Science & History
There’s No Such Thing as ‘English’ Food
Even the most stereotypically English food — we’re looking at you fish and chips — has foreign origins. The Brits, it turns out, have essentially created an entire cuisine out of colonialism
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- By Amanda Mannen
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5 Bits of Pop Psychology That Make Absolutely No Sense
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- By Eli Yudin
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5 Ways Your Routine Surgery Can Go Horrifically Wrong
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- By Ryan Menezes
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A ROUNDUP OF INTERVIEWS, DEEP DIVES, & TRIVIA
15 Simplistic Myths About Exercise, Debunked
Don’t believe the hype.
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- By Andrea Meno, JhallComics
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5 Pathetic Ways Real Kings Died
Some kings die on the chamber pot. Some die via tennis
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- By Ryan Menezes
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15 Odd Sounds And Transmissions That Baffled Scientists
Unsolved mysteries abound.
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- By Andrea Meno, JhallComics
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Iconic Photos With Little-Known Tragic Aftermaths
Whatever you think looking at these photos, their epilogues are worse
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- By Ryan Menezes
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5 Uncomfortable Truths About Our High-Tech Future No One Wants To Talk About
Time to train a computer to recognize my voice and never think about what that means
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- By Eli Yudin
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Execution by Elephant: History’s Most Jumbo Way to Die
Capital punishment used to involve being crushed under some incredibly large feet
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- By Mike Rampton
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Soda Is Coming for Our Hair Now
First it was our teeth. Then our waistlines. Now a new study says soft drinks could be responsible for male-pattern baldness, too
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- By Lauren Vinopal
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How to Predict Your Friends’ Breakups Using Social Media
We've become such an evolved society that we can now chart the arrival of heartbreak by Reddit and Twitter posts
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- By Amanda Mannen
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5 Slapstick Stories from the Secret Service
Life guarding the president can get very silly
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- By Ryan Menezes
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5 Things Everyone Fears vs. What They Should Actually Be Afraid Of
Nature’s greatest predator: a freaked out deer
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- By Eli Yudin
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15 Ways We’re Destroying Our Relationships, According to Science
Even when it seems face-punchingly obvious what you should or shouldn’t do, you might be wrong
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- By Andres Diplotti, Amanda Mannen
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