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How Power Naps Are Related to Near-Death Experiences
"The Nightmare" by John Henry Fuseli is thought to be a depiction of sleep paralysis. (Photo: Public Domain/Wikipedia Commons)Before you are even fully awake, your heart is racing.You wanted to take a...
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How 'Used Clothing' Became 'Vintage Fashion'
A vintage store on Haight Street in San Francisco. (Photo: ashton/Flickr)Jeff Gallo, a 51-year-old real estate agent from Brooklyn, was walking through the Staten Island Ferry terminal wearing a...
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Bavaria Filmstadt in Grünwald, Germany
One of the easiest complaints about the film, The NeverEnding Story, is that it does in fact have an ending, but at the German film studio where most of the movie was filmed, you can continue the...
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Tomb of Ali Mardan Khan in Lahore, Pakistan
The grand Tomb of Ali Mardan Khan has stood for centuries as lovely burial structure. And while it was once surrounded by a lush garden, it is now surrounded by industrial rail yards and is only...
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The Secret Weapon That Could Make Waiting for the Bus Less Terrible
Every minute at the bus stop feels longer than it actually is (Photo: Public Domain Pictures/Pixabay)Waiting at a bus stop or a subway station, it can feel like the minutes stretch on forever, forever,...
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The World's Longest-Running Experiment is Buried in a Secret Spot in Michigan
The 15th of 20 seed bottles that make up the world's longest-running experiment "Some people say it looks like a whiskey flask," says curator Dr. Frank Telewski. (Photo: Kurt Stepnitz/Michigan State...
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Bartholdi Museum in Colmar, France
French sculptor, Frederic Auguste Bartholdi was born in Colmar, France in 1834. From his humble beginnings, Bartholdi went on to an illustrious career that birthed some of America and France's greatest...
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FOUND: Hydrogen Plasma That Could Be New Energy Source
Inside the Wendelstein 7-X reactor (Photo: Gwurden/Wikimedia)Angela Merkel, chancellor of Germany, is about to switch on a giant fusion reactor, to create hydrogen plasma.In 2014, a team at the Max...
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Drug Enforcement Agent Claims Rabbits are Getting High; Agency Says Otherwise
Is the rabbit high? Probably not. (Photo: Roland zh/Wikimedia Commons)A version of this story originally appeared on Muckrock.com.What’s the difference between a stoned rabbit and a not-stoned rabbit?...
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Fleeting Wonders: Patient Woman Rewarded With Solo Flight
Zhang living the dream. (Photo: Miffyscat/Weibo)Ill-timed snowstorms in eastern and central China have wreaked havoc on Chinese New Year plans, stranding tens of thousands of travelers in train...
View ArticleVideo Wonder: Facercise, Your 1990s Alternative to Plastic Surgery
Cheeks getting loose? Chin feeling droopy? Then it might be time to try Facercise, a healthy alternative to plastic surgery brought to you by licensed esthetician Carole Maggio in this 1996 VHS clip....
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What's the Point of Sentencing Anyone to 141,000 Years in Prison?
Why do we sentence people well past the human life span? (Photo: miss_millions/Flickr)While "cruel and unusual punishment" is officially illegal according to the U.S. Constitution, convicted criminals...
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Wrapping Armchairs in Wire, and Other Childhood Attempts to Travel in Time
H.G. Wells, author of The Time Machine, likely had all kinds of ideas about time travel as a child. (Photo: Public Domain/WikiCommons)What kid doesn’t, at some point, want to go forward or backwards in...
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Amelbati Cannibal Site in Walarano, Vanuatu
Surrounded by coconut palms and cacao trees, today these lush grounds in the tiny South Pacific nation of Vanuatu (made up of 83 small islands) are eerily quiet. But once upon a time, they were the...
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FOUND: A 155-Year-Old Mousetrap Still Doing Its Job
A different type of 19th century mousetrap (Photo: The Iconographic Encyclopaedia of Science/Wikimedia)When Colin Pullinger & Sons advertised an innovative, humane mousetrap in the 1860s, the...
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Chutters Candy Store in Littleton, New Hampshire
If you’ve been searching for the world’s longest candy counter (and who isn’t?), search no more. The crown is worn by Chutters in Littleton, New Hampshire. This stalwart Main Street store – a Littleton...
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Scary Dairy in Camarillo, California
There is something inherently spooky about abandoned farm buildings. Remote, hulking, and isolated, their weathered remains have the feeling of a drifting ghost ship or a deserted space station, making...
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Tarr Steps in Exmoor, England
The longest and oldest bridge of its kind, the Tarr Steps in England's Exmoor National Park is made of a closely connected series of stone slabs that date back thousands of years and are rumored to be...
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Grey Towers in Milford, Pennsylvania
Grey Towers, the lush family/summer home of the founder of the United States Forest Service, still stands as probably the grandest, if not the only mansion preserved and operated by the agency he...
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