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William Accorsi (b. 1931, Pittsburgh) made colorful, erotic wooden puzzles in the '60s and '70s. They now sell for hundreds of dollars.

The old clown photos in TASCHEN's The Circus. 1870s-1950s are incredible. A lot of the clowns look more fantastical than funny, with smeared makeup, giant costumes, and intense expressions. Some ...

Today's enormous shadow libraries -- Sci-Hub, Library Genesis, and the rest -- trace back to Soviet samizdat, the underground practice of typing forbidden books onto carbon paper and passing the ...

In the summer of 1997, NOAA's underwater microphone network -- a Cold War-era array of hydrophones originally built to track Soviet submarines and later repurposed to monitor earthquakes and whale ...

In August 1960, something washed ashore on a remote beach in western Tasmania, about two miles north of the Interview River. It was 20 feet wide, 18 feet long, weighed ...

Fruit flies, mold, and refrigeration failures, oh my! The Norwegian Dawn cruise ship flunks health inspection.

Drew Friedman has released a limited edition fine art print of Mel Brooks, hand-numbered and signed in a run of just 20, to mark Brooks's 100th birthday on June 28,

About 650,000 American physicians -- roughly two-thirds of the country's doctors -- now use a chatbot called OpenEvidence to help decide how to treat their patients, the company told NBC ...

Mrs. Crouch, a farmer's wife in Bath County, Kentucky, was stirring a kettle of soap on her porch around 11 a.m. on March 3, 1876 when chunks of fresh meat ...

The BBC's Human Planet showed a Korowai family in Papua climbing a bamboo ladder into a hut roughly 100 feet up in an ironwood tree, while the narrator declared height ...