The records will be online by late next year, to coincide with the opening of the new Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture on the National Mall in Washington. Read the rest

I asked Lenore Edman, the founder of Evil Mad Scientist Laboratories, the open source hardware, hobby electronics, and robotics company, to write a Medium post about what it's like being a badass female maker. Read the rest

Dick Van Patten who famously played Tom Bradford on TV's "Eight Is Enough" (1977-1981) and also appeared in several Mel Brooks movies, Westworld, Soylent Green, I Remember Mama, and many other movies and TV shows died today at 86. Read the rest

Four of Amazon's ten top-selling flags are currently Confederate in the wake of proposed bans across the U.S. The trend echoes spikes in gun sales when 'Muricans fear the government is going to impose new restrictions on firearms, or when Coca-Cola announces a new formulation. Read the rest

Texas governor Greg Abbott OK's ban on healthcare provider's non-abortion-related services for the poor. Read the rest

One the world's worst invasive species is the New Guinea flatworm, a double-pointed 2-inch-long worm that causes serious damage to bio diversity. Read the rest

Those grunts.(more…)

Aeroacoustics expert Nigel Peake of Cambridge University leads a group of engineers mimicking owl wing feathers to reduce noise on wind turbines. Read the rest

Longing for a relaxing rainy day? Open a window with rainymood.com and feel your stress dissipate. Discover relaxing music by clicking the random song option to overlay on your rain.

The American Museum of Natural History sorted it out. (more…)

Yeah, yeah, pareidolia, but damn that's amazing. (more…)

These colorful shuriken (retractable ninja stars) by YouTuber ProudPaperOfficial are surprisingly easy to make. Read the rest

Ruby was a brightly colored lamb with transparent skin. She carried jellyfish DNA and belonged to "Green Sheep," a research project in France studying the effects of implants on humans. Read the rest

Above, a map of the "Square and Stationary Earth" (1893) by a Professor Orlando Ferguson of Hot Springs, South Dakota. Read the rest

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Legislation sponsored by Los Angeles Assemblyman Mike Gatto is returning these iconic license plates to the street. LA Times shares the story.Read the rest

Alternet reports that Farris "had no prior criminal record but had struggled with a history of mental illness." Read the rest

"We'll call it the Horsing Around Club, and we'll just f***in' go to town on each other, just visceral disturbing sh*t, y'know?" The only thing that would be better than Chuck Palahniuk reading Fight Club 4 Kids would be if this book were real. (via) Read the rest

It's unlocked and it includes a year of Prime, which costs $99 a year. Read the rest

Alex Boese has a great article on About Entertainment on the history of people who claimed ownership of stars, moons, and planets and then sold deeds to plots of land on the heavenly bodies. Read the rest

Terry McAuliffe announced the decision today, citing the recent killing of nine people at a black church by a white supremacist. Read the rest

Sharon Green is madder than a snail in a salt mine over a christening cake she purchased that has teddy bears with creases that remind her of female genitalia. Read the rest

Alex Bellos' Monday puzzle in The Guardian is the Three Switches Probem:Downstairs in a house are three identical on-off switches. Read the rest

Good Art Hlywd remade the classic green army men toy figures in sterling silver. Read the rest

Perhaps not the model you remember, but in Japan in 1983, this was where it started. YouTuber Satoshi Matrix has uploaded many many more like it. Read the rest

"Protection? What the fuck are you talking about? You have guns because you like guns." [NSFW. video link]

Are you occasionally confused by the sparkly, shrieking jubilation of political rallies? Easily put down to partisan ardor, it is like so much else, often plainly fake. Read the rest

The IdeaCenter Stick 300 isn't much larger than a USB dongle, but claims to offer enough grunt to turn any monitor or TV into an "entertainment station." Read the rest

America's largest retailer is to rid its shelves of flags and other tat sporting the popular symbol of slavery and racism. Read the rest

Warning, wearers of close-fitting denim! A woman in Australia had to be "cut out" of her skinny jeans after suffering muscle and nerve damage. Read the rest

In March 2015, Firstsecond books published its English translation of the first volume of Lastman, the spectacularly successful French martial arts comic; they're bringing out the rest of the books on an aggressive schedule, with Book 2: The Royal Cup coming out today. Read the rest

The creator of legendary soundtracks to Titanic, A Beautiful Mind, Aliens and countless other famous movies died yesterday in a plane crash in California. Read the rest

In last summer's Unlocking the Gates of Alexandria: DRM, Competition and Access to E-Books, Ana Carolina Bittar of the Fundação Getulio Vargas Law School at São Paulo does an outstanding, thorough, and easily understandable job in explaining the ways in which ebook DRM ends up hurting writers, readers and publishers by shifting market power to the ebook vendors like Amazon, Google Play, Apple and B&N. Read the rest

You have 10 seconds to read and respond to every text message you get behind the wheel. After all, you wouldn't want to be rude. Read the rest

Despite getting some mixed reviews on its release, the new Netflix series Sense8 is really fascinating. Read the rest

Star Trek: TNG's Jean-Luc Picard drops knowledge over Eclectic Method. (more…)

“The cat is doing well, she is still our mascot.” Read the rest

An amazing little video shot by a guy traveling in Norway. Read the rest

People do weird things for war. Read the rest

You’re in your living room. You’re bored to tears. You’re dying to watch sick movies or play amazing games, but sadly you don’t even have a tablet or a Chromecast. Read the rest

I fortunately have not had to use Cyntur Pack Mini Lithium-Ion Jumpstarter to start my car, but it's nice to know I have it if I need it. Read the rest

For fans of beer honoring a sex-abuse enabler, this one's for you. Read the rest

Here's an amazing YouTube video of a snake about to feast on a baby bunny when along comes mama rabbit to the rescue. She separates the snake from her baby, but doesn't stop there. She then proceeds to repeatedly stalk and attack the snake with a frenzy of kicks. Awesome rabbit!

The reservation struggles with high unemployment and problems with substance abuse and gangs and is one of the poorest communities in the United States. Read the rest

The agency used fake accounts to "deter," "promote distrust" and "discredit" in political discussions on social media, uploaded fake book/magazine articles with "incorrect information," hacked websites, and set up fraudulent ecommerce sites. Read the rest

84-year-old William Shatner is excited about his upcoming eight-day road trip, from Chicago to his home in Los Angeles. He'll do it astride a 3-wheeled vehicle called the Landjet. Read the rest

Interested in creating virtual reality? Google is looking for people to test drive their Jump VR system that includes 16 cameras. Read the rest