The 10 Worst U.S. Cities for Traffic. Drivers lose a lot of time sitting in traffic jams, but it might be worth it in Honolulu.
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Find out what happened to 70 finalists from American Idol. Many are still singing, but a substantial number are working in restaurants.
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How does one “discover” a new cut of steak? Oklahoma State University isn’t telling, because they want to patent it.
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Where NASA left off, private enterprise steps in. SpaceX Dragon successfully launched Tuesday morning, the first private spacecraft to travel to the ISS.
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Addison Kleinhans and Bella Hicks are children battling cancer together. And they swear they’ll be best friends forever.
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How do cranes get to the top of skyscrapers?
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12 Amazing Notes Confiscated By A Middle School Teacher Over The Years. Gems like these will only exist in digital texting form in the future.
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Bill Murray hosts a tour of Moonlight Kingdom. I want to see this film based on just the way he looks.
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20 Freakish Creatures from the depths of Russia’s White Sea. Alexander Semenov brings back photographic evidence of a whole different world.
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Who’s to blame for Facebook’s stock debacle? Shares were initially offered at $38 Friday, but then slid to $31, for a variety of reasons.
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How Do Trick Candles Work? Another in a series of things you always wondered but never bothered to ask.

Is your alma mater on the list of America’s 1,000 best high schools? That’s okay, mine wasn’t, either.
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The annual Star Wars Weekend at Walt Disney World has come and gone continues through June 10th. This year, your favorites characters get down to LMFAO at the dance-off. Yes, really.
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The government of Kiev, Ukraine, is placing their bets on a telepathic pig to predict the outcome of European championship soccer matches. Or it could be a publicity stunt, you never know.
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Hugh Jackman interviews for a teacher’s job at Harlem Village Academies, because teachers are the real superstars. I’d hire him, wouldn’t you?
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The 18 Best Ideas People On The Internet Have Ever Had. This food for thought should last you five minutes and three “I should’ve thought of that”s.
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The hype machine blared loudly about the film Battleship, then suddenly went silent. Turns out that relatively few paid to see the film on its opening weekend.
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Staff Sergeant Nick B. found an abused puppy in Afghanistan, and moved mountains to get Bodhi sent to the U.S. They were reunited over the weekend in Florida.
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The official trailer for the 23rd James Bond film is out. Skyfall will hit theaters in November.
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Microsoft’s new social networking site is called So.cl, pronounced social. Here’s what you need to know before trying it out.
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Blimp vs. Zeppelin: What’s the Difference? For one thing, I never owned an album by Blimp.

If you’ve got some serious spare time, you can hear commencement speeches from Barack Obama, Condoleeza Rice, Ira Glass, and Michael Bloomberg. If you don’t, bookmark them and enjoy them later.
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Meet Ramen Noodle, The Adorable Dog With No Front Legs. So he stands on his hind legs and poses for pictures that make you go “Awww.”
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Skynet takes one more step toward becoming sentient. We now have a robot that can make its own tools.
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A choir of 10,000 voices sing Beethoven’s “Ode to Joy.” Scoring a solo among all those singers is a serious accomplishment.
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A 73-year-old Tamae Watanabe climbed Mount Everest and broke a record for the oldest woman to reach the summit. The odd thing is, she was also the previous record-holder.
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A postnuptial agreement is when married people hire lawyers and work out issues in the marriage. Negotiations can range from who takes out the trash to how to split assets in case of divorce.
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Turkey Dubstep is short and nonsensical but oh, so funny. Because they’re TURKEYS!
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Starting this summer, more minority babies than white babies will be born in the United States. News outlets weigh in on what this will mean as they grow up.
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2020: Cars of the Future. We’re supposed to all have hybrids, but I’ll probably still be driving the ’02 minivan.

5 Alternatives to Obama and Romney in the Presidential Race. The Libertarian Party, the Green Party, and even the Prohibition Party (among others) are fielding candidates this year.
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October 23rd Is The Worst Birthday, at least according to a chart that’s making the rounds. What’s your birthday like?
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If you are familiar with the Buttered Cat Paradox, you’ll appreciate this ad for Flying Horse energy drink. It’s the ultimate perpetual motion machine!
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And now, a painfully honest trailer for the movie Transformers, spilling all the revelations the real trailer ignored. And it gives proper credit to the many product placements. Language slightly NSFW.
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Thirteen-month-old Sage really loves goats. Not that he knows they’re goats and not dogs, but he loves them anyway.
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What happens when an astronomer goes full hipster on Twitter? Twitter goes hipster right back with #BadAstrohipster.
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The most embarrassing Wheel of Fortune failure ever. And now the entire internet has witnessed it.
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Sneakers that make you fit and 7 other misleading products. Always be wary of claims made by people who want to sell you something.
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Why is the Drinking Age 21? When I was a teenager, the laws varied by state, which made going to Tennessee a real adventure.

A “ring of fire” solar eclipse will be visible Sunday on the west coast of North America and most of Asia on Monday morning. The moon will not cover the whole solar disc, leaving a ring that’s so awesome we shouldn’t look at it.
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Elementary is the new modern-day Sherlock Holmes TV series coming to CBS this fall. Take a look at some behind-the-scenes footage and a clip of the show.
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You might think that Adele has little in common with ’80s one-hit-wonder Baltimora, but their songs “Set Fire to the Rain” and “Tarzan Boy” mix surprisingly well. How do people come up with these odd combinations?
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The Science of the NBA. Getting a ball through a basket involves physics, math, and for some reason, a sumo wrestler.
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11 Things You Need To Know Before Entering The Real World. And somewhat related-
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The 5 Stages of Graduation Grief. Be prepared to mourn those sweet years of education. NSFW text.
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The origin and proliferation of the taco. More adaptable than traditional, the tasty treat is not as old as you’d think.
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How Texas Executed an Innocent Man. Police knew Carlos DeLuna was guilty, so they ignored the other Carlos with a violent history who looked just like DeLuna.
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Inside Fremantle: The Horrors of Australia’s Creepy Historic Prison. The inmates were moved out, but some say the ghosts of 44 executed prisoners remain.
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The FDA is taking steps toward approving an at-home HIV test kit. The accuracy rate isn’t perfect, but it’s better than no test at all.
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3 Bald encounters on the set of Star Trek. On the Enterprise, hair -or lack of hair- was a matter best not left to chance.

How the Professor Who Fooled Wikipedia Got Caught by Reddit. You can’t fool all the people all of the time.
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A new trailer for the Ridley Scott prequel Prometheus is out, and it shows aliens! A short clip from the film has also been released.
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One Of These Things Is Not Like The Others… See if you can figure the odd one out (answers are provided, but not necessarily right answers).
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George Lucas lost the battle with his neighbors to build a large studio in Marin County. But he still got the last laugh, by turning the property into low-income housing instead.
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Sarah Cooper graduated from American University last weekend. At the ceremony she got her diploma, and an engagement ring from her boyfriend in front of a delighted crowd.
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What does the definition of all-you-can-eat mean when a restaurant runs out of food? A Wisconsin man could actually eat more than the twenty pieces of fish he got, and returned to picket the restaurant.
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Europe changed a lot in a thousand years. See it happen in just minutes in this time-lapse video.
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The Vatican is investigating the Girl Scouts because of links to groups like Médicins Sans Frontières that teach safe sex. Not that the church could do anything to them, except tell Catholic girls not to join.
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The 8 craziest prom stories of 2012. Your prom may have been memorable, but did it make the national news?
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Ghost Cities of the Future. Maybe not in our lifetimes, but the omens are there already.

How to Give a Commencement Speech. The key to being memorable is more honesty and less inspiration.
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Fast and Furious fans will love this supercut: all the gear-shifting that happens in each of the five films. The rest of us will just giggle.
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A 24-year-old graduate student in Georgia is battling Necrotizing Fasciitis from a flesh-eating bacteria. The scary infection can lead to pain, amputation, and death.
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If the banjo and the musical saw are on your list of the most annoying instruments, this duo Frontier Ruckus may change your mind. Here they perform a medley of tunes from The Legend of Zelda.
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Part of being a mobster is getting a colorful nickname like “Tony Bagels” Cavezza. But each name has to have a good origin story, like these.
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The animated video Disassembled follows Marvel superheroes in their daily lives. Which can be pretty chaotic when you fail to keep your powers leashed in.
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After ten seasons, CSI: Miami will not be renewed for this fall. In a touching farewell tribute, watch Horatio Caine park his car.
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There’s something calm, reassuring, and steadfast about a lighthouse at work. See gorgeous pictures of 20 of them lighting up the night.
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In Russia, even the dogs sing the national anthem.
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The John Edwards case may come down to how the judge interprets the word “the.”
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5 reasons China’s economy is slowing down. The symptoms of a poor global economy are also portents of the future for all trading nations.
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The fine art of whale disposal. Can you come up with a better idea?

The media is full of stories about millennials and their self-absorption. But as thousands graduate from college, the majority of them turn out to be rather well-adjusted people after all.
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Is It Ethical To Pay Drug Addicts To Get Sterilized? Fewer addicted infants is a good thing, but how much free will does someone who’s either high or desperate for a fix really have?
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Watch a litter of kittens learn to play and climb. There’s just a light veneer of information, but who really cares?
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Here’s a sure-fire way to ruin a perfectly good funeral: wake the corpse up. Maybe that’s why they call  it a wake!
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The Game of Thrones intro theme is already a great tune. It can sound even better when performed by pretty and talented sisters on two harps.
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We’re Trekkies And We Know It. Just beam me up, Scotty!
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This guy found his stolen bike for sale on Craigslist. So he did the most logical thing and stole it back.
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The Avengers set more box office records this past weekend, and has earned a billion dollars worldwide. Meanwhile, Dark Shadows was lost back in the shadows, in the dark.
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The Rise of Electroshock Therapy. After overuse and then rejection in the 20th century, ECT is now recommended for the most stubborn cases of severe depression.
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The Extraordinary Lives of the World’s Tallest People. They didn’t ask for it, but saw the world from a different plane.

The Ten Most Famous Double Agents. Playing for both sides makes a good story, but you might not live to tell it.
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Surrealist animator Cyriak Harris manipulated his own face for his latest video, Because. If you’re not familiar with his work, be cautioned that it is weird and may cause disorientation.
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In the movie The Avengers, New York City hosts a battle between good and evil. A disaster-cost prediction and assessment firm calculated the cost of the damage in real-world dollars.
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Come along on the hunt for Pikachu in the real world. And he’s adorable!
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A tribute to the illustrations of Maurice Sendak is rendered in characters from The Avengers. Your inner child will thank me.
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Scenes from Finals Week. No, you’re not the only one going insane, and it will all be over… eventually.
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Laura had an unusual ring-bearer at her wedding: the Dragon Runner unmanned ground vehicle (UGV). You may recognize the little guy as a bomb-disposal robot.
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The latest issue of TIME magazine features a woman breastfeeding a three-year-old (who looks five) on the cover. Whatever you think about the subject, it’s going to sell a lot of magazines.
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Notes on the History of Mother’s Day: 5 Things Worth Knowing. Happy Mother’s Day to all you Moms!

Hoarding at a certain point becomes a health risk and fodder for reality TV. Soon it may also become an official mental illness.
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Get this: they’re gonna try facial recognition software to figure out who was the model for the Mona Lisa. How accurate could that be with no photographs of any persons from that era?
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Tetherball suddenly becomes a cool sport when played by two rather competitive cats.
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What exactly do people do in a think tank?
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The 13 Loneliest Outhouses on Earth. I understand you want them located away from the main house, but these are far away from anything!
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Jon Hamm, star of Mad Men, answers questions from teenage girls. Bless his heart, he nervously gives them some good advice.
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We know clowns are generally scary and kids don’t like them. This guy embraces that knowledge and rents himself out as a clown to terrify and traumatize your kids.
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10 Memes That Originated from TV Shows. With examples and guidelines for proper usage.
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How One Man Waged War Against Gravity. After all, gravity causes many bad backs, broken hips, and quite a few deaths.
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Who’s to blame for the rising cost of student loans? There’s plenty to go around, as student debt surpasses a trillion dollars.
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7 Comic Book Superpowers the World Can Do Without, and then 7 More for good measure. These strange super heroes actually appeared in comic books at one time.