Spain won the World Cup, but Grandpa Pudding Brains saw a gold trophy, cameras, and a stage, so naturally he seemed to assume the ceremony had taken a wrong turn… Read the rest of the article: Grandpa Pudding Brains thinks he won the World Cup

Trump's FDA appears to have shat the bed on the cyclospora outbreak: a major lettuce recall disrupted the food chain, the outbreak kept spreading, and now the agency says its… Read the rest of the article: Cyclospora: Trump's FDA shits the bed

It seems the "Avengers: Doomsday" trailer is here, giving away all the goodies. Disney needs money, so they've packed this with as many people as they could, including the characters… Read the rest of the article: Disney bravely waits one movie before resurrecting dead Avengers

Harkening back to the good old days when Bub Rub and Lil' Sis were all the rage, this interview is pure gold. These two gentlemen may not like turtles, but… Read the rest of the article: This Los Angeles man-on-the-street interview is internet gold

JD Vance reinforced the stereotype that the U.S. Vice President does nothing by asserting that it is a great time to raise a newborn. Apparently, JD has cracked the code… Read the rest of the article: JD Vance discovers parenting is easy when the Secret Service does the hard parts

CNN Business has produced a headline so pure, so direct, so violently inevitable, that no rewrite desk should be allowed within 500 feet of it: "Taco Bell has a diarrhea… Read the rest of the article: CNN writes the Taco Bell diarrhea headline America needed

Senator Amy Klobuchar asked Trump's Attorney General candidate Todd Blanche whether it is unacceptable for federal agents to break into someone's home without a warrant and drag them into the… Read the rest of the article: Todd Blanche says warrantless home raids are not a "black and white" issue

J.K. Rowling has found a new way to spend Harry Potter money on the anti-trans movement: offering to bankroll groups angry that Amnesty International UK briefly called them "anti-rights." The… Read the rest of the article: J.K. Rowling offers to bankroll anti-trans groups' revenge on Amnesty International

Elon Musk's mounting legal problems are no longer mere SEC paperwork and shareholder lawsuits. They now include Wisconsin election bribery allegations, French criminal scrutiny of X and Grok, UK online-safety… Read the rest of the article: Elon Musk's legal problems have gone international, so naturally he's doing politics

There is a special section of the human brain where stuff like this lives: Sniffing it and pulling it out still confuses me. Previously:• The mysterious cognitive effects of chewing… Read the rest of the article: The human capacity for memory is astounding

Carl McDaniel, the tourist who was launched into the air by a Yellowstone bison, recognizes the animal could have killed him but chose not to do so. The bison has… Read the rest of the article: Man, yeeted by a bison, is grateful for its mercy

Venice's buildings were famously built on millions of wooden piles driven into marshy lagoon floor, but the lagoon itself is not one giant man-made raft. It contains natural, marshy, reclaimed,… Read the rest of the article: The only curse on Venice's cursed island is us

Juliane Koepcke survived a plane breaking apart at 10,000 feet on Christmas Eve, woke up alone in the Peruvian Amazon, and then had to do the only thing more impossible… Read the rest of the article: She fell out of the sky on Christmas Eve. The jungle was only the beginning.

"Hillary" Dawa Sherpa was presumed dead on Everest. His family had begun funeral rites. Then a cleanup crew found him crawling near the Khumbu Icefall. Everest stories either arrive dressed… Read the rest of the article: Sherpa left for dead on Everest tells his story

CDs are somehow cool again, which means we have reached the part of the streaming era where everyone misses "owning" music. This video sets up vinyl, CD, and lossless streaming… Read the rest of the article: CDs are back because streaming made music feel disposable

Everyone knows how to ride a bike. Nobody completely knows why the bike is helping. The old explanation was that bicycles stay upright because of spinning wheels acting like gyroscopes.… Read the rest of the article: The humble bicycle is still hiding a physics mystery

For forty years, one sailor knew the North Atlantic by color, smell, light, weather, and the animals that surfaced around him. Then, in 1907, he wrote that the sea had… Read the rest of the article: In 1907, a sailor watched the North Atlantic mysteriously change color forever

"I don't care if it's a trans, gender confused person, if it's a muslim, if it's whoever else that's standing in front of you that's spitting on you, cussing at… Read the rest of the article: Erika Kirk rallies her "happy warriors" against trans people, Muslims, and "whoever else"

No one was a threat, but the cameras were evidence. A viral video appears to show masked ICE agents slamming an already restrained young man's face into rocks, then pointing… Read the rest of the article: Masked ICE agents slam an already restrained man into rocks, then threaten the cameras

Guerrilla artists Secret Handshake have installed a giant gold participation trophy for Trump on the National Mall, hoping that if the president receives enough shiny objects, he may stop trying… Read the rest of the article: Giant participation trophy appears on the National Mall for Trump's Iran War "effort"