Looking up at the night sky, it seems impossible life could survive on distant planets with harsh atmospheres and desolate landscapes. But every year scientists discover unique life forms in some of the most inhospitable environments on Earth. These discoveries make alien life, even in our own solar system, a possibility. These are five of …
If heading to the local watering hole for some suds doesn’t have any appeal for you, maybe it’s just not enough of a challenge to get there. There are bars all over the world in desolate and unusual places. Despite their isolation, they still offer everything from beer to craft cocktails. Escape your cubicle for …
The Darwin Awards’ tagline is “salute the improvement of the human genome by honoring those who remove themselves in a spectacular manner.” The tongue-in-cheek reasoning is that if you believe “survival of the fittest” in a literal sense, then people who cause their own deaths by spectacular means aren’t “fit” to survive. Therefore, they improve …
Super Bowl LIV had it all; great football, amazing halftime show (Shakira’s zaghrouta is the 2020 meme to beat), and some fantastic commercials. While a few of the ads fell flat, some of the funniest and coolest came from car manufacturers highlighting their new 100% electric vehicles. There were runners through the whole game, tear-jerkers, …
During the late aughts people were in a panic e-readers were making books obsolete. We all thought we were just a few decades away from downloading published works directly into our brains, Matrix-style. The bankruptcy and closing of Borders and Waldenbooks in 2011 confirmed readers’ worst fears. But, even as the megastore closed, Barnes and …
In theory, we’re all the best at something. Maybe it’s flossing, coming to a complete stop at stop signs or flipping pancakes. There’s only one official body for determining who’s the undisputed best at obscure achievements. Guinness World Records travels the globe to test people and determine if they’re the undisputed champion of… whatever. Think …
Standing on public transportation at 7:30am trying to get a coffee stain out of your shirt and unable to find the source of a weird smell, you might feel you have the worst commute in the world. But animals make insane trips all over the globe just to mate, give birth, or find food. They …
Weird state laws are sometimes little missives from the past. You discover them and have to wonder what the hell was going on back then. Things like it’s illegal to feed garbage to a pig in Arizona and against the law to fall asleep in a cheese shop in Illinois. Here’s seven crazy state laws …
Statistically, a man is much more likely to serial kill. But that doesn’t mean women never become multiple murderers. Throughout history there are grisly crimes committed by women. All over the world women have killed infants, other women, and men in vicious ways. These are the stories of a few unbelievable female serial killers. Dorothea …
My boss at one of my early jobs was a slender and intense woman who printed and filed every email she received. I remember her not just for the careful analog documentation of the Internet, but because of her involvement with fad diets of the early aughts. She’d spend days ingesting nothing but lemon juice, …