WEIRD FACTS
By Mike Hanlon – Coachbuilt survivors from the Art Deco era. Artcurial, Bonhams & RM-Sotheby’s. – The automotive heritage industry relocates across the Atlantic Ocean this week, as Paris prepares to become the center of the automotive world once more with the staging of …
This long opinion piece is filled with wild speculation that is intended to induce unjustified anxiety in a dietary choice that is rightly increasing in popularity. Dr. Josh Cullimore, Jan 30, 2020 – The BBC’s recent opinion piece is filled with wild speculation …
By Ben Coxworth – The X tractor is being presented in commemoration of Kubota’s 130th year in business. Kubota. According to agricultural machinery manufacturer Kubota, there are now fewer farmers in Japan, trying to manage increasingly large amounts of land. With that problem …
By Nick Lavars – A new study has revealed not just how warm our ocean’s have gotten, but that they continue to do so at an accelerated pace. Alebloshka/Depositphotos. Where some consequences of climate change are plain to see, like the bushfires currently ravaging …
ICANN eliminated price protections for .org domain owners earlier this year. Timothy B. Lee – 11/23/2019, 8:30 AM – Enlarge / The word DOT ORG written in vintage wooden letterpress type in a wooden type drawer. elinedesignservices / Getty. – The Public Internet …
By Maarten Wensink – Ask your smartphone how to drive from Copenhagen to Berlin and it will give you an estimate of how long the trip will take, based on current traffic. If there is a traffic jam in Hamburg, say, the extra …
By Ben Coxworth – The Chukka-style skin, getting zipped onto one of the soles. Images: ACBC. – While it’s nice to own multiple styles of shoes, each one of the things has a big rubber sole that will ultimately end up in the …
By Loz Blain – The team’s mission was to install emergency radios at high altitude, but there was time for a little record-setting, too. Daimler. – Mercedes-Benz’s squat little Unimog trucks have proven their expeditionary prowess yet again with the announcement that a …
By Ben Coxworth – How old would you say this one is? jelen80/Depositphotos. – Finding a person’s fingerprints at a crime scene isn’t always enough to convict them, as they can claim that those prints were left before the crime took place. That …
By Mark Holmes – The most disgusting canned foods make Spam look like a well-aged filet mignon. These weird canned foods make fast food look like fine dining. These strange canned foods make Spaghetti-Os look like $100/plate Italian cuisine. From the weird …
