During the pandemic, Billie Eilish did a Tiny Desk Concert at home amidst a very faithful recreation of the NPR office. Last wee ...

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This is a really interesting video about something called the gang-nail plate, a construction innovation that enabled larger ...

Lawson’s, a convenience store in Japan, has begun selling Nomu mayo, a drinkable mayonnaise forgetting the important adage: ...

Adam Sharp has curated the most flamboyant ways to tell someone to pound sand in other languages, and it’s delightful. There ...

In striking aerial images, he captures the massive scale of 21st-century agriculture that has sculpted 40 percent of the ...

Watch a stone pine grow from a seed harvested from a pinecone into a small tree, a 2-year growth period compressed into just ...

The largest nuclear weapon ever tested was Tsar Bomba, a 50-megaton device detonated by the Soviet Union in 1961. That made ...

At an event last month marking the 50th anniversary of the publication of Robert Caro’s The Power Broker, actor Bryan Cranst ...

Watching these expert restorers mend & refresh a pair of vintage Star Wars posters (neither of which features the logo we&#821 ...

Adam Sharp has curated the most flamboyant ways to tell someone to pound sand in other languages, and it’s delightful. There’s “go ski into a spruce” from Finland, in Brazil you tell someone to “go ...