A City In New Zealand Has Its Own Wizard
There is at least one person in the world who's paid to be a wizard, and he's under contract with the city of Christchurch, New Zealand.
The Speed Camera That Thought It Caught A Car Going 437 MPH
There was a story out of Italy where a driver got a ticket for driving 437 miles per hour. That's almost three times as fast as the car could legitimately go.
Let’s All Ride Inside A Monowheel
Imagine a unicycle, but there's no seat, the wheel is much bigger and you ride inside it. That's a monowheel, and while it may not be a casual rider's cup of tea, extreme sports people are way into them.
Running The Mars Rover From Home Is The Coolest Remote Work Ever
Like people in other industries who have the means to do so, the scientists who operate the Curiosity Rover are working away from their office at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in southern California. Though technically when you run a craft that's on another planet, you're always working remotely.
When Food Becomes The Artist’s Muse
Artist Itsuo Kobayashi has been keeping an illustrated food diary since 1980, drawing and describing each meal, the ingredients, the price and how it made him feel.
The World Shuts Down, But “Art Doesn’t Stop”
Staff at a museum in Turin, Italy called Castello di Rivoli have been working marathon days to digitize their entire collection so that art lovers who can't see the pieces in person can still enjoy them online.
The Life And Flights Of Jerrie Cobb
Today is the birthday of Jerrie Cobb, who could have been the first woman in space but ended up flying to great heights nonetheless.
When Ford Introduced The Soybean Car
On this day in 1942, the patent was issued for a car that was to be (at least partly) made from soybeans. And it was the idea of none other than Henry Ford.
The North Carolina Bridge That Decapitates Cars Is Finally Being Raised
It’s the end of an era in Durham, North Carolina. The 11 Foot 8 Bridge, known as the Can Opener or the Gregson Street Guillotine for its propensity for shearing the tops off rental trucks and other large vehicles, is at last being raised. Probably good for safety, but fans of fail videos are bummed.
When Performance Art Meets Brain Scans
Indonesian performance artist Melati Suryodarmo has created a new work called “If We Were XYZ,” and it’s based on her dreams, which she documented with the help of an electroencephalogram machine.