Meet Daniel, the Now-Famous Emotional Support Duck
Dogs, and sometimes cats, have long been used as support animals to help humans deal with a wide range of physical and psychiatric conditions, but ducks, not so much. That’s what makes Daniel Turducken Stinkbottom, the internet’s latest sweetheart, so darn special. Daniel made international headlines a couple of days ago, after photos of him […]
Skunk-Like Bicycle Lock Sprays Thieves with Vomit-Inducing Gas
The aptly-named SkunkLock is an ingenious bicycle lock that blasts would-be thieves with a disgusting cocktails of chemicals that most of the time causes them to vomit uncontrollably. When San Francisco-based Daniel Idzkowski learned that over 1.5 million bikes are being stolen across the United States, every year, he decided it was up to him to come up […]
Putting Faith in a Piece of Rope at Brazil’s Largest Religious Festival
Every year, in the second week of October, millions of Roman-Catholic devotees from all over Brazil descend on the city of Belem to attend Cirio de Nazaré, the country’s largest religious festival, and to touch a 400-meter-long piece of rope believed to have the power to heal the sick. Cirio de Nazaré has been celebrated intermittently […]