Watch a Drunk Man in a Zoo Enclosure Trying to Shake a Lion's Hand
Watch: ‘Drunk’ man jumps into lion’s cage at Hyderabad zoo, rescued unhurt https://t.co/D2J3wE4sB3pic.twitter.com/soagv1NgZJ— Hindustan Times (@htTweets) May 23, 2016There are some things that you...
View ArticleWatch Two Rare Albino Alligators Get Gnarlier Than Usual
In the chorus of her recent hit song "Formation," singer/dancer/force-of-nature Beyoncé implies that the animal incarnation of a "hater" is an albino alligator.Unlike haters, however, albino alligators...
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Found: A Hidden Population of Tasmanian Devils
A devil at rest. (Photo: Wayne McLean/CC BY 2.0)Tasmanian devils aren’t doing so hot. There’s only one known place in all of Tasmania where wild devils live without developing facial tumor disease, a...
View ArticleThis Relaxation Competition Finds Out Who Can Chill the Best
This past Sunday, at a public park in Seoul, dozens of citizens sat on small blue blankets, wearing athletic numbers and looking straight ahead. But they weren't stretching, hydrating, or otherwise...
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What the Most Alluring Women of 17th Century England Looked Like
A portrait gallery at Windsor Castle, royal residence of Charles II. (Image: Public Domain)On a wood-paneled wall in the Communications Gallery of London's Hampton Court Palace hang 10 portraits in a...
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How One Man's Desire to Flaunt His Wealth Became a Book of Psalms
A representation of a sheep's pen. (Photo: Unknown/Public Domain)Many people in the Middle Ages learned to read and worship by studying their psalters, or personal copies of the Book of Psalms, often...
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B-52 Wreckage in Hanoi, Vietnam
In the residential Ba Dinh district of Hanoi lies a sobering reminder of the human cost of the Vietnam War – wreckage of a B-52 bomber shot down shortly before the war ended.Operation Linebacker II,...
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The World's Longest and Deepest Tunnel to Open in Switzerland
Inside the Gotthard Base Tunnel. (Photo: Hannes Ortlieb/CC BY-SA 3.0)In a little more than a week, the longest and deepest tunnel of its kind will open to trains.The Gotthard Base Tunnel, in southern...
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Clark Air Base Hospital in Angeles, Philippines
Clark Air Base Hospital was used during WW2 and the Vietnam War. It now lays abandoned inside the Clark Freeport Zone.Due to the number of soldiers that died in this hospital, the locals believe that...
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The Tatacoa Desert in Villavieja, Colombia
If Ray Bradbury would have traveled to the Tatacoa Desert, his “Martian Chronicles” would have been shaped by this otherworldly landscape.Covering a large area around the small town of Villavieja in...
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The Deadly Rio Lerma River in El Salto, Mexico
In 2008 an eight year old boy named Miguel was kicking a ball with his friends alongside an industrial waterway in northwestern Mexico. The ball rolled into the water, and Miguel walked to the...
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A 5,000-Year-Old Beer Recipe from China Has Just Been Unveiled
(Photo: Jeremy Keith/CC BY 2.0)A very, very old beer recipe has been discovered in China, and it is notable for its use of barley, which scientists had previously thought ancient Chinese did not have...
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We Took a Celebrity Dog Trainer to a New York City Dog Park
(Photo: Tao Tao Holmes/Atlas Obscura)On this spring day, celebrity pet trainer Bash Dibra walks with Delilah (nickname: Dee) by his side. Once shy and skittish, the English sheepdog is basically...
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Windber Trolley Graveyard in Windber, Pennsylvania
The difference between an abandoned ruin and a priceless treasure is a matter of perspective. Such is the case of the Windber Trolley Graveyard.Relatively famous among urban explorers and ruin...
View ArticleThe 3,800-Year-Old Mummy of a Middle Kingdom Noblewoman Has Been Found
Egypt's Ministry of Antiquities announced on Tuesday that they had discovered the 3,800-year-old remains of Lady Sattjeni, whose family ruled Elephantine, the tactically-important Egyptian isle near...
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Konagai, Japan's Fruit Shaped Bus Stops in Isahaya-shi, Japan
If you can't travel inside a giant peach like James, might as well at least wait for a bus in a giant melon. Or strawberry, or orange or tomato.The town of Konagai, in Nagasaki Prefecture, Japan, has...
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Why Beards Are There to Impress Other Men—Not Women
Pedro II of Brazil. (Photo: Matthew Brady/Public Domain)This article was written by Tamsin Saxton, Northumbria University.What is the point of a beard, evolutionarily speaking? Children, women, and a...
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The Early, State-Sanctioned LSD Experiments in Communist Bulgaria
Prof. Marina Boyadjieva (first row, second right) with colleagues from the Multiprofile Hospital for Active Treatment in Neurology and Psychiatry St. Naum in Sofia, Bulgaria. (All Photos: Jordan...
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Starkly Beautiful Brutalist Buildings, Photographed in Black and White
Geisel Library, University of California, San Diego, California, USA, 1970 by William Pereira & Associates. (Photo: Courtesy University of California, San Diego)The building above might not be the...
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The Inevitable, Intergalactic Awkwardness of Time Capsules
The Golden Record is affixed to the Voyager 1 spacecraft, 29 July 1979. (Photo: NASA/Public Domain)The year is… let's say it's 42026. You're cruising along your regular orbit, minding your own...
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