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Yesterday was X-Ray Day, which few people know means anyone in the world can get unlimited free X-rays all day (that is a lie, sadly, nobody celebrates X-Ray Day). The X-ray was first discovered by Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen on November 8, 1895, though he likely never suspected the comic and bizarre applications his invention might [...]

Like the real super-consumers they entertain everyday, the titular family on the animated comedy The Simpsons have torn through all kinds of unnatural and ill-conceived products over the years, from mysterious meat substitutes to bizarre beers. Guyism shops around for The 14 Awesomest Fake Products from The Simpsons, like Krusty Brand Imitation Gruel and Strawberrito. [...]

There were studies conducted, if memory serves, back in the early days of CGI movies, which determined that viewers would be way too weirded out by super-realistic animated characters. That’s why, we guess, the Final Fantasy movie flopped so hard. While we don’t really buy the argument – we’d like to think that given the [...]

557 years ago today, in the picturesque Tuscan hilltop town of Vinci, the illegitimate child of a wealthy notary and a lowly peasant was born. Named Leonardo after the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle of the same name for his precocious abilities as a swordsman, Leonardo da Vinci soon left Vinci and its ninja academy and [...]

If the extreme measures our government is taking to keep the American banking system from collapsing are any indication, we do truly appear to be headed for Great Depression 2. Don’t get depressed, though, because as mental_floss reminds us, hardship has a way of generating some of the most inventive and resourceful ideas. So check [...]

The New York Times’s science section is having a Charles Darwin bonanza today to do with the publishing of his most famous work, On the Origin of Species, roughly 150 years ago (which would make this its sesquicentennial). So in honor of Darwin and all things Darwinian, Listicles will be looking at the evolution of [...]