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In case you've been under a rock the past few years, CBD is one of the fastest-growing businesses in America. In fact, one in seven Amer...

Horrid mug looks like wool sweater

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The White Winter Ceramic Mug [Amazon, set of four] is designed to resemble a nice cosy knitted sweater. Just imagine it filled with a hot s...

SB Nation has launched a new sequel to "17776: What Football Will Look Like In The Future"

In July 2017, sports writer Jon Bois used his platform on SB Nation to serialize a 25-part speculative fiction story about a far future Ame...

Republican Senators call on Netflix to cancel upcoming adaptation of "The Three Body Problem" over author's awful Muslim comments

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Animated explainer: "Is it too late to stop climate change?"

Kurzgesagt's latest "In a Nutshell" animation asks "Is it too late to stop climate change?" From the video: We ...

Helen Reddy, singer of "I Am Woman" (hear me roar), RIP

Helen Reddy, the Australian-American singer and activist who famously co-wrote and sang the 1971 feminist anthem "I Am Woman," ...

Atlanta strippers' PSA hauls mens' "booty to the poll"

In an effort to get more Black men in the south to vote in November, a group of Atlanta strippers have created a risqué PSA that's sure...

Murder case abandoned after prosecutors' racist emails exposed

Frances Choy was convicted of killing her parents in a 2003 house fire, but her conviction was voided earlier this year after racist emails ...

Pantone adds a blood red color to end menstruation stigma

As a way to end the stigma of menstruation, Pantone has added a new red to its color matching system. The new shade is described as "an...

Generating Pac-Man mazes is harder than you might think

Shaun LeBron set out to generate legit Pac Man mazes, but it turns out their simplicity and elegance concealed unexpectedly hard work: ...

This Florida Budweiser House could be yours for just $100,000

From the listing on Realtor.com : Budweiser's biggest fan meticulously adorned the walls and ceilings with Budweiser beer cans to disp...

How Google Search Trends for "white supremacists" and "Antifa" have changed in the last 4 years

Social Media Researcher Erin Gallagher put this short video together, showing when Google Trends have spiked for "white nationalists...

A Calvinesque and Hobbesian look at a potential transfer of power

The two Tom the Dancing Bug books, Tom the Dancing Bug: Into the Trumpverse , and The Super-Fun-Pak Comix Reader , are now available. Infor...

In 1913, New York publicist John Duval Gluck proposed to answer Santa's mail

In 1913, New York publicist John Duval Gluck founded an association to answer Santa's mail. For 15 years its volunteers fulfilled child...

This was the first baseball season in 4 years with no homophobic slurs on the field

OutSports reports: Major League Baseball ended its regular season on Sunday after a COVID-shortened 60 games and for the first time since...

A member of the Breonna Taylor Grand Jury has successfully pressured the Kentucky AG into releasing the deliberation tapes

Many of us were disappointed — though sadly not surprised — when the Grand Jury for the Breonna Taylor case declined to indict the officers ...

Trump, asked about election violence: 'I'm urging my supporters to go into the polls and watch very carefully'

TRUMP INCITES SUPPORTERS TO INTIMIDATE VOTERS AT POLLS ON ELECTION DAY "Will you pledge tonight that you will not declare victory unti...

This 6-in-1 Universal Cable wants to be the one-stop answer to all of those power needs

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Trump wouldn't condemn white supremacists in first presidential debate, tells Proud Boys 'stand back and stand by'

In the first presidential debate, Trump refused to condemn white supremacists and racism. He said instead to these groups, and he shouted ou...

Biden calls Trump 'worst president America has ever had'

"You're the worst president America has ever had," Biden said to Trump tonight. "In 47 months, I've done more than y...

Trump claims he paid millions of dollars in taxes (he did not)

During the presidential debate tonight , Trump was pressed on the New York Times reporting that showed he paid no taxes for much of the past...

'Will You Shut Up, Man' – Biden to Trump during debate, speaking for all of us

Joe Biden to Donald Trump during tonight's debate , truly speaking for us all at this point: "Would you shut up, man?" … ...

Trump and Biden face off in first Presidential debate

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The first presidential debate kicked off tonight at 9PM Eastern. Donald Trump's pupils sure are… huge tonight. Joe Biden's first w...

What people actually say before they die

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We all know the stories of profound deathbed dying words by famous folks. Beethoven's "Friends applaud. The comedy is over." E...

Here come the Halloween holiday tunes

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"It's the most wonderful time of the year…" It's closing in on October and you know what that means. Everything in the kno...

A guide to science fiction pandemics and other apocalypses

Ten years ago, Scientific American put together a list of their favorite apocalyptic plots from fiction and film. The grouped them by catego...

Watch: A magpie chasing a boy on his bike is like a scene from 'The Birds'

Magpies are known to be highly intelligent, but I didn't realize they could also be such bullies. Whether it's for sport or out o...

Parrots who swore at zoo visitors removed from public view

The UK's Lincolnshire Wildlife Park, home to the National Parrot Sanctuary where the public can re-home pet parrots, has temporarily rem...

Nike's "Just Do It" slogan was inspired by murderer Gary Gilmore's last words

When killer Gary Gilmore was about to be executed by a firing squad, he was asked if he had any final words. He said, "Let's do it....

Man with full body tattoos and inked eyeballs banned from teaching kindergarten

French Kindergarten teacher Sylvain Helaine, 35, has full body tattoos and recently had the whites of his eyes inked black. He says that ...

Big tablet folds to become tiny laptop

The Lenovo Thinkpad X1 Fold [Lenovo.com] is a 13.3" tablet with a folding 1560-line OLED display. There's a keyboard that magnetic...

Dentists report spike in cracked teeth likely due to pandemic stress

US dentists report a big increase in cracked teeth since the pandemic. Stress triggers bruxing (teeth clenching and grinding) which cracks t...

Mystery man dumped more than 100 live eels into lake in Brooklyn, New York park

On Sunday night in Brooklyn, New York's Prospect Park, a fellow was spotted dragging two big trash bags filled with live eels to the lak...

Shipping container homes deemed bad

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The dandies of Brazzaville and Kinshasa

The BBC posted a fantastic gallery of sapeurs , the snappy Congolese dressers who brighten Brazzaville and Kinshasa. The photos are by Tari...

'Crying Nazi' Christopher Cantwell guilty of harassment

Christopher Cantwell ( previously at BB) was first seen ranting about Jews at the Charlottesville "Unite the Right" rally and las...

Texas sheriff charged with destroying footage of officers killing black suspect

Robert Chody, the Sheriff in Williamson County, Texas, was arrested and charged Monday with destroying footage of his deputies killing Javie...

Ditch the binoculars and travel light with this high definition monocular telescope

With everyone looking for increased portability from all their necessary items, it's a surprise monocular telescopes haven't eclipse...

Taika Waititi to create pirate comedy for HBO Max

HBO has ordered a pirate comedy from the prolific and ubiquitous Taika Waititi. To be called Our Flag Means Death , the show will be written...

Trump ridicules Christians in private

In The Atlantic , McKay Coppins reports on Trump's contempt for Christians and his admiration for those who exploit them. In private,...

How The Mandalorian's Razor Crest spaceship came to life

Last week, Industrial Light and Magic posted this lovely featurette on the design and making of the Razor Crest spaceship, flown by The Mand...

Fabricius, a free machine learning-based Egyptian hieroglyphs translator

Google's Arts & Culture division has a promising new app, called Fabricius , that uses machine learning to decode Egyptian hieroglyp...

Play 2020 Debate BINGO (download + print all 8 cards)

From Hugh D'Andrade , the maker of the "2020 Funpocalypse" bingo card , comes a set of printable 2020 Debate bingo cards (pd...

Dogs are being trained to sniff out COVID-19, and they're better than the tests

There are currently four COVID-19 sniffing dogs at the airport in Helsinki, Finland — part of a state-funded project to screen new arrivals...

"Suspected ransomware attack" takes down Universal Health Services hospital network, doctors and nurses are using paper

A large hospital chain that operates medical facilities around the U.S. was taken offline Monday, and in a statement blamed an unnamed tech...

Microsoft 365 outage caused problems for Outlook.com and Microsoft Teams users

There was a big outage for users of Microsoft 365, and other related services. Late on Monday Microsoft said a recent change it introduced p...

Why Trump's taxes matter so much

Because "Cracking down on rich tax cheats is law enforcement," writes the NYT . Donald Trump's long-concealed, just-reported ...

No kitchen is complete with a great molcajete and this one is on sale for under $55

There are few tools in the history of humankind that stretch back as far as the molcajete. Going back thousands of years to the ancient Maya...

More than a dozen California public health officials have quit their job because of threats

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Facemasks are a proven way to prevent the spread of Covid-19 but some mask-haters are so selfish that they threaten to harm and kill public ...

Zoom meetings are a poor substitute for in-person meetings and a worse one for phone calls

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Zoom meetings started out as replacements for in-person group meetings, but they're now also replacing phone calls. I think that's a...

New album from pioneering all-woman 1960s band, Ace of Cups

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Carla and I have been friends with Denise Kaufman for almost 30 years, but being the humble person she is, she never told us she had been...

Differing points of view on the Vincent Black Shadow

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This guy is a little less colorful, and certainly finds the Vincent less abusive than Hunter Thompson did. Fear and Loathing: On the Cam...

Could the descendants of LSD-dosed monkeys from the 1960s still be swinging in La Honda, California?

During the 1980s in La Honda, California, a tree-filled community in the Santa Cruz Mountains, kids would frequently report sightings of The...

Since George Floyd's murder, 104 drivers including 8 cops have rammed protestors with vehicles.

In a summer of marches over police misconduct, 104 incidents were recorded in which people drove vehicles into protest ors. Of the drivers, ...

Everyone's favorite stoned dad skateboarding to Fleetwood Mac

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Man finds 9 carat diamond at state park

The policy at Arkansas' Crater of Diamonds State Park is that if you find a diamond in the 37-acre eroded volcanic crater, its yours to...

Home Depot's gigantic skeleton is Halloween decoration of the year

Behold as an enormous rubber lich heralds the final ruin of the American republic—and then check out Home Depot's 12ft Halloween skeleto...

This 1982 Japanese punk cover of Joy Division's "Love Will Tear Us Apart" is perfectly restrained aggression

Many artists have covered Joy Division's "Love Will Tear Us Apart." In 1982, enigmatic Japanese post-punk musician Kiyoaki ...

Literal copycat has been trained to mimic human behaviors

Ebisu the Japanese cat has been trained to copy the actions of her trainer , according to a new report in Animal Cognition : This study...

SF Bay Area police detain "cult or activist" group and find "four-foot model of a vagina"

On Saturday, police in Richmond, California just north of Oakland detained around 60 individuals wearing "black uniforms" and gath...

"Obsessively complete" Infocom catalog

In the 1980s, Infocom popularized the term "interactive fiction" and turned the text adventure into a profitable medium. Ingeniou...

These truly wireless earbuds from Motorola are on sale for just $50

Sure, everybody is gaga about Apple's AirPods Pro. They love it all — except the $249 list price, of course. Especially if something sho...

Judge blocks Trump Tik Tok ban

A U.S. District Judge granted an injunction late Sunday blocking Donald Trump's "ban" on video-sharing app Tik Tok , which wou...

"Sincerely, Erik" follows a bookseller navigating the pandemic

Naz Riahi shot " Sincerely, Erik " in June, It follows Erik, a New York City bookseller trying to cope with pandemic isolation....

Former Trump campaign manager Brad Parscale hospitalized after threatening to harm self

Brad Parscale, a senior advisor to Donald Trump's reelection campaign and its former manager , was hospitalized Sunday after an incident...

How to repair a very large tire

Tractor tires are inches thick, so it takes a lot to puncture one—and a lot to fix them, too. This video shows a repair job on a tire tha...

Jeopardy contestant answers question about Bane in Bane voice

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Check out the stunning artwork from this 90s DUNE Collectible Card Game

My friends and I were really into the Star Wars Customizable Card Game one summer in the 90s, and I have a vague recollection of us trying ...

Maine will be first state to use ranked choice voting in presidential election

Plurality voting has plenty of critics, so Maine is going to try ranked choice voting in the upcoming federal election. Via Reason : In r...

New weed-themed emojis on the way

Technically, they are "sigh," "face in clouds," and "face with spiral eyes," but it's pretty clear how the...

Become a master of SEO and Google with this zero to hero training bundle

If you want to succeed in the modern marketplace, your digital presence has to be on point. And this isn't just about beating out your r...

NYT got 2 decades of Donald Trump income taxes — paid no federal income taxes for 10 of past 15 years, and $750 for two years

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The New York Times has obtained two decades of impeached and manifestly unfit U.S. President Trump. The resulting report shows he is in ma...

Check out these grills, ovens, and accessories to make sure summer never ends

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We've already had too much taken from us this year to give up outdoor grilling so easily. Let this ungodly year be the moment when you m...

How to do some easy but cool drum set stick tricks

Drummer Marco Minnemann shows how to add a little showmanship and flair behind the set with these stick tricks . That channel has some w...

The Hestan Cue takes all the guesswork and culinary disasters out of cooking

We all have visions of cooking cool, elaborate meals. Unfortunately, those visions often die after we absolutely butcher a few. We've a...

Take your cocktail making to the next level with these lab inspired bar tools

Mixology sounds like a science because it is…sort of. Oh sure, there's a lot of knowledge and skill that goes into conjuring up just the...

Fred Perry kills its yellow-tipped black polo shirt, denounces fascist appropriators

Fred Perry's polo shirts are the best polo shirts, a classic English design to be found in countless variations and colors . But the com...

Slack is back: "J.R. 'Bob' Dobbs and the Church of the SubGenius" trailer drops

A SubGenius documentary ? Yes, please, and Praise "Bob"! MovieWeb : What started out as an inside joke amongst two self-procla...

CIA rectal tool kit an "object of intrigue"

Start your weekend on a relaxing note with Atlas Obscura's mini-documentary about the CIA rectal tool kit. Found within are files, a...

Torture lawyer John Yoo massages Trump

John Yoo is the Bush administration lawyer who authored its legal excuses for torturing prisoners . At first, he made a show of disliking Pr...

Missing manual for world's oldest surviving computer found

The long-lost manual for the Zuse Z4, the oldest surviving digital computer has been found. The Z4 was the last computer the Nazis invente...

What microphone pop filter is best for various needs?

Mike from Booth Junkie demonstrates a bunch of different pop filters, and what they can and can't do . Even if you're not in the ...

$This portable air conditioner puts out all the cooling power of a home unit at a fraction of the size$

This portable air conditioner puts out all the cooling power of a home unit at a fraction of the size

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Stephen Colbert working out with RBG in 2018

In response to Rob's touching video post of Bryant Johnson, Ruth Bader Ginsburg's trainer, doing pushups as she lies in state, here...

The mind-boggling size of the largest known star, Stephenson 2-18

How big is Stephenson 2-18 , among the largest stars in the known universe? It would take earth's fastest jet over 500 years to trave...

Car detailer documents his worst case, an 18-hour transformation

This 2018 Kia van transformation from trashed to pristine is one of the most satisfying of the "disaster detail" videos I'...

The Crave PowerPack 2 is a massive stockpile of portable on-the-go power