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No-Showing Job Interviews Could Soon Land You on a Public Shame List

You know things have tipped too heavily in favor of management over labor when lawmakers in Ohio want to create a public shame list for unemployed...

yesterday 0

Luis Prada

Meta Gave Its AI the Green Light to Be ‘Sensual’ With Kids

In a leaked 200-page document reviewed by Reuters, Meta, the tech giant behind Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp, outlined what its AI chatbots can...

yesterday 0

Luis Prada

This Man’s Blurry Vision Turned Out To Be Worms Swimming in His Eyeball

A 35-year-old man in India had been experiencing blurry vision and a bloodshot eye for months. He finally went to an eye clinic where the doctors...

yesterday 1

Luis Prada

This Seattle Airport Somehow Let Two Prisoners Escape This Year

Movies have always made prison breaks seem so elaborate. You have to build a tunnel and coordinate helicopter landings, and build a dummy that you...

yesterday 1

Luis Prada

YouTube Launched an AI Tool to Guess Your Age—and Restrict Your Account If It Thinks You’re a Child

YouTube’s shiny new AI, designed to detect underage users, is already sparking outrage and concern across the internet. And it hasn’t even...

yesterday 1

Luis Prada

Man Who Threw Sub Sandwich at DC Cops Charged With Felony

Sean Charles Dunn, a now-former Department of Justice employee, became internet infamous after a viral video captured him cussing out U.S. Customs and...

yesterday 40

Luis Prada

Colorado’s ‘Frankenstein Bunnies’ Are Freaking Out the Internet

Residents of Fort Collins, Colorado, have recently been spotting what look like rabbits—but at the same time look like living nightmares. These have...

previous day 3

Luis Prada

This Dog Keeps Bringing Home Human Bones Linked To Murder Mystery: ‘She Did It Again’

The residents of East Birmingham are very familiar with Chicarin, a dog that might be a better detective than even the most prolific fictional cop....

previous day 4

Luis Prada

Even Without Bots and Algorithms, Social Media Turns Us Into Monsters

It’s a knee-jerk reaction. When a friend, a colleague, or a family member becomes radicalized into dangerous conspiratorial thinking, it’s easy to...

previous day 3

Luis Prada

Beavis & Butt-Head Fan Wanted After Hitting 12-Year-Old With Sex Toy at WNBA Game

You might’ve heard about the crypto group that decided to promote their meme coin by tossing bright green dildos onto the court during WNBA games....

previous day 2

Luis Prada

AI Jesus Chatbots Are Freaking Out Philosophy Professors

If you wanted to chat with Jesus, you used to have to get on your knees and pray. Now you can chat with him on your phone thanks to AI Jesus chatbots....

wednesday 5

Luis Prada

Elon Musk’s Grok Got Suspended on Twitter/X

Earlier this week, Grok—the generative AI chatbot built into X (formerly Twitter)—was suspended from its own platform. There was no official...

wednesday 3

Luis Prada

Italy’s Finally Building That Bridge to Sicily We’ve Been Hearing About Forever

After centuries of “What if?” and “Maybe next year,” the Italian government has signed off on the Ponte Stretto di Messina, a record-breaking...

wednesday 5

Luis Prada

Some People Just Don’t Like Music—and Now We Might Know Why

It’s an odd thought. It’s a simple one, easy enough to state aloud, but so fundamentally odd to some of us that it seems abstract and absurd: some...

wednesday 5

Luis Prada

This 36-Mile-Long Spaceship Could Take Humanity to Another Solar System

Have you ever read Arthur C. Clarke’s Rendezvous with Rama? Or, maybe more recently, have you seen that gigantic generation ship from the end of...

wednesday 5

Luis Prada

The Truth About Whether Your Body Count Actually Matters

A new study from Swansea University—published in Science Advances—surveyed over 5,300 people across 11 countries to figure out how much our sexual...

wednesday 6

Luis Prada

A Swarm of Jellyfish Just Took Out a French Nuclear Power Plant

If you’re ever feeling powerless, remember that a bunch of spineless, brainless sea creatures that look like floating plastic grocery bags just...

wednesday 6

Luis Prada

Are Dollar Store Meals Slowly Killing You?

Times are tough, and belts are tightening, mostly because food is so expensive nowadays. Inflation isn’t falling, and tariffs are skyrocketing...

12.08.2025 8

Luis Prada

Thieves Just Boosted $7,000 Worth Labubu Dolls

If you know anything about trends that cause a sudden spike in value in an object, you know how the story goes. We’ve seen it repeated over and over...

12.08.2025 4

Luis Prada

Man Asked ChatGPT for Diet Advice and Ended Up With Victorian-Era Psychosis

One guy’s attempt to use ChatGPT to improve his diet landed him in the hospital when it recommended that he pull his ingredients from a...

12.08.2025 20

Luis Prada

Boar’s Head Is Reopening Its Moldy Meat Factory

Remember that Boar’s Head factory that was linked to several deaths and hospitalizations because it was filled with bugs, mold, and “unidentified...

12.08.2025 6

Luis Prada

U.S. Cities Are Lowering Education Requirements for Cops

Finally! Exactly what America needs: less educated cops. According to a report from USA Today’s N’dea Yancey-Bragg, police departments across the...

11.08.2025 2

Luis Prada

The U.S. Military Is About To Use Cybertrucks for Target Practice

Here’s a fun thought experiment: Considering that Elon Musk has recently been feuding with Trump, but presumably still wants the government to buy...

11.08.2025 2

Luis Prada

The USDA Is Blasting That ‘Marriage Story’ Fight Scene to Freak Out Wolves

Noah Baumbach’s 2019 film Marriage Story—a movie about divorce and a messy custody battle—is a harrowing movie for anyone who’s ever been...

11.08.2025 4

Luis Prada

Want to Live a Longer Life? Move Here.

By now, you’ve been inundated with every bit of advice necessary to live a happier and healthier life. You’ve been told to get some sleep, stop...

10.08.2025 10

Luis Prada

A Crypto Meme Coin Group Is Behind Those WNBA Sex Toy Stunts

A group of meme coin creators has claimed responsibility for launching green dildos onto the court during WNBA games. It’s a coordinated,...

09.08.2025 10

Luis Prada

This Snail Can Regrow Its Eyes—and It May Hold Key To Curing Blindness in Humans

Alice Accorsi, a molecular and cellular biologist at UC Davis, thinks the golden apple snail can one day cure blindness. This South American...

08.08.2025 7

Luis Prada

Body of Man Missing for 28 Years Found in Melting Glacier

The body of Nasiruddin, missing since 1997, was discovered almost perfectly preserved near the edge of the melting Lady Meadows glacier in Northern...

08.08.2025 4

Luis Prada

Japan’s Pharma Leader Is Seeking Approval for a New Parkinson’s Treatment

Japanese pharma giant Sumitomo Pharma just took a significant step toward rebooting brains ravaged by Parkinson’s disease using stem cells, as...

08.08.2025 5

Luis Prada

Russia’s Megaquake May Have Shaken Awake 7 Volcanoes

On July 29, one of the strongest earthquakes ever recorded, a magnitude 8.8 beast, rattled the Kamchatka Peninsula region of Russia. The quake was...

08.08.2025 6

Luis Prada

Man Humped a Trader Joe’s Fridge, Then Came the Real Chaos

According to the Seattle Police Department’s blotter, on August 5th, around 2:15 p.m., police responded to reports of a 33-year-old disorderly man...

07.08.2025 30

Luis Prada

Millionaire Trophy Hunter Killed by Buffalo During Hunt

Asher Watkins was a Texas native who graduated from Baylor University and made his money in ranch real estate. He was an outdoorsy big-game hunter...

07.08.2025 3

Luis Prada

AI Is Now Writing Obituaries—and Business Is (Unfortunately) Good

AI chatbot tools like ChatGPT are the new greeting cards, in a sense. A placid, prepackaged set of words meant to surmise complex emotions on behalf...

07.08.2025 10

Luis Prada

A New Statue Appeared on Easter Island, Surprising Scientists

A new Maori statue rose from the muck of the recently dried-up lakebed on Easter Island, home to the iconic giant stone statues, leaving researchers...

07.08.2025 10

Luis Prada

Orcas Pretend to Drown Each Other in Hunting Practice Caught on Video

The ocean’s apex predator, the orca whale, was caught teaching its kids how to kill. It sounds darker than it is, but it’s still pretty brutal....

06.08.2025 4

Luis Prada

Bear Freed After Being Stuck in a Cheese Balls Container for a Week

A young black bear was found roaming the Northwoods of Wisconsin with a jar stuck on around her head. It appears to be yet another instance of a bear...

06.08.2025 5

Luis Prada

This Zoo Is Looking for Volunteers—to Feed Their Pets to a Lion

I recently wrote about how heartwarming it was to hear that Amsterdam is going to install little staircases along its vast network of world-famous...

06.08.2025 6

Luis Prada

Memories Aren’t Fixed, Your Brain Keeps Them on Shuffle

For decades, neuroscientists were convinced that the brain stores memories of places and familiar environmental features in one location. More...

06.08.2025 10

Luis Prada

The Job Market Sucks Right Now—and AI Interviewers Are Making It Worse

The job market is a nightmare right now. Of course, companies are finding new and exciting ways to make it much worse. For instance, there was a time...

06.08.2025 4

Luis Prada

Jesus Probably Wasn’t Wrapped in the Shroud of Turin, 3D Analysis Says

For centuries, the Shroud of Turin has been the world’s most mysterious holy selfie. It’s a ghostly linen cloth with the faint imprint of a man...

06.08.2025 8

Luis Prada

Amsterdam Is Building Tiny Staircases To Help Stray Cats Exit Its Iconic Canals

Amsterdam is world-renowned for its canals. They’re a UNESCO World Heritage Site. You might already know that. You might not realize, however, that...

05.08.2025 6

Luis Prada

Kids Who Get Smartphones Before This Age Are Doomed

By the time Gen Z kids reach their early 20s, many are struggling with something a little deeper than the familiar existential dread of being alive....

05.08.2025 9

Luis Prada

There’s a Jellyfish Wall in the Deep Sea No One Can Explain

Over 3,000 feet beneath the surface, amid the pitch-black and crushing pressure of the Arctic Ocean’s midnight zone, there exists a mystery...

05.08.2025 4

Luis Prada

ChatGPT Briefly Made Chat Logs Accessible on Google. Yikes.

OpenAI recently vowed to fight a court order demanding that it preserve all deleted ChatGPT conversations indefinitely. It was a move that alarmed...

05.08.2025 4

Luis Prada

23 Billion Gallons of Water Burst Through Greenland’s Melting Ice Sheet

A recently published study describes a 2014 event in which scientists observed something they had not even known was possible: a massive flood from a...

05.08.2025 4

Luis Prada

A Gang of Monkeys Are Running a Smartphone Scam at a Temple in Bali

Uluwatu Temple is a gorgeous, serene cliffside sanctuary on the southern tip of Bali where the monkeys run a full-blown, hyper-intelligent...

05.08.2025 6

Luis Prada

High Noon Recalling Vodka Seltzers Mislabeled as Celsius Energy Drinks

In a classic mix-up that’s going to screw over at least a handful of people with drinking problems, High Noon, the popular vodka seltzer, is...

04.08.2025 10

Luis Prada

Robot Bunnies Deployed in Florida To Help Fight Massive Python Problem

It’s not pleasant, but it is necessary. Florida is so overrun with pythons that it’s a lot easier just to kill as many of them as possible than it...

04.08.2025 30

Luis Prada

Tarantula Mating Season Is Here: Which States Will See the Most?

Suppose you happen upon several baseball-sized fuzzy hands slowly crossing your path in the weeks to come. In that case, you’ve stumbled upon...

04.08.2025 8

Luis Prada

Scientists May Have Found the Reason Behind the Need for Sleep

A team from the University of Oxford may have finally cracked why you’re so tired all the time. And they did it with fruit flies. These bugs have...

04.08.2025 7

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