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One of our recent listicles featured a film in which a giant praying mantis decimated a military base, but, amazingly, that monster pales in comparison to some of the more far-fetched B-Movie monsters that have terrorized American cities over the last 60 years. mental_floss counts down 9 Ridiculous B-Movie Monsters, which includes parasites, leeches, over-sexed [...]

On this date in 1962, the seminal Halloween hit “The Monster Mash” by Bobby “Boris” Pickett and the Crypt-Kickers reached the number one spot on Billboard’s Hot 100. Because this was way back in the day before real music videos, however, no official visual accompaniment for the song exists. This has allowed innumerable artists to [...]

For whatever reason (lack of vision, lack of necessary parts, lack of concentration), our Lego constructions never quite lived up to the thing on the box, much less to our wild mental images of what we were building. That’s not to say that making amazing objects and infinitely detailed sculptures out of Lego is impossible, [...]

While researching this morning’s post about butter sculptures we happened upon another great unexpected medium used by many out there on the Webs for crafting unusual and ephemeral objects: balloons. Now because of their fragile and ephemeral nature, you might think that balloons are poorly suited to the longevity-obsessed art of sculpture, but we would [...]

The first time we ever saw a pop-up book was when we were sleeping over at Louis’ house. He had all the coolest toys, board games and video games, and this new kind of book was just the icing on the cake. Clearly, Louis was ahead of the curve and this three-dimensional book thing would [...]

At the end of the week, a brand new science-themed mini golf course will be opening at the Hall of Science in Queens, New York, and though that seems an awfully conventional (and predictably pedantic) choice of golf course theme, we’re convinced there’s stranger and more exciting out there. So we hit the links all [...]