On his way to yesterday's historic election victory, Boris Johnson paused on Wednesday to give TV commentators more than the cold shoulder. On his final day of campaigning, he ducked his entire frame into a refrigerator to ice out an interview with Piers Morgan.
November 22, 2019
When Emma Dumain tumbled outta bed, stumbled to Pret A Manger, and poured herself a cup of ambition, she had no idea she was on her way to going “minorly viral.” But soon after, the congressional reporter was spotted taking a big, dramatic, chug—smack in the live shot at…
November 15, 2019
They were already the most notorious crime family in Europe. Now, the Tuscan Hog Mob has expanded its repertoire from terrorizing farmers to sniffing out drugs, GQ reports.
November 8, 2019
Is this the end zone of all cat videos? Halloween came late this year for Monday Night Football, when a jet black cat raced across the field as the Dallas Cowboys faced off against the New York Giants,HuffPost reports. He lapped up the moment like a bowl of milk.
October 25, 2019
Pity the poor impostor who tried to scam a Harvard professor earlier this year. When Harvard Kennedy School Professor Joshua S. Goodman got an urgent email from the dean of Harvard Graduate School of Education, he was surprised she asked him to send her an Amazon gift card…
October 11, 2019
Cruise passengers of the world, unite! You have nothing to lose but your piña coladas!When passengers on the Norwegian Spirit this week heard their headlining stop in Iceland was nixed due to weather, they got angry. But when the Scotland stop was canceled too, all…
September 20, 2019
The Ig Nobel Awards handed out last week proved something Your Friday Diversion has long held dear: Scientists are not stuffy.
September 13, 2019
Earlier this summer, the most exciting thing in Matty Roberts’s life was World of Warcraft. Then he posted an idea on social media and went to bed. He woke up, and it was quickly becoming reality. It was like Fyre Festival, but with aliens. Robert’s master plan: A raid of…
September 6, 2019
Grinders—body modification artists who specialize in biohacking—like to implant nonmedical stuff in their bodies. The latest is PegLeg, an implantable wireless file-sharing device the size of half a card deck that can securely hold data and stream content to connected…
August 23, 2019
The ultimate—and perhaps only—anticapitalist utopia in the desert, Burning Man has weathered many an identity crisis.