Lake Bell, one of the triumvirs starring in the new cabin-in-the-woods thriller Black Rock, had an interesting take on the difficulties female filmmakers face when trying to break into the Hollywood mainstream. Though the gender disparity in the ranks of Hollywood scribes and directors is pretty glaring, Bell is optimistic that the industry has made lots of gender equality progress.

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Shetland Pony Suckles Lamb, Ushers in Era of World Peace

Just when you thought Shetland ponies couldn’t get any more adorable, they go ahead and quadruple their adorability in one squee-packed news item. A mother pony living in the Black Mountains in Wales let a lamb suckle from her despite having a young foal of her own.

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Flesh-Eating Bacteria Amputee Gets New Bionic Hands

Last year Aimee Copeland was ziplining across the Little Tallapoosa River in Georgia, when her homemade line broke and she sliced open her leg, requiring 22 stitches to close. And then the nightmare began.

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Brooklyn Hipsters Degrade Native American Culture with Indoor Tepees

Indoor tepees are becoming really trendy among affluent New Yorkers bored with their spacious urban dwellings, yet too self-conscious to simply build a pillow fort. “Fort” is awfully militaristic, isn’t it? Far better to mitigate the imperialistic implications of fort-building by appropriating some cultural artifacts …

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‘Swarmageddon’ Terrifies People Who Hate Bugs, Obviously

People who fear bugs will be especially put upon during “Swarmageddon,” and you might never have figured this out if the cicada scribes at the Washington Post, a periodical chronicling the latest developments in entomology, hadn’t taken the time to explain that people who already hate bugs hate the idea of a lot of…

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Raise Your Hand If You Want to See a Kitten Eating a Watermelon

Pancake, a flat-faced, croaky-meow kitten, enjoys nibbling on watermelon slices. It helps him cool off during the hot summer months, and, also, it makes him look way more adorable than he would if he were, say, peeing on a stack of old magazines or disemboweling couch cushions.

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State-of-the-art 19th-century torpedo was discovered by Navy dolphins

In the late 19th century, the Howell torpedo was an incredibly advanced piece of military equipment, a breakthrough device in the United States' quest to achieve naval dominance. But only one surviving Howell torpedo was known to exist—until Navy dolphins nosed up another.

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According to several reports coming out of Philadelphia, a former “hero cop” who was once rewarded for his bravery in the line of duty with a seat next First Lady Michelle Obama during a presidential speech is being held on $60 million bail (apparently one of the highest in Philadelphia history) for allegedly raping two women at gunpoint, among some other pretty terrible things.

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