Small Japanese town adopts doggy drone for new mascot
The small Japanese town of Oji appears to have a new mascot, partially in a bid to develop tourism: a quadcopter doggy drone named Yukimaru.
This is what happens when engineers build stuff to stop dams from flooding.
Witness the Glory Hole Spillway at Lake Berryessa. Aka, "this is what happens when engineers build stuff to try to prevent dams from flooding." For the first time in a decade, January and February have brought so much rain that the lake in the Napa Valley area north
Japanese director Seijun Suzuku revolutionized the action genre, just died at 93
Japanese director Seijun Suzuku just died at 93. He honed his style of bonzo action flicks churning out B-movies before producing his masterpiece, Branded to Kill in black-and-white (a studio's punishment for his inscrutable previous film).
Childhood and horror movies
Childhood is fertile terrain for the genre of horror, as Stephen King explains in the 1989 interview featured in this video. Via Aeon.
A dispatch from "First Ladyland," Melania Trump's Slovenian hometown
A dispatch from "First Ladyland," Melania Trump's Slovenian hometown.
The McGurk effect helps explain why we like bad lip reading videos
Witness the McGurk effect, discovered when psychologist Harry McGurk thought he heard “da” after watching a video in which the sound “ba” was dubbed over a girl’s lips saying “ga.” Forty years later, scientists have demonstrated this effect in thousands of studies, in infants and adults, in different languages,
The Sunflower Sea Star is one of British Columbia's fearsome predators
From a favorite series, "Under the Dock," meet "one of the most fearsome predators on the British Columbia coast," the sunflower sea star.
Man who races dragon boats on ice says his sport is about to explode
Your Monday sports news: Dragon-boat-on-ice enthusiast says "dragon-boat-on-ice is probably the next winter sport to create a buzz."
Rock climbing competitions have the worst commentators
Maybe not a big surprise, but it looks like rock climbing competitions have the most inarticulate commentators.
Gallery of de-arrests
A gallery of "de-arrests,"—an example of which above—wherein a swarm conspires to overwhelm, trick, or force the freedom of friends in custody.