YouTuber Rob Bliss decided to use Amazon’s Prime Now to deliver goods to the homeless community around New York City. He asked each person what they needed and ordered them. Donations included socks, shoes, sleeping bags, long johns, and other hygieni…
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A conversation with Dean Kamen on the myth of “Eureka!”
“I think invention is maybe like love,” says Dean Kamen. “Everybody wants to have it. Nobody knows what it is.” Read More
Enormous mural of erect penis briefly pops up in New York
As the headline might suggest, this story contains images of, well, a rather enormous penis.
For a brief spell over the festive period, the Lower East Side had an enormous erection.
No, really it did. A huge, four-storey mural of a turgid penis…
New York City moves to establish algorithm-monitoring task force
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View More New York City moves to establish algorithm-monitoring task forceCoca-Cola is making a splash in Time Square
Coca-Cola has installed a billboard in Times Square that will make tourists stop and stare. It’s made up of 1,760 LED light cubes that flow in and out, giving the appearance of 3D designs. Read more…More about Advertising, Mashable Video, Coca Cola,…
View More Coca-Cola is making a splash in Time SquareAaron Judge narrowly edged out Big Bird in NYC mayoral write-in votes
Bill de Blasio may have easily won his second term as New York City’s mayor last month with more than 66 percent of the vote, but his run wasn’t entirely uncontested.
The official write-in results are in, thanks to the NYC Board of Elections, and the…
Aaron Judge narrowly edged out Big Bird in NYC mayoral write-in votes
Bill de Blasio may have easily won his second term as New York City’s mayor last month with more than 66 percent of the vote, but his run wasn’t entirely uncontested.
The official write-in results are in, thanks to the NYC Board of Elections, and the…
In NYC, uptown and downtown rats don’t mix
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It turns out rats, like New Yorkers, are partial to their neighborhoods.
An ecology researcher has been tracking brown rats all over Manhattan for nearly the past three years. Fordham University grad student Matthew Combs found that the rodents stick to certain areas: you’ll find uptown rats and downtown rats, with a break in midtown. The two groups don’t mingle much.
He came to this conclusion only after trapping hundreds of rats and studying their genetic makeup. He was then able to notice genetic differences between rats from different parts of town. He also found that rats only move about 656 feet from where they’re born — that’s about one Manhattan block. Read more…
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The Raindrop Cake kit was created by Darren Wong of Brooklyn Smogasborg fame. According to the website, “Based on jelly desserts popular in Asia, it offers a vegan and vegetarian alternative to gelatine and Jell-O products.”
Although most peopl…
Watch this drag queen transform from day job to drag show
Having a full-time job can be exhausting, tack on a 4 hour drag transformation followed by a 3 hour performance and it sounds almost impossible, but for many performing drag queens this is standard procedurePetra Fried, a favorite among NYC’s drag sc…
View More Watch this drag queen transform from day job to drag show‘Homed’ project could house New York’s homeless in clustered, honeycomb-like pods
Both land and affordable housing are becoming scarcer in New York City, with skyrocketing rents and, subsequently, a steadily increasing population of people who are homeless.
But a new project aims to capitalise on the city’s surplus of “vertical la…
Subway rat seizes free avocado, because who wouldn’t
Instagram user Jessica Edwards caught pizza rat’s health-conscious cousin in the act of carrying an avocado around the NYC subway. Read more…More about Instagram, Mashable Video, New York City, Avocado, and Pizza Rat
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