‘As corny and cliché as it sounds (and a little embarrassing too), doing puzzles changed my life’ | Continue reading
How the gaps in our health-care system are responsible for propping up a dangerous, global and billion-dollar industry | Continue reading
This week, a popsicle truck set up shop in New York and L.A., offering up the frosty heads of billionaires like Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos and Mark Zuckerberg. I happily chowed down on all of them | Continue reading
Two years before Columbine, the nation first reckoned with an unprecedented four school attacks carried out by aggrieved teenage boys — a type of shooting we’re all too familiar with today | Continue reading
It walked so Splash Mountain could run | Continue reading
Although burnout is typically associated with demanding and stressful work, boring jobs can be just as mentally draining, and lead to what experts refer to as ‘boreout’ | Continue reading
Using your stress and anxiety as fuel to power through a taxing week isn’t nearly as constructive as you think, experts warn | Continue reading
In 1997, the 46-year-old sued his local police department after being denied a job there because he scored too high on an intelligence test. More bizarre still, the courts sided with law enforcement | Continue reading
Seriously, why do so many action figures look like they’re rubbing one out? | Continue reading
Dylan paid just $150 a year for the privilege of taking each of his meals in the shadow of the amusement park’s famous roller coasters. But it looks like the ride has come to an end | Continue reading
For decades, Charles Atlas claimed you could get a physique like his solely through the body-weight exercises found in his Dynamic Tension program — no weights necessary. But that claim definitely was doing a significant amount of heavy lifting | Continue reading
For many millennials, when it came to learning about genetic engineering, their teachers ditched the textbook and turned over the classroom to Ethan Hawke and Jude Law instead | Continue reading
Bored Ape Yacht Club is a favorite of Jimmy Fallon, Steph Curry and countless VCs, but one artist argues that the NFT is hiding neo-Nazi imagery and racist dog whistles | Continue reading
Crypto diehards will deny they’re addicted to the highs of chasing financial freedom, but gambling experts disagree | Continue reading
The new ‘Don’t Look Up’ is an angry satire that argues humanity wouldn’t bat an eye if a comet was heading directly toward Earth. But over the years, the genre has taught us to embrace the horrific, fiery death that awaits us all — at least at the movies | Continue reading
You can only send so many batteries, microchips and headless robotic dolls in the mail before the FBI comes knocking | Continue reading
It may not be as cinematic as a museum heist, but this new form of art theft is quickly becoming a lucrative criminal payday that negatively affects pretty much any artist who posts their work online | Continue reading
A recent study examines how TRAP-18 can be used to identify incel killers before they strike. But some experts say this is just a new spin on a tactic that’s proven to be a dangerous and biased failure | Continue reading
In a recent Twitter thread, the famed audio engineer owned the ugly parts of his past — years of offensive music, statements and posts — and said his generation needs to talk about how culture has changed | Continue reading
Where others saw glorified carnival food, Dylan saw the world’s thriftiest food court | Continue reading
‘I’m happier than I’ve been in 10 years’ | Continue reading
Americans sure think they understand a system of global capital they’d always taken for granted | Continue reading
Tallboys, stovepipes, growlers, 40s, bombers, quarts and pints — why does beer come in the quantities it comes in? | Continue reading
Chess pros burn a Michael Phelpsian 6,000 calories per game. Which makes their training regimen almost equally as grueling | Continue reading
Actually, it looks like Bert and Elmo were in on it, too | Continue reading
His fake tweet reviews of blockbusters are full of absurdities that fans and websites assume are real. Is the L.A. writer trying to mock film critics and superhero cinema? Or as he tells MEL, is he just having some fun? | Continue reading
I also helped undress him so he could lie down | Continue reading
On a sunny spring day in 2019, 16-year-old Gabby returned home from the Chicago fast food restaurant where she worked to find her house empty... | Continue reading
A giant mechanical spider, Will Smith in drag, a megalomaniacal producer — how did one of the most expensive movies ever made turn into such a disaster? | Continue reading
Boys as young as three are more than happy to police the toy box and make sure that no little dude walks away with a Barbie | Continue reading
They have no job, no school, no prospects — and a subreddit that makes it all worse | Continue reading
Could we learn something about human aggression from China’s tiniest champions? One scientist believes so | Continue reading
Six hundred dollars barely makes a dent in the bills, but it can go a long way in escaping reality | Continue reading
Counterfeit energy drinks were lightning in a bottle for Adriana and Joseph Shayota, netting them a million dollars a month until the feds closed in. But they had one chance to clear their name: President Donald Trump. | Continue reading
What do thieves want with Eva Braun's panties? As collectors secure the bag with stolen Hitler swag, the Nazi market is growing like Apple stock | Continue reading
To be a basement-dwelling, chicken-tender-devouring ‘goodboy’ is to live a life utterly unexamined — and to be the better for it | Continue reading
Are doorbusters always a bargain? Are you really the product? Let’s find out the truth. | Continue reading
Reddit is one of the highest-trafficked websites on the planet, so how come no one cares about its live-streaming platform? I listened for hours… and hours… to find out | Continue reading
Thick water is big business in the health-care industry, but in reality, it’s about as beneficial as it is tasty. Which is to say, not at all | Continue reading
The Taco Bell Waffle Taco, McDonald’s Onion Nuggets and the Burger King Shaq Pack may not be on the menu anymore, but one man has resurrected them from the fast-food graveyard | Continue reading
Being too depressed to vote isn’t just common, it’s a long-standing tradition in U.S. politics | Continue reading
Robbed of their carefree years by a generation-altering catastrophe, young people fight back against Father Time — and opt out of aging entirely | Continue reading
Need a hobby? Why not completely relearn touch typing on a fully customized (and lubed) ortholinear build! | Continue reading
Worse yet, stripping the IRS, DOJ and SEC of their powers has been a completely bipartisan effort | Continue reading
Throughout the 1980s and 1990s, Action Park — unofficially known as Class Action Park, Traction Park and Accident Park — was ‘Lord of the Flies’ with a Jersey twist and a higher death count | Continue reading
To celebrate the release of the Flaming Lips’ great new album ‘American Head,’ the 59-year-old frontman talks about late-in-life fatherhood, feeling grateful, and why Beck still makes him mad | Continue reading
I had to spend more money to save money, and I feel ashamed! | Continue reading
With the exception of Catholic mass on holidays and an Evangelical summer camp I attended with my Jesus-loving cousins because it had a waterslide, I... | Continue reading