Allan Rose Hill

In Moore, Oklahoma, a toddler named Bennett was playing with an old mobile phone and was delighted that even though the service plan was off, emergency calling was still operational. So, as one does, Bennett dialed 911 and requested “emergency […]

There is another living world above our own, a community of microorganisms, including bacteria, fungi, viruses, and other microscopic life form, who live in the clouds above us. Their habitat is called the aerobiome and it’s the subject of Air-Borne:

Electronic music duo ODESZA, composers of the Severance score, have delivered a full eight hours of “Music To Refine To.” Enjoy it below. Here’s the track list: 0:00 – Innie Entrance 1:00:00 – MDR File Assignment 2:00:00 – Initiate Refinement

Step right up, suckers! The Fyre festival is back and tickets are now on sale. “I’m sure many people think I’m crazy for doing this again, but I feel I’d be crazy not to do it again,” ” said Fyre

For three decades, Erowid has been the most important clearinghouse of drug information on the Internet. Among other indispensable resources, the site has a collection of around 40,000 “experience reports” submitted by users (heh, heh) documenting what happened to them

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,