Dutch designer Caolijn Slottje made this capillary-inspired storage system out of recycled felt and rubber. The individual blocks can be mixed and matched Tetris-style to create a shape that fits… Read the rest of the article: Shelving system inspired by capillaries

It's not a real product, but as an homage to LOST, ThinkGeek lists an alarm clock that wakes you up every 108 minutes and only shuts up if you punch… Read the rest of the article: Dharma initiative alarm clock

There's a new trend in Japan among couples seeking a divorce: instead of just signing a bunch of papers, they're having divorce ceremonies. The service was devised by a former… Read the rest of the article: Divorce ceremonies for unhappy Japanese couples

These checklists, scrawled in handwriting on paper pasted to the hospital wall, are used by volunteer doctors and nurses to diagnose and treat patients who come in with symptoms of… Read the rest of the article: Photo from Haiti: how to diagnose malaria and typhoid

Here's another photo taken by my ER nurse friend Jenny last week in Port au Prince. Tuberculosis is airborne and patients need to be in complete isolation, but given limited… Read the rest of the article: Photo of a tuberculosis isolation tent in Haiti

Manute Bol, a former NBA player and human rights activist from Sudan, died this past Saturday at age 47. Most of us remember him as once being the tallest guy… Read the rest of the article: Manute Bol's legacy: did he invent the phrase 'my bad'?

Photos by Adam Lam The first time I fell in love with timur was in a tiny cavelike kitchen in Kathmandu Valley. A little girl named Srijana put a tiny… Read the rest of the article: My love affair with timur (or how to cook a Nepali village feast)

This is a photo of the medicine cabinet at a volunteer-run hospital in Port-au-Prince. All the drugs are donated, and because there is no organized system of distributing meds, the… Read the rest of the article: Photo of a hospital medicine cabinet in Haiti

In this video, violinist Teppei Okada plays the soundtrack to a real time Mario game live on his instrument. This — as do most creative geeky Japanese videos — was… Read the rest of the article: Violinist plays Mario soundtrack in real time

London chocolatier Artisan du Chocolat made these and other space-themed chocolates to celebrate astronomy after an astronaut supposedly took some of the shop's sweets with her to the International Space… Read the rest of the article: Chocolates shaped like astronauts

This is not real yet, either. Created by Joe Sabia HOWTO silence vuvuzela drone on your TV Acoustic engineer explains why vuvuzelas are annoying Vuvuzela Hero

Frank Gehry's latest project is the Lou Ruvo Center for Brain Health in Las Vegas, where people research degenerative brain diseases. I like how the crazy contours and irregularities are… Read the rest of the article: Frank Gehry designs brain research center in Vegas

My favorite TokyoMango tipster Kazu Y just clued me into this fun little video on Yahoo! Japan that shows what might happen if Mario and Pac-Man went head to head… Read the rest of the article: Mario v. Pac-Man animated short film

Apple claims it had the biggest number of preorders ever (over 600,000) with the iPhone 4 yesterday. After years of holding out, I am finally joining the masses and got… Read the rest of the article: When am I getting my pre-ordered iPhone 4?

Forbes has created an interactive map visualizing migration data into and out of US counties. It's based on IRS data from 2008. The black lines represent people moving to a… Read the rest of the article: Interactive map of U.S. migration patterns

National Geographic has a gallery of vintage national park posters from the 1930s. Created in the mid-1930s in response to the Great Depression, the Works Progress Administration and its Federal… Read the rest of the article: Vintage national park posters

Did you know that science fiction author Piers Anthony — best known for writing the Xanth series — also wrote porn? According to his web site, he has written two… Read the rest of the article: Pornucopia, a 1989 Piers Anthony porn novel

18-year old Jaime Keiles from Pennsylvania isn't really the girly magazine type of girl, but she's been spending the last month of her high school career living "according to the… Read the rest of the article: Teen lives by Seventeen mag, chronicles experience on blog

Melissa Huckaby, the Sunday school teacher who killed an 8-year old girl in Tracy, California last year, was just sentenced to life in prison without parole.

Back in 2007, a feral woman named Rochom P'ngieng was found in a jungle in northern Cambodia (video above). She had been missing since 1988 at age 8. Now, three… Read the rest of the article: Cambodian 'jungle woman' having a hard time adjusting to village life