Travel London's lost Tube stations: in picturesThe Telegraph Previous slide Next slide 1 of 12 View All Skip Ad Aldwych (Strand) Piccadilly line (south of Holborn) Back to image Book via Telegraph Travel United Kingdom latest
Parrots Police seize 'super obedient' lookout parrot trained by Brazilian drug dealersThe Guardian - Tom Phillips, Latin America correspondentA parrot has been taken into custody in northern Brazil following a police raid targeting crack dealers. According to reports in the Brazilian press, the bird had been taught to alert criminals to police
Personality Here’s 13 Types of Toes, and the Fascinating Clues They Reveal About Your Personalitytheepochtimes.com - Li Yen As silly as it may sound, did you know that your toes may actually reveal some fascinating insights about your personality? Here, we’ve gathered a …
Play buttonWorld News How a River Was Granted PersonhoodThe Atlantic - Emily BuderFor more than 700 years, the Maori, the indigenous people of New Zealand, fought to maintain their spiritual connection to the Whanganui River. Mostly, it was a losing battle: Rapids were dynamited, gravel
Education Zuck turned American classrooms into nonconsensual laboratories for his pet educational theories, and now they're rebellingboingboing.net - Cory Doctorow Summit Learning is a nonprofit, high-tech "customized learning" group funded by Mark Zuckerberg and Priscilla Chan's family charity; under the …
Art Drawing from Memory: A Former Prisoner Creates Art from Pain and Lossthemarshallproject.org - Maurice Chammah Vincent Nardone’s work is on view at the Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum in Connecticut. The incarcerated artist Vincent Nardone stopped painting when …
Culture Bizarre Details Enliven Seemingly Simple Moments in Photographs by Ben Zank | Colossalthisiscolossal.com - Laura Staugaitis Ben Zank (previously) captures emotions of confusion, restriction, and ennui and in his ongoing series of banal-meets-bizarre photographs. Each …
Culture Here’s What Happens When You Smoke Marijuana, According to the Washington Post in 1905slate.com - By Matthew Dessem In the spring of 1905, an anthropology professor at the University of Chicago named Frederick Starr decided to get high with his students. He had …
FlipboardIcon version of the Flipboard logoFinance America’s 3 wealthiest families have more money than 4 million average families combinedyahoo.com - Kristin Myers Three families of dynastic wealth — that’s the Walton, Koch and Mars families — have seen their wealth increase close to 6,000% since 1982, according …
Opinion The Earth Is Just as Alive as You AreThe New York Times - By FERRIS JABREvery year the nearly 400 billion trees in the Amazon rain forest and all the creatures that depend on them are drenched in seven feet of rain — four times the annual rainfall in London. This deluge is
London Sewers Clogged with ...Concrete!neatorama.com - Miss Cellania We all know it's a bad idea to flush anything that's not biodegradable down the toilet. Even things that are supposedly biodegradable can cause …
What Great White Sharks Are Afraid Ofneatorama.com - Miss Cellania Great white sharks like to hang around where the eating is good, but studies of tagged sharks reveal that when a pod of orcas shows up, the sharks …
How the World’s Most Expensive Easter Egg Ended Up in a US Flea Market as Scrap Metalobserver.com - Sissi Cao In the world of Easter eggs, the rarest and most sought-after has to be the Russian Fabergé Eggs, a collection of 50 lavishly decorated Easter eggs …
The world's worst owners are proud of it!neatorama.com - Pat Benn Rather than shunning away from negative press, the Hans Brinker Hotel embraces its reputation as ‘the worst hostel in the world’ and offers guests …
30 Incredible Bus and Van Conversionsneatorama.com - Funky Freya Van Life is a growing subculture of people who transform vans and buses into remarkable mobile homes and then take their lives onto the open road. …
Streets Blog's Parking Madness Tournament 2019neatorama.com - Exuperist Parking lots are a drab to the cityscape. They're dull and dreary though they do provide shelter for people's cars. But much could be done to a space …
Aphids Sacrifice Themselves to Protect Their Homeneatorama.com - Franzified “This is my house. I have to defend it,”, the protagonist of Home Alone named Kevin McCallister said firmly. But in the case of Nipponaphis monzeni …
‘Bambi’s Mom’ Offered as Course at Australian Restaurantneatorama.com - Franzified Drawing from one of the saddest Disney moments, you’ll surely shed tears when eating “Bambi’s Mom” at this Disney-themed restaurant named Nel. The …
Orbiting Billboards of PepsiConeatorama.com - Kristal Start Rocket, a Russian start-up company, planned to use mini-satellites to prompt ads at night. And it looks like big dipper and other …
“Menu, Please!”: Airbus Turned Into A Restoneatorama.com - Kristal One man’s trash is another man’s treasure. This proved to be true as La Tante DC 10 restaurant is a old passenger jet. Tracing back, the DC 10 …
'Church' to offer 'miracle cure' despite FDA warnings against drinking bleachGuardian US - Ed Pilkington in New YorkA group calling itself Genesis II Church of Health and Healing plans to convene at a hotel resort in Washington state on Saturday to promote a “miracle cure” that claims to cure 95% of all diseases in
Sleep Paralysis The man who photographs his nightmaresBBC CultureArtist Nicolas Bruno documents his experiences of sleep paralysis using surreal and conceptual photography. Watch the video to find out more. “You can be tortured by your own nightmares, and the most thing
'I want you to linger': how Janet Laurence's art compels you to save the earthThe Guardian - Stephanie ConveryJanet Laurence is wearing a living plant in a glass vial around her neck. The bright pop of green stands out against her flowing white dress. It’s as if she’s just stepped out of one of her own artworks
Cornell University Cornell scientists create 'living' machines that eat, grow, and evolveTNW - Tristan GreeneThe field of robotics is going through a renaissance thanks to advances in machine learning and sensor technology. Each generation of robot is engineered with greater mechanical complexity and smarter
The Curse of La Llorona: The Real Legend Behind the Horror FilmVanity Fair - By Laura BradleyThe movie’s inspired by hundreds of years of Mexican lore. Generations of Mexican children have grown up afraid of La Llorona—a wailing woman whose misdeeds in life have left her trapped on Earth, where
Check Out These Gorgeous Spring Landscape DesignsForbes - Dering HallBeautiful, creative landscapes add polish to every property, from the compact rooftops of urban penthouses to the seemingly endless backyards of countryside estates. The following landscapes from Dering
Late-game fart wreaks havoc on Philadelphia 76ers benchMashable - Marcus GilmerThe Philadelphia 76ers just learned that a high-pressure situation like the NBA Playoffs can cause the body to do weird things, like dropping stink bombs on the bench. Midway through the fourth quarter
Skull of largest meat-eating mammal to roam Earth found in museum cabinet in KenyaFirstpost - Reuters When Ohio University integrative biologist Nancy Stevens peered into a drawer in the wooden cabinets on the top floor of a Nairobi museum in 2010, …
Play button Bitcoin Couple Could Face Death Penalty for ‘Seasteading’ Home Off Thailand Coasttheepochtimes.com - Tom Ozimek An American bitcoin investor and his Thai partner could face life in prison or even the death penalty for alleged violation of Thailand’s sovereignty …
