Allan Rose Hill

As a longtime fan of the seminal 1970s “lost” and rediscovered Langley School Music Project, I have a soft spot for private press records featuring school bands and choruses reimagining pop songs of their era. In that vein, from 1984, […]

In the mid-1670s, Johannes Swammerdam, a Dutch biologist, peered through his microscope at a honeybee’s brain and drew what he saw. That illustration, seen above, is the oldest known image of a bug brain. Writing in the Royal Society Journal

As part of The New Yorker’s 100th anniversary this year, the magazine partnered with J. Crew on a clothing line. Now you can dress like a New Yorker reader and be the talk of the town. (Sorry.) The capsule collection,

Decades before Happy Days and his career as a film director, Ron Howard, age 5, was best known as Opie, the son of Andy Griffith, a sheriff in the sleepy burg of Mayberry, North Carolina. Griffith’s comic foil was Don

EastByMike fermented french fries for a week in a jar of salt brine and cabbage leaves. Video below. “The result: french fries that tasted like salt and vinegar chips,” he says, enticingly. From his recipe: When you’re ready to cook,

Gary Johnson was driving a digger at Dewars Farm Quarry in Oxfordshire, UK when he hit a big hump in the road.    LIKE BOING BOING BUT NOT THE ADS?   CLICK HERE TO GO AD-FREE! “I thought it’s just an abnormality in

This 1957 (or possibly 1968) television commercial will hypnotize you into trying a new Spud menthol cigarette. “It has a fresh taste like it was air conditioned.” “You’re going to buy a pack. Tomorrow.” Previously:• Film festival to attempt mass hypnosis

For many US youngsters in the 1980s, pizza day at the school cafeteria was highly-anticipated and deeply satisfying. Now, you can nosh nostalgic on those gooey rectangles of goodness at home. In the video below, Tasting History’s Max Miller tackles

The Sony Trinitron KX-45ED1, aka the PVM-4300, is considered to be the world’s largest consumer tube TV set. With a 43″ screen, the hulking CRT weighed 440 pounds. Released in 1988 in Japan and the US a couple years later,

A lucid dream is one in which you’re aware of the fact that you’re dreaming and can often control what happens. If you can train yourself in the practice, it can help boost creativity, confront fears, practice new skills, and