He was the most famous magician of the 20th century. Yet Harry Houdini’s peers were often scathing about him. His tricks were “awful stuff” and “a bunch of junk”, they sniffed. “Watching him play the ...

PITTSBURGH, Sept. 23, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- "As a welder, I needed a versatile tool for holding lights, tools, or various materials while working," said an inventor, from Houma, La., "so I invented the ...

“A Recent Entrance to Paradise” is a pixelated pastoral scene of train tracks running under a moss-flecked bridge. It was, according to its creator’s creator, drawn and named in 2012 by an artificial ...

He was the theater’s most revered and influential composer-lyricist of the last half of the 20th century and the driving force behind some of Broadway’s most beloved and celebrated shows. By Bruce ...

An elementary-school math teacher silently paces his classroom in a pin-striped stockbroker shirt, his mouth full of braces. All around him, tiny students with pencils in hand struggle over puzzles at ...

In February 2010, Lady Gaga opened up about her and Beyonce’s “Telephone” music video in an interview for KISS-FM, a month before it premiered simultaneously on E! News and YouTube’s Vevo platform.

Over the last decade, YouTube has gone from a viral video free-for-all to one of the biggest social media platforms in the world. As the 2010s come to a close, people are taking stock of their media ...

Simone Giertz is a 25-year old inventor from Stockholm, Sweden, best known for charming the internet with her “shitty robots,” as she calls them. Except they’re not shitty at all, because they’ve ...

Enrique Cubillo decided to thrown himself wholeheartedly into the hard-core fitness arena at the age of 30, racing bicycles and speed skating in competitions. But after discovering that road biking ...

Beloved by kids and the bane of parents and teachers, Loom Bands – or Rainbow Loom - is the playground craze that has taken over the planet. But what are they, and where did they come from? Chances ...