Activity Corner

• Flow of ants, and ants as fluids.


• How to make a penny.


• Start building your own "robot swarm" with Cubelets (20 blocks, $300).


• Confessions of a used-book salesman.


• Baseball and math: the fastest way to run the bases.


• Two kittens with fainting goat syndrome.


• These gears really work?


• Film producer finds controversial footage in Charlie Chaplin's 1928 The Circus: time traveler using a cellphone. Or is it just a hearing aid?


• Creators of the world's largest gummy bear now offer the world's largest gummy worm. Unfortunately, they're all sold out for now.


• Remember cassettes and boomboxes? Even if you don't, you might enjoy this incredible stereo illusion.


• 17 (amazing?) pizza cutters.


• People are awesome.


• Enjoy the old-time photos collected at My Parents Loved Halloween.


• Carving a Jack-o-lantern with a Glock.


• If you travel by air often and are bored with the state of flights, then you might get some mileage out of Fun with TSA (Travel-Safe Activities).


• Pizza lollipops. Make your own!


• The 50 most-hated characters in literary history.


• Cake Wrecks offers up All-Hallow's Wrecks and pitiful pumpkins.


• Have you ever seen Thai iced tea made like this?


• How to make a mummy meatloaf.


• 9 strange vacations.


• The bizarre Spanish beach of Gulpiyuri.


• 3D films are becoming more popular, but why should you have to wear 3D glasses that have been on other people's faces, when you can buy your own personal Oakley TRON:Legacy 3D glasses? Only $150!


• Gamers! Huge TRON:Legacy homage with almost every classic videogame known to man.


• You might be surprised that Amazon still sells cassette tapes. True, many come from associated sellers, but still, it's an interesting list.


• How do you capture a fart? Seriously? In the bath.


• Rescued baby hummingbird.


• Mispelled tattoo.


• Vintage Star Wars travel posters.


• The grossest jobs in science.