My friend Dean Putney sent me a link to this new video series called "Lunch Doodles with Mo Willems" and I like the videos so much that I asked Dean… Read the rest of the article: Let's sketch together online with Mo Willems!

Have you stockpiled enough toilet paper to last you through a lock-down? This calculator will help you determine that.

Teenage Engineering, maker of the very cool OP-1 keyboard synthesizer, has neat pocket synthesizers which are perfect to play with as you take breaks throughout the day. With PO-33, sample… Read the rest of the article: Teenage Engineering pocket synthesizers are fun music makers

When Obama took office on January 20, 2009, the Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA) was 7,949. When he left office on January 20, the DJIA was 19,827. As of March… Read the rest of the article: Entire stock market gain wiped out since Trump took office

Karl Rock, a YouTuber who posts tourist tips for travelers to India, uses a hidden camera to film people running recreational drug operations in their restaurants. Rock says: For some… Read the rest of the article: Guy shows how easy it is to buy drugs near the Taj Mahal in India

That Japanese Man Yuta went on the streets of Japan to ask people if they thought the Olympics should be canceled, or at least postponed. Most people interviewed said it… Read the rest of the article: Japanese street interview: should Japan cancel the Olympics

Kitchen appliances wear out. When they do, it usually means it's time to toss it and buy a new one. But in recent years, it's become easier to buy replacement… Read the rest of the article: The Moka Express coffee maker will last forever

Here's Last Week Tonight's second episode about the coronavirus. Oliver delivered his talk in a white walled room, with no audience (and no laughter). Image: YouTube

High school science teacher Bruce Yeany posits that wiping your hands with a wet soapy washcloth that's been stored in a plastic bag and drying them with a paper towel… Read the rest of the article: Is a soapy washcloth in a plastic bag an effective hand sanitizer?

Butterscotch is a world beatbox champion. Should this video inspire you to give beatboxing a try, consider that now is perhaps not a time to practice a salivary activity like… Read the rest of the article: World beatbox champion shows 13 levels of her craft in increasingly complexity

Quotes from Trump about disbanding the US pandemic response team in 2018: 2018: “…some of the people we’ve cut they haven’t been used for many, many years and if we… Read the rest of the article: Trump said "I didn't know about" cutting pandemic response team. Here's a 2018 video of him talking about why he cut the team

The Flu (2013) is available as an Amazon Prime streaming movie. From the YouTube description: The Flu is the first ever South Korean disaster film about a viral pandemic. It… Read the rest of the article: This 2013 movie about a viral pandemic is trending

The folks in Trump's loyalty cult were crowing with I-told-you-so glee when the stock market experienced a relatively puny uptick on Friday. Trump even added his signature to a misleadingly… Read the rest of the article: Trump signed his name to DOW chart when it artificially blipped up. Now look at it

With many people playing their part to flatten the COVID-19 case curve by staying home, Korg and Moog are doing their part to keep them occupied by giving away free… Read the rest of the article: Korg and Moog have made their software synth apps free

The BBC reports that a stag beetle threw his girlfriend from the top of a 25-meter tree. He is alleged to have assaulted number of other a male stag beetles… Read the rest of the article: Stag beetle throws girlfriend out of tree

This is a java sparrow that's learned to ride a tiny skateboard. Image: YouTube

Philip Roth's 2004 alternate history novel about a Charles Lindbergh -ed Nazi takeover of the United States, The Plot Against America, has been adapted as a 6-part HBO miniseries. Created… Read the rest of the article: Watch the trailer for HBO's "The Plot Against America" miniseries debuting 3/16/2020

A Toronto Star article profiles married couple Manny Ranga and Violeta Perez, who drive around to Costcos and load their pickup with hand sanitizer bottles and disinfectant wipes, then resell… Read the rest of the article: Husband and wife team proudly reselling sanitizers and wipes at quadruple prices

The Drive reports that "the stars of Discovery Channel's Diesel Brothers television show are being ordered to pay $851,451 for their role in producing and selling modified diesel pickups that… Read the rest of the article: Reality TV stars of Diesel Brothers fined $850,000 for removing smog prevention devices from trucks

In this segment of Curiosity Show we are presented with an illusion involving two playing cards. In just a couple of minutes we get an entertaining lesson in art history,… Read the rest of the article: Optical illusion demonstrates how your brain sometimes makes the wrong choice