This Silver Swan Automaton Is a 250-Year-Old Mechanical Marvel
Created in 1774 to impress royalty and their guests, the Silver Swan automaton remains an impressively intricate mechanical wonder that continues to captivate audiences. Built for royalty that ended up changing their minds, the Silver Swan is one of the most famous automatons in history. It was put together at the Mechanical Museum of James […]
Joke Gone Wrong – Retiring Cook Makes Space Cake for Colleagues, Gets Sued
A retiring Dutch cook who wanted to say goodbye to her colleagues in a special way cooked a cannabis-infused space cake for them as a surprise. It didn’t go well… The retiring cook, known only as Mariska, had worked in a Zeeland hotel alongside her colleagues for a long time and wanted to part ways […]
Book Club Has Been Reading the Same Difficult Book for the Last 28 Years
A California-based book club has recently finished its first reading of James Joyce’s ‘Finnegan’s Wake’, a notoriously difficult book that it started reading 28 years ago. James Joyce once said that the demand he makes of his reader is that he “should devote his entire life to reading my works,” and some people actually took […]