Huffington Post published an article about what would happen if someone read the wrong winner at the Oscars—and then it actually happened last night. In case you missed it, Faye Dunaway read La La Land right over Warren Beatty's incredulity. As predicted, the auditors knew something was
Why most (ballet) dancers almost always turn clockwise and most athletes—figure skaters, aerial skiiers, divers—turn counterclockwise is unknown. But a personal investigation into the phenomenon makes for interesting reading. / Ballet Focus A rugby match is built on “rucks,” what happens when a player is tackled to the ground.
From the Rome Film Festival, Lois Patiño's lovely Mountain in Shadow.
Double-click to launch the Black Death (PC only). Inspired by Pieter Bruegel the Elder's The Triumph Of Death (1562), descent.exe launches a swarm of rats that infests your desktop, overtaking an entire village and leaving scores of bodies in its wake.
File under the curiously entertaining: A brief history of the laundry chute. / The Atlantic Officials say the terrorist group has crossed a threshold with its use of unmanned aircraft, using them to drop bombs on Iraqi troops. / The Washington Post “To use the Forex terminology, Trump is a cyclical correction
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.
Almost as soon as astronomers turned their search towards small stars, they found a bounty of Earth-sized planets. Last May, astronomers announced that they’d found three planets orbiting a small, cool star situated near Aquarius, 40 light-years away from Earth. They doubled down on their announcement yesterday
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 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).
Iceland has a pizza problem. / The New York Times Artist Sonja Hincrichsen makes massive “snow drawings” by enlisting dozens of people to walk on prescribed or random paths in snowshoes. / Sonja Hincrichsen Japanese director Seijun Suzuku just died at 93. / The Hollywood Reporter Only a quarter of California remains under
