Yes, a PR video and yes, the music is kind of terrible. But man, I learned so much watching this video churned out by the folks at Victorinox. Given the… Read the rest of the article: Look behind the scenes of how a Swiss Army Knife is made

Renowned environmentalist and chimpanzee buddy Jane Goodall has her fingers crossed: she’s entered the lottery to win the right to kill a grizzly bear in the area of Yellowstone Park.… Read the rest of the article: A guerilla campaign to save grizzly bears in Wyoming is underway

Are you sitting down? After months of anti-government protests, over 300 civilian deaths and, more recently, the rounding up of protesters and intellectuals who were designated as terrorists or linked… Read the rest of the article: Nicaragua's Ortega says everything's fine while protestors continue to die in the street

Ram Falls is about 20 minutes from where we're staying for the summer. It's a lovely patch of outdoor beauty. We have a lot of that here. As with the… Read the rest of the article: Kayakers take an intentional 100 foot drop off a water fall

When you've got a 77-year-old hunk of intellectual property that can breathe underwater and talk to fish, it's not a bad idea to update it so that it's relatable for… Read the rest of the article: Aquaman will never be cool no matter how hard DC tries

When I'm flying somewhere for work, I'm often willing to pay for an upgrade to business-class. It's not that I'm am opulent fop who deserves the best–I mean, I live… Read the rest of the article: Qatar Airways's new business class seats are too nice to do actual business in

Air travel sucks. It’s always cramped. One person, per plane, is paid to bring a tuna and onion sandwich on board so that its odor can be pushed through the… Read the rest of the article: Worst upgrade ever: there are bed bugs on airplanes now.

Booze, the final frontier. This is the marketing death of a childhood memory you prize. Yeah, there's Star Trek-themed vodka to be had. According to io9, CBS and the Silver… Read the rest of the article: To boldly drink and regret the night before: there's Star Trek vodka to be had

The news cycle isn’t kind to stories that take a long time to be told. Sure, no one ever stops talking about Trump and his uncle Vlad, but despite it… Read the rest of the article: Help tell the stories of migrant families being detained at the border

I can see no way in which modifying a kitchen knife to run a high voltage current through it could ever be a bad idea. The red glow of the… Read the rest of the article: A homemade electric knife is a great idea if you enjoy terrible ideas

Since 2013, the Syria Civil Defense, better known to the world as the White Helmets, have been putting themselves at risk in one of the most dangerous regions in the… Read the rest of the article: White Helmet rescue workers evacuated from Syria by United Nations

The 1961 Ferrari 250GT California. Less than 100 were made. In Ferris Bueller's Day Off, Cameron's father spent three years restoring this car. It is his love. It is his… Read the rest of the article: The red sports car from Ferris Bueller's Day Off is going to auction

I'm writing this on a 2015 MacBook Pro. It's an i5 with 8GB of RAM. It's adequate for most of what I do, but, as I've mentioned in the past,… Read the rest of the article: Apple's fastest new MacBook Pro is slowed down by heat

We're all becoming redundant. I'll be replaced by an algorithm that mimics an embittered hobo that moonlights as a journalist, one day. Your gig? They're trying to sort out ways… Read the rest of the article: Weekend Tunes: The Singing Loins–Please Take My Scissors Away

Attacks by paramilitary forces against civilians continue in Nicaragua, for the third consecutive month. Dictator Daniel Ortega blames a “murderous, coup-mongering satanic sect” for the months-long popular uprising against his… Read the rest of the article: Nicaragua: Ortega blames civilian murders he ordered on a 'coup-mongering satanic sect' (he's lying)

This past Friday, the citizens of Nicaragua declared a national strike in protest of their president, Daniel Ortega, and his oh-so corrupt government. In the city of Managua, pro-government paramilitaries… Read the rest of the article: Nicaragua sprints deeper into fascism

After watching this video of the gazillion stages it takes to make wood ash cement, not to mention all of the hand-made tools required to do it, I'll never complain… Read the rest of the article: Making cement from scratch is a massive pain

It's an accomplishment to find and photograph a lynx: they want little to do with humans and make an effort to keep themselves to themselves. It's an even bigger accomplishment… Read the rest of the article: This lynx became buddies with cameraman after spending months together in the Canadian north

A criminal mastermind in Vancouver, Washington thought that he'd help himself to the bounty of – I dunno, locks? doors? finger puzzles? – goods that an escape room business had… Read the rest of the article: Burglar breaks into escape room but can't break out

Walmart has been whining about Amazon drinking what it considers to be its milkshake for some time. Sucking cash out of the pockets of the same low-income earners that you… Read the rest of the article: Walmart thinks it can save itself from Amazon with a streaming video service