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Viewing The Earth’s Innards

from National Geographic Rare chunks of Earth’s mantle found exposed in Maryland The set of rocks strewn throughout Baltimore likely represent a slice of prehistoric seafloor from a now-vanished ocean. BY MAYA WEI-HAAS Standing among patches of muddy snow on the outskirts of Baltimore, Maryland, I bent down to pick up a piece of the […]

Spelling Infidelity Explained

from Nautilus What Misspellings Reveal About Cultural Evolution BY HELENA MITON Something about me must remind people of a blind 17th-century poet. My last name, Miton, is French, yet people outside of France invariably misspell it as “Milton”—as in the famed English author, John Milton, of the epic poem Paradise Lost. It is not uncommon for […]

Musical Vocabularies

from InsideHook The Musicians With the Biggest (And Smallest) Vocabularies A new study determined which artists use the most unique words in their songs BY BONNIE STIERNBERG We all know that when it comes to song lyrics, some artists are more verbose than others. Some like to keep it simple, while others use a slew of […]

River Dave Burned Out

from AP Fire destroys cabin of New Hampshire man forced out of woods By KATHY McCORMACK CANTERBURY, N.H. (AP) — For almost three decades, 81-year-old David Lidstone has lived in the woods of New Hampshire along the Merrimack River in a small cabin adorned with solar panels. He has grown his own food, cut his […]

Playing To The Gallery Gone

from UnHerd How artists lost their courage Keeping silent is the price of a successful career BY JESS DE WAHLS In 2013, Grayson Perry became the first crossdresser to give the BBC’s annual Reith Lectures. I loved them. Wearing his usual colourful attire, Perry explained why he titled his series “Playing to the gallery”, rather than “Sucking up […]

Masturbation Going Viral

from The U.S. Sun Can masturbating REALLY boost your immune system and fight Covid? by Vanessa Chalmers WITH a deadly virus circulating the past year and a half, many people have been wondering how they can boost their immunity. Masturbating is sometimes touted as a way to give the immune system a kickstart. When Covid […]

Burn J.D. Burn

from Yahoo! News Woman with only known recording of J.D. Salinger’s voice to have tape burned by Brendan Morrow The potentially last chance to hear J.D. Salinger’s voice on tape is set to go up in smoke, according to the woman who recorded him. Betty Eppes is in possession of the “only known recording” of […]

Nuggetopia

from The Wall Street Journal We Live in a Golden Age of Dinosaur Chicken Nuggets The ‘fun nugget’ boomlet taught makers to use fewer spikes, leave room for breading; now, perfecting Baby Yoda’s ears By Ellen Byron If Mark Tolbert could redesign his company’s Tyrannosaurus rex chicken nugget, he would make the neck slightly slimmer and […]

Jet Pack Is Back!

from The Sun LAX ‘Jet Pack guy’ spotted AGAIN flying 15 miles from Los Angeles airport at 5,000 feet as FAA and FBI investigates by Catherina Gioino A MAN on a possible jet pack was spotted flying 15 miles from Los Angeles International Airport on Wednesday – nearly a year since a spate of previous […]

Ron Popeil Gone

from NBC News Infomercial king Ron Popeil dies at 86 Ronco’s Showtime Rotisserie & BBQ, and Popeil’s late-night infomercials pitching it, helped inscribe the phrase “set it and forget it” into the American lexicon. Ron Popeil, the inventor and infomercial icon whose kitchen and direct-to-consumer products generated billions of dollars in U.S. sales, died Wednesday […]