Epic Aussie Encounters set up a mirror near one of...  ...appears. Some were frightened, some were curious, and some took the reflection as a challenge. Some of...  ...a challenge. Some of the encounters are at night, and I wondered how well they actually saw their refle...  ...for the echidna, which is known fo...

In 1961, Yogi Bear was spun off from Huckleberry H...  ...61, Yogi Bear was spun off from Huckleberry Hound and got his own cartoon show. Yogi lived in the ficti...  ...show. Yogi lived in the fictional Jellystone Park and craved pic-a-nic baskets. He seemed pretty harmle...  ...ar window. Grizzlies were getting...

Hobbiton is the original location of The Shire in...  ...cenes were filmed. The movie sets were preserved, and the area is now a pilgrimage destination for fans...  .... It is also a popular venue for weddings. Sharik and Jess Burgess-Stride are both avid LOTR fans, and held th...

The 35th First Annual Ig Nobel Prize Ceremony was held Thursday night b...  ...Ceremony was held Thursday night by the magazine Annals of Improbable Research, at Boston University in M...  ...ton University in Massachusetts. The awards honor and highlight research that may look...

You've seen many lists of the funniest films, and the writers behind them know that a good way to k...  ...ghter, ruining take after take. The lighting guys and the production assistants may have read the scrip...  ...ally funny. But laughter slowed the process down, and Brooks...

From 1979 through 1985, Americans were captivated...  ...zzard. The show consisted primarily of car chases and usually involved at least one jump of the General...  ...ut that's what fans wanted to see. Fans still do, and so at the Somernites Cruise car festival in Somer...  ...town. This video shows the stunt f...

Being lost at sea is not at all like Gilligan's Is...  ...n a life raft. All you can see around you is sea, and even if you have navigational skills, you probabl...  ...atively recently. Some made it to a desert island and others were rescued at sea. Some succumbed quickl...  ...months before being found. Some w...

How often do you think about the cuisine of the Ro...  ...med, is not Italian cuisine. Alexander found that ancient Roman foods are very different from what their mo...  ...m what their modern descendants consume. Eggplant and tomato are absent, but authentic Roman dishes inc...  ...nt, but authentic Roman dishe...

Laurence Brown of Lost in the Pond takes a look at...  ...wn of Lost in the Pond takes a look at the US map and addresses the quirks of state boundaries, namely...  ...of those borders, because they don't have much of anything to do with natural geography like mountains or ri...  ...th the military conquests bet...

We've all seen this illustration in movies and cartoons when a character has to make a moral dec...  ...l decision- a small devil stands on one shoulder, and an angel on the other, whispering in the character's ear t...  ...the wrong t...