With more than 5.5 million articles, Wikipedia is an invaluable resource, whether you’re throwing a term paper together at the last minute, or trying to figure out how the breadbox was adopted as a unit of measurement. We explore some of Wikipedia’s oddities in our 5,509,334-week series, Wiki Wormhole.
As we all learned from the Voight-Kampff test depicted in Blade Runner, seeing how people act in seemingly mundane or arbitrary situations can tell you a lot about the inner workings of their brains. When you see a turtle stuck on its back, do you flip it over or let it bake in the sun? When you squeeze a tube of…
Bread is good. Bread will always be good. And Japanese baker Ran is making bread even better by turning it into art—edible art, a.k.a. the best kind of art. Ran runs Konel_Bread, an Instagram account where she flaunts her bizarre bread-making talents. According to Ran, her beautiful bread was inspired by elaborate…
Every once in a while, a product arrives that is so thoroughly, extravagantly unnecessary that it becomes paradoxically essential. Such a product is Toasteroid, billed by its creators as “the smartest toaster ever” and a stunning example of what adman Stan Freberg (who would’ve turned 90 this week) referred to as …
Presumably, somewhere in Japan at this very moment, a mother is placing a loaf of pull-apart bread next to the arm of her sleeping child so that she can take a picture and post it to social media. This is not a singular act of madness caused by sleep deprivation. Well, it might be, but it’s more likely that the…