Climate Change Needs an Operation Warp Speed
In the dismal early days of the pandemic, a vaccine seemed depressingly far off. Historically, the average time to develop a new vaccine was 10 years—far too long for our…
Top 10 Everyday Objects You Didn’t Know Had Alternate Uses – Listverse
You buy things usually for a singular purpose, but you could be missing out on hidden benefits. Here are the 10 best everyday objects you didn’t know had alternate uses.…
Top 10 Creepy Creatures That Might Exist – Listverse
Our legends and histories are filled with mysterious cryptids and terrifying beasts, some of which actually existed. But more often than not, these tales of creepy creatures are just that:…
What ‘Hades’ Can Teach Us About Ancient Greek Masculinity
We can’t imagine that most, if any, men looked like kuoroi—Zag himself represents such an ideal. Kuoroi are more like the idealized and fetishized bodies we see in media, propaganda,…
The Bygone Glory of Blockbuster’s ‘Pokémon Snap’ Station
Courtesy of RealBreakingNate If you didn’t own Pokémon Snap, you could play a short demo of it on the Pokémon Snap Station and print out photos of some minor Pokémon…
Top 10 Hate Crimes Met With Instant Karma – Listverse
Hate crime describes a set of crimes that are motivated by another person’s bias against the victim’s race, disability, sexual orientation, religion, gender identification, or gender expression. Typically, it involves…
Top 10 Towns People Abandoned For No Reason – Listverse
When you walk through a ghost town, it’s usually easy to see why people would leave. There could be an eternal fire burning underground like in Centralia, Pennsylvania. France has…
Amazon Will Let Companies Build Voice Assistants on Alexa
Amazon is offering other companies the ability to use the building blocks of the Alexa digital assistant for their own automated versions, the latest effort to embed the company’s voice…
Joe Biden names top geneticist Eric Lander as science adviser
If confirmed, Eric Lander will be the first biologist to run the US Office of Science and Technology Policy. US president-elect Joe Biden has chosen the decorated geneticist Eric Lander…
With ‘Discovery,’ ‘Star Trek’ Is Finally Moving Forward
In Season 3 of Star Trek: Discovery, Michael Burnham and the rest of the Discovery crew have been transported into the far future of the Star Trek universe. Science fiction…