Not having young children, I was unaware that this was going on until I leaned of it from Stephen Colbert: Link: https://youtu.be/2jp0WVtoXX0 But it’s been mentioned elsewhere, including local television news, for example wherever this is: Link: https://youtu.be/A0YpuCcX0h0 by … Continue reading
Back at the end of February Christina Hendricks was being interviewed on the daytime television talk show Live with Kelly and Ryan when she was interrupted mid-sentence by a breaking news update. That night when she appeared on Late Night … Continue reading
Last June 16 a mysterious very bright spot appeared in a small, otherwise not very remarkable galaxy 200 light years (60 megaparsecs) distant from us. In a matter of days it had become about 10 times brighter than the brightest … Continue reading
Filmmaker Brady Haran visits the archive of The Associated Press in London and finds old newsreels of driverless tractors from 1958 and driverless cars from 1972-73. Then there’s the creepy Billy the Beacon, a rather creepy robot for teaching British … Continue reading
From the folks at Engrish.com, a cryptic sign photographed in Tokyo by Ted Vogt: by … Continue reading
I’ve had a fair number of medical bills since my car was read-ended at the start of June last year (2017). Every month my insurance company sends me an Explanation of Benefits (EoB), and I’ve been reading them. They are … Continue reading
From Rhett and Link, the folks at the web talk show Good Mythical Morning, a song in the style of Bruno Mars written by artificial intelligence. It’s not that bad! Link: https://youtu.be/iW4ex4SCFBc by … Continue reading
This is the Plan 9 From Outer Space of rap songs, and it’s for real. Stephen Colbert introduces it. Only in Utah… Link: https://youtu.be/tqiQCNDc0Bk by … Continue reading
From Jimmy Kimmel, under two minutes of strangeness: Link: https://youtu.be/-trYf_W8AIQ by … Continue reading
The bitter cold affecting the U.S. East Coast in early January created a strange phenomenon on the beach at Nantucket, Massachusetts: ocean water frozen to the consistency of slush, with slow-motion waves. This report from PBS News Hour runs under … Continue reading