People like Gwyneth Paltrow tout alkaline water as a health tonic. She even squeezes lemon into her alkaline water. I wasn't paying a lot of attention in middle school chemistry,… Read the rest of the article: At least 25 people poisoned by toxic alkaline water, says FDA

Republican standard-bearer Alex Jones profited handsomely when he claimed the federal government staged the Sandy Hook schoolchildren massacre and the slaughtered children's parents were hired actors. While Jones raked in… Read the rest of the article: Alex Jones posted a video begging for money after he lost Sandy Hook lawsuit

My day begins with a tour of the kitchen in my cinder-block home high atop the peaks of the Hollywood Hills overlooking the Pacific Ocean, checking that all is in… Read the rest of the article: The OXO Ground Beef Chopper is part of our daily family ritual

"Before Yesterday We Could Fly": An Afrofuturist Period Room is an exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art that, according to the museum, is "powered by Afrofuturism—a transdisciplinary creative mode… Read the rest of the article: Read Mark Dery's fabulous evisceration of a paleoconservative's hand-wringing review of the Met's Afrofuturist exhibition

Geoffrey Huntley made it dead simple to right click on every NFT on the Ethereum and Solana blockchains. You just need to have 17 TB of hard drive space or… Read the rest of the article: Download every NFT (all 17 terabytes) for free using this torrent

AOC and Rep. Jamie Raskin made a livestream of their reactions to House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy's interminable speech about how bad the infrastructure bill is. They zeroed in on… Read the rest of the article: AOC and Jamie Raskin livestreamed their reaction to seeing Mike Pence's brother proudly standing beside Jan 6 riot enablers

Our home was a junkie's hovel, a mangy morass of scattered papers and shriveled snack wrappers, a fetid swamp of moldy, mildewed artifacts, dullbrown crumbly stuff, open bottles of synthetic… Read the rest of the article: Beware the false flag operations of the Alvin Corn Cleaning Squad

Bill Maher appeared on Cuomo's CNN show last night to talk politics and Covid, and how the two are inseparable. At the end of the video, Maher reiterated his warning… Read the rest of the article: Beware on January 20, 2025, says Bill Maher

Who is this wonderful teacher who starts the school day with such a joyful ritual? As each student enters her classroom, they point to an icon on a wall chart… Read the rest of the article: Watch: Teacher lets kids pick "dance," "hug," or "fist bump" from a poster as they enter the classroom

Lawful Evil examplar Liz Cheney thinks Chaotic Evil exemplar Donald Trump "broke" Ted Cruz. She told CNN: "I think that Trump broke Ted Cruz. Ted used to say he was… Read the rest of the article: Liz Cheney on Cruz: "a real man would be defending his wife, and his father, and the Constitution"

Freshly-censured Rep. Paul Gosar's siblings say they're concerned about their brother's neurological well-being. After watching this video of the Neo-Nazi fundraiser stumbling into his office, falling into a chair, and… Read the rest of the article: Watch: Paul Gosar's hard-to-understand statement about being "censored" by Congress

Rep. Paul A. Gosar, the Republican standard-bearer who makes a habit of posting fake images disparaging Democrats on Twitter, is likely to be kicked off committees for tweeting a "violent… Read the rest of the article: After posting video depicting violent murder of Ocasio-Cortez, Rep. Paul A. Gosar to be ejected from congressional committees

For those of us who've been repairing our devices using iFixIt's excellent guides and parts, Apple's announcement today that it will begin offering self-service repair parts, tools, and manuals comes… Read the rest of the article: Apple says it will start selling replacement parts and provide repair guides for iPhones, Macs

I'm often asked whether I use clean or unclean rags when I wipe my eyeglasses. The answer is, of course, that it depends on which rag I can lay my… Read the rest of the article: These cleaning wipes are better than a dirty rag

I didn't know it was possible to grow such beautiful crystals from ordinary table salt. Chase, a university student who loves to grow crystals using chemistry while sharing my discoveries… Read the rest of the article: A guide to growing large and flawless salt crystals

Have you ever tried to cancel a SiriusFM subscription? You have to call them on the phone and beg a skilled retention specialist. That's if you can even talk to… Read the rest of the article: FTC says "click to subscribe, call to cancel" is illegal

My pal Steve Silberman tweeted: "LSD was born on this day in 1938 in Albert Hofmann's lab at Sandoz in Basel. It's not for everyone, but Hofmann would later say… Read the rest of the article: Happy 83rd birthday LSD!

Susanna Hoffs, founding member of The Bangles, has a new album out called Bright Lights and I've listened to it a bunch of times already. Hoffs is great at covers… Read the rest of the article: Listen: Susanna Hoffs covers "Him or Me — What's It Gonna Be?" and "Time Will Show the Wiser" on her new album

A troublemaking anti-vaxxer named Ethan Schmidt walked into a CVS pharmacy and began filming the staff as he scolded them for vaccinating people against Covid. He then walked over to… Read the rest of the article: Obnoxious jerk harrases pharmacy staff, then whines when vaccine recipient grabs his phone

Our latest Cool Tools video shows how to make natural dyes based on recipes from the book, A Garden to Dye For: How to Use Plants from the Garden to… Read the rest of the article: Watch: how to make natural dyes from plants