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Sunday December 14, 2025. 09:55 PM
Despite travel warnings from your government, are you thinking about visiting the United States? Can you remember posting anything on Facebook, Xitter, or Bluesky about Trump's love for creating trauma in young people, the notion that white isn't the only skin color that...
I am a mobile productivity junkie. Living as a nomad for over a decade, I have tried and replaced a variety of mobile productivity solutions. I've got a laptop, sure. But I'm always on the lookout for a setup that allows me to leave my PC behind and take as little with me to ...
In 2014, mathematician Jordan Ellenberg invented a way to quantify something publishers and authors had long suspected: most people don't finish the books they buy. He called it the Hawking Index, named after Stephen Hawking's 'A Brief History of Time,' famously dubbed 'the...
The Korea Central Zoo in Pyongyang offers visitors a unique blend of wildlife and ideology. Among its 5,000 animals across 650 species, you can find Azalea, a cigarette-smoking chimpanzee, basketball-playing monkeys, doves incorporated into a figure skating routine, and a...
Publius Afranius Potitus learned the hard way that some promises should come with fine print. The Roman plebeian publicly vowed to sacrifice his own life if Emperor Caligula recovered from a serious illness that struck just six months into his reign. — Read the rest The...
At some point in British culinary history, someone looked at a pastry filled with currants and raisins and thought: those look exactly like dead flies. Rather than keeping this observation to themselves, they told everyone, and now 'flies' graveyard' is an accepted regional...
TL;DR: Get lifetime access to the Creatiyo All-in-One AI Creation Platform Pro Limited Plan for $79 (reg. $199) and turn ideas into finished work faster, neater, and with far fewer 'wait… what was I doing?' moments. If your idea of content creation sometimes resembles a cra...
In 1985, a 29-year-old Tokyo woman named Mariko Aoki wrote to a Japanese magazine called Book Magazine with an embarrassing confession: for years, walking around bookstores had inevitably made her need to rush to the bathroom. The editors published her letter thinking it was ...
Elagabalus became Roman emperor at 14, was assassinated at 18, and managed to pack more scandal into those four years than most rulers achieve in a lifetime. His grandmother, Julia Maesa, orchestrated his rise to power in 218 CE through an army revolt, and she'd orchestrate...
Bobby Leach was not a man who feared death. A former Barnum and Bailey Circus performer, he once watched a stuntman die while attempting a 150-foot dive into a 5-foot pool — then successfully did the dive himself. He owned a restaurant near Niagara Falls, where he'd brag...
They had me at 'Orville Peck as Vega,' honestly. Fighting games are a notoriously difficult beast to adapt — all characters, no plot — but that hasn't stopped people from trying. This newly announced Street Fighter movie marks the third attempt at bringing the...
This Christmas, let us celebrate with one of comedy's all-time classics: Al Jaffee's 'If Kids Designed Their Own Xmas Toys' from Mad Magazine issue #76, January 1963 (on sale November-December 1962). Jaffee's genius lay in presenting children's crude toy drawings, then...
Watch bikers speed down the Mountain of Hell in France, a race notorious for its treacherous terrain. This footage captures over 1,000 riders charging down the mountain in what may be the world's most chaotic mountain bike race. Despite its ominous name, the Mountain of...
We recently brought you news of the 'peanut butter man' running wild on Purdue University's campus. He was actually slathered in sunflower seed butter, but the original moniker stuck. Now it's time for Purdue's peanut butter man to step aside — there's a new peanut butter...
The funk/pop/soul/klezmer band Vulfpeck played its second sold-out Madison Square Garden show on September 13 and on Thursday posted video of the entire performance on YouTube. I was at the show—I've been attending Vulfpeck's NYC performances for nine years—and it...
'Rap battles between two or more larger-than-life characters' is now a whole genre on YouTube, but Epic Rap Battles of History is one of those rare cases where the original is still the best. Sure, they may only drop two videos a year in a good year, but every bit of...
Titanfall 2 is, without exaggeration, one of the best online shooters ever made. Not that that's a high bar, but still! Switching between scrappy, agile pilots with full 360-degree movement and lumbering battle mechs that trade mobility for overwhelming firepower was such a...
I've found my new favorite animal on the internet! Meet Roo-bee (aka Roo), an adorable six-year-old goat who was born with severe congenital deformities and who came to Black Goat Farm and Sanctuary as a newborn with badly deformed front legs. — Read the rest The post This...
A few days ago, McDonalds Netherlands posted an absolutely horrid Christmas ad generated by AI. Link to the Boing Boing article by Rob Beschizza here. McDonald's has released an AI-generated Christmas adThe studio behind it says they 'hardly slept' for several weeks while ...
Here's a fun math problem for a Saturday afternoon: You've got 100 kg of potatoes that are 99% water. You leave them out overnight and they dry slightly, becoming 98% water. How much do they weigh now? If you guessed somewhere around 99 kg, congratulations — you're wrong....
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