A parasite that usually causes about 50 illnesses a year in Michigan has now sickened nearly 1,000 people there, part of a nationwide spike that hasn't been traced to a… Read the rest of the article: A parasite is giving 1,000+ Americans 'explosive' diarrhea
European regulators just approved a food additive designed to keep you from gaining weight. It's inulin propionate ester, or IPE, cleared for sale in the EU after 15 years of… Read the rest of the article: The EU just approved a food additive that curbs weight gain
Meta has patented a wearable that listens to you all day and guesses how you feel. As 404 Media reports, the device would continuously record audio and surroundings, then use… Read the rest of the article: Meta patented a wearable that listens all day to guess your feelings
Congo's latest Ebola outbreak has killed 600 people and is now spreading into provinces that had been untouched. Authorities have logged 1,759 confirmed cases since declaring the outbreak on May… Read the rest of the article: Congo's Ebola outbreak has killed 600 and is reaching new provinces
The Paris Review was partly a CIA front, and one of its founders led a double life to match. In the London Review of Books, Christian Lorentzen reviews a new… Read the rest of the article: The novelist who co-founded the Paris Review was a CIA spy
At the time that this post was written, at least 50 individuals had died in the custody of the Department of Homeland Security's (DHS) Immigration and Customs Enforcement. The deaths… Read the rest of the article: Mexican Government files charges against ICE for murder
In 1929, a Moscow newspaper editor discovered that one of his reporters never wrote anything down because his brain was apparently already doing the recording. That is where the popular… Read the rest of the article: Photographic memory is not real, but this guy's brain came close enough to scare everyone
SAG-AFTRA president Sean Astin testified before Congress about nonconsensual AI replicas, warning that deepfakes are not just an actor problem but a reality problem. In his testimony, Astin said AI… Read the rest of the article: Sean Astin tells Congress AI should not get to steal your face
Folarin Balogun is eligible to play for the United States because he was born in Brooklyn, which is awkward for Republicans currently trying to make "born in America" mean "terms… Read the rest of the article: Mike Johnson likes birthright citizenship when it scores goals
Astronomers keep finding enormous rings of radio light in deep space that nothing in the textbooks can account for. Each is more than 50 times the width of the Milky… Read the rest of the article: Astronomers keep finding giant radio rings in space they can't explain
The Wicked Bible is a 1631 reprint of the King James Bible that accidentally ordered its readers to sin. Setting the Ten Commandments, London's royal printers dropped the word "not"… Read the rest of the article: A 1631 Bible accidentally ordered readers to commit adultery
Spontaneous human combustion is the old, stubborn belief that a person can simply burst into flame from within, leaving a body burned to ash while the room around it barely… Read the rest of the article: What is spontaneous human combustion, and is it real?
There are already plenty of reasons to stay the hell away from anything that Meta has its grubby little rat hooks on: Facebook surveils and monetizes everything you do while… Read the rest of the article: How to opt out of Meta using your Instagram posts to make AI images
I'm obsessed with YouTuber Husk IRL's infuriatingly hilarious conversations with ChatGPT. If you need a laugh (and who doesn't, nowadays?), you should watch some of his videos on your next… Read the rest of the article: ChatGPT failures make for truly hilarious content
TL;DR: Work on your self-growth, boost your professional skills, and become a trivia night menace with lifetime access to Headway Premium — now just $69.99, no subscription, no expiration. We're not saying… Read the rest of the article: Your excuses for not reading are over — Headway Premium is just $69.99 for life
A dockside owl rescue turned into a successful wildlife handoff after several young barn owls were found nesting in a loft above the water. As they neared the age to… Read the rest of the article: Baby barn owls rescued from a dock loft before first flight
In 1996, beverage maker Clearly Canadian introduced Orbitz, a clear soft drink filled with brightly colored edible spheres suspended throughout the bottle. The unusual appearance made it look more like… Read the rest of the article: In 1996, Orbitz turned a soda bottle into a lava lamp
A concrete playground slide in Bucharest, Romania, looks more like a piece of brutalist architecture than a place for children to play. Built in the late 1950s or 1960s in… Read the rest of the article: This concrete playground slide looks like brutalist architecture
Psyllium husk has been rebranded by the internet as "nature's Ozempic," which is unfair to nature, Ozempic, and this extremely beige powder that mostly wants you to drink more water.… Read the rest of the article: Psyllium husk is not nature's Ozempic, but it is a pretty good source of fiber
Lorenzo Salgado Araujo spent 35 years in the United States, raised three sons, built houses, built his own home, and was shot by ICE before work. His son Ronaldo said… Read the rest of the article: ICE killed a Houston father, then called him the aggressor
