Edible Beer Holders Help Save Ocean Animals

We’ve all heard the scary statistics: every year, thousands and thousands of sea birds, turtles and other marine life are mangled, poisoned, killed or otherwise harmed by the countless plastic beverage rings that end up in the ocean. Sure, cutting might help prevent some animals but being trapped in a …

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Disturbing Play Dough “Portraits”

Portuguese artist José Cardoso has managed to take a childhood toy and create something truly grotesque. Combining Play Dough “sculptures” and portraits of his friends and loved ones, Cardoso’s recent work is hard to look at for most people. Cardoso explains the project: “This is a collection of headshots where I …

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Expectant Parents Can 3D Print Their Babies

Expectant parents are often thrilled to show off their growing baby’s progress. Family and friends alike are shown sonogram pictures throughout the pregnancy that show different developmental milestones–and now they can do it in 3D! In each picture, you can see when the face is fully formed; you can start …

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Experts Have No Idea What This “Alien” Could Be

As the proud Guinness World Record holder for the largest collection of two-headed animals, Tod Ray is used to seeing all things weird and unusual. Tod also owns the Venice Beach Freakshow, an performance art show that’s eclectic, to say the least. But even with all the oddities in his life, even Tod …

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This Man Hasn’t Taken a Shower in 12 Years–On Purpose

Most of us start (or end) our daily lives with a long, hot shower. Many of us feel dirty or less-than-fresh if we have to skip even one day of our shower or bath routine. For one man, though, he’s decided to ditch the soap and water–for good. For the …

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Got Stale, Smelly Wine? Fix It In Seconds!

You come home from a long day of work and all you want is a glass of vino–we’ve all been there. But what happens when you open that long-awaited bottle and it…reeks like rotten eggs? You, my friend, have one very stale bottle of wine. It may smell like rotten …

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Belgians Confuse Terrorists With Barrage of Cat Pics

When Brussels was on lockdown last week, police continued anti-terror raids in their search for the monsters that were involved in the Paris attacks. Acting quickly, the police asked Belgian citizens to go dark on their social media accounts so any terrorists would not be able to keep tabs on …

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Old City Buses Cleaning the Homeless in Frisco

Talk about cleaning up. A former marketing executive, Doniece Sandoval, raised $51,806 dollars in just four weeks so she could redesign old San Francisco transit buses into mobile showers for the homeless. According to her verified Indiegogo page, over 400 people shot her past her goal of $50,000 in just …

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Wimbledon Tennis Balls Save British Mice

Tens of thousands of Eurasian harvest mice would die every year without the help of the Wimbledon Tennis Club and 1,000’s of used tennis balls from the annual championship. The Eurasian harvest mouse is a tiny, adorable rodent weighing in at around 4 grams (for comparison, an American nickel weighs …

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Virgin (Snake) Gives Birth–the First of its Kind!

It looks like ladies don’t need a man, after all. Well, lady snakes, that is. To their surprise, the staff at the Louisville Zoo welcomed 6 new reticulated python babies in 2012 from a mother snake, which actually wasn’t the weird part. What was more surprising was that the mother snake, …

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