"This is your brain on drugs. Any questions?" The TV public service announcement was a classic from the ridiculous 1980s "war on drugs." And while I knew that this and… Read the rest of the article: The story behind the classic 1980s "This is your brain on drugs" TV PSA
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David Pescovitz Convenience store chain Circle K has teamed up with cannabis firm Green Thumb Industries to bring medical marijuana to the former's gas stations in Florida. The RISE Express stores will… Read the rest of the article: Florida man can soon buy his weed at Circle K gas stations
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David Pescovitz Do you want shelter or funky stuff? (Say what!)
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David Pescovitz Google Trends analyzed the most popular Halloween costume search terms across the United States to create Frightgeist, which also shows the geographic distribution of particular costume searches. The top 19… Read the rest of the article: These are the most popular Halloween costumes in 2022
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David Pescovitz Starview HCT-5808 is a 1984 laserdisc featuring space fantasy artwork by Japanese sci-fi illustrator Jinsei Choi. Watch it above! The musical score is by respected composer Jun Fukamachi whose music… Read the rest of the article: Far-out Japanese laserdisc of 1980s space fantasy artwork with astro-jazz funk/ambient soundtrack (video)
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David Pescovitz Last night, Marjorie Taylor Green made a fuss about her visit to the Wilder Brigade Monument in Chickamauga, Georgia. "Tonight, I stopped at the Wilder monument in Chickamauga, GA, which… Read the rest of the article: Marjorie Taylor Greene said she visited monument to honor Confederate soldiers but it was actually a monument for Union troops
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David Pescovitz Rorie S. Woods of Hadley, Massachusetts was arrested after she allegedly unleashed a swarm of bees on police officers arrived at a man's home to serve eviction papers. Apparently a… Read the rest of the article: Woman arrested for unleashing swarm of bees on police
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David Pescovitz This monstrous animal, a giant sunfish, was found floating dead in the Portugal's Azores archipelago. Weighing 2,744 kilograms (3 tons), it's thought to be the world's heaviest bony fish ever… Read the rest of the article: This dead monstrosity is the heaviest bony fish in the world
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David Pescovitz This morning on Interstate 95 near Godwin, North Carolina, a truck jacknifed and dumped its load of 22,000 pounds of catfish all over the freeway. The massive mess stopped northbound… Read the rest of the article: Truck spills 22,000 pounds of live fish on freeway
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David Pescovitz US Customs and Border Protection seized 44 pounds of Fentanyl on their way into the US from Mexico. The bricks of the drug—some branded with the CNN logo—were hidden in… Read the rest of the article: Huge haul of CNN-branded Fentanyl seized in Texas
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David Pescovitz An astronaut aboard the International Space Station captured this spectacular image over Southeast Asia. What are those two strange blue blobs though? Coincidentally, they're two natural phenomena that occurred simultaneously,… Read the rest of the article: Astronaut photo of Earth shows two strange blue blobs in the atmosphere
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David Pescovitz Stargazer994 posted this clip to r/nextfuckinglevel because, well, it is: front page illustrative thumbnail image: Suphatthra olovedog/Shutterstock
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David Pescovitz Rolling Stone reports that if Trump wins in 2024, he'd love to hire Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene for his administration. "Wouldn't she be great?" Trump reportedly said. From Rolling Stone:… Read the rest of the article: If Trump wins, he reportedly plans to hire Marjorie Taylor Greene
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David Pescovitz For the first time since Patricia Krenwinkel's murder conviction for participating in the 1969 Manson family killing spree, a parole board recommended Krenwinkel be released from prison. On Friday though,… Read the rest of the article: Manson family murderer recommended for parole, California governor says nope
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David Pescovitz From the Internet Archive, here are samples from a delicious gallery of rotating food GIFs. And if that just whets your appetite, there are five (!) more rotating food galleries… Read the rest of the article: Headspinning gallery of rotating food GIFs
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David Pescovitz Mattel has just announced that R&B legend Tina Turner has become a Barbie doll. "We used a lot of screen grabs to see the hair at all angles," doll designer… Read the rest of the article: Tina Turner is now a Barbie doll
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David Pescovitz Somehow I missed these "Directed by David Lynch" decals when they first came out, but they are even more relevant now. What a helpful reminder of the true nature of… Read the rest of the article: "Directed by David Lynch" stickers reveal the true nature of our reality
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David Pescovitz On May 17, 1994, Sonic Youth—promoting their LP Experimental Jet Set, Trash and No Star—performed "Bull in the Heather" on The Late Show with David Letterman. For some reason, video… Read the rest of the article: Here's the curiously rare clip of Sonic Youth live on The Late Show in 1994
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David Pescovitz Star Wars fan Hanalee Pervan and her mom Catherine, co-proprietors of Benicia, California's One House Bakery, created this incredible "Pan Solo in Carbonite" loaf of bread. Now on display outside… Read the rest of the article: Incredible "Pan Solo in Carbonite" life-size loaf of bread
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David Pescovitz In the late 1950s, former CBS Radio musical director and composer Jim Fassett collaborated with CBS radio technician Mortimer Goldberg on a masterpiece of tape music, Symphony of the Birds.… Read the rest of the article: Listen to a stunning symphony of bird calls