There’s an Alternate Universe of Pre-MTV Music Videos You’ve Never Seen
The birth of the music video is often credited to MTV. It was 1981 when the first 24-hour music channel…
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I Just Want the Recipe Janet
Ever wanted to skip the marital problems and jump straight to the cookie recipe on your favorite food blog? This Chrome extension detects recipes and will prompt you with a button which replaces everything on the page with just the recipe.
Betavoltaic Batteries
Imagine tiny little nuclear powered batteries, made from nuclear waste, capable of easily and safely providing nanowatt to microwatt power…
As if the week wasn’t long enough
A pill box for when you find yourself somewhere that observes Xtraday, which is that day that occurs right between…
Citibank can’t get back $500 million it wired by mistake, judge rules
When you accidentally send a lender a LOT more money than you intended, and it just happens to be the…
Story idea: Abused child grows up and builds a time machine
They use it to travel back in time and kidnap themself as an infant, then take the baby back to…
Inside London’s thinnest house
This London home, currently on sale for £950k, was once a Victorian hat shop. Some parts of the house are…
Twitter has always felt like a bunch of people standing on both sides of the Grand Canyon
yelling at each other with bullhorns, all at the same time.
Invasive Species Turned into Sustainable Delicacies
What other animals and plants are invasive to the point of being environmentally destructive–and can be pretty damned tasty if…
Inside the Covert World of Bootleg X-Ray Records
For decades, Soviet Russia banned pop, jazz, and rock-and-roll. These music lovers devised a solution: music ‘on the bone. In…
Hearts of Our People: Native Women Artists
“Hearts of Our People: Native Women Artists is the first major thematic exhibition to explore the artistic achievements of Native…
This laptop has seven times the average number of screens
“A company called Expanscape has created the most Inspector Gadget-like device that I’ve ever seen. It’s a laptop prototype called…
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