Read the rest of the article: Very weird faceless robot baby for elderly people

In San Diego, California, strip club chain Deja Vu Showgirls distributed 150 tents to homeless people. The tents are emblazoned with the Deja Vu logo, natch. From 10News: A picture… Read the rest of the article: Strip club gave away tents with their logo to homeless people

Not surprisingly, getting a reservation at the hottest Manhattan restaurants is easier if you're rich, famous, an influencer, a media bigshot, or all of those things. But even within the… Read the rest of the article: Behind the velvet rope hierarchies of NYC restaurant reservations

More than 40 years ago, Eric McMillan, a renowned designer of children's play areas, and his team created the ball pit, those troughs of brightly-colored plastic balls that children swim… Read the rest of the article: The inventor of the ball pit was inspired by a jar of pickled onions

Back around 500 BCE or so in what is now York, U.K, a gentleman was decapitated for who-knows-why and his head quickly buried. To the amazement of the archaeologists who… Read the rest of the article: The secrets within a 2,600-year-old preserved brain of a decapitated man

Scientists attached 3D glasses to cuttlefish to better understand the molluscs' visual perception as it relates to their ability to attack prey. They were treated to 3D screenings of shrimp… Read the rest of the article: Scientists put 3D glasses on cuttlefish

Apparently there's been a rash of fraudulent text messages informing recipients that they have been drafted in the United States Army and they should call the recruiting office immediately. I'd… Read the rest of the article: That text informing you that you've been drafted into the US Army? It's fake. For now.

Last year, the almost entirely charred remains of Boleskine House, occultist Aleister Crowley's infamous digs on the shores of Loch Ness in Scotland that Jimmy Page later owned, went up… Read the rest of the article: Now on eBay: burnt bits of Aleister Crowley's infamous Boleskine House