Rogue Taxidermy is a folk-art form where you use dead animal parts to create some new, unique creature that never could have existed... but...

Since we now have our first experiment demonstrating that time is an emergent quantum phenomenon , it's about time we rounded up some in...

Continued from part one , this will be a second look at the many purveyors of woo in the math world. Fascinating though they are... Radi...

Napoleon was not French, but Corsican. Hitler was not German, but Austrian. Stalin was not Russian, but Georgian. The country with the ...

Folks, I was there in those ancient days of computing yore, and reading pixels off the screen for collision detection was exactly how I di...

From 2008 to 2010, a pet octopus named "Paul" was given the rather burdensome chore of predicting the outcome of World Cup socc...

Time travel hoaxes are popular surreal pranks. I've mentioned John Titor before as being one of the greatest Internet pranksters of the...

That's a normal-sized person on the floor of the place. The storm sewer system underground in Saitama, Japan , is one of the largest i...

I know this isn't the first time this has been done, but the town of Rjukan, Norway, is installing mirrors on top of local mountains...

From the website woodgears.ca , creation of Paul Grundbacher of Switzerland.

 ...it might only be a mechanical "digesting" duck. Such was one of the iconic inventions of the dawn of the mechanical age, &...

Roy Sullivan got into the Guinness Book of World Records as having been struck by lightning seven times - and survived them all! This was...

Malden Island is a tiny uninhabited dot of land sticking up smack in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, part of what is today the Republic ...

Just found it startling, that's all. Wikimedia commons images can surprise you sometimes.

Of all the feral children stories, the green children of Woolpit seem the most curious. They were two Flemish children who walked up to ...

You can't tell me this wasn't Cyriac's first classroom project.

In Crouch End, North London, Trebus was constantly at odds with police over his hoarding behavior . He would come home with wheelbarrows of ...

During the height of witch-hunting in the 15th century, there was a book published in Germany that was a sort of "Witch-Hunting for Dum...