Imminent: Inside the Pentagon's Hunt for UFOs is an upcoming non-fiction book by Luis Elizondo, who allegedly served as the director of the Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program, the US… Read the rest of the article: Amazon sold fake "leaked" copy of hyped new UFO memoir

The origins of the mythical "Pee is stored in the balls" meme are largely unknown. But the origin of the microplastics that, according to a recent study, are actually stored… Read the rest of the article: New study suggests that microplastics are stored in the balls

On Sunday, May 19, 2024, the long-running seafood chain known as Red Lobster filed for bankruptcy. According to the filings, a primary cause of the company's financial struggles was the… Read the rest of the article: Crustacean corruption scheme revealed in the wake of Red Lobster bankruptcy

For the last few years, the English town of Falmouth has hosted an annual Worm Charming Championship. Which is sort of exactly what it sounds like, according to Cornwall Live:… Read the rest of the article: Meet the winners of this year's Worm Charming Championships

On June 15, the Republic of Ireland will celebrate Cruinniú na nÓg, a special day of free creative activities for young people. To mark the occasion, a group of young… Read the rest of the article: The hottest song of the summer is by a bunch of tweens from Cork

In recent years, noted alt-right grifter Milo Yiannopoulos has been serving as Chief of Staff for Yeezy, the brand owned by Ye, also known as Kanye West, also known as… Read the rest of the article: Famed antisemites Ye and Milo Yiannopoulos part ways over porn disagreements

There's a long history of solidarity between the Irish and the Palestinians, to the point that even NPR has reported on the seemingly-strange connection. But now that bond has taken… Read the rest of the article: Palestinian women's soccer team plays first ever match in Europe

Georgia Laurie of Berkshire, England has been named as one of this year's civilian recipients of The King's Gallantry Medal and The King's Commendation for Bravery. She is being commended… Read the rest of the article: British Royal Family honors woman who punched a crocodile in the face

In April 2024, the news broke that Spotify was going to be increasing its subscription prices. For individual users, the change will only mean an additional dollar per month—not a… Read the rest of the article: Spotify expected to pay out $150M less to musicians after new price increase

Writer Ed Zitron recently published a comprehensive look (read: takedown) of Sora, the new generative video platform from OpenAI. Functionally, Sora is not much different from text generation via ChatGPT,… Read the rest of the article: OpenAI's generative video software is more tedious than actual filmmaking

After decades, Munch's Make Believe Band — the infamous animatronic house band at countless Chuck E. Cheese locations across the country — is finally calling it quits. As The New… Read the rest of the article: Watch the final performance of a Chuck E. Cheese animatronic house band

For over twenty years, the Muppet-fansite-for-grownups Tough Pigs has held a (semi-)annual Ugly Muppet Toy Pageant — a celebration of the most horrifically rendered licensed cash-grabs of everyone's favorite felt… Read the rest of the article: Meet the winners of the 2024 Ugly Muppet Toy Pageant

Krabi (in English, "The Crabs") is a 1976 animated sci-fi short film that takes the concept of carcinisation — the idea that everything eventually evolves into a crab-like form —… Read the rest of the article: Watch "The Crabs," a 1976 Czech animated sci-fi short about weaponized robot crabs

Electronic drum kits can do wonderful things, but even the best models out there still suffer from the same essential flaw: those god damn rubber1 cymbals. But a few weeks… Read the rest of the article: Zildjian's new e-drum kit is a gamechanger in music technology

Like a lot of people who were reared on the underground and alternative rock sounds of the late 80s and 90s, I was heartbroken to hear about the unexpected death… Read the rest of the article: Read Steve Albini's famous essay on the music industry's problems

We've known that whales are intelligent, emotional mammals who often sing songs. But now, a team of researchers from Project CETI (Cetacean Translation Initiative) and the MIT Computer Science and… Read the rest of the article: Scientist identify the phonetic alphabet of whales

Wally is a 70-pound emotional support alligator who lives in Pennsylvania with a man named Joei Henney. Last year, Wally was famously denied entry into a Phillies game. More recently,… Read the rest of the article: Wally the Emotional Support Alligator has gone missing

TSA agents at Miami-Dade airport intercepted a man who had stuffed his pants with a secret Oakley bag containing a pair of snakes. Fox59 reports that the TSA' screening technology's… Read the rest of the article: TSA agents ask flight passenger: "Is that a snake in your pants?"

There once was a Cybertruck on NantucketWhose owner could not drive the bucketThey saw a sand duneDrove over, and soonWhat bad luck, the truck was stuck in it! From the… Read the rest of the article: Cybertruck stuck in Nantucket

Back in 2010, writers Anthony Del Col and Conor McCreery teamed up with artists Andy Belanger, Ian Herring, and Kagan McLeod for a bloody, pulpy take on the ol' Bard.… Read the rest of the article: Romeo and Juliet battle to the bloody death in new Kill Shakespeare comic