Gallium – The Rare Metal That Melts in Your Hand and Attacks Other Metals
Remember those liquid metal Terminators from the Arnold Schwarzenegger movies? What if I told you that kind of material isn’t just the fruit of someone’s sci-fi imagination, but a real metal? It’s called Gallium and it has some pretty cool properties. So what makes gallium so special? Well, first of all, the brittle metal has […]
Man Wears Empathy Suit for Nine Weeks to Experience Pregnancy
In a bizarre attempt to experience “the one thing unavailable to men as parents”, writer Benjamin Percy wore an empathy suit complete with a fake belly, for nine weeks. You’d think the efforts of a man trying to go through the hardships of pregnancy would be applauded by women, right? Well, no… Although fully aware that he […]
Male TV Hosts Go Through the Agony of Giving Birth
Two male Dutch TV hosts known for performing outlandish stunts on their program, “Proefkonijnen” (Guinea Pigs), have recently experienced agonizing pain similar to that of labor, by strapping electrode emitting machines to their abdomens. Dennis Storm and Valerio Zeno first caused international controversy in 2011, when they consumed cooked pieces of each other’s flesh, on live television. […]
Woman Plans To Eat and Drink Only Starbucks for a Year
A Seattle-based woman by the name of Beautiful Existence (her legal name) has set a very strange challenge for herself this year – she plans to eat food and drink beverages only from Starbucks for all of 2013. No, she’s not addicted to Starbucks products. Beautiful Existence just likes to set year-long challenges for herself. For example, […]
Surveillance Camera Man Highlights Privacy Issues by Filming People without Permission
An anonymous person known only as “Surveillance Camera Man” is sparking controversy by filming people in public and private spaces without asking for their permission. Clever way of highlighting privacy issues or just intentionally provoking people? Why is it that hardly anyone minds being on camera wherever they go, but whenever there’s a face attached […]
French Artist Buries Himself in a Tiny Hole for Seven Days, to Read
How far would you go to find some peace and quiet for a nice read? French artist Abraham Poincheval stayed buried for a whole week in a tiny underground hole in the underpinning of a Marseille bookstore, with books as the only company. On September 20, Abraham Poincheval began his unique performance, aptly entitled 604,800 seconds. […]
Woman Avoids Looking at Herself in Mirrors for a Year to Boost Self-Esteem
Kjerstin Gruys, a 29-year-old PhD student in sociology, has gone mirror-free for an entire year, avoiding her own reflection in order to boost her self-esteem and inspire others to stop focusing on their physical appearance. Can you imagine not checking how you look for an entire year? Most women can’t go a day without looking […]
Researcher Proves You’re Washing Your Clothes More Often than You Should
Would you dare to sniff a pair of jeans that haven’t been washed in three months? If the very thought of it seems disgusting, wait till you hear this. This March, there’s going to be an exhibition of thirty such pairs at the National Gallery of Victoria, Australia. The unusual collection of dirty jeans is […]
Man Spends a Year Living as a Turkey to Prove They’re Not Dumb
We’ve all heard the popular myth about turkeys being so stupid that they will look up at the rain and drown. Well, naturalist Joe Hutto’s year-long experiment living as a turkey proved it wrong, along with any other myths that suggest the stupidity of the bird. On the contrary, he says that turkeys are born […]
Woman Becomes Human-Horse Hybrid for the Sake of Art
Art Orienté objet, a French artistic known for its exploration of trans-species relationships and questioning scientific methods and tools has staged one of the most shocking experiments ever – injecting a human being with horse plasma. For this latest project, entitled Que le cheval vive en moi (May the horse live in me), Marion Laval […]
Japanese Researchers Create Tweeting Mouse
In a genetically engineered experiment, Japanese scientists at the University of Osaka have created a mouse that tweets like a bird. After crossbreeding genetically altered mice for some time, to see what would happen, they apparently got their first interesting result, by mistake. Researcher Arikuni Uchimura said they were expecting physical mutations, but definitely not […]
Who Says Money Doesn’t Grow on Trees?
If your parents are anything like mine, they probably told you money doesn’t grow on trees more than a million times, when you were growing up. Well I can’t wait to show them how wrong they were all those years. In an attempt to “wake up people’s lazy money”, RaboDirect, an Australian online bank sponsored […]