Performance art is also sometimes called shock art. It’s inherently unsettling and uncomfortable, pushing the boundaries of society, artistic expression, and even the artist’s own body to provoke a reaction. Unlike traditional mediums, performance art isn’t something you just observe—the audience becomes part of the piece itself, sometimes as unwittingContinue Reading
Laws are supposed to be grounded in logic, necessity, and public safety—but sometimes, they sound more like punchlines than policies. Across the world, and especially in the U.S., lawmakers have occasionally passed statutes so strangely specific that they seem invented for a comedy sketch. From regulating the speed of UFOsContinue Reading
The world is burning again. There seems to be conflict and war everywhere, and many people on social media are actually wishing for WWIII so that they can “experience what it’s like to live in wartime.” At the same time, those living in war zones would give anything not to.Continue Reading
There is a famous European folk story about a young chicken who somehow gets it into his head that the sky is falling and therefore the world is about to end. It is a tale of hysteria and paranoia. But the idea of bizarre things falling from the heavens isContinue Reading
Captured and jailed in 2011, Joaquin Guzmán, aka “El Chapo,” escaped in a laundry basket, only to be arrested and returned to custody three years later, when he disappeared again, this time through a tunnel. Captured yet again in 2016, he was extradited to the United States in 2017. ConvictedContinue Reading
What a year 1965 was. America’s Civil Rights campaigns intensified while the Vietnam War’s escalation accelerated. Notable people, from Sir Winston Churchill to Malcolm X, breathed their last, and a deadly outbreak of tornadoes ravaged the Midwest. However, it wasn’t all doom and gloom that year, which also saw someContinue Reading
My goal with this list was to compile 10 stories that were so unusual that I almost couldn’t believe them when I read them or viewed them. They were so unconventional and original that I wouldn’t have come up with them on my own if I had never discovered them.Continue Reading
These ten cathedrals and basilicas around Europe (and beyond) were built over many generations, reflecting changes in style, politics, and technology. From the Sagrada Família in Barcelona to the Basilica of San Petronio in Bologna, each project faced delays due to wars, funding shortages, and shifts in power. Some tookContinue Reading
On April 10, 1815, 14,000-foot (4,267 m) high Mount Tambora on the island of Sumbawa, Dutch East Indies (now Indonesia), erupted in a mighty cataclysm, spewing a gigantic column of debris 25 miles (40.2 km) into the sky. The blast was heard 1,600 miles (2,575 km) away—the biggest volcanic explosionContinue Reading
As civilizations from Rome to the Maya harnessed empirical ingenuity to create materials with built-in healing, color-shifting, or structural resilience, they left behind recipes that modern science is only now decoding. From rust-proof iron pillars and self-repairing concrete to nanotech-level glass and ancient vulcanized rubber, these ten remarkable “smart” materialsContinue Reading
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