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The Chummy Science of Choosing the Right Friends
You’re gonna have to smell them and watch YouTube videos with them. But not smell them while watching YouTube videos — that would be gross
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- By Amanda Mannen
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2 5 ‘All-Natural’ Products That Are Complete and Utter Garbage
If you hear the word ‘purge’ or ‘toxin,’ it’s time to bail
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- By Eli Yudin
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On Its 20th Anniversary, We Forced Two Kangaroo Experts to Watch ‘Kangaroo Jack’
In a shocking twist, the movie knows practically nothing about actual kangaroos
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- By Brian VanHooker
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Your Staycation Is Both Boring and Lousy for Your Health
Never venture outside of your own home/city at your own risk
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- By Lauren Vinopal
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5 Bits of Pop Psychology That Make Absolutely No Sense
Try to read this with only 10 percent of your brain
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- By Eli Yudin
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5 Ways Your Routine Surgery Can Go Horrifically Wrong
Maybe you’ll catch fire!
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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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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 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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5 Animals That Defeated the Human Oppressors Who Wanted to Keep Them in Captivity
The animal rebellion has begun
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- By Ryan Menezes
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That Dinner for One You’re Pretending Isn’t Sad Is Literally Breaking Your Heart
A new study underscores just how much damage an inordinate amount of alone time does to your body
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- By Lauren Vinopal
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4 Bad Foods We Can Move on From in the Modern World
Your watch has ended, Cheerios. It’s time to hang the box from the rafters
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- By Eli Yudin
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Why We Like to Think the Bad Boy Has a Heart of Gold
As the saying goes, ‘It's what’s on the inside that counts’ — and a new study has found that those words never ring more true than when a bad boy is involved
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- By Lauren Vinopal
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The Monty Python ‘Silly Walk’ Is Actually Great Exercise, A Very Serious Study Finds
You don’t have to do anything other than change your normal gait to something as ridiculous as a Python sketch to burn some major calories
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- By Lauren Vinopal
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