One of the most beautiful things about cities, other than the skylines, is the way people adapt to the space, be it picnicking on the museum steps or sunning on a retaining wall, but artists are getting in on the urban design scene by adapting urban furniture to people’s needs, desires and dreams. WebUrbanist has …

The art of striptease, from burlesque to exotic dancers, remains pretty much unchanged since the early days of flinging off clothes on a public stage. Sure, the advent of breast implants and lower back tattoos has altered the look of some performers, but the basic idea has stayed the same. Dr. Charles H. McCaghy, a …

The toy world changed on January 28, 1958 at 1:58 p.m. On that day, the modern LEGO brick was patented, and the rest is playtime building history. Did you know that these first sets of LEGOs remain compatible with bricks produced today? Via Mrs. Easton. The joys of toys.

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Nothing says “money” quite like a Jaguar, and nothing says “boatloads of money” like a Jaguar hanging from the wall holding your knick-knacks. This isn’t a mock-up, but an actual picture from a villa in the Netherlands designed by the architectural firm denieuwegeneratie. Oh, those crazy Dutch. So much classier than just putting it up …

In 1874 Remington & Sons manufactured the first commercial typewriter, called the Remington Number 1. This typewriter was designed by Christopher Sholes and used the “QWERTY” keyboard we are all familiar with. Sholes’ original prototypes had a problem with the bars colliding with each other and jamming. Read full story at HowStuffWorks.com. Total aggregation of …

New research explains why the moon settled into an orbit with the “man”—rather than the moon’s crater-covered far side—facing Earth. Many of us see a man in the moon—a human face smiling down at us from the lunar surface. The “face,” of course, is just an illusion, shaped by the dark splotches of lunar maria—smooth …

As part of her senior thesis on video game addiction, Roxanne Myers attempted a weekend-long gaming marathon. Partway through her research, she fell asleep in a cross-legged position. Because she has a pre-existing condition that makes her prone to blood clots, she lost circulation in the lower part of her body. As a result, she …

In 2003, artist Doris Salcedo filled the empty space between two buildings in Istanbul with 1,550 wooden chairs stacked seemingly haphazardly, but with a message that was more carefully constructed. Salcedo said the 1,550 chairs evoke “the masses of faceless migrants who underpin our globalized economy.” Sit on that. Via MMM. Celebrate the complexity of …

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Can the people of Lord Howe Island off the coast of Australia learn to love an insect as big as an adult hand? Conservationists certainly hope so, but to give the, um, “little” guys a hand, they produced this video of the first ever hatching of the extremely rare Lord Howe stick insect, or Dryococelus …