Try to imagine a world paid with a swipe of a card… not too difficult right?  Credit and debit card transactions have been happening since the first credit card back in 1949.  However, a world with no tangible currency?  That means no more loose change lying around, briefcases full of money won’t be cool anymore, […]

After two years of prototyping, tweaking, and building, Martin Molin of the Swedish band Wintergatan finally debuted his enormous musical marble machine. The melody is primarily carried by a vibraphone whose bars are hit by falling marbles, but it also includes small percussion and cymbals, as well as a bass guitar neck. It even has […]

  NASA has released recordings of weird sounds Apollo 10 astronauts heard while flying around the far side of the moon, and the crew responding to the strange phenomenon. “That music even sounds outer-spacey, doesn’t it?” said astronaut Eugene Cernan to John Young, upon hearing the curious noise. “You hear that? That whistling sound? Whoooooo.” […]

That’s right folks, we survived 2015 somehow.  So on to 2016 with an exciting new season, with new stories and a new co-host!  Robert Mehling and Seth Glover welcome their new co-host Natasha Estes who we somehow tricked into joining our motley podcast crew. But first, we look back and the top baby names and […]

The scandal surrounding US intelligence reports on ISIS just hit President Barack Obama’s inner circle. James Clapper, America’s top spy, is reportedly in “frequent and unusual contact” with the military officer who is suspected of allowing US reports on ISIS to be altered to fit the administration’s official line. Read more at The Guardian.

A Hungarian camerawoman was fired Tuesday after shocking footage emerged of her intentionally tripping refugees fleeing police near the country’s border as she covered the crisis for a local news outlet. The incident took place near the border village of Röszke, where migrants and refugees have been stranded for days. Hungarian authorities are struggling to […]

Infestations of crown-of-thorns sea stars destroy coral reefs, so researchers at Queensland University of Technology developed an autonomous robot sub that recognizes starfish and then kills them with a poison injection. Video below:  

20 Fenchurch Street, a slightly concave mirror-like office tower in the UK capital, has been awarded the Carbuncle Cup after sunlight reflected from it melted parts of an expensive Jaguar parked below. The award, given to architecture deemed ugly, hostile or otherwise bad, came with an affirmation that the skyscraper met every possible criterion for […]

  iOS developer Piet Brauer captured awesome footage of MSC Zoe, the largest container ship in the world, playing a cover of John Williams‘ iconic “Star Wars Main Title” song on the horn while pulling into a port in Hamburg, Germany for its christening.

You may remember seeing video of Mohammed Fadel Dobbous, a Kuwaiti-Irish tourist, in Turkey fighting off a gang of angry and armed men in the middle of a street. Footage of the incident went viral earlier this year, sparking a lot of questions from viewers, some of which Dobbous has finally answered in his first […]