Interesting Thing of the Day

Meditation is a great way to relieve stress, but it need not involve sitting still. One increasingly popular form of meditation involves walking along a twisty path known as a labyrinth.

On certain trees in Patagonia, large, otherworldly orange fungus globules grow. If you can get past the "yuck" factor, they actually make a tasty treat.

The world's first electronic musical instrument didn't have a keyboard or strings. Its user interface consisted of two antennas, and you played it by waving your hands.

The division of days into 24 hours and hours into 60 minutes is arbitrary and makes calculation awkward. Why not use a system based on units of 10 and 100? Some people have tried, with lackluster results.

It may sound like a joke, but a type of hockey played on the bottom of a swimming pool is becoming a serious international sport.

Everyone agrees that English spelling is far too complicated and difficult to learn. But the barriers to solving those problems are unthinkably high.

If you love a book, set it free. That's the idea behind a service that aims to turn the entire world into a library by recirculating good, used books in public places.

A severely endangered species, this highly unusual flightless bird in New Zealand evolved with virtually no means of defense against predators. After driving them to the brink of extinction, humans are now their best hope for survival.

During World War II, the Allies concocted an ambitious, if flawed, plan to construct torpedo-proof aircraft carriers out of ice in order to protect shipping channels beyond the reach of land-based aircraft.

Russian scientists in the 1960s claimed to have produced a new form of water that was as thick as a syrup and had both a high boiling point and a low freezing point. This controversial substance turned out to have a more mundane explanation.

The color of royalty, purple is more than just a pretty shade. One the one hand, it has the odd property of being a sort of optical illusion, and on the other, we owe all our modern fabric dyes to its existence.

You may feel more happy or more depressed from one day to the next, but how might one go about measuring a person's level of despair or depression? Several clinical tools attempt to address this tricky question.

A linguistic phenomenon in which two words combine in certain ways to form a new one was named, and put to great comedic effect, by Lewis Carroll.

For the highest quality large-scale printing possible with current technology, use the technique that carved out a niche for itself in paper currency.

This salt mine in Poland has all the comforts of home, including dining rooms, ballrooms, chapels, and even chandeliers carved entirely from pure salt.