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This photo from the early 20th century shows what a hair loss treatment called the Thermocap looked like. This pseudoscientific gem was marketed towards men who were balding. The device ...

An artist and mom has found the funniest possible way to engage with Pokémon: by drawing them without ever seeing them. PokéMum creates her own versions of Pokémon based only ...

Sometimes, deciding whether to go to the restroom or stay seated in a theater is no easy choice. I've probably come close to injuring my bladder because I didn't want ...

These images of flounders come from an early 20th-century study published in 1911 in the Journal of Experimental Zoology by American zoologist Francis Bertody Sumner. Working between research stations in ...

What's better than one good joke? How about the same joke told ten times in a row? At a certain point, you're just laughing at the absurdity.

Turn off the DAW and put down the tablet. David Hilowitz (previously) got his thumbs on the Bastl Kalimba, a peculiar and extremely fun-looking handheld that's currently live on Kickstarter.

Watch the Harmony Town chorus sing the theme song from Popeye the Sailor. This lovely cover of the song is like a time machine to the past. This is the ...

Here's a terrific search hack for the Internet Archive Book Images Flickr photo stream, courtesy of a kind Redditor.

A centaur is a person assisted by a machine -- anything from a bicycle to a spell-checker. A reverse centaur, Cory Doctorow says, is "a person who has been conscripted ...

This ethereal, spooky sculpture garden at Jupiter Artland is by artist Laura Ford. The sculptures show ghostly girls standing amongst the trees with their hair covering their faces. There is ...