I, For One, Welcome Our New Robot Overlords OC Robotics has created what they’ve dubbed a snakebot. Its extreme flexibility and swappable heads make it ideal for working in recovery areas with lots of debris. Its staring robot eye and its undulating movements that resemble the creatures from The Abyss make it ideal for pranking […]
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Arachnaphobes Take Cover! A team of scientists found eight, count them, eight potentially new species of spiders in an Indian tiger preserve. Field studies at the Parambikulam Tiger Reserve is difficult due the bears, bison, tigers of course, and venomous snakes that live in the region, so microfauna like spiders have been ignored. The researchers […]
Beautiful Decay Filmmaker Danny Cooke has found a way to gain new perspective on the abandoned site Chernobyl. He managed to take amazing footage of the city of Pripyat, which has been abandoned since the disaster at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in 1986. There are no long-term residents but it’s safe for short-term visits. […]
Definitely Not the Work of the Elders at All Remember in July when those mysterious holes started forming in Siberia? They’re finally frozen enough for some brave scientists to start exploring them. Until now, the working hypothesis is that global warming caused methane pockets to explode. They found a lake, estimated to be 35-feet-deep at […]
Back in the Good Old Days… The goal of the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade must originally have been to scare all children because Moviepilot.com has a compilation of old photos and they’re just special. I definitely remember grandma and grandpa reminiscing about the happy days of demon dinosaur cats. Bedtime Stories A new edition of […]
The Worst Game of “Would You Rather…?” Ever So would you rather deal with one, giant, Shelob spider or over a million little spiders? The Baltimore Wastewater Treatment Plant got to play this fun game when they put out a call for extreme spider help. I guess the spiders were really into snowboarding and drinking […]
Now that’s my Kind of Vacation! Cemetery tourist Loren Rhoads has just released a book about her travels, Wish You Were Here: Adventures in Cemetery Travel. The former editor of Morbid Curiosity magazine shares her adventures and tips touring the world’s cemeteries. My particular favorites are St. Paul’s and Trinity Churchyard in Lower Manhattan. City […]
Fashion Kills The Bata Shoe Museum in Toronto recently had an exhibit about the perils of Victorian fashion called “Fashion Victims: The Perils and Pleasures of Dress in the 19th Century.” Nowadays, we worry about people developing anorexia and plastic surgery addictions, but try wearing a dress made of arsenic. The world had no colorfast […]
Toynbee Tiles are Back! Have you noticed something different about the streets this summer? I snapped a picture of this Toynbee Tile in my hometown of Newark. Other people have started spotting them again in New York City. These tiles first started making an appearance in Philadelphia in the 1980s and have been spotted as […]