A while back we featured a story about the Brood X cicadas that are emerging in the eastern U.S. More specifically, it was about the psychedelic fungus that makes their butts fall off. But the fungus isn’t the only threat the cicadas face as they crawl out of the ground for the first time in …
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Who doesn’t like a nice car? Whether you go for a quirky VW Beetle, a fancy BMW, or a gigantic pick-up truck, taking to the road in a slick ride is just… Well, nice. But cars have a lot of history behind them, and not every car design through the ages has been a hit. …
You really shouldn’t attempt something just because you saw someone do it on the internet. The all too real chances are that something could go horribly, horribly wrong. In a grim reminder of that fact, a 13-year-old Destini Crane from Portland, Oregon, was rushed to the intensive care unit. She accidentally set herself on fire …
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A Walmart Supercenter in Mexico, ME, clearly doesn’t give a hoot or the holler for the public opinion. Case in point, on May 26, they called the cops on a grandpa who was just trying to clean up the mountains of trash the store had neglected for years. If you love nature, you want to …
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A patent is the highest seal of approval an inventor can hope for. It means you’ve created something no one’s done before, and you have the exclusive right to that design. People associate patents with decidedly high-brow, sophisticated inventions. But considering that anyone can apply for a patent for pretty much anything, that’s often not …
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Love thy neighbor, right? Or if you can’t love them, at least do them no harm?This neighbor didn’t exactly feel this way. So much so he did actually attempt harm in the form of a fire. An Iowa man set his neighbor’s house a blaze on Saturday, and not because of something they did, but …
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It’s the crowning moment of any kid’s birthday to blow out the candles on their cake. There’s just one, pretty gross-out inducing problem with it. Young children, in particular, might not be all that great at controlling their air output. It’s highly likely that in addition to blowing out the candles, they’ll spew a generous …
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The unfortunate fact of life is that, eventually, it ends. When it does, it becomes necessary to dispose of the earthly remains of the dearly departed. Over human history, we’ve come up with various and increasingly creative ways to conduct funerals. In a bit of a continuation to our earlier list on weddings, let’s now …
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He was blind, but now he sees. A man who lost his eyesight decades ago is now able to see objects on a table and the stripes of a pedestrian crossing – all thank to algae. The borderline miraculous recovery was detailed recently in the journal Nature Medicine. It promises to be a breakthrough in …
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Veneration of dead saints is a feature of a vast majority of religions. But usually the saints’ earthly remains aren’t stored in a sleeping bag with Christmas lights wrapped around them. But that’s how the police discovered the body of Amy Carlson, 45, leader of a Colorado-based cult called Love Has Won. Her followers knew …
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