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Cyberdeck with punishingly minimal 30% keyboard
A cyberdeck is a homemade portable computer in the cyberpunk mold (exposed, utilitarian, built to suit its maker rather than to sell) and NickZero’s…
 • Rob Beschizza
The obscure airfields of America
Abandoned & Little-Known Airfields [airfields-freeman.com] collects America’s half-forgotten strips and reconstructs each one’s history from old…
 • Rob Beschizza
In 1974, Turkish forces fenced off a Cyprus beach resort. It’s still empty.
From 1970 to 1974, the Varosha district of Famagusta, Cyprus, was “one of the most popular tourist destinations in the world,” a favorite of Elizabeth…
 • Ellsworth Toohey
In 1985, a Japanese woman wrote a letter about bookstores making her need to use the bathroom. It became a phenomenon.
In February 1985, a 29-year-old woman from Tokyo’s Suginami neighborhood sent a letter to the Japanese magazine Book Magazine.
 • Ellsworth Toohey
Japan’s greatest sword was surrendered to a US sergeant in 1946. Nobody knows where it is.
The Honjō Masamune, forged in the 13th or 14th century and passed from shōgun to shōgun as a symbol of the Tokugawa dynasty, is considered one of the…
 • Ellsworth Toohey
A star discovered in 2014 has exploded six times and none of the theories explain it
When astronomers first observed iPTF14hls in September 2014, they identified it as a supernova and expected it to dim within 100 days.
 • Ellsworth Toohey
Nebraska supercell near Lorenzo looked almost too perfect to be real
This powerful storm rolled through near Lorenzo, Nebraska, on June 7th, 2026.
 • Popkin
Lemur makes an alarming sound when communicating
The Indri is the largest living lemur and one of the most distinctive primates in Madagascar.
 • Popkin
Man supercharges a child’s pink ride-on car, sends it flying
A dude who goes by Marketplace Builds on Instagram uploaded this hilarious video of a pink toy car that has been hacked to go much faster than normal…
 • Popkin
Sally Ride flew to space 43 years ago today. She still has the best astronaut name.
With so much going sideways since… forever, it can be hard to recall that some great stuff has happened.
 • Séamus Bellamy
The man who built the spaceships for 2001, Alien, and Empire has died
Science fiction aficionados and fans of practical effects will want to pour one out today: Brian Johnson, a man responsible for building some of the…
 • Séamus Bellamy
This giant anteater uses his dancing tongue to keep cool in the summer’s sweltering heat
I’ve previously written about the glorious ASMR videos starring King Bumi, a long-snouted, toothless, bushy-tailed, coarse-haired giant anteater who…
 • Jennifer Sandlin
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