No one’s perfect, least of all UPS. But as far as mistakes go, this is just about as bad—and expensive—as it gets. Thanks to one hell of a mixup, Reddit user Seventy_Seven just got a $400,000 unmanned aerial vehicle delivered straight to his doorstep. Talk about service.
Michelangelo’s David Could Topple Due To Bad Ankles
Italian researchers are worried that Michelangelo’s statue of David may be in danger of collapsing due to weakened ankles.
Behold The World’s Tallest Burger With 30,000 Calories!
It’s Burger Week in New York City, but one man in the United Kingdom just took burgers to a higher height than we Americans previously thought possible.
Teen Graduates High School & College In Same Week
Graduating from high school at 16 is impressive enough. But managing to get your college degree before you even graduate high school? Astounding. Grace Bush is clearly a rare talent, both intelligent and incredibly hard working. The Florida teen recently earned her bachelor’s degree in criminal justice from Florida Atlantic University. Later this week, she’ll get her high school diploma …
Coffee May Help Your Eyesight
Add this to the good-for-you, bad-for-you debate over coffee: A new study out of Cornell suggests that it might help keep your eyes healthy, reports Syracuse.com. Specifically, an antioxidant in coffee called chlorogenic acid, or CLA, staves off retinal degeneration in mice, reports Nature World News. In humans, that malady is brought on by glaucoma, aging, and diabetes. “Coffee is …
Wu-Tang Clan Has A Better Vocabulary Than Shakespeare
Link to site: http://rappers.mdaniels.com.s3-website-us-east-1.amazonaws.com/ Matt Daniels is a designer, coder, and data scientist at Undercurrent in New York City. His past works include the Etymology of “Shorty” and Outkast, in graphs and charts. He decided to examine the vocabulary of hip hop artists, and this is what he found. — May 2014 Literary elites love to rep Shakespeare’s vocabulary: across …
Soy Sauce Breakthrough Could Help Treat AIDS
Picture the soy sauce bottle on most sushi restaurant tables, yep, the one with the red or green top. Those omnipresent bottles are the product of the Yamasa Corporation, which started manufacturing the soy sauce in 1645. But the most fascinating part of the Japan company’s history is a thoroughly recent one: Virologists have confirmed that Yamasa’s scientists did indeed …