Pioneering post-goth grrrl band Jack Off Jill whom I've adored since their early 1990s feral days in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, are reuniting for their first live show in 15 years to take place July 18 in Asheville, North Carolina. Read the rest

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The actor is best known for playing a bumbling minion of Boss Hogg, the corrupt overlord of Hazzard County. Read the rest

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Food coloring on sterile slides will spontaneously start interacting like living cells, and Stanford researchers have figured out how. Read the rest

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It's Lady Day's centennial. Watch and listen. (more…)

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High-speed video of falling droplets releasing petrichor, a key ingredient of the distinctive post-rainfall scent. Read the rest

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Rolling Stone announced they won't change policies or staff following their retraction of "A Rape on Campus." What has prompted past action? Complaining about a yanked Hootie and the Blowfish review, later published in City Pages. Read the rest

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In 1821 Thomas De Quincey published his memoir, Confessions of an English Opium-Eater. Even though the book sold well, and De Quincey would go on to write other essays with insightful pre-Freudian psychological observations, his life was marred by drug addiction and financial debt.

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Ultraviolet portraits. Model: Natalia Szura. Photography: Mateusz Wykurz. Makeup: Kasia Zielinska. Read the rest

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“Yummy moon is an installation project. Basically, it's an installation made out of 450 cookies, which is turn into the moon.” Read the rest

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Kinetic sculptor Anthony Howe creates abstract, organic sculptures from various metals and polymers. He is based in Eastsound, Washington state. Read the rest

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This kid's dad says: “I bet Sam $10 to eat one piece of sushi without making any gagging noises or faces. If he throws up he owes me $10.” (more…)

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The late seventies sitcom Soap is a perfect parody of soap operas, produced in the golden age of TV soaps. I re-enjoyed this hilarious, star-filled series more now as an adult than when it originally aired in 1977.

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She is quite explicit about what to do.

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I double dog dare you, hooman.

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Apparently this hilarity happened in Turkey.

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“The Game of Chairs will determine who will be king or queen of Jesteros. Four players will march around three chairs while music plays until one remains. Who will take the crown in this game of musical chairs?” (more…)

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The app-controlled stuffed animal designed by the MIT Media Lab befriends children with cancer who are being treated at Boston Children’s Hospital. Read the rest

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The folks behind the weekly radio program Science Friday are launching a new series of internet videos: The Macroscope. Read the rest

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For centuries, May 1 brought chaos to New York, as most tenants had to move on the same day, clogging the streets with harried people and all their belongings.

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Do you have about an hour? Can you write 300 words? Then you can—and should—make your own text adventure today. Read the rest

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