Pakistan has 860 pilots working for Pakistan International Airlines and other carriers. Turns out, 30% of those people aren't actually qualified to fly and their licenses aren't legit. "They don't… Read the rest of the article: Nearly 1 in 3 pilots in Pakistan have fake licenses

Florida residents reject face masks: 'They want to throw God's wonderful breathing system out' Watch this video on YouTube. On Tuesday, just before Palm Beach County's board of commissioners voted… Read the rest of the article: "They want to throw God's wonderful breathing system out": Comments from Florida anti-maskers

In 2018, Taipei resident Chen San-yuan, 72, had attached 15 smartphones to his bicycle so he could play numerous games of Pokemon Go at once. Dubbed the "Pokémon Go grandpa,”… Read the rest of the article: "Pokémon Go grandpa" has 64 smartphones attached to his bicycle

The mid-19th century was the heyday for séances, mediums, and psychics. In Boston, a chemist and silver engraver named William H. Mumler saw an opportunity to mix the hot new… Read the rest of the article: The chemist who made big bucks hoaxing ghost photos

Nile Rodgers Tells The Story of "Let's Dance" | Fender Artist Check-In | Fender Watch this video on YouTube. Legendary guitarist, producer, and composer Nile Rodgers—co-founder of Chic—tells the story… Read the rest of the article: Nile Rodgers tells of transforming Bowie's "Let's Dance" from folky to beyond funky

Police and emergency services evacuated a post office in the Bavarian town of Schweinfurt after employees reported a horrible smell emanating from a suspect package. Turns out it was a… Read the rest of the article: Post office evacuated and workers treated for durian exposure

Belgian police arrested a gentleman flying in from Jamaica for allegedly smuggling 127 grams of cocaine inside an artificial penis. That's quite a cock-up. The incident occurred in February and… Read the rest of the article: Gentleman arrested for smuggling cocaine inside fake penis

NASA has funded a new research collaborative research effort between Harvard, the Smithsonian Institutions, and the University of Rochester to search for extraterrestrial intelligence (SETI). This is the first NASA… Read the rest of the article: NASA delivers first grant in 30 years to support the search for extraterrestrial intelligence

Concierto para el bioceno Watch this video on YouTube. On Monday, the UceLi Quartet performed at Barcelona's Gran Teatre del Liceu. The opera house was filled to capacity… with 3,000… Read the rest of the article: String quartet performs for a sold-out audience of 3,000 plants

The UK's Royal Mail is issuing a series of 13 stamps honoring the band Queen. This issue follows prior rock stamps celebrating The Beatles and Pink Floyd. From Spin: “It’s… Read the rest of the article: UK Royal Mail issues stamps honoring the band Queen

In ten years, scientists hope to have mapped the entire ocean floor in high resolution. This week, the Nippon Foundation-GEBCO Seabed 2030 Project announced that they've completed 20 percent of… Read the rest of the article: Scientists have mapped 20 percent of the ocean floor

According to bigtime beekeeper Leo Sharashkin, a great benefit of using horizontal hives (as opposed to vertically-oriented boxes) is that "you can sleep in them." Sharashkin built his own bee… Read the rest of the article: Sleep *inside* a beehive: free plans!

In 1960, Frank Drake, an astronomer at the National Radio Astronomy Observatory, launched Project Ozma, the first scientific effort to listen for radio communications from extraterrestrials. Frank, now 90, is… Read the rest of the article: "My dad launched the quest to find alien intelligence. It changed astronomy."

Saturday Night Fever – 2 Extremely Rare Deleted Scenes Watch this video on YouTube. In this scene cut from the original theatrical release of Saturday Night Fever (1977), watch John… Read the rest of the article: Watch John Travolta do the Robot in deleted scene from Saturday Night Fever

This curious rock fell from the sky above Sanchore, Rajasthan, northern India on Friday, alarming residents with a huge explosive sound and leaving a one-foot crater where it fell. The… Read the rest of the article: This curious object fell from the sky in northern India

During the COVID-19 pandemic, 2.6 billion people were under a mandate to stay at home. According to psychologist Elke Van Hoof of Free University of Brussels-VUB, [the lockdown] "is arguably… Read the rest of the article: We are all part of the biggest psychological experiment in history

Since 1940, a statue of President Theodore Roosevelt on a horse flanked by a Native American man and an African man on foot has stood outside New York City's American… Read the rest of the article: Goodbye to the racist statue of Roosevelt and two people of color outside NYC's Natural History Museum

"Into the Wild" bus removed by Alaska Guard Watch this video on YouTube. Every year, adventurous (and oft-unprepared) hikers who are fans of Jon Krakauer's book "Into the Wild" (1996)… Read the rest of the article: The "Into the Wild Bus" is gone

Colin Kaepernick is joining Medium's board of directors. He'll also develop editorial content for Medium's Level magazine for black and brown men and their new anti-racism blog Momentum. According to… Read the rest of the article: Colin Kaepernick joining the board of Medium

NirvanA.I: I made a bot write a Nirvana song Watch this video on YouTube. Funk Turkey used lyrics.rip to scrape the Genius database of Nirvana lyrics and then set a… Read the rest of the article: NirvanA.I.: This bot wrote a Nirvana song