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· Ryan General
A Chinese farmer/inventor, who taught himself to build unique operational robots has created an impressive family of machines made entirely from scraps over the last three decades. For years, Wu Yulu, from Beijing has been developing different types of robots that are able to do…
· Carl Samson
A video of a man being punctured in the head has shocked netizens as soon as it hit the web. It is, in every sense, a modern bloodletting.
· Editorial Staff
Tourists flock to the Japanese island of Ōkunoshima for one reason alone: to be smothered by the overwhelming cuteness of the numerous wild but friendly rabbits roaming the area. Known as the “Rabbit Island” (Usagi Shima, うさぎ島), the popular tourist destination located in the…
· Editorial Staff
A new study reveals that women who wear makeup and spend more time and money on grooming tend to get paid more than their less prepped counterparts. The study, conducted by Jaclyn Wong of the University of Chicago and Andrew Penner of the University of California at Irvine,…
· Editorial Staff
A Japanese train station in the rural parts of Hokkaido, Japan, has been operating for years solely to pick up one passenger. The train stops at the Kami-Shirataki train station situated in the northernmost island of Japan only twice a day. Its first stop is to pick up a high…
· Ryan General
Cleaning up the mess at Fukushima has proven to be a tough task even for Japan’s robots as high radiation levels in the site repeatedly cause them to malfunction each time a probe is attempted. Considered to be the largest nuclear disaster since the 1986 Chernobyl incident, the…
· Ryan General
It turns out, the black and white color of pandas have a more functional reason other than making them extra adorable to our eyes. According to science, their unique coloring actually makes them look more menacing toward other species. In general, the color of mammals is…
· Ryan General
A local TV reporter doing a beat assignment report of an attempted rape in New York City’s Lower East Side on Friday night was suddenly pestered by an assailant in a hockey mask. CeFaan Kim of ABC 7 NY was reporting live at Delancey St. when a man put an arm around his neck in…
· Carl Samson
A 50-year-old man in Japan’s Kanagawa Prefecture died partly buried under clippings of pornographic magazines, his whole collection of which weighed six metric tons (13,228 pounds). The man, identified by RocketNews24 as Joji, was found a month after his death. He reportedly…
· Alexa Velez
Editor’s Note: Alexa Velez claims to be a victim of harassment by Nick Vedovi on Tinder. The following screen shots provided by Velez reveal the beginning and end of her exchange with Vedovi. Dear Nick,
· Carl Samson
SXSW has apparently threatened international artists with deportation should they engage in performances outside the festival’s scope of approval. Felix Walworth, a band member of Told Slant, Eskimeaux and Bellows, took to Twitter to share parts of the contract he reportedly…
· Kelly Osajima
Most Asian Americans in the U.S. today are immigrants or the children of immigrants, so people are flabbergasted when they find out that not only were my parents born here, but my parents’ parents were born here too. I’m fourth generation, as are a lot of Japanese Americans…
· Ryan General
Two internationally-renowned scientists have given up their U.S. citizenship to become solely Chinese citizens, a new report has revealed. According to the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), 94-year-old Nobel laureate Yang Chen Ning, and 70-year-old Turing Award winner Andrew…
· Editorial Staff
For all the men out there who will see this, whatever you do, please don’t try this at home. Wei Yaobin from the Chinese city of Luoyang has made a unique reputation for himself as the “Iron Crotch Kung Fu” master.
· Khier Casino
This is the moment a dog was filmed burying his dead brother who was reportedly struck by a car on Wednesday in Buriram, northeast Thailand. The video, posted to YouTube by ViralHog on Thursday, shows the dog using his nose to move dirt over his brother as his body lies in a…
· Khier Casino
A video released on Wednesday by China Central Television shows an ambush of tigers making a cat toy out of a drone flying too close to their enclosure at the Harbin Siberian Tiger Park. The sanctuary in Heilongjiang province in China uses drones to help their tigers stay in…
· Ryan General
Due to the enormous popularity of the anime masterpiece “Your Name”, an old Japanese handicraft tradition is making a fashionable comeback. The romantic fantasy drama film, originally titled “Kimi no Na wa”, may have become a massive global hit, but its impact on the Japanese…
· Carl Samson
Japan’s LGBT community may no longer have a hard time looking for homes to buy or rent thanks to a new move by the country’s top housing information website. Suumo, which compiles real estate properties into one convenient database, will offer a search function tailored for LGBT…
· Ryan General
North Korea is expected to sustain a major economic setback after China’s Saturday announcement that it will no longer import the country’s coal, at least until the end of the year. The move will cut North Korea’s exports by about half as coal is the country’s largest export…
· Ryan General
When Reel News Hawaii sparked rumors that both Marvel’s “Sub-Mariner” and DC’s “Aquaman” could be filming in Hawaii at the same time via a tweet, comic fans everywhere became excited at the thought. While “Aquaman” is already slated for October 2018, a film about the character…
SM is tied to idol groups, tours, fan clubs, and the long-running system behind some of K-pop's most recognizable acts.
SM is tied to idol groups, tours, fan clubs, and the long-running system behind some of K-pop's most recognizable acts.
