A 19th Century Spiritualist Artist Possessed by Ghosts Cyriaque Lamar has a short piece at io9 about Spiritualist artist Georgianna Houghton, who claimed her works were the...
The World’s Most Dangerous Zoo Tipped off to this by writer Jessica Amanda Salmonson, I am utterly in awe. Located in Luján, Argentina, Zoo...
Everest: Climbing Over Corpses to Reach the Summit One of my favorite books of all time is Jon Krakauer’s white-knuckle ride about climbing to the summit of...
The Pitcairn Autogiro There’s a great article by Meg Godlewski at General Aviation News about the Pitcairn PAA-1, an autogiro marketed to...
Techyum Halloween: Five Animals Named For Famous Monsters While I normally hesitate to send you to a slideshow because it’s against my religion to reward websites with...
Spooky Eco-Coolness: Jason deCaires Taylor’s Submerged Sculpture Pretty, enticing and ecologically cool: artist Jason deCaires Taylor’s Underwater Sculpture project off the coast of Cancun, Mexico also...
Video of Man Scaling San Francisco’s Millennium Tower The man arrested last night for scaling San Francisco’s 60(ish) story Millennium Tower — that’s the big one that...
Visit to Glenn Research Center by “Author of a Book” Sometimes you run across stuff online, and you think to yourself, “Really? This is just sitting there for me...
FEMA’s Craig Fugate Also Prepared for the Zombie Apocalypse Thursday August 26, The Washington Post ran an interview with FEMA’s Craig Fugate about the 5-year anniversary of Hurricane...
Cats in Hats at the Algonquin, New York We can only imagine the hell which hath no fury like the cats who were dressed up like Raggedy...