There are all sorts of ways you could fill a fool's spring Saturday afternoon (yard work! a good book! the new Batman movie!) but if something possesses you to re-take… Read the rest of the article: This Saturday, pay $52 to take an online SAT test. The highest score wins the pot.
The social media team for the Oklahoma Department of Wildlife Conservation made a quick PSA not to bring mountain lions inside, which begs the question how often do people bring… Read the rest of the article: Warning against letting wild animals in your house backfires due to cuteness of wild animal
A report in Input Magazine titled "My Fortune Cookie Told Me To Invest In Dogecoin" shows that a Bahamas-based "Crypto and NFT portfolio company" called FTX is advertising in fortune cookies.… Read the rest of the article: A Bahamas-based company is advertising crypto memecoins on fortune cookies
Evolutionary biology has all sorts of goofy-sounding titles (the sexy son hypothesis! The gay uncle hypothesis!) but my favorite is the "rock paper scissors" mating mechanism of the common side-blotched… Read the rest of the article: Lizards have been playing a big game of rock paper scissors for millions of years
This week, Elmo has gained attention online after a 2004 video of his heated tirades against "Rocco" surfaced. There's something hysterical about watching a red furry monster rage against a… Read the rest of the article: Elmo is feuding with a rock and it's hilarious
A now-deleted tweet from PBR reads "Not drinking this January? Try eating ass!" When user @thruandthrudave responded "PBR or ass? Whats the difference?" the brand account responded, "ask your mom."… Read the rest of the article: PBR apologizes for telling sober people to "try eating ass"
On October 23, Vancouver Canucks assistant equipment manager Brian "Red" Hamilton was on the ice when he noticed a Seattle Kraken fan banging on the glass to catch his attention.… Read the rest of the article: "The mole on the back of your neck is cancer" wrote an NHL fan. Now she's getting a $10k scholarship for med school
As Gary Dahl sat at a bar with friends who kept complaining about their pets, he realized that the perfect pet was a rock. He crafted fit-for-pet packaging (complete with… Read the rest of the article: The official pet rock care guide
The New York Times has released its 2022 food forecast and "ingredient of the year" is the mushroom, chosen because of its use as a tasty dish addition, psychedelic drug,… Read the rest of the article: Food forecasters are bullish on mushrooms in 2022
The New York Times provides access to its sprawling archive to paying customers, and hooo boy is it easy to get sucked in. In a fit of curiosity, I read… Read the rest of the article: Top NYT headlines from 50 years ago today
I quite like watching Jeopardy when I have a free evening, and if I'm not by the TV, I can watch it online using a free service called Puffer that's… Read the rest of the article: Amy Schneider is Jeopardy's first trans contestant to qualify for the Tournament of Champions
A NASA website (or should I say Webbsite?) shows how far the historic James Webb Space Telescope is from reaching orbit. On it, you can check out the telescope's distance… Read the rest of the article: NASA "Webbsite" shows the progress of the James Webb Space Telescope
A decade ago, when Spotify was two years old in the UK and had just become available in the US, Chris Johnson started a musical discovery project called TAPEFEAR. He… Read the rest of the article: A guy accidentaly made a gigantic repository of niche music
Jack Dorsey, the former CEO of Twitter who co-founded Square in 2009, announced on December 1st that the company would change its name to Block. It's the parent company of… Read the rest of the article: Payment software company Square changed its name to 'Block' this month. Now H&R Block is suing them.
A team of neuroscientists from Australia, the UK, and Canada release a pre-print paper detailing a technology called "DishBrain." It integrates with brain cells to provide a "stimulated game-world," using… Read the rest of the article: Cells in a petri dish learned to play pong
In 2020, we learned that negative candle reviews are a (very) informal proxy for Covid cases. The results were surprisingly clear: Before 2020, reviews of the top scented candles hovered… Read the rest of the article: Brace yourselves, one-star candle reviews are spiking again
There's a new FDOTUS in the White House! The commander in chief welcomed a German Shepherd puppy named Commander on Monday afternoon. Besides Trump, Polk, and Andrew Johnson, all US… Read the rest of the article: Following biting incidents, Biden re-homes Major and welcomes puppy named Commander
Kenyon Wilson is a professor of performing arts at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga and this semester, he ran an experiment: hiding a cash prize in a locker and… Read the rest of the article: A professor hid $50 on campus and put the location in the syllabus. No student read it
On Sunday, December 19th, Andrew Marr signed off for the last time. "I had been wondering how to close this final show but I can't do better than quoting my… Read the rest of the article: After 21 years at the BBC, reporter signs off final broadcast with an Anchorman quote
On Friday, Kellogg's confirmed online rumors that it has removed its name from Pop-Tarts boxes. The move comes amidst a months-long strike involving about 1400 workers across four cereal plants,… Read the rest of the article: Kellogg's removes its logo from Pop-Tarts boxes
