Most UFO theories reach for outer space. The cryptoterrestrial hypothesis reaches down instead: it proposes that flying saucers come not from distant planets but from an advanced, hidden civilization that… Read the rest of the article: The theory that UFOs come from Earth, not space
On the morning of July 17, a redditor who normally pays Amazon Web Services about five cents a month opened their inbox to a wall of billing alerts and a… Read the rest of the article: An AWS bug turned a 5-cent bill into $2.5 billion
TL;DR: This Grade A refurbished 2020 MacBook Pro has 16GB of RAM, a 1TB SSD, and a 13.3-inch Retina display for $429.97 instead of $1,999. A new MacBook Pro can cost the approximate… Read the rest of the article: This $430 MacBook Pro once cost nearly $2,000
Sexsomnia is a parasomnia — in the same family as sleepwalking — in which a person engages in sexual acts during non-REM sleep. People in an episode often appear fully… Read the rest of the article: Some people initiate sex in their sleep and remember none of it
TL;DR: FileJump is offering 2TB of cloud storage in an easy-to-use package for only $59 (MSRP $467) for a lifetime subscription. No more 'out of storage' notifications blocking your flow — go… Read the rest of the article: Free up computer space with 2TB of cloud storage for $59 — for life
Someone at TryAI handed two frontier AI models the same assignment: here's Bruno Mars and Mark Ronson's "Uptown Funk," a budget, and a shell with ffmpeg plus access to every… Read the rest of the article: Two AIs got $100 each to make a music video by themselves
An international team including Yale researchers has described a new species of Colobus monkey living high in the forest canopy of the Democratic Republic of Congo — only the fifth… Read the rest of the article: New monkey: so rare only 8 of 52 nearby villages knew it existed
Knitters call it the sweater curse: knit a sweater for a significant other and they'll break up with you — in one version, before the sweater is even finished. In… Read the rest of the article: Knitters believe a hand-made sweater can end your relationship
In 1970, composer Gavin Bryars and a group of students at the Portsmouth School of Art formed the Portsmouth Sinfonia, an orchestra open to anyone regardless of talent. Trained musicians… Read the rest of the article: An orchestra with inept players sold out the Royal Albert Hall
Ten years ago, an Australian company called Geeky Sex Toys launched a line of adult toys based on Pokémon. It sold out almost instantly. Now, according to the relaunch drop,… Read the rest of the article: Pokémon-parody sex toys are back, with holographic trading cards
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
Keith Thomas broke his neck diving into a pool in 2020 and was paralyzed from the chest down. Six years later, thanks to a set of brain implants that bypass… Read the rest of the article: Brain implant lets a paralyzed man feed himself and pet his dog
You know the trick of picking one voice out of a crowded room — the "cocktail party" problem. A new study in PLOS Biology looks at the messier moment when… Read the rest of the article: Your brain can track two voices at the same time
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
The 1,024,000² 2b2t World Download Project is a public archive of the Minecraft anarchy server 2b2t, preserving roughly 13.7 TiB of compressed world data covering a million-by-million-block section of the… Read the rest of the article: Explore a snapshot of a massive million-by-million block Minecraft server
TL;DR: Get a Babbel lifetime subscription covering all 14 languages for $159 (reg. $299) with code LEARN. Plenty of language apps will happily teach you a stockpile of nouns and verb tenses, then… Read the rest of the article: All Babbel language courses just dropped in this exclusive offer
On June 3, 1978, Soviet physicist Anatoli Bugorski was checking malfunctioning equipment on the U-70 synchrotron — the largest particle accelerator in the Soviet Union — when the safety mechanisms… Read the rest of the article: In 1978, a physicist took a particle accelerator beam through his brain and went back to work
In 2004, John Bergeron built an animatronic from about $2,000 in materials — a 5'10" metal skeleton with synthetic rubber skin, a wig, and women's clothing — and set out… Read the rest of the article: Remember Tara, the singing android that terrified the internet
In March of the year 536, the sky over Constantinople went dark for a year-and-a-half. The Roman historian Procopius wrote that "the sun gave forth its light without brightness… and… Read the rest of the article: In the year 536, the sun dimmed for 18 months: "one of the worst periods to be alive"
