The Nakizumo Crying Baby Festival is an annual ritual conducted in Shinto shrines across Japan. Sumo wrestlers carry babies into a dohyo (a sumo ring). Then priests put on bird demon masks and taunt the babies. The first...

A little nod to Peter Higgs, to mark his passing. I interviewed him at Cheltenham Science Festival a few years ago, and asked him to sign this silly note, which he was delighted to do! There are only two of these in exis...

Embed from Getty ImagesDid you get to see the solar eclipse today? Millions of people traveled to the path of totality, but all across the contiguous US and northern Mexico, people stopped working, went outside, and star...

Climate change has come to Washington, DC. The National Cherry Blossom Festival opened over the weekend and will run until April 14. However, the blossoms reached their peak on March 17th, the earliest on record, due to...

Easter traditions vary widely among places that celebrate the holiday, and some can be pretty darn weird. One is the annual bottle kicking competition in the British village of Hallaton. The team from Hallaton competes w...

Ollie loves Jane, and would do anything for her. Life was good, but changed when the Covid-19 pandemic struck. Jane was home all the time, and Ollie was happy to have Jane at home all the time. But that didn't keep her f...

We've posted before about Frozen Dead Guy Days, a festival held in Colorado every year in honor of Bredo Morstoel, who has been frozen since his death in 1989. Since 1993, he has been kept on ice in Nederland, Colorado,...

Pull over, exit your vehicle, and keep your hands where officers can see them. The Kiddie Ride Police Patrol has noted your suspicious behavior.Arctic, a Dutch performing troupe that engages in public pranks, created thi...

To make a 15,000-egg omelet, you will need a 13-foot frying pan, a fork lift, a bunch of concrete mixing paddles, 70 liters of duck fat, and a battalion of chefs to break all those eggs. Oeuf! It happens on Easter Monday...

Today is March the first, and if we were in ancient Rome, that would come with a "Happy New Year!" greeting. A couple of days ago, we learned that in the Roman calendar, they just doubled February 24th to have a Leap Day...