Particularly geeky fans of the annual smorgasbord of impossibly-proportioned Eastern bloc women in skimpy underwear were surprised a couple of weeks back when Jourdan Dunn, a Victoria's Secret model, was photographed strutting down the runway in what…
Throwing an "art party"? Looking for a real challenging, jaw-dropper installation to greet your hordes of relevant guests? Yeah? Why not rent the tragic sport-utility vehicle from the slowest, most anticlimactic celebrity car chase in history?
Forget Julian Assange and his WikiLeaks high horse, and Hollywood victim Kim Dotcom and his attempts to rebrand himself as an Internet freedom crusader. This is John McAfee, the perfect anti-hero. This is the man whose name we know because of the ant…
Canadian doctors are saying PMS isn't real. New research out of the University of Toronto claims pre-menstrual syndrome, forever thought to be a monthly whirlwind of emotion you can set your clock by, is actually a giant fallacy we've all been liv…
Put this in your holy grail: Deer blood. But markedly the blood of young sika deer, which people are spending their holidays traveling to a rural town in China to get a sip. Hengxi is home of a backwoods deer farm started by a man, Mr. Yang, who with…
On May 28, 1993, a remote and dusty thicket of the Australian outback shook for hundreds of miles around. Deep reverberating explosions could be heard far and wide, the night sky illuminated by sporadic flashes of unexplained light—all this allegedly…
When I'm hurting my brain with articles about fibre-optic teleportation (which is actually happening in the Canary Islands), I often resign to the miserable conclusion that I'll never quite get it unles
Amateurish films funded by religious fundamentalists aren’t uncommon. But translate them into the language of other religious fundamentalists, and you can spark a hell-storm of murderous fury. Yesterday a chanting crowd of approximately 2,000 Egyp…
For all the good parts of the Occupy movement -- raising awareness about shady banking practices, "freeing the internet":http://motherboard.vice.com/video/motherboard-tv-free-the-network, etc. -- so much of the actual on-the-ground protesting seemed
Sorry, but this destroys any science project you've ever come up with: In the 18th century a German prince, who apparently thought "his garden realm":http://whc.unesco.org/en/list/534/gallery/ wasn't fancy enough, had his own artificial volcano built…
I'm as much a fan of cryptozoology as the next guy, but this is taking it a little too far: Randy Lee Tenley, a 44-year old resident of Kalispell, Montana, was killed Sunday night while trying to impersonate a sasquatch. According to authorities,…
_That's one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind._ It's one of the most historic and recognizable statements ever made. But Neil Armstrong likely flubbed his lines as he made those momentous steps onto the moon. After all, he was only hu…
And all I could focus on was lady's hulking gumball necklace. Look at that thing.
It was given to the administration of Sel, Norway, in 1912, on one condition: _Can be opened in 2012._ The package was delivered by a fellow named Johan Nygaard. It "clocks in":http://www.vg.no/nyheter/utrolige-historier/artikkel.php?artid=10060251 a…
It always feels kinda weird saying it, but copper theft is a huge problem in the United States. Scrap copper is worth "around three bucks a pound":http://www.scrapmonster.com/scrap-prices/scrap-metals/-2-Copper-scraps/19/1/1 right now, which means th…
Not so much lately, but for about a year I made a habit of crashing a bar-drawing session at a certain drinking/arts establishment here in Baltimore. The thing is called Dr. Sketchy's and it happens once a month on a Monday. How it goes is that a bun…
It's an incredible sight to see _Sport Science_ star Kirby taking 1,100 lbs of force from Justice's shin on rapid-fire repeat. More incredible: he just stands there, like a _Mortal Kombat_ or _Street Fighter_ character, completely unfazed, not even w…
Matmos is better than most things in current music, and it’s been a good minute since the duo’s surfaced with new material. Most recently, it was a collaboration with New York new-music explorers…
The Internet is buzzing about a new iPhone app that can help you self-diagnose skin cancer, but I'm not so sure this is a good idea. A few weeks ago I discovered iTriage, a smartphone app designed by a couple former ER doctors that invites you to inp…
There was a time when Robert Baer probably would've had to kill you after dishing any one of his secrets. _Watch the rest at Motherboard._
“The world is carnage.” Well, maybe it is and maybe it isn’t. But that phrase has become a familiar refrain—almost comforting, despite its gloomy message—to fans of Henderzones, the best-kept secret of Twitter-based serial storytelling. Updated re…
In related news, the FDA killed Kurt Cobain not long after "Lithium" became a single.
I was digging around Archive.org for some archival healthcare videos — you know, because healthcare is kind of a hot topic today — hoping to find some jolly old PSAs from the early part of 20th century with doctors suggesting you smoke meth for chron…
