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The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences takes the sanctity of its golden trophies very seriously
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Former NASA Engineer Wants To Build A Car-Juggling Robot
Former NASA Engineer Wants To Build A Car-Juggling Robot
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A Scientist Figured Out the Perfect Way To Cut a Cake—in 1906
A method from 1906 shows the perfect way to cut a cake—if you don’t mind putting rubber bands around your confection
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Pope Calls Out Italy’s Most Powerful Mob, Which You Probably Haven’t Heard Of
The ‘Ndrangheta reportedly made more money than McDonalds last year, but you’ve probably never heard of them
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Guys: Trying to Attract a Mate by Posing With Captive Tigers Is Not Cool
Some women estimate that up to one in ten men on Tinder have a profile picture featuring a big cat
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“Sherlock Holmes” Is Now Officially Off Copyright and Open for Business
What amazing Holmes fan fiction will you create?
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Other teams, however, are all in favor of pre-game sex
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For Some American Women, It’s Become the Norm to Have Babies Without Being Married
Women who don’t complete college are much more likely to have a child outside of wedlock than those who hold a bachelor’s degree
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This Guy Shredded One Million (Worthless) Dollars for Art
A new artwork made of one million shredded dollars has people pondering the value of money
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“Trophy Wives” Are Rare in Real Life
Most people marry someone who has a similar degree of attractiveness and success as they do
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Redskins’ Trademark Cancelled by U.S. Patent Office and This Time, It May Hold up in Court
The agency ruled against the NFL team, saying the name was “disparaging to Native Americans,” but an appeal is likely in the offing
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Londoners Are Fighting Back Against “Hostile Architecture”
From spikes in the ground to benches designed to be uncomfortable, hostile architecture is pushing already fringe groups further away from the public eye
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This Ten Year Old Has Already Graduated From High School in California
Words like “prodigy” and “genius” are often used to describe pre-teen Tanishq Abraham
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Pittsburgh Is Struggling to Maintain Its 45,454 Public Steps
The city budget isn’t enough to keep up with costly and logistically difficult repairs, so some stairways might come down
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See Samuel Beckett’s Doodles of James Joyce And Charlie Chaplin
The six-notebook handwritten manuscript has been in private hands since the 1960s
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Thousands of Lovers’ Locks Collapsed Part of an Overloaded Bridge in Paris
The trend affects bridges throughout Europe and in some places in the U.S., too
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Google Is Documenting the World’s Street Art
The Street Art Project already includes some 4,000 images of street art, some of which no longer exist
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Ikea’s trying to find out how we live, and started by telling us about our mornings
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In Maya Lin’s New Exhibition, a Singing Ring Contains the Sounds of Endangered Worlds
The Sound Ring represents places as diverse as California forests and the Indian Ocean
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Statistics Say That Brazil Will Probably Win the World Cup
Analyzing players’ transfer values to calculate a team’s overall market value, however, predicts that Spain will win
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