In a fascinating move, Volvo, General Motors and Amazon announced that customers can choose their car as their preferred delivery location for Prime orders. Beginning today, the offer is open to GM and Volvo owners (with a 2015 model or newer and OnStar and Volvo on Call accounts) in 37 cities in the US. "To find your car, Amazon's couriers will have access to its GPS location and license plate number, as well as an image of the car" but won't have direct access to the vehicle, so owners won't need to feel their car and possessions are unsecured or exposed. Read more at The Verge.

Once desolate (but never truly abandoned), North Carolina's Land of Oz theme park will reopen for six days this June (every Friday and the last Saturday). A wonderland built around The Wizard of Oz's beloved world, yellow brick road included, the park debuted in 1970 and closed one decade later. In the '90s, it would open its doors again—for only one day a year. Money raised during those openings went toward its restoration. Plenty of eerie imagery exists but nothing will be as telling as a tour itself. Read more at Travel + Leisure.

The Hubble Space Telescope has turned 28 years old—and everyone has received a birthday gift. To honor the groundbreaking, traveling documentarian, NASA has released a zoom and flythrough video of the Lagoon Nebula. About 4,000 light-years away, the Nebula centers around the million-year-old Hershel 36 star—which happens to be "200,000 times brighter and eight times hotter than Earth's sun." It's an exquisite area with a space landscape that truly captivates. Learn more and watch the full video (and a supplementary infrared swipe video) at the Huffington Post.

This year's best in show—or Milano Design Award winner—at Salone del Mobile happens to be Czech glass manufacturer Lasvit, who collaborated with 16 cutting-edge designers to develop little monsters and more. It was presented at Milan’s Teatro Gerolamo, a neoclassical puppet theater and came complete with humorous performances. The project took two years to develop and was envisioned by creative design strategist Stephan Hamel and Lasvit founder Leon Jakimič, who was captivated by the fact that everyone perceives of monsters differently. A diverse, engaging and fantastical series, Lasvit produced a feast for the ideas. Read more at Wallpaper*.

Insufficient internet access and lack of equipment have not prevented some animators from continuing their filmic work after graduating art school in Cuba. From pirated software to technical improvisation, animated films have slowly appeared throughout the nation. It wasn't until 2014 that a (state-sponsored) feature-length animated film, "Meñique," would appear. And yet now, companies like El Muke and ÑOOo Productions have work seen as far as the Havana Film Festival in New York. Read more about both producing houses and the work of others like them at the New York Times.

For those who don't have the luxury of flying business class, sitting with all your limbs contorted in an airplane seat is obviously one of the least appealing aspects of travel. However, Airbus is said to be building bunk beds into their cargo holds—available for those in "cattle" class to rent out for naps. While it might seem like a wild concept, many large planes already have beds downstairs for crew members to rest. Plus, "Airbus also showed plans for a lounge, a conference room, a medical suite, and a kids play zone, all to be slotted into the cargo hold." Perhaps the future of air travel isn't so bad. Read more at Wired.

Almost exactly two years after Prince's tragic accidental overdose and death, the original story and recording of "Nothing Compares 2 U" has been released by the musician's foundation. Paul "St Paul" Peterson (who was a singer in Prince's band, the Family) and Susan Rogers (Prince's sound engineer) tell the tale about the beautiful song's birth, some 34 years ago. From not putting his name on it, to the track potentially being about Prince's housekeeper, to how he chose artists to cover his songs, there's a wealth of information in this story about one beautiful song. Read more at The Guardian.

"Inadvertently engineered" by scientists at the University of Portsmouth and the US Department of Energy, a new enzyme has been discovered (well, created in actuality) that might help the recycling process—therefore benefitting the environment. This enzyme essentially eats and digests plastics and, while it could revolutionize recycling, Parley for the Oceans founder Cyrill Gutsch says, "We cannot put our hopes on a miracle and we can not expect solutions for harmful substances to be without side affects... At this point in time what we really can count on is if we stop making plastic, if we start taking plastic back from nature, and if we are developing new materials that can replace plastic in the long run, that we can bet on this strategy." Read more at Dezeen.

With the artist Marisol Escobar as his first example, Washington Post writer Sebastian Smee argues that retrospectives in national and prolific establishments remind the zeitgeist of great artists—and women have been under-serviced. Marisol, who went solely by her first name when exhibiting, was a Warhol contemporary and highly sought-out in the '60s. Her shows were swamped and she accumulated much acclaim. No major institution has offered her attention. And she is not alone. There are, of course, other reasons why fame disappears, but when cast through movements like #5womenartists, where social media users were challenged to name five, it's easy to understand the benefit of a retrospective's resources. To learn more, and more about artists like Sheila Hicks, Joan Jonas and Mary Heilmann, head over to the Washington Post.

With 150 kiosk machines worldwide, including one at Francis Ford Coppola's Cafe Zoetrope in San Francisco, French community publisher Short Edition serves short stories for free. There are about 30 in the US, including some on university campuses and transportation hubs, and each delivers a fiction story, drawn from over 100,000 approved original submissions. Users can select a story for young readers and everybody else and then hit one of three buttons to choose a one-, three- or five-minute long story. After venues purchase the machine, it costs $190 per month for content and software updates. Read more about the program at the New York Times.

NASA's Tess (Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite) is going in search of some 200,000 of the brightest stars, in an attempt to find alien worlds. The satellite will hitch a ride with SpaceX's Falcon 9 and then spend two years floating around space, not just to observe but ultimately to find exoplanets (potentially habitable planets). Tess will be "flung into a highly elliptical orbit around Earth that has never been attempted before" and each orbit will take 14 days to complete, as she scours for alien planets and then sends data back to earth.

For 60+ years, Tom of Finland (aka Touko Laaksonen) has inspired and empowered viewers, while pioneering expressions of gay desire through his art. While certainly erotic, much of his artwork wasn't overtly sexual, rather playfully suggestive—making male-on-male lust somewhat everyday and casual (nothing if not brave in the '50s, when he began showing his work). In a new show at Detroit's MOCAD, "Tom House: The Work and Life of Tom of Finland," Laaksonen's art is explored alongside his private life. Displaying everything from childhood sketches to personal possessions, the show promises to be tremendously comprehensive, with the team at MOCAD and the Tom of Finland Foundation recreating "the interior of Laaksonen’s own Los Angeles perch." See more at Artsy.