- Magenta is the color of danger in new climate change heat risk chart
Step aside, color red, there's a new, scariest hue in town. This Earth Day, the National Weather Service and the Centers for Disease Control announced a new, color-coded heat risk system. And the worst case scenario is represented by magenta.The AP…
- 4 hours ago 27 Apr 24, 3:14pm -
- Owner of exploded building arrested getting ready to board one-way flight out the county
After a building exploded in Detroit, killing a man, a quest for answers began. A great place to start will be the building's owner, Noor Noel Kestou, arrested yesterday while trying to leave the country on a one-way flight to Hong Kong. — Read the…
- 5 hours ago 27 Apr 24, 2:50pm -
- "Mad inventor" Tim Hunkin explains how electro-mechanical games are made
Mad inventor and artist Tim Hunkin's latest YouTube video is a fun walk through his process for creating a mechanical coin-op game. Hunkin is the long-time explainer of mechanisms in his "The Secret Life Of _____'" BBC series and one of the original…
- 5 hours ago 27 Apr 24, 2:29pm -
- These frogs look like something from Studio Ghibli
These frogs are White's tree frogs, also known as Australian green tree frogs or dumpy tree frogs (rude), and are absolutely characters from a Studio Ghibli film. They don't seem to be very good at distinguishing food from a person's finger, but appa…
- 5 hours ago 27 Apr 24, 2:25pm -
- House drifts across San Francisco Bay
Watch a 2-story houseboat drift across the San Francisco Bay.The boat was being towed to its new home after a legal battle that forced many houseboats to relocate. Out of context, this looks like a house that slid off the side of a cliff and got l…
- 6 hours ago 27 Apr 24, 1:54pm -
- 1957 school dress code video for students
Enjoy this video from 1957 made to show students examples of outfits deemed as proper—and improper—by the school's dress code. The "bad taste" outfits include jeans, open leather jackets, and skirts that were too tight in the eyes of the school…
- 7 hours ago 27 Apr 24, 1:00pm -
- Moulin Rouge goes "topless" as blades fall off famed Parisian windmill
The iconic windmill that decorates the Moulin Rouge Cabaret in Paris has collapsed like a dying diva in the third act. The New York Times reports that the blades fell off, probably around midnight Wednesday. No one was hurt in the accident, except…
- 7 hours ago 27 Apr 24, 12:53pm -
- Utah kitty plays in a box, then accidentally gets shipped off as return package to Amazon in California (video)
A Utah cat named Galena was playing in a large box, when suddenly things got dark. Meanwhile, Galena's human parents didn't know where she was, and grew frantic as they looked everywhere for their pet. They even put up "missing" flyers and recruited…
- 16 hours ago 27 Apr 24, 3:18am -
- Is it healthier to sleep on your left side or your right side?
If you're tossing and turning at night due to heartburn, sleep apnea, or other health issues, your sleeping position could be the culprit – or the solution.According to Lifehacker, for heartburn sufferers, "lying on your left side means that food…
- 18 hours ago 27 Apr 24, 2:06am -
- Not again! Boeing plane makes emergency landing in New York when emergency slide flies off mid-flight
Another week, another busted Boeing plane that lost a part mid-flight.This time, it was a Delta Air Lines flight headed to LAX from JFK Airport this morning, when, about an hour into the flight, the crew and passengers could feel a vibration. — Re…
- 19 hours ago 27 Apr 24, 1:09am -