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...

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

You wouldn't think that mathematics, as a field, would attract that many fringe-living crackpots - at least not as much as, say, medicin...

Sorry, Robert A. Heinlein, cats just aren't a good mix for space-faring cultures. More:

This is a monocycle, which looks cool as blazes and fun to drive. But not so fun to wipe out in at the 2:56 mark. It bounces a few times, ma...

That's Jan Svankmajer - stop-motion animator who was one of the inspirations to Terry Gilliam of Monty Python fame - in case you ...

It appears to have been done entirely in MSPaint, to boot. What an artifact! Wonder how old this is? The domain shown at the end, www.barb...

From kli.org, the official Klingon language resource . I've known a couple Trek fans who were at least somewhat fluent. Apparently the...

Like mazes? You'll be begging for a copy of this one. A Japanese woman unearthed her father's maze , which he spent seven years d...

Not many artifacts from 500 years ago strike this kind of balance between "astounding" and "skin-crawlingly creepy", ...

Public Access TV in the 1980s - they were desperate for content! "It's the law." - Anybody could air their videotape and ...

Can't have a blog called "Mind--Blown" without tossing in a Cyriak video every now and then. His whole Youtube channel here...

From the new York Times article ' Back Together Again ': "In its crudest form, the art of reconstructing shredded document...

If you think modern media is rife with sloppy fact-and-source-checking and complete disregard for integrity, you should see what lulus th...

This dictionary's written in rhyme , and the results are quite sublime. For a limerick form, in this work is the norm, Just don...

Find out about attempts to de-fictionalize the game of 3-D Chess from the Star Trek universe and even places that will sell you a set, ...

It's by a Swedish artist who makes wonderful and elaborate hand-crank wooden toys, see more in their gallery here .