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People Sound off on the Awful Things That the American Government Has Done Throughout History

Scientists Are Using Human Cells to Enhance Monkey Brains. Is It a Good Idea?

In today’s edition of More Scientists Need To Watch Movies, some people have thought it’s a good idea to try to increase the size of a monkey’s brain. Now, I have a problem with this for a couple of reasons, but the main one is that monkeys are gross, disgusting little disease vectors, and the...

These Are the First 4 Things People Notice About Your Face

You never get a second chance at a first impression, and when it comes to impressing strangers, some things aren’t within your control. For example: Your face. Every time you meet someone new, they judge your face on four basic characteristics, psychologist Leslie Zebrowitz says. She listed the four facial cues in a paper published...

Jack in the Box Is Testing Tiny Tacos in Select U.S. Locations. Keep Your Fingers Crossed, America!

Is this a sign of things to come? If so, our fast food experience might get a lot more interesting in the near future. If you’ve never had the tacos from Jack in the Box, honestly you should give them a shot because they’re pretty decent. And I’m a self-identified taco fanatic. But Jack in...

Nighttime Drivers Talk About the Scariest Things They’ve Seen Out on the Road

Do you remember the beginning of Twilight Zone: The Movie? I saw that movie when I was VERY young and it scared the hell out of me and left me with a permanent fear of driving in the middle of nowhere at night. Here’s the scene so you can see what I’m talking about. Hey, the...

15 Haunted House Actors Recall the Bizarre Moments That Forced Them to Break Character

As a teenager, I loved the haunted houses that popped up in the weeks before Halloween. It was the perfect way to spend a weekend evening, because who doesn’t love getting your pants scared off while having the perfect excuse to grab on to the hand of your crush? I’ve never thought too much about...

These 12 Cool Homes Belonged to Some of History’s Most Beloved Authors

Our homes can both shape and reflect who we are as people. When it’s a creative, the home can even influence the very work they’re remembered for. Whether its Hemingway’s Key West retreat or a clapboard farmhouse where Louisa May Alcott dreamed up her little women, seeing where authors slept and ate and rambled and...

20 Fun Facts About Pizza

I’m not sure something as awesome and universally loved as pizza really needs a special week to be celebrated – most of us celebrate weekly as it is – but that’s okay. It just means that this particular week, you don’t need to justify your desire to order a pie instead of cooking. Can I...

20 Examples of “Choosing Beggars” That Made Our Blood Boil

There are way too many people out there who feel entitled to people’s time, products, attention, etc when there’s absolutely no reason they should feel that way. Anyone who works in a creative field can tell you that too many folks have the idea that “exposure” is worth actual money, even though we can’t eat...

Engineering Students Create a Lightweight, Waterproof Cast to Replace Chunky, Itchy Plaster Casts

If you’ve ever broken a bone and had to wear a plaster cast, you know how frustrating, annoying, and uncomfortable they are. I broke my hand when I was 12, and those six weeks were pretty shitty. My arm felt like it weighed a thousand pounds, and I had to tape a trash bag around...

12 Posts to Make Single People Feel Better About Valentine’s Day

Ah, Valentine’s Day. That precious holiday where lovers judge each other’s ability to be romantic, while simultaneously believing it’s all hogwash and also wishing they could just stay in and watch tv like every other night, at the same time as single people lament all of the judgmental “are you still single” looks they get...

15 Film and TV Lovers Rank Their Saddest Scenes of All Time

I suppose sad could mean different things to different people. I, for example, can’t watch a movie where an animal dies any kind of horrible death (www.doesthedogdie.com is a lifesaver, people). But there are some kinds of scenes, non-animal related, that are just sad. Luckily, these 15 film and television buffs are here to give you...

29 Officers Laugh About the Calls They Never Should Have Gotten

We’re all happy to have an emergency number to call when something goes seriously awry in our lives. There are so many people who have been saved, in one way or another, by the arrival of help just in the nick of time. That said, it can be difficult to educate the general public on...

Here’s Why Some Chocolate Chips Don’t Melt in the Oven

Is there anything more delicious on a cold rainy day than an ooey-gooey chocolate chip cookie? Nope. Not unless you add a cold glass of milk to the mix. But after biting into a warm cookie, have you ever found yourself staring at this baked ball of dough and wondering why those delicious little chocolate...

What Job Contributes Nothing to Society? People Shared Their Thoughts.

Oh, boy, this is gonna be fun…because you and I both know that there are a whole lot jobs out there that don’t contribute anything to society. And people have strong opinions about this stuff! So let’s see what AskReddit users had to say about this. 1. Driving up costs. “PBMs (Pharmaceutical Benefits Managers). They...