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Surgeon Jailed After Amputating His Own Legs on Purpose for Sexual Fetish

Back in late July, I shared the story of Neil Hopper with you. Hopper is a highly respected vascular surgeon from Cornwall, England, despite needing...

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Can This Everyday Nasal Spray Really Protect You from COVID?

A new clinical trial led by Saarland University researchers suggests that azelastine, a common ingredient in over-the-counter (OTC) allergy nasal...

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Louisiana Senator Warns Eating Walmart’s Radioactive Shrimp Could Turn You into an Alien

You may recall a story from a few weeks ago, when Walmart recalled some Great Value frozen shrimp due to concerns that they might be contaminated with...

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Women Are Getting Accidentally Pregnant Thanks to Anti-Birth Control Influencers

There’s a lot of blame to go around in a story like this. You can place plenty of blame on the ridiculous anti-birth control TikTok and Instagram...

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Arizona’s Heat Is So Extreme Even Rattlesnakes and Cacti Are Struggling

In 2023, two Arizona rattlesnakes died while underground, cooked to death in their burrows. These are creatures evolutionarily suited to survive...

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Shein Is Using an AI Luigi Mangione as a T-Shirt Model

You might remember Luigi Mangione from the time that he (allegedly) killed the CEO of UnitedHealthcare, and everyone cheered. He pleaded not guilty in...

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Hot Mic Catches Putin and Xi Talking About Organ Transplants and Immortality

The world’s most powerful autocrats met, and hot mics caught a moment wherein the rulers discussed the prospect of living to 150 years old, thanks...

thursday 4

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Could AI Trigger a Nuclear War?

Jacquelyn Schneider, a researcher at Stanford, has been running war games using the latest AI models, according to a feature in Politico by Michael...

thursday 3

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The Girls’ Flag Football Revolution Isn’t Coming—It’s Already Here

According to SFGate, girls’ flag football experienced a surge of more than 25,000 new high school players between the 2023-24 and 2024-25 seasons....

thursday 4

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Florida Escalates Its War on the Living, Pushes to End All Vaccine Mandates

There’s no delicate way to put this: Florida is run by vile morons. It’s my home state, so I can say that. Real top-shelf dipshits who care more...

thursday 3

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AI Could Be Fueling Entirely New Categories of Mental Disorders, Expert Says

Unsurprisingly, AI psychosis was not a thing before AI. Then again, though, according to psychologist Derrick Hull, that may not even be an accurate...

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Age-Verification Laws Are Accidentally Driving Traffic To Shadier Porn Sites

You can never truly ban something that people love. People love sex, and by extension, they love porn. So when you do as the UK recently did and roll...

thursday 5

Luis Prada

Why People in Iceland Are Tossing Baby Puffins Off Cliffs (On Purpose)

Every year in Iceland, residents of the Vestmannaeyjar islands, knee-deep in baby puffins, have to pick up these confused babies and toss them for...

thursday 5

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Shark Teeth Are Starting to Corrode Thanks to Rising Ocean Acidity

We humans are so good at ruining things that we’ve learned to do it passively, without even thinking about it. For instance, thanks to the unchecked...

03.09.2025 2

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Why Those Adorable Fish-Shaped Soy Sauce Packets Are Now Banned in Australia

It’s the end of an era for the adorable, disposable fish full of soy sauce. In one part of Australia, at least. South Australia is set to become the...

03.09.2025 2

Luis Prada

This Type of Person Scores the Most Hookups on Tinder, Study Finds

Psychologists Lennart Freyth and Peter K. Jonason published a study in Cyberpsychology, Behavior, and Social Networking that dug into the minds of...

02.09.2025 10

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Huge Parts of the Seafloor Are Literally Upside Down

At the bottom of the North Sea, buried beneath layers of sediment and fossilized sea creatures, scientists have discovered something that should not...

30.08.2025 2

Luis Prada

The Era of ‘Job Hugging’ Is Here, and It’s Keeping You in That Awful Job

Just a few years ago, American workers were job-hopping like crazy, moving from one company to the next, eschewing loyalty in favor of bigger offers....

30.08.2025 1

Luis Prada

This Town Wants to Cap Phone Use at Two Hours a Day. Here’s Why.

The city of Toyoake in Japan’s Aichi Prefecture aims to reduce its citizens’ reliance on their phones. In an effort to curb people’s endless...

28.08.2025 5

Luis Prada

Great White Sharks Are Swarming Maine Beaches

Used to be that if you wanted to see a Great White shark, you had to venture south into the warm waters native to Discovery Channel camera crews. Now,...

28.08.2025 4

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First Human Case of Flesh-Eating Screwworm Parasite Confirmed in the U.S.

The flesh-eating parasite known as the screwworm has arrived in the United States. And for the first time in modern history, it has officially...

27.08.2025 4

Luis Prada

Sex Ed in America Sucks, New Study Confirms

Boston University’s School of Public Health has released the results of a research paper that paints a grim, frankly pathetic picture of the state...

27.08.2025 3

Luis Prada

A Woman Turned to an AI Chatbot Therapist To Save Her. It Couldn’t.

If you or someone you know is in crisis, please call or text 988 to reach the Suicide and Crisis Lifeline. The previous Lifeline phone number...

26.08.2025 4

Luis Prada

Federal Judge Orders Immediate Shutdown of ‘Alligator Alcatraz’—Here’s Why

Suppose you’ve built a 5,000-bed immigration detention center in the middle of one of the most delicate ecosystems in the United States. Surrounded...

25.08.2025 1

Luis Prada

Texas Police Department Is Trying to Recruit Cops With Cowboy Hats

The Dallas Police Department is now allowing its officers to wear cowboy hats on duty. This minor change to the official uniform is being touted as a...

25.08.2025 1

Luis Prada

Pizza Joint Overwhelmed With Angry Customers Asking for Fake Deals Made Up by Google AI

AI has a penchant for making stuff up. Hallucinations is what they call it in the AI industry. If your human personal assistant were prone to random...

25.08.2025 7

Luis Prada

This Parasitic Worm Might Be the Future of Painkillers

Schistosoma mansoni is a waterborne parasitic worm that can enter the body and cause harm without triggering the typical symptoms associated with...

25.08.2025 4

Luis Prada

People Are Microdosing Mushrooms—and Poisoning Themselves

Mushroom-based nootropic edibles are hitting the shelves of your local headshops and gas stations. They promise mental clarity and creativity boosts....

25.08.2025 1

Luis Prada

75-Year-Old Luxury Real Estate Agent Allegedly Bit a Child Over a Free T-Shirt

The free t-shirt toss at East Hampton’s breezy, beachside concert series was supposed to be a wholesome moment — and then a 75-year-old Manhattan...

23.08.2025 2

Luis Prada

American Millennials (and Elder Gen Z) Are Dying Young

By now, we’ve all internalized that the U.S. is a uniquely difficult place to survive — and the math is only getting darker. Since the pandemic, a...

23.08.2025 6

Luis Prada

Cracker Barrel’s New Logo Sucks—and Not Because of Wokeness, You Idiots

Cracker Barrel changed its logo, pissing off conservatives, so they’re calling it “woke,” which is the conservative slur for anything they...

22.08.2025 6

Luis Prada

A Star Exploded So Violently Scientists Got a Peek at Its Guts

In 2021, a star named SN2021yfj went supernova in a way scientists hadn’t seen before. It exploded, naked, allowing scientists to get a peek at the...

22.08.2025 3

Luis Prada

Inside the Tiny Arizona Town Where Cars Are Banned and Everyone Actually Talks to Each Other

For all the social media debate about walkable cities and cities like New York and Paris enacting measures to reduce the number of cars polluting the...

22.08.2025 3

Luis Prada

Florida Is About To Unleash Armed Drones in Schools. Seriously.

The United States is weird. Rather than put any kinds of restrictions on gun ownership, the type that, according to polls, Americans find quite...

22.08.2025 5

Luis Prada

Turns Out Walmart’s Great Value Frozen Shrimp Is Literally Radioactive

If tonight’s dinner plans involve Walmart’s Great Value frozen shrimp, I have some unfortunate news for you. You see, the world is a silly place...

21.08.2025 3

Luis Prada

NASA Found a Tiny Hidden Moon Orbiting Uranus

Astronomers just spotted a tiny new moon lurking in Uranus’s orbit. The James Webb Space Telescope clocked this barely visible satellite, named...

21.08.2025 3

Luis Prada

Inside the All-White Southern Town That Bans Black, Gay, and Jewish People

Ravenden, Arkansas, is home to a 160-acre whites-only “intentional community.” It was founded by a disgraced jazz pianist—who was arrested for...

21.08.2025 3

Luis Prada

Are Marathon Runners More Likely to Get Cancer?

We’re used to thinking of long-distance runners as the embodiment of health: lean warriors soaking head to toe in endorphins as they run 100-mile...

21.08.2025 8

Luis Prada

NASA’s New Boss Wants to Abandon Earth

NASA’s new acting boss, Sean Duffy, yet another Trump administration official who was ripped straight from TV and put in charge of a major...

21.08.2025 6

Luis Prada

‘Zombie Squirrels’ With Gnarly Flesh Wounds Are Taking Over People’s Gardens

If disturbing, stomach-twisting growths sprouting out of rabbits’ heads in Colorado wasn’t enough to freak you out, may I interest you in...

20.08.2025 4

Luis Prada

Delulu, Skibidi, and Tradwife Just Made It Into the Cambridge Dictionary

Colin McIntosh is the Cambridge Dictionary’s Lexical Program manager. Of the latest additions to the dictionary—which include words like Skibidi,...

19.08.2025 3

Luis Prada

An Interstellar Object in Our Solar System Might Actually Be Glowing

Many interstellar objects are currently heading toward Earth. Perhaps they understand how dire things are here and are offering us a glimmer of...

19.08.2025 2

Luis Prada

Moon Phase for Today: August 19, 2025

If you got a chance to look up at the sky early this morning, you might have noticed a sliver of the moon still visible above. The current moon phase...

19.08.2025 3

Luis Prada

Freediver Shatters World Record by Holding Breath for 29 Minutes

Croatian freediver Vitomir Maričić should be unconscious at best and dead at worst. Instead, on June 14, he submerged himself in a pool, inhaled...

19.08.2025 4

Luis Prada

The Liver King Accused of Breaking a Blood Oath in New Lawsuit

This kind of thing has been said frequently in the past decade, but it needs to be reiterated so we never forget it. If you wrote s**t like “the...

18.08.2025 10

Luis Prada

Hurricane Erin Just Became One of the Fastest-Strengthening Storms in History

Hurricane Erin started as a Category 1 storm on Friday morning. By Saturday, it had turned into a Category 5 monster with 160-mile-per-hour winds....

18.08.2025 4

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This Guy Paid $32K to Have His Legs Broken and Lengthened

As a short person, there have been plenty of moments when I’ve felt a few extra inches could be helpful. Either in a social situation or in a...

18.08.2025 3

Luis Prada

Bullfrogs Are Taking Over the American West and Wrecking the Ecosystem

The throaty brummmm of bullfrogs is a sound that brings comfort to anyone in the Eastern or Southern US. It’s not typically a sound people on the...

17.08.2025 7

Luis Prada

This Talking Parrot Just Helped Bring Down a Massive Drug Gang

It wasn’t only good old-fashioned police work that eventually led to the unraveling of a drug ring in Blackpool, England. It was also a chronic...

17.08.2025 8

Luis Prada

Scientists Say Aging Might Actually Be Contagious

What if getting old wasn’t your fault? Wouldn’t it be great if you could blame someone or something else for it? For your crows’ feet? For your...

17.08.2025 9

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