Middle Class Problems

The Most Surprising Things About America, According To An Indian International Student

999 myth quashed by police

See What 1,000 Tiny, Fracking-Caused Earthquakes Can Do to a Home

24 Hours At Burning Man

The day Harry Redknapp brought a fan on to play for West Ham

Middle Class Problems

China's Embarrassing Childhood Photos

Take Death Defying Walks in China’s Mountains

GIF Dance Party

Japanese Creative Barcodes

Contraband seized by various customs offices

Maps that will change the way you see the world

Want to Sell Cologne? Add 'Sport' to the Name

Ocean acidification, the lesser-known twin of climate change, threatens to scramble marine life on a scale almost too big to fathom

A Boy Named Humiliation: Some Wacky, Cruel, and Bizarre Puritan Names

World Cup 2022 in Qatar: Between the Clock and a Hot Place

The Crowded—and Epic—Reality of Climbing Japan’s Mt. Fuji

What 1939 Thought Fashion in 2000 Would Look Like

Your iPhone uses more energy than a refrigerator

How Does All Your Stuff Get to You? Inside the Shipping Industry

The 388-Year-Old Bonsai that Survived Hiroshima

How the Speed of Light was First Measured

What 1939 Thought Fashion in 2000 Would Look Like

Gravity map reveals Earth's extremes

Read the zine that young Ray Bradbury started in 1939

Why Cities No Longer Want to Host the Olympics

The greatest mystery of the Inca Empire was its strange economy

Speedos, Computers, and Robot Butlers: Rural Living in the Future

What Europe looked like 8,200 years ago

"Your two o'clock appointment is here, and he's black."

Take Death Defying Walks in China’s Mountains

Where Have the Carousel Animals Gone? Antique Merry-Go-Rounds Fight Extinction

Murder and Mayhem in Miniature: The Lurid Side of Staffordshire Figurines

The village where half the population are sex offenders

The curious case of Kandinsky: how Communist Russia enabled art forgers to make millions

Ancient 'Hall of the Dead' Unearthed in England

The Strangest Installations and Art Projects on Earth

The Alaskan village set to disappear under water in a decade

The village where half the population are sex offenders

Climate study predicts a watery future for New York, Boston and Miami

The blockbuster heist that rocked the Deep Web

Big blue cock erected on fourth plinth in London's Trafalgar Square

Trailing Angela Davis, from FBI Flyers to 'Radical Chic' Art

Collectors on a Mission: When Americans Saw the World Through Evangelists' Eyes

Why good copy editors are ‘abnormal’ humans

Russian Vodka (Made In Latvia) And Other 'National' Products

Creepy Things Kids Say To Their Parents

What’s Inside Ammo? A Cross-Section of Bullets

This is the most interesting man on Wikipedia

The Forbidden Island

Creepy Things Kids Say To Their Parents

Slot machine sounds can manipulate players, researchers say

Maps of Vast Empires That No Longer Exist


Driver charged over car with no steering wheel

This Is What Gravity Looks Like

Judith Tebbutt: My six months held hostage by Somali pirates

Every registered refugee since 1960: interactive map

Artists Attempt To Draw Batman With Their Eyes Closed

The Golden Age of Soviet Children’s Art

Fire crew called out to free woman whose bum was stuck in wall

Say Goodbye to the Tech Sounds You’ll Never Hear Again

Inside Atlantis, The New Amazon For Illegal Things

Inside Atlantis, The New Amazon For Illegal Things

World's Smallest Museum Finds the Wonder in Everyday Objects

A teenager's brain, converted into a binary decision tree

Banknotes featuring Scientists and Mathematicians (via)

RHS 'sheep-eating' plant about to bloom in Surrey

The largest North American landslide EVER that dropped 165 MILLION tons more than half a mile down at copper mine in Utah

15-year-old girl invents flashlight powered by the heat of your hand

27 NFL players have been arrested since the Super Bowl... including two for murder

Photos of the World’s Scariest Border Fences

Ten thousand people take part in re-enactment of Battle of Gettysburg

A Filthy History: When New Yorkers Lived Knee-Deep in Trash

America's Most Feces-Polluted Beaches, Mapped

Strange, Ironic, and Hilarious Fireworks Packaging

Almost every major consumer electronics manufacturer is now working on a smart watch

IKEA uses a staggering 1% of the world's wood every year

The Dragon’s Skull: The Macabre Appearance of Snapdragon Seed Pods

Where the Most Important Part of Your Battery Comes From

Parent myths: How much of what your parents told you was crap?

How much water is on Earth?

The last living photos of famous figures

Did you know?

Why Finnish babies sleep in cardboard boxes

The Water Witch of Wyoming, and How Dowsing Works (or Doesn't)

The Unfiltered History of Rolling Papers, Plus Tommy Chong's Big Fat Jamaican Vacation

Summers Fly, Winters Walk

How common is your birthday?

The avant-garde art of book stacking in stores of Japan

Could a 2,000-Year-Old Recipe for Cement Be Superior to Our Own?

How The Human Face Might Look In 100,000 Years

How supermarkets get your data – and what they do with it

How Do You Move An Entire Bridge? (via)

The last living photos of famous figures

Heracleion Photos: Lost Egyptian City Revealed After 1,200 Years Under Sea

In Glittering Gems, Reading Earth’s Story

1939 New York in HD Colour

Gloriously Grotesque 19th-Century Pipes

Early copper coins from an African trading empire found in Australia

Here's that bad advice you were hoping for

A Look At The Violent & Terrifying Gangs Of El Salvador

Meet China's Photoshop Trolls

The Weird Stuff Warehouse is where old tech goes to retire

Everest crowds: The world's highest traffic jam


'Thong Cape Scooter Man' is a sight, but he's not breaking any laws

The world's biggest lotteries

I made a giant kinder surprise for girlfriends birthday

1939 New York in HD Colour

Comics, Coltrane, and Cthulhu: The vital importance of pop-culture mentors

Bruised and Blattered: How Fifa's great survivor has stayed on top

Even With Defects, Graphene Is Strongest Material in the World

Motorola Considers Pills, Tattoos To Allow You To Become A Walking Password

The Curious Evolution of the Typewriter, in Pictures

The Most Dangerous Border in the World

Evolution of lying

The Most Dangerous Border in the World

The Quickest Way To Change How You See The World

The Luckiest Village in the World

Read Francis Crick’s $6 Million Letter to Son Describing DNA

A revealing map of the world’s most and least ethnically diverse countries


Police warned girl, 10, 'chalk hopscotch grid on path was criminal damage'

How Lasers May Have Revealed a Legendary Lost City of Gold

How Humans Will Evolve Over the Next Million Years

A DVD That Smells Like Domino's Pizza

Bill Oddie evicted from HSBC headquarters after protest over bank's links to logging companies. See also Bill Oddie’s BankWatch

Ghost town comes up for air after 25 years under water

When Earth is Scarred Forever

Piano found on Britain's highest mountain

Incredible Pictures of Early Science Labs

Mind-Bending Recursive Illusion Created Using Printed Photographs

Everest Climber: Sherpas Tried to Kill Me

Meet the Family That Never Learned to Walk on Two Legs

Use a Software Bug to Win Video Poker? That’s a Federal Hacking Case

Tracking Tremors: A Brief History of the Richter Scale

12 countries where the government regulates what you can name your child

Incredible Pictures of Early Science Labs

Never drop a book on the bath again

Why do we behave so oddly in lifts?

Strange Deep-Sea Diving Suits

Bizarre 6-Inch Skeleton Shown to Be Human

Why Do You Hoard?

Really Big DIY Bubble Maker

Why Is Gold Crashing?

Finally A Robot Will Help You Build IKEA Furniture

A surprising map of the countries where banks are most and least trusted

The Invisible Hand Illusion

The True Stories Behind 11 Famous Sideshow Performers

Really Big DIY Bubble Maker


Sinkhole Swallows Up Three Cars In Chicago

1913: When Hitler, Trotsky, Tito, Freud and Stalin all lived in the same place

How I Met My Dead Parents

San Francisco 1955

One man's journey from Los Angeles to Real Madrid good-luck charm

History Declassified: New Archive Reveals Once-Secret Documents from World Governments

This Shirt Can Be Worn For 100 Days Without Washing, Which Sounds Incredibly Sketchy But Also Awesome

Tesco investigate claims delivery driver urinated on Sutton's customer's stairs