The oldest physical boat is a canoe from roughly 10,000 years ago, but evidence suggests humans have been using watercraft for at least 50,000 years. When you purchase through links on our site, we ...

The traditional ovens we know today find their roots in ancient Athens. Here, an oven in Pompeii. Credit: Wikimedia Commons, Public Domain When we think about important innovations of ancient Greece, ...

The breakthrough is often credited to Scottish inventor John Logie Baird—but the real history is far more complicated and collaborative. John Logie Baird with his transmitting station on March 19, ...

Today, it’s easy to take the television for granted as one of many options for entertainment available to us, especially during the age of the internet and the ongoing popularity of social media. But ...

Who Owns a Meme? Doge Sues Rival Over Cocoro Token A dispute over a Shiba Inu named Cocoro is drawing a federal court into evolving legal terrain where internet culture, cryptocurrency and ...

Before we can answer this question, we need to think about another one: “What is art?” Art is something people make to share ideas or feelings. It can make others think or feel something too. Art can ...

James Moylan, who thought up the little arrow on your gas gauge that tells you what side of the car your fuel filler sits, has passed away. Moylan was a Ford interior trim designer who came up with ...

Burt Meyer, who invented toys like Rock 'Em Sock 'Em Robots, Lite-Brite and Mouse Trap in the 1960s that delighted generations of children, has died. He was 99. Meyer's creations arrived in the ...

When I first saw headlines from independent media sources involving the case of Tennessee’s Larry Bushart, a man who was arrested and spent more than a month in jail in September and October (with a ...

TikTok users spent much of 2025 complaining that memes had slipped into pure nonsense. Consequently, a growing crowd is pushing for a full cultural refresh, dubbed the Great Meme Reset of 2026, set to ...

The meme coin market is heating up again. While blue-chip crypto trades sideways, degens are flocking to the next wild opportunity. It is the same playbook every cycle: first boredom, then disbelief, ...