When you live in a hot, desert city that only gets 11 inches of rainfall per year, water is a precious resource. And yet, laws in Tucson, Arizona, long impeded people’s ability to utilize rainwater efficiently. That is, until Brad Lancaster took a handsaw to his curb and showed the city the result.

In 1998, Lancaster sawed through the curb in front of his house in six places, creating channels to divert rainwater into the space between the street and the sidewalk. Cutting into the curb was illegal, but city officials remained unaware of it for three years, until Lancaster himself told them what he’d done.

The transformation was simply too remarkable to keep to himself. Watch:

Listen, would Rihanna telling you that “you’re fire” fix all the problems in your life? No. But would it, even if for a moment, make life feel better despite those problems? Abso-freakin-lutely. 

Such was the case for one fan who spotted Rih Rih checking out at the grocery store and asked the singer to take a selfie. The woman was also excited to share that her name was Robin, which happens to be Rihanna’s legal first name (Robyn). 

Rihanna acquiesced, and, as the two began posing, the woman warned her:

“I look terrible. I live with cancer.” 

Taylor Swift and NFL star fiancé Travis Kelce spent the better part of a year planning the wedding event of the century. Over Fourth of July weekend, the world-famous singer and Kansas City Tight End made it official. Reportedly, they exchanged vows inside a transformed Madison Square Garden. 

High-profile nuptials are nothing new, but the fact that the couple pulled off a massive, star-studded ceremony with nearly 1,000 attendees in the heart of Manhattan without paparazzi spoiling the surprise? Well, that required some ingenuity. The first step? Sending out the wedding invitations. The invites had details the couple wanted to keep private from the prying eyes of the public and the press. In typical Swift fashion, Taylor combined personal passion with a dash of technology to pull off the perfect wedding announcement.

You’ve heard of old quotes, interviews, and predictions that “aged like milk,” but here’s one that aged like a fine wine.

While astronomer Carl Sagan would likely be the first to scoff at the idea of him being a fortune teller, the man certainly had a prescient way of looking ahead during his lifetime. Sagan was the original host of a show called “Cosmos” back in 1980 and it became the most watched show in public television history. Sometimes called the “Mister Rogers of science,” few science communicators have been able to match Sagan’s talent for stoking wonder about the universe and our place in it.

Sagan passed away in 1996, 30 years ago, from pneumonia. He was only 62, and it was a tragedy that he was taken so soon with so much good work left to do.