Fun, Viral Airline Safety Videos Might Actually Make Air Travel Less Safe
Laughing at a silly airplane safety video? You might not be retaining much safety information.
Laughing at a silly airplane safety video? You might not be retaining much safety information.
Curious about cloud matcha? Learn the simple steps to create this creamy tea at home.
Scientists in the Amazon have discovered a rare and puzzling bond between ocelots and opossums—two species typically seen as predator and prey.
If you’ve ever caught yourself sympathizing with ChatGPT, you may have fallen for one of these common misconceptions about AI.
What exactly is a flop? To us, it’s something that arrived with great fanfare and big expectations, then ate pavement—hard. We’re covering just a few in the latest episode of The List Show.
Scientists captured the elusive Antarctic gonate squid on camera for the first time during a National Geographic expedition.
Forget Atlantis (which probably doesn’t exist)—we’re taking a trip to 10 real cities that ended up underwater.
In this episode of The List Show, Mental Floss editor-in-chief Erin McCarthy is covering works of art that went missing but were thankfully recovered—in the case of a couple of paintings, twice.
Take a look back at some of the weird and WTF things that happened during the aughts, from the bizarre trend that was Heelys to how users made Myspace their own.
Both the Arctic and Antarctica are cold and icy, but that’s basically where the similarities end.
A machine without electronics or software can walk, jump, and swim—showing how simple physics can compete with complex robotic systems.
The actor just wrapped up a podcast called ‘Greatest Escapes’—and now he’s dropping amazing facts about those escapes and more on the latest episode of Amazing Facts with Mental Floss.
Meet Pearl and Reggie: the world’s smallest and tallest dogs brought together by Guinness World Records.
Andrew Huang’s fully functional xylophone made entirely from LEGO is music to our ears.
These fluffy, scaly, and feathered friends will be missed.
From pirate queens to groundbreaking stunt pilots to the guy who gave us kitty litter, we’re covering a whole bunch of overlooked historical figures in the latest episode of The List Show.
A baby colossal squid was filmed deep in the South Atlantic—revealing rare footage of the ocean’s heaviest invertebrate.
A digital double promises fresh insight into the tragedy of the ‘Titanic.’
From red pandas to crows, zoo animals across the U.S. are painting works of art as part of enrichment programs.
The web of a Darwin’s bark spider can span 82 feet.
Studio Hock pulled off an impressive light show 1250 feet above Manhattan.
Did dinosaurs really roar? Artists Courtney Brow and Cezary Gajewski challenge this idea with 3D-printed skulls that bring prehistoric sounds to life.
Adrian Budnick’s creative viral videos raised dog adoption rates by 25 percent at the Metro Animal Care and Control shelter in Nashville.
A Maori octopus was spotted clinging to a shortfin mako shark, leaving scientists puzzled.