Rosemary Marco is an artist and writer who communicates information about the natural world and the importance of preserving it. She's especially passionate about birds and would like to have their powers.
A gular pouch could be especially helpful during harsh winter months when food becomes scarce or during workplace meetings that drag on into my lunchbreak. Perhaps I could create an artificial one and wear it around my neck.
Mateo Zielonka is a world-renowned pasta chef who recently published a cookbook teaching his craft.
He's made astonishingly realistic pasta versions of household objects, such as cookpots, and logos, such as the shield of the Arsenal soccer team.
"Is it cake?" is the old question. "Is it pasta?" is an update by Zielonka.
In the case of the above video, our master chef used molds to create LEGO minifigs and blocks out of flour. Then he carefully cooked the delicate objects to buttery perfection.
Instagram user @nao2748 is a food artist who crafts amazing treats that delight all of the senses. Her projects include focaccia loaves with crab-shaped tomatoes, cake sandwiches with Santa Claus, and cheesecakes shaped like foxes.
She's also made pizzas shaped like frogs. The frogs are ready for the winter, as they have their mittens on and wear beanie caps to shield themselves from the cold weather.
They bake well and still look like cozy frogs warmed by the heat of a fireplace (or oven). Hop over to her kitchen and try one.
British-American actor Roddy McDowall appeared in all three of the original Planet of the Apes films in the role of Dr. Cornelius. In the third film, Escape from the Planet of the Apes, he finds himself in contemporary human-ruled Earth.
Enter Jameson Montgomery, a fashion writer for the New York Times. Reader Nina says that she loves a robe that Cornelius wore during the film. She would like to own and wear one like it. Can Montgomery help her? Montgomery then goes on a quest to locate this robe or a copy of it. The hero's journey takes him to fashion history experts and vintage clothing collectors in search of the lost totem.
-via Marginal Revolution
YouTuber Builda Dad Garage builds extraordinary vehicles in his workshop, mostly extreme vehicles designed to tackle the roughest environments. These include tracked wheelchairs, dually go-karts, minibikes with mower attachments, a bike that rolls on barrels, and amphibious trikes.
One of his recent inventions is a mechanized ladder that can push through snow and over obstacles thanks to rear-mounted tracks. It's an ideal machine for, say, clearing gutters. This way, you don't have to climb down and reposition the ladder every few feet. Just stay at the top and drive.
He also made a wheeled variant for, presumably, transportation over roads.
-via David Thompson
Radiohead's famous single "Creep" is spoken from the point of view of a man who's a bit creepy because the object of his love does not return it. He's watching his subject very carefully. He's making a list and he's checking it twice.
Or is that Santa Claus from the 1934 Christmas classic "Santa Claus Is Comin' to Town"? It's easy to get the two songs confused because they tell a similar story, especially after Dustin Ballard of There I Ruined It gets to work mashing them together.
This song is from Ballard's Christmas album, which includes the previously shared "Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer" sung by Creed.
Eric Coquin Poirier is a Québécois musician and inventor of musical instruments. He's especially fond of modifying accordions, guitars, and harmonicas to create one-man bands or instruments for people with disabilities.
With the harp reactor, Poirier is going far beyond modifying pre-existing instruments into devising an original invention. This instrument, much of which appears to be 3D printed, combines several harmonicas with a bellows similar to what you might find on a concertina.
In this video, Poirier puts his invention to the test by performing Michael Jackson's "Beat It."
-via The Awesomer
Roslyn, North Dakota has only 181 residents, but those happy few can claim to reside in the shadow of the International Vinegar Museum.
It was founded by Lawrence "The Vinegar Man" Diggs, who is also the founder of Vinegar Connoisseurs International. You can think of him as the world's foremost expert on and devoted fan of vinegar. In 1999, he converted the old 1930s-era auditorium of Roslyn into a museum dedicated to this liquid. Visitors can learn about hundreds of different uses for vinegar, as well as taste many that Diggs has collected.
Rosyln has learned into its vinegary identity. It now has an annual vinegar festival which includes a parade hosted by a pickle mascot. It occurs on the third Saturday of every June
-via Atlas Obscura | Photos: International Vinegar Museum
What sort of Great Gatsby will we have when Daisy Buchanan is actually Daisy Duck? We can find out because, as Zach Weinersmith explains in Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal, we're just four years away from a mashup of the Disney characters and the Fitzgerald novel.
Then just wait ten years. In 2040, both Bugs Bunny and the grim Richard Wright novel Native Son will enter the public domain.
"Come quietly or there will be trouble," as the RoboCop statue has arrived in Detroit’s Eastern Market following a public funding campaign. pic.twitter.com/fmWplyVRHO
— Local 4 WDIV Detroit (@Local4News) December 4, 2025
Ever since Paul Verhoeven's 1997 documentary about Alex Murphy, Detroit's most famous police officer, people have sought to erect a memorial to honor the cyborg hero RoboCop. The project has taken over 14 years to reach completion.
The Detroit Metro-Times reports that the 10-foot statue of RoboCop is now in place at 3434 Russell Street. Crowdfunding raised the $60,000 necessary to hire sculptor George Gikas of Venus Bronze Works to construct the durable statue. Now the hero again stands watch over us.
-via Alyssa Hazel
Do you remember cigarette vending machines? In the age of smoking in America, they proliferated in public venues. But as smoking became less common, the vending machines gradually disappeared.
In 1997, artist Clark Whittington took one and converted it into a vending machine for small pieces of art. He called it the Art-o-Mat.
The project was popular and Whittington, along with other artists, made more. There are now about 200 in service now, mostly in the United States. This one pictured above is in a Whole Foods location in Winston-Salem, North Carolina.
Art-o-Mats are great ways for artists to promote their work, earning $2.50 per sale. The guidelines are strict, though, as Whittington describes the mechanical requirements of the machines as "unforgiving."
A raccoon broke into a state-run liquor store in Ashland, Virginia, which is just north of Richmond. According to a Facebook post for the animal control authority for Hanover County, the raccoon smashed bottles of alcohol and drank their contents until he passed out on the floor of the restroom.
Animal control officials took him back to a county shelter until he sobered up. After a few hours of sleep, the raccoon woke up apparently uninjured. The human authorities then released the raccoon back into the wild to commit additional poor life choices.
-via @sunnyright | Photos: Hanover County Animal Control and Shelter
UPDATE: 12/4/2025:
I painted the raccoon from liquor store in Virginia. He’s still sleeping it off. pic.twitter.com/aVGbbytHTU
— Travis Chapman (@Travispaints) December 4, 2025
Dave Locke is not just an acrobat; he's an "acrobat conceptor." He's a master athlete and performer with experience in Cirque du Soleil, notably using the cyr wheel and the trampwall (a trampoline arranged vertically rather than horizontally).
How is he a conceptor? Locke is devising original acrobatic activities, such as kicking a sword into a target. Most people (well, Miss Cellania and I) use our hands when wielding swords, but Locke can shoot a sword in preferred directions with sidekicks.
-via Born in Space
Again, sorry about the 67 thing pic.twitter.com/kksi9Dqq56
— Carissa Codel (@CarissaCodelTV) November 25, 2025
Carissa Codel is a professional journalist who began working in that field while still an undergraduate student at Missouri State University. She has thrived professionally, won multiple awards, and is now the anchor for KOLR10 News in Springfield, Missouri.
She attracts a lot of attention for her body of work...and her body. Some of the comments that people leave about her physique are complimentary. Others are not. Codel takes them all in stride and frequently reads them out loud in her level, carefully enunciating, professional newscaster voice.
-via Tara Bull
Sarah Wagner is a gingerbread artist known in Cleveland for recreating landmarks of that city that she calls home. In the past, she's made highly realistic models of the Westside Market, Terminal Tower, and East Fourth Street.
Cleveland magazine reports that, this year, Wagner made a scale model of the central Cleveland Public Library. This was a commission by that institution, which provided Wagner with architectural plans necessary to recreate the headquarters. Baking and assembly took a full month, as well as 25 pounds of flour and 3 pounds of Isomalt, which is the substance used to create the windows. It measures 32 by 38 inches.
The model is now on display at the main library.
-via reddit
