Saudi Arabia is known for its oil and sun-soaked deserts. In a move to secure the kingdom’s financial future, its name could soon become synonymous with renewable energy. According to… Read the rest of the article: Oil-rich Saudi Arabia is spending billions in renewable energy

Just days before the opening of the 2018 Winter Olympics in South Korea, 41 security guards who were assigned to protect an Olympic venue in Pyeongchang have fallen ill, due… Read the rest of the article: Working security at the Winter Olympics can be the shits

In third grade I stole a book from the school library: The Funk and Wagnalls Standard Dictionary of Folklore, Mythology and Legend. I could barely read it, but the images… Read the rest of the article: Folktexts: How to fill your head with free folklore

By the end of the Bosnian War in 1995, an estimated 100,000 people had died in the former Yugoslavia as a result of intense combat and horrific ethnic cleansing. More… Read the rest of the article: Discover the work of an artist making beautiful things from the horrors of his nation's past

Look at this coyote. Food is right in front of him. It follows him around, like a sack lunch on legs. "Oh, they're great friends," you say as you watch… Read the rest of the article: Watch: Goat and coyote play. Goat thinks coyote is its friend

In 1986, a nuclear reactor at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant, located near the Ukrainian town of Pripyat, lost its shit. Flaws in the reactor's design caused a steam explosion,… Read the rest of the article: Meet the dogs of Chernobyl

Saddam Hussein met the end of his days at the end of a rope in 2006, sentenced to death for crimes against humanity. It's a fate many argued was justly deserved.… Read the rest of the article: The strength to say no to a dictator

In temperate and tropical locales, storm drains are a vital bit of urban infrastructure. As a channel for rain water to drain from city streets, they play an important role in… Read the rest of the article: New Orleans pulls 46 tons of Mardi Gras beads from storm drains

More and more people watch movies and TV shows at home, exclusively through the use of streaming services like Hulu or Netflix, but I'm not one of them. I'm not… Read the rest of the article: Remove the DRM from iTunes movies with TunesKit

A recent patent awarded to pudding home delivery juggernaut Amazon, reveals that the company is investigating the possibility of equipping their warehouse staff with hardware capable of tracking their hand… Read the rest of the article: Amazon patent could lead to downturn in workplace masturbation

Scientists have been working on a way to turn poop into an edible which, even if it winds up tasting like French fries, will never let you entirely forget about… Read the rest of the article: Future astronaut food could taste like shit

We can't have nice, ancient things. Peru's Nazca Lines have so much historical and cultural significance that the United Nations declared the Peruvian coastal plains where they're located to be… Read the rest of the article: Driver trucks up Peru's ancient Nazca Lines

Tim Hortons might have over 500 locations in the United States, but I tells ya, it's a Canadian thing.

I grew up playing a number of instruments associated with Irish and Scots traditional music. I speak enough Gaelic to be dangerous and sang my way through university in a… Read the rest of the article: Kicking it old school with a couple of ouds and the Interstellar theme