This fantastic video from the World Wildlife Fund in Australia is a turtle’s eye view of the The Great Barrier Reef. Read the rest

One of the most amazing things I’ve ever seen was Spanish Catalan architect Antoni Gaudi’s Sagrada Familia in Barcelona. The basilica looks like a giant drippy asymmetrical sandcastle. Read the rest

San Francisco-based brands Joie de Vivre Hotels, Noise Pop and Boing Boing announce GOOD MEAUSURE, a multi-city indie music tour. GOOD MEASURE will span four cities, exploring sense of place through sound. Read the rest

In 1995 Time magazine published a cover story about online pornography that gave grandstanding politicians an excuse to try to censor the Internet. Read the rest

Quaaludes, the pills Bill Cosby admitted giving to women so he could have sex with them, are a prescription sedative that took off as a recreational drug during the 1970s disco era. In 1985, commercial production ceased and clandestine synthesis began. Read the rest

That's Bertha Boronda in the lower left square. I'm not sure if her proud look reflects her satisfaction of having the biggest hat or successfully cut off her unfaithful husband's penis with a straight razor in 1908.Female inmates of San Quentin State Prison and their very fine hats

People who claim to be real vampires and must drink others' blood for energy are hesitant to talk to psychological counselors and other helping professionals about their lives because they fear being "judged as being wicked or evil or viewed as being psychotic, delusional or having a psychological problem," according to a new scientific study. Read the rest

One useful tip of many from this list.

In 2013, Wang Kaiyu, a Yunan resident in China, bought two cute black puppies, one male and one female, who were playful and well-behaved. Read the rest

Researchers partially restored hearing in deaf mice with a certain kind of genetic hearing loss by inserting working copies of the mutated genes. Eventually the technique could lead to gene therapy for certain causes of human deafness. Read the rest

Otto Dieffenbach uses the Force (and some creative RC engineering) to levitate R2-D2. (more…)

The state of Tennessee extended its "Good Samaritan law" this month, allowing people to smash a car window to save a dog from dying in a hot car. Read the rest

Instagram doesn't allow women to show their nipples, but they allow men to show their nipples. So here's a man's nipple to cut, resize, and paste over a women's nipple. Problem solved! Read the rest

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In 1957 the FBI felt threatened by the Usual Gang of Idiots at MAD after the magazine ran a piece about draft dodging as a game, which involved writing to FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover and asking him for “full-fledged draft dodger” membership card. An FBI agent directed his bureau’s New York offices to “make contact” with MAD and “advise them of our displeasure” and to make sure “that there be no repetition of such misuse of the Director’s name.” The agent also decided it was important to give his opinion on the quality of the article: "It is also of interest to note that…it is rather unfunny.” Read the rest

Josh Dzieza profiles The Awl, the Internet's best.Founded in 2009 by Choire Sicha and Alex Balk, The Awl stands counter to the prevailing trends in the media industry, commenting skeptically on the conventions of the wider web while running a mix of stories that are both wide-ranging and unabashedly specific: writerly reviews of the previous day’s weather, deconstructions of minion memes, tirades against negronis and the Moon, personal essays, deadpan lists, poetry. Read the rest

“Captured this whilst hiking the cliffs in Látrabjarg [Iceland]. This came across as an anomaly where it seems that the fog was flowing down like a waterfall.” Reginald Schmidt via r/videos.

Colonel Steve Austin nearly died in a fiery space accident. The Office of Scientific Intelligence rebuilt him better than he was before. Better, stronger, faster.Read the rest

Pictured here in a photo taken by prospektvernadskogo on Instagram, the flag—depicting two opposite-sex adults and three kids—was reportedly designed by Russia's Unity party. Read the rest

A two-inch replica of this delightful creature (previously) may now be printed out to keep forever.The Tardigrade (also known as the Water Bear) can survive in extreme environments. Read the rest

Pornhub sells these. Why? It hardly matters. (more…)

Enjoy the latest podcast from Veronica Belmont and Tom Merritt Read the rest

Will you live long enough to watch the setting suns?"This is a truly exotic star system. In principle there's no reason why it couldn't have planets in orbit around each of the pairs of stars. Read the rest

Archie comics, that bastion of thick, small newsprint books at supermarket checkout, is getting yet another vaguely ironic makeover! The ginger ninja of our hearts is, to quote Bloomberg, "getting a new hipster look." Read the rest

Tatiana Plakhova created gorgeous pulsing geometric patterns, then projected them onto a membrane that allows visitor interaction. Read the rest

These delightful images were created to celebrate an annual food and culture festival in Brazil. Read the rest

Many troubling stats about climate change's effect in the North Pole region are tucked into Newsweek's article on the geopolitical gold rush taking place up there. Read the rest

Rowan County, Kentucky clerk Kim Davis discontinued all marriage licenses rather than give one to gay couples like David V. Moore and David Ermold, together for 17 years and local residents for ten. Read the rest

Today's required reading; Joe Bernstein did not have to tell them his last name to get in. Read the rest

Izzy Swan's drill-powered walking-machine uses a leg-design inspired by the wind-walking strandbeest and connects it to a ride-'em platform for the pilot. Read the rest

It seems like you can't possibly count every single detailed dollhouse object in the well-loved Katamari Damacy, but someone is trying—and the item descriptions are even funnier than you remember. Read the rest

Some parents are complaining that a Minions talking toy available at McDonald's sounds like it says "What the fuck!" Gotta love audio pareidolia. Read the rest

From our friends at California Sunday, this beautiful animated interview with comedian/musician Reggie Watts. Animation by Drew Tyndell."California Inspires Me" (California Sunday)

A great white shark photobombs another great white shark near Seal Island in Mossel Bay, South Africa. (more…)

Researchers are developing a robot made from plastic and ceramic motors that can perform surgery on a patient inside a magnetic resonance imaging machine where metal is a no-no. Read the rest

A federal judge today cancelled the Washington Redskins federal trademark registrations on their name because it's racist. US District Judge Gerald Bruce Lee's decision affirmed a previous ruling that that the name is offensive to Native Americans and as such can't be legally be protected. Read the rest

Join with your inner stillness, where those fucks can't get under your skin with all their horseshit.

Nick Bilton does not approve of how Twitter works. Read the rest

Celebratory street art spotted in San Francisco's Castro District, an iconic epicenter of LGBTQ culture. (more…)

A slobbering Sisyphus.(more…)

Seriously, they don't come deeper and harder than this. [via r/videos]

“Happy, who has a movement disorder, goes on a field trip to French Lake to try out her new life vest.” (more…)

“I was met by fires in the streets, the screams of the dying tourists and the shouts of former traders offering sacrifices to their new gods...” Read the rest

Brian Feldman charts the rise and hopefully imminent fall of "the perfect meme."They are maybe the platonic ideal of franchise mascot. Read the rest

They got everything right! [via, via]

@presentcorrect created Wes Anderson Palettes, a Tumblog of gentle twee wonder. [via Kottke]

Ashley Feinberg marvels at the hate-watching obsession du jour for America's white supremacists: a teen show where white and black kids coexist. Read the rest