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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

Meet Yana, a 50,000-year-old baby mammoth whose well-preserved remains were just revealed in Yakutsk, Russia. Video below. The animal’s name comes from the river basin where residents spotter her nearly thawed out in the world’s largest permafrost crater. The finders

Last year, the Right Reverend Al Green released a beautiful cover of Lou Reed’s “Perfect Day.” He’s followed that by reimagining another classic song: REM’s “Everybody Hurts.” Green is a master at what makes a cover great—he makes the song

   LIKE BOING BOING BUT NOT THE ADS?   CLICK HERE TO GO AD-FREE! “The advancement of insect-computer hybrid robots holds significant promise for navigating complex terrains and enhancing robotics applications,” writes Hirotako Sato and colleagues at the Nanyang Technology University in Singapore.

   LIKE BOING BOING BUT NOT THE ADS?   CLICK HERE TO GO AD-FREE! Evergreen Funeral Cremation and Reception plans to offer a new kind of memorial event to celebrate your loved one’s life (or death?). The Columbus, Ohio funeral parlor has applied

   LIKE BOING BOING BUT NOT THE ADS?   CLICK HERE TO GO AD-FREE! “Saudade is a Portuguese word that can be roughly defined as a feeling of melancholy, nostalgia or yearning for something that is beloved but not present,” writes NPR’s Anamaria