Mark Frauenfelder

You may have encountered some clever smoothie art, but have you seen the 2-D and 3-D latte art from Tokyo-based artists Kohei Matsuno and Runa Kato? Reissue coffee house is pouring up incredible 2D…

Please don’t do an image search for “goatse.” If you do, though, soothe your stinging eyes with this “Natural Diamond Link Ring in 14k Rose Gold “from the Shane Co., y…

Nicholas McCarthy was born with one hand. As a child, he heard a Beethoven piece that inspired his passion for becoming a musician. In this interview, McCarthy explains that thousands of classical …

A 12-year-old girl ate her father’s stash of cannabis gummies, thinking they were just candy. Within an hour, she felt strange. She opened the apartment door and fell down the stairs. Her mot…

Three months ago, Allen Pan posted his video about giving a live snake robotic legs. CNN used the video on TV and social media without crediting Pan. After Pan complained about it online and genera…

There’s something about old computers that is both exciting and comforting. We can step back in time and look at the technology of the past with a newfound appreciation for these electromecha…

This peaceful game presents a photograph, broken into squares that have been randomly rotated some multiple of 90 degrees. Your challenge is the click on the boxes to rotate them into their correct…

[UPDATE 11-23-2022: it’s fake]

Long before MAGA cult demigod Ted Nugent ordered Obama to suck his machine gun, he was the guitar player for the psychedelic garage rock band The Amboy Dukes. Nugent’s guitar solo on 1968R…

This video was recorded at an Apple store in Dallas Texas. It shows one man hitting another man with a shopping bag because he was angry that the man cut in front of him for help from a clerk. The …

I just pledged $200 for a woven cotton blanket with a Jim Woodring design. It’s one of three blankets offered in Beehive Books’ latest Kickstarter, Illuminated Tapestries, featuring ori…

A little girl standing on the floor at the Shen Zhe Hui shopping mall in Shanghai grabbed an escalator’s moving handrail. The rail lifted her into the air, and she started screaming as she wa…

Lucky Jupiter has at least 80 moons, ranging in size from 1 km (cute little Valetudo, discovered in 2016) to 5268 km (Ganymede, possibly discovered in 365 BC). This CGI video compares the sizes of …

My family and I loved the movie We Are Little Zombies (see my 2020 post about it). I just found out that on September 1, Japan House Los Angeles is streaming a live conversation between the film…

Chinese e-commerce platform Taobao has banned the sale of merchandise featuring cartoon cats sprawled on comfy chairs, because it violates “public order and morality.” Taobao also told the RHR Shan…

Republican Rep. María Elvira Salazar of Florida is a savvy congresswoman. She knows her constituents require a steady stream of lies to stay happy, so yesterday she gave them a whopper of a fib, cl…