After floods hit Denison, Texas last week, park rangers were mystified to find stringy clumps dotting the rain-soaked streets in inexplicably organized lines. It was no pasta-based apres -flood prank. It was just piles of living, squiggling worms. Read more…
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Nobody Knows Why Giant Piles of Worms Mysteriously Lined Up in Texas
Staph infections are one of the most pervasive and annoying bacterial infections faced by hospitals every year. It infects half a million people in the US every year, with symptoms ranging from skin infections to heart problems — and worse, some strains (commonly known as MRSA) have evolved to resist common antibiotics. Read more…
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A Medieval Recipe Could Kill Hospital Superbugs. No, Really.
A specific number of variables need to be in place so I can shrug off procrastination and get some real work done. Chief among them is setting the right aural mood. Read more…
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Slip Into the Sweet, Ambient Sounds of Science Fiction
This video captured on a beach in Novosibirsk, Siberia, looks like a scene from a movie about the end of the world. People were enjoying a perfect sunny day—with temperatures of 99F (37C)—when bullet-sized hail started strafing the beach while everyone were running for their lives in panic. Read more…
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Amazing hail storm on a beach looks like the beginning of the Apocalypse
A home in Brentwood, New Hampshire, exploded today live on TV as an ABC News helicopter was flying over the area, filming as it was burning. Read more…
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Holy crap, a house just exploded live on TV
Nothing feels worse than getting a speeding ticket in the mail. What. The. Truck. As if they weren’t bad enough as-is, a report from the Washington DC metropolitan area suggest that the cameras used to catch you might not be playing by the rules. In fact, the camera contractors might be fudging the evidence to make sure you can’t challenge the tickets. Read more…
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A Speeding Ticket Camera Company Is Doctoring Evidence Photos
It’s a bird! It’s a plane! It’s a Chinese spy drone! Oh, and there’s another one! That’s what the Indian Army must’ve thought when they saw two specks of something “spying on them” in the sky. Instead, what India thought were Chinese spy drones turned out to be… Jupiter and Venus. Read more…
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India Thought Jupiter and Venus Were Actually Chinese Spy Drones
Next time you whinge about your slow-ass internet, spare a thought for a bunch of British farmers who have had to build, test and install their own fiber network this year—from scratch. More »
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British Farmers Install Their Own 1Gbps Fiber Network in the Middle of Nowhere
When you connect a bunch of young college kids together on the Internet, any meeting eventually devolves into a crying mess of memes, Internet hall of fame pictures and a whole lot of trolling. So when students in Stanford’s computer science program realized that e-mailing one address would contact EVERY student, well, you bet it got real fun real fast. People were dropping tubgirl, rickrolls, meatspin and because it’s Stanford and it’s computer science, offering jobs at startups. More »
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When Every Student Realizes They Can Reply All and Spam Every Other Student It’s Fun for Everyone
Oh, Iran. Your Qaher 313 stealth fighter jet sure looks intimidating but it will never get off the ground. So why do you insist on tricking everybody into thinking that the beast can fly? Iran’s latest transgression is especially hilarious: they’ve photoshopped the Qaher 313 onto a stock image of Mount Damavand to make it look like it’s flying. More »
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Iran Photoshopped Its New Stealth Fighter Jet to Look Like It Was Flying When It Totally Wasn’t