The Rodanini pieta, Michelangelo’s last ever work, is markedly different from anything he ever did before. Up until 6 days before his death at the age of 89, he was obsessively working on this piece until there was almost no marble left to work with
The Rondanini Pietà was Michelangelo’s final sculpture, a hauntingly unfinished depiction of the Virgin Mary supporting the body of Jesus after his crucifixion. Michelangelo continued working on it until just days before his death in 1564 at the age of 88, repeatedly carving away marble until the figures became unusually thin and elongated, a striking departure from the powerful, muscular figures of his earlier masterpieces. The sculpture is now housed in the Sforza Castle in Milan, Italy.
Banksy – Blind Faith (2026)
Filippo Negroli, embossed burgonet, ca. 1542
Bob Dylan meets with Pope Leo
The oldest surviving copy of The Odyssey dating back 1700 years ago
Robert De Niro, born 1943, had a child born in 2023. When she turns her father’s current age (83), the year will be 2103.
The cast of 10 Things I Hate About You then (1999) and now
Rebecca Black who is best known for Friday which is the most disliked song in YouTube history went through years of intense and relentless bullying over it, even though she was only 13 at the time video came out. Despite that, she went on to become a respected indie singer, song writer and musician.
Industrial building turned brutalist KFC in Manila, Philippines
An orphan with no family invited strangers to his wedding on social media—10,000 people showed up with food, gifts, and a full village feast
IVF to save the Northern White Rhino
Scientists are attempting to save the northern white rhinoceros from extinction using in vitro fertilization (IVF), in one of the most ambitious wildlife conservation efforts ever undertaken. Only two northern white rhinos remain alive, a mother and daughter named Najin and Fatu, who live under constant protection at Kenya’s Ol Pejeta Conservancy. Neither can carry a pregnancy, and the last surviving male died in 2018. To save the subspecies, an international team of scientists called BioRescue has been collecting eggs from Fatu, fertilizing them with frozen sperm from deceased males, and creating embryos that can eventually be implanted into closely related southern white rhino surrogate mothers. In 2024, researchers announced the first successful pregnancy achieved through IVF and embryo transfer in a rhinoceros, although the surrogate mother tragically died from an unrelated bacterial infection before giving birth. By April 2026, the team had created 39 pure northern white rhino embryos, but attempts to establish a lasting pregnancy using these embryos had not yet succeeded. Despite the setbacks, scientists remain hopeful that the technology could eventually produce the first northern white rhino calf born in decades, potentially bringing a subspecies back from the brink of extinction.
This is Verrückt in Kansas City, the world’s tallest water slide when it opened in 2014, standing 168 feet tall. Designed by Jeff Henry and John Schooley, neither had formal engineering credentials. It was permanently closed after 10-year-old Caleb Schwab died on the ride in 2016.
Scientists may have found the real night sky behind Van Gogh’s The Starry Night
600 pounds of gold bars and $2 million seized from home of CIA officer
Amazon data centers under construction near homes in Stone Ridge, Virginia
AI Slop menu spotted at Courtyard Marriott.
The price of fueling a semi truck
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