Science & History
Being a Slacker at Work Pays Off
It makes it impossible for management to exploit you for free labor like they do so-called model employees
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- By Lauren Vinopal
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Men Are Weaker at Lifting... Babies
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- By Lauren Vinopal
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The Pioneering 18th Century Chess Robot That Was Just a Dude Hiding in a Box
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- By Mike Rampton
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A ROUNDUP OF INTERVIEWS, DEEP DIVES, & TRIVIA
5 Medieval Weapons That Would Make a 21st Century Softboi Shriek
Beheading actually sounds pretty good, comparatively
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- By Eli Yudin
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12 Mythbusting Moments Necessary Because Of Organized Religion
According to the Catholic Church, beavers are fish.
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- By Andres Diplotti, Andrea Meno
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‘Touch Grass’ Is Actually a Great Piece of Advice
A hit of nature is obviously better than another swig of Mountain Dew and round of ‘Call of Duty,’ but it also has some seriously great health benefits, too
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- By Lauren Vinopal
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13 Great Works of Art That Were Never Finished
Isaac Asimov never actually finished the 'Foundation' series.
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- By Andrea Meno, Andres Diplotti
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Sour Grapes: Science Confirms That Any Amount of Booze Isn’t Good for You
Go home heart-healthy glass of wine, you’re drunk
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- By Lauren Vinopal
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5 Famous Stories About People From History That Are Really Just Myths
Pics or it didn’t happen
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- By Ryan Menezes
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12 Breakthrough Scientific Discoveries That Went Disastrously Wrong
Heroin was invented as a cough medicine.
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- By JhallComics, Andrea Meno
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5 Utter Failures from History’s First Fire Departments
Wait, we thought firefighters were supposed to be heroes?
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- By Ryan Menezes
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The Barbaric 19th Century Surgery with a 300 Percent Mortality Rate
Pioneering surgeon Robert Liston swung a bone-saw with such ferocity that he was allegedly able to kill three men on or around the operating table (such as it was back then) in one fell swoop
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- By Mike Rampton
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4 Scientific Theories That Later Had to Be Walked Back
Look, science is not a science
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- By Eli Yudin
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Real Conspiracies Behind Four Historic Events
Surprise, surprise — the story of war is almost always the story of government-generated lies and cover-ups
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- By Amanda Mannen
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