A lot of roleplaying gamers who are used to playing in "theater of the mind" mode (with nothing more than pencil, paper, dice, and vivid imaginations) are often intimidated by… Read the rest of the article: A great, non-intimidating way to get started in miniature-based Dungeons & Dragons

Since my post about dead babies wearing other babies' skulls as hats went over so well, I thought I'd share several more videos from my favorite funeral director and "death… Read the rest of the article: More fun mortuary history with Caitlin Doughty

I found this thread on Twitter pretty funny, where writer Nicole Najafi imagines what dates might be like with all of the Democratic candidates. I went on a date with… Read the rest of the article: Imagining dates with all of the presidential candidates

Mad maker, Peter Sripol, apparently got a zillion requests from his viewers to build an R/C model of an Ekranoplan, aka the Caspian sea monster, a Soviet-era ground-effects vehicle (GEV),… Read the rest of the article: Building an R/C version of a Soviet-era ground-effect plane

When I was a teen devourer of sci-fi, I was obsessed with the spaceship designs on paperback book covers. I would buy any novel or short story collection, however sketchy… Read the rest of the article: Nerding out over sci-fi spaceship designs at the Spacedock

An annual parade of kinetic sculptures and other artworks and performances in a Dutch canal to celebrate the work of hometown hero Hieronymus Bosch? More of this in the world,… Read the rest of the article: Annual Hieronymus Bosch parade on water celebrates the life and ideas of the 15th century artist

Until I bumped into the first video below on YouTube this morning, I had no idea that a lot of The Mandalorian was shot on a virtual set using the… Read the rest of the article: How The Mandalorian was shot on a virtual stage using the Unreal Engine

I really enjoyed this interview that Kevin Kelly conducted with sci-fi author, Neal Stephenson, as part of The Long Now Foundation's salon series at The Interval in San Francisco. During… Read the rest of the article: Kevin Kelly discusses "Fall, or Dodge in Hell" with author Neal Stephenson

Have you heard of the Goblin? It's a likely dwarf-sized planet named that because it was discovered around Halloween, 2015. The Goblin travels in a 32-thousand-year orbit around our sun.… Read the rest of the article: Getting to know 2015 TG 387, aka "the Goblin," an unconfirmed dwarf planet lurking in the Ort cloud

Larry Tesler, the Xerox PARC computer scientist who coined the terms cut, copy, and paste, has died. Born in 1945 in New York, Tesler went on to study computer science… Read the rest of the article: Larry Tesler, the father of cut, copy, paste, has died

A typewriter shop in Philadelphia is holding classes for kids — and they're showing up! Manual typewriting has been enjoying something of a comeback in the past decade or so,… Read the rest of the article: Kids in Philly are part of a crazy new fad: learning typewriting?

I love this strange and wonderful project on Hackaday.io. It is digital clock which uses a ring of 60 NeoPixels in a 3D printed flying saucer and 12 lights on… Read the rest of the article: Making a flying saucer clock (with data storage) controlled by a Raspberry Pi

The online gaming portal, OnTableTop (formerly Beasts of War) is trying to establish February as "Snag-a-Normie" month. The idea is for tabletop gamers to try and bring their friends and… Read the rest of the article: February is "Snag-a-Normie" month in tabletop gaming

In case you don't know, HackSpace is a terrific monthly maker magazine from the U.K. Published by the Raspberry Pi Foundation, HackSpace includes articles by bunnie huang, Andrew Lewis, Marc… Read the rest of the article: HackSpace magazine lowers its US print subscription price

In this video, The History Guy looks at our 5,000-year-plus love affair with chocolate. Some really interesting things that I was not aware of. Like the fact that for most… Read the rest of the article: The History Guy explores our 5,000 year love affair with chocolate

Now here's a miniatures hobby that I didn't even know existed until reading this article on Buzzfeed. Book nooks are spaces between the books on your shelves where you build… Read the rest of the article: Book nooks, miniature fantasy worlds on your bookshelves

The crowd at this weekend's Fire Fight Australia was humbled by an intense, heart-felt performance by k.d. lang of her signature cover of Leonard Cohen's "Hallelujah." Fire Fight Australia was… Read the rest of the article: K. D. Lang stuns the crowd at Fire Fight Australia with "Hallelujah"

You may have seen the archeological news item late last year of a macabre funeral find in Ecuador. Some baby graves from around 100 B.C. were unearthed where the babies… Read the rest of the article: Your "Morbid Minute;" more on dead babies wearing other babies' skulls as hats

Have you ever heard of the Grasshopper mouse? It lives in the deserts of North America, lives on a meat diet, and hunts scorpions. Unlike other animals, it is immune… Read the rest of the article: Meet the "werewolf mouse" who hunts scorpions and deadly centipedes and howls at the moon

If you've ever looked into making clear ice for drinks, you know that there are all sorts of assertions about needing to boil the water first, or using filtered water,… Read the rest of the article: An easy way to make clear ice for drinks