Washington State University researchers have come up with another e-tongue, and this one can quickly sense the compounds that show up when wine is spoiling. Plus: this weekend in Mansfield, Indiana, it’s the Mansfield Mushroom Festival.

E-tongue can detect white wine spoilage before humans can (Washington State University)

Mansfield Mushroom Festival 

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For International English Language Day, the story of the most unusual guide to the language ever published, the one called “English As She Is Spoke.” Plus: this weekend in Mount Olive, North Carolina, it’s the North Carolina Pickle Festival.

English As She Is Spoke (1884) (Public Domain Review)

North Carolina Pickle Festival 

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There’s a new development under the sea: a smart glove that could help scuba divers help each other steer clear of danger. Plus: the website After the Beep is an online answering machine, where you can leave your own anonymous voice message for the world to hear. 

New e-glove could allow scuba divers shout ‘shark’ attack underwater (Interesting Engineering)

After the Beep is a website where users can leave an anonymous voicemail (Boing Boing)

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Around this time in 2012, Tampa, Florida declared that “The Historic Tampa Cuban Sandwich” was the city’s signature sandwich. People in Miami weren't thrilled about this, because they insist their Cuban is the historic one. Plus: starting today in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, it’s the 2024 Artisan Guitar Show. 

Tampa vs. Miami: The Fight for the Cuban Sandwich (Delish) 

Artisan Guitar Show 

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Today in 1981, the Pawtucket Red Sox and Rochester Red Wings started playing a minor league game, and it just kept going and going and going, eventually becoming the longest ever. Plus: starting Saturday in Greenville, North Carolina, it’s Piratefest. 

The Most Incredible Performance In Baseball’s Longest Game (Heard It From Hoard)

Piratefest in Greenville, NC 

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There's a story you see online about how Ford stashed some surplus cars in an underground cave to preserve them until they could sell. We can't verify that entire story, but there is an underground business park in Kansas City that Ford has used for decades. Plus: the Ford Maverick may have had the grooviest set of paint color names in automotive history.

Doing business 100 feet underground (CNN)

Ford Maverick Color Names Used To Be Fantastic (Jalopnik)

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Today was the launch date in 1972 of Apollo 16, a mission that tried to pay tribute to that year's Summer Games with a "lunar Olympics"... only the astronauts almost had a disaster on their lunar-suited hands. Plus: for Kareem Abdul-Jabbar's birthday, the story of why he took a role in a famous comedy movie.

An Apollo astronaut explains how he nearly killed himself 'horsing around' on the moon in 1972 (Business Insider)

Surely you can’t be serious: An oral history of Airplane! (AV Club)

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Today in 1452, the birthday of Leonardo da Vinci, the painter of the Mona Lisa, namesake of a code (and a ninja turtle) and, according to Fast Company, the inventor of the resume. Plus: the Mona Lisa gets fan mail through its own mailbox.

Learn to write a résumé like the person who invented it—DaVinci (Fast Company)

Mona Lisa: Facts & Related Content (Britannica)

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This month in 2023, a big moment in the life of an eagle named Murphy, who had become internet famous for raising a rock. Plus: starting tomorrow in Rockwall, Texas it’s the annual Texas Pie Fest.

An Eagle Who Adopted a Rock Becomes a Real Dad (New York Times)

Here’s How to Get in on the End of Day Pie Fight at the Texas Pie Fest (Eater)

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There’s a new way to find out whether fresh water is actually fresh and clean: a set of glowing orbs in the Netherlands called POND. Plus: starting this Saturday, it's the Wamego, Kansas Tulip Festival.

These glowing orbs can tell you if water is clean or polluted (Fast Company)

Tulip Festival 2024 

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