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Neanderthal men had a thing for modern human women, genomes show
When Neanderthal men encountered modern human women tens of thousands of years ago, they were apparently very interested.
 • Ellsworth Toohey
A retired geneticist built an online museum of electrical plugs
A man with the delightful name of Oof Oud spent his career studying DNA and chromosomes at the University of Amsterdam.
 • Ellsworth Toohey
The author of the world’s strangest book says a stray cat wrote it
Luigi Serafini spent the late 1970s in Rome drawing an encyclopedia of a world that doesn’t exist — plants that morph into animals, machines with no…
 • Ellsworth Toohey
Deadly car crashes surge on days that big albums drop
The release of a hot album may increase fatal automobile accidents.
 • Boing Boing and Gail P Sherman
Pentagon forces Scouts to out trans kids, calls it “returning to values”
When the federal government decides that the real threat to national security is a trans teenager earning a merit badge, you’re not restoring tradition…
 • Jason Weisberger
Tire pressure sensors are a huge privacy risk
Tire pressure monitoring systems (TPMS) have been mandatory in U.S.
 • Gail P Sherman
Driving Through a Locust Swarm Looks Like a Living Sandstorm
Driving through a locust swarm is like passing through a living sandstorm.
 • Popkin
Watch an adorable pup surprise people as they walk by his window
A handwritten sign sits in front of an empty window: call out “Max” and an angel will appear.
 • Popkin
Bottle of salt from before the dinosaurs has an expiration date of 2019
Someone spotted something strange on a container of Himalayan pink salt.
 • Popkin
Kash Patel’s girlfriend defends his taxpayer-funded hockey party by yelling about transgender mice
Nothing says security like kegstands.
 • Jason Weisberger
Maybe they’ll send Bari Weiss to CNN
After their dismantling of CBS, the Trump-aligned Ellison family is poised to absorb Warner Bros.
 • Jason Weisberger
Scientists move fast as H5N1 reaches Northern California elephant seals
Seven northern elephant seal pups at Año Nuevo State Park have tested positive for highly pathogenic avian influenza (H5N1), marking the first confirmed…
 • Jason Weisberger
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