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Arctic Communities Are Living In A Future Nobody Wants

This Carrot Knife Peeler Is Hypnotizing To Watch

HBO Max Is Taking On Netflix With Human Curation Instead Of Solely Relying On Algorithms

Here's A Low-Tech Demonstration Of How A Computer 'Works' Using Marbles And Switches

The Isolation Of Undocumented Immigrants

Salvaging Fossils On The Jurassic Coast

Here's A Tour Of Some Of The Best Designed Bathrooms In Video Games

Stimulated Brain Waves Offer A Possible Treatment For Alzheimer's

Dinosaur-Killing Asteroid Struck At 'Deadliest Possible Angle'

How 'RuneScape' Is Helping Venezuelans Survive

How To Build A DIY Atmosphere Supplying Respirator

How ICE Is Using Private Contractors To Dodge Local Democracy

The Last Of Pakistan's Cinema Artists

YouTuber Attempts To Craft A Sharp Bronze-Age Knife

The Woman At The Heart Of Beethoven's 'Moonlight' Sonata

What Does Catnip Do To The Brains Of Cats?

Where Does The Dirt Go?

The Nine Films That Explain The Legendary Studio Ghibli

Money And Modern Life

Police Erupt In Violence Nationwide

Here's A Wonderful Tapas-Making Assembly Line Contraption Made Completely Out Of Legos

These Birds Are About To Flip

Behind The Scenes Of Martin Scorsese's 'Taxi Driver': A Classic 1975 Village Voice Report From Filming On The Bowery

A Fascinating Demonstration Of Why Carbon Dioxide Is Still Piling Up In The Atmosphere Despite The Coronavirus Lockdowns

Studio Ghibli's First Film, 'Castle In The Sky,' Is Like No Hayao Miyazaki Film That Followed

Watch The SpaceX Dragon Dock Into The International Space Station

Grief, Outrage Over George Floyd Spreads Further

Inside Corporations' War On Science

How To Apply Holographic Images Onto A Bar Of Chocolate

Creating The First 3D Map Of The Heart's 'Brain'

Plasma, A Promising COVID-19 Treatment, Has A Dark History

How A Bizarre VR Festival Encapsulated NYU's Awful COVID-19 Response

Resourceful Musician Finds A Way To Jerry-Rig His Piano To Charge His Phone

What Tony Hawk's First Skateboard Shows About The History Of The Sport He Made Famous

This Kindergarten Teacher Gives The Performance Of A Lifetime On The Last Day Of School Over Zoom

From AIDS To COVID-19: Trump's Decades Of Spreading Dangerous Misinformation About Disease Outbreaks

Person Who Partied At The Lake Of The Ozarks Over Memorial Day Is Positive For COVID-19

How Auto-Tune Revolutionized Pop Music

What Do You Do With A Stolen Van Gogh? This Thief Knows

This Woman Watched All 14 'Land Before Time' Movies So You Don't Have To

Inside The Secret Sex Trade Underbelly Of The Virtual World Game 'Second Life'

America's Most Infamous Resistance Bros Want Back In

White Women Need To Do Better

Twitter Isn't A Government, But It's The Best One We Got

Here Is The Most Complete Reconstruction Of George Floyd's Final Minutes

Their Restaurant Burned Down In The Minneapolis Protests. They Just Want Justice For George Floyd

Killer Mike Delivers Powerful Speech To Protesters In Atlanta

How Hawaiian Shirts Became A Symbol For The Alt-Right

YouTuber Builds Wolverine Bone Claws And Attempts To Break A Concrete Wall

Disney World Sent Stormtroopers To Enforce Social Distancing At Disney Springs

CNN Center In Atlanta Damaged During Protests

Leaked Posts Show Facebook Employees Asking The Company To Remove Trump's Threat Of Violence

'Looting, Fire, Whatever It Takes': Chaos Surges Across The Country

How Imperial Japan Plotted To Attack American Cities With Underwater Aircraft Carriers

The Math Question All Canadians Must Answer If They Win The Sweepstakes

Lock Picking Expert Easily Foils This Electronic Keypad Cam Lock With A Magnet

Supreme Court Rejects California Church Appeal On Coronavirus Service Limits

How To Recover From COVID-19 At Home

Are States Still Seeing Growth in COVID-19 Deaths?

Husky Has Extremely Sassy Response To Being Scolded

The Oldest Companies In The World, Visualized

People Are Accidentally Throwing Out Their Stimulus Payments — Because They Look Like Junk Mail

Why NASA Set Up Shop In Russia's Forbidden Star City

The End Of The Resume?

This Artificial Intelligence Algorithm Taught Itself To Become A Master At 57 Different Atari Games

Peter Jackson's 'Lord Of The Rings' Was An Improbable Miracle, And We're Lucky To Have It

Twitter Places Warning On Trump Post, Saying Tweet Glorifies Violence

These Surreal Pictures Show How Restaurants Are Adapting To The Pandemic

The Impact Of COVID-19 On Households In The US, Visualized

Here's A Rare Clip From The Short-Lived 1995 CBS Sitcom 'The Office,' Which Has Nothing To Do With Steve Carell's 'The Office'

'We Had No Idea How To Do It': The Chaotic Inside Story Of How YouTube Rose From Failed Dating Site To $1.65 Billion Video Behemoth

China's Largest Base Has Replicas Of Taiwan's Presidential Building, Eiffel Tower

Guy Makes The Questionable Choice To Eat A Hot Dog He Dehydrated And Then Rehydrated Again

You Don't Always Know Who Is High Risk

Seven People Shot At Louisville Protest Over The Death Of Breonna Taylor

If An NBA Game Is Played Without Fans, Does It Make A Sound?

Watch A CNN Reporter Reporting On The Minneapolis Protests Get Arrested Live On Air Even After Identifying Himself As Press

Minneapolis Police Precinct Burns As Protests Rage On After Death Of George Floyd

These Birds Are About To Flip

The Quest To Secure The World's Vanishing Ice

What Happens If You Order A $29 Laptop From This Scammy-Looking Facebook Ad?

Young Americans Face A Cruel Summer

The Volume Of Drinkable Water Compared To Earth's Volume, Visualized

The Problem With CNN's Brother Act

I Hid My Transition For Years. I Regret It Now

Extremely Curious Bird Discovers A Basketball, Proceeds To Have The Time Of Its Life

How Hollywood Makes Horror Movies Scarier Behind The Scenes

A Simulation Of Different Real Life Scenarios And Your Coronavirus Exposure Risk

Why Now Is A Great Time to Elope

A YouTuber Placed Her Autistic Adopted Son From China With A New Family — After Making Content With Him For Years

Photographer Stabilizes Camera On The Sky, Captures A Mesmerizing Time Lapse Of The Earth's Rotation

So, What Can We Do Now?

HBO Max's Catalog Is Full Of Weird Holes

Looting And Flames Erupt In Minneapolis Amid Growing Protests Over George Floyd's Death

The High, High Cost Of Living In Utopia

The NBA's Possible July Return At Disney World, Explained

It's Getting Pretty Steamy In Here, We Better Cool Things Down

Inside 'Jeffrey Epstein: Filthy Rich', According To The Netflix Documentary's Creators

The Unreality Of Pregnancy

Porn Takes On A Personal Touch In The Pandemic

More Than 100,000 People Have Died Of The Coronavirus In The US

Suddenly, Everyone's Thirsty For Mountain Dew Baja Blast

How VPN Companies Are Scamming You

The Roads Were Flooded, So This Miami Guy Decided It Was A Good Time To Go Water Skiing

A Dollar General Analyst Complained About Store Workers Getting Screwed. He Got Fired

It's Hard To Breathe In An N95 Mask. This Stanford Scientist Has A Clever Solution

12-Year-Old Boy Has Close Call With Bear, Stays Remarkably Calm During The Whole Encounter

Russian Fighter Jets Get Uncomfortably Close To A US Navy Patrol Plane

This Lending App Publicly Shames You When You're Late On Loan Payment

What Actually Happens When You Recycle

Pablo Escobar's Brother Is Suing Apple For $2.6 Billion

Why Immunity To COVID-19 Is So Complicated

1-in-5 Teachers Unlikely to Return to Schools if Reopened in the Fall, Poll Finds

How The Fake Lesbians Of t.a.T.u. Changed Queerness In Russia Forever

The Iconic Road Trip Photographs That Shaped The Way We Take Pictures Now

Man Comes Across An Abandoned House In A Forest While Exploring Belarus

COVID-Like Cough Sent Him To ER — Where He Got A $3,278 Bill

The Billionaire Governor Who's Been Sued Dozens Of Times For Millions In Unpaid Bills

The Ins And Outs Of Porsche Collecting, According To A Renowned Butt Surgeon

What Can't You Accomplish With 100 Rubber Chicken Slingshots On Your Side?

The New 13-Inch MacBook Pro's Keyboard Really Is That Good

Are Clothes About To Get More Expensive?

The Cool Thing That Happens When You Mix Sand And Glue Together To Build Sand Castles

The Story of How Saturday Night Live's 'Stevie Nicks Fajita Roundup' Sketch Got Made

Dad Has Priceless, Profanity-Laden Reaction To Learning He's Having Triplets

Unexplained Phenomena Keep Suggesting The Universe Isn't What We Thought

High In The Alps, Giant Blankets Slow A Glacier's Ice Melt

We Cordially Invite You To Meet The Non-Actors Of 'Uncut Gems'

What The Tallest Piano In The World Sounds Like

Someone Put Together A Compilation Of Mind-Bending Visual Effects That Trick Your Eye

Coronavirus Monitoring Bracelets Flood The Market, Ready To Snitch On People Who Don't Distance

The Human Cost Of Instacart's Grocery Delivery

Netflix's 'Space Force' Is Packed With Stars. Is It Any Good?

Here's A Clever Trick To Make A Pizza Box Walk Down A Ramp

What We Should Leave Behind For Good After The Pandemic

Man Makes A Gigantic Kookaburra That Laughs Out Loud As He Drives It Around

'Would You Be My Kiss‑In Partner?'

Why Do USB Configurations Keep Changing?

The Remaking of Steve Buscemi

Why No One Is Living On Dubai's Man-Made Islands

Watch A Student Upload Their AP Exam Nervewrackingly At The Very Last Second Because Of Slow Internet

Shaun King Keeps Raising Money — And Questions About Where It Goes

Making An Indie Phone Is Not For The Faint-Hearted

An Easy-To-Understand Breakdown Of Schwa, The Most Common Vowel In English

Viral Video Shows White Woman Calling Cops On Black Man Because He Asked Her To Leash Her Dog

The Man In The Iron Lung

A Window Onto An American Nightmare

How Will Our Bodies Change From Being Inside For Months?

Here's How Wuhan Tested 6.5 Million For Coronavirus In Days

Just How Do Perfumers And Scented Candle-Makers Recreate The Smell Of The Ocean?

CDC Warns Of Aggressive Cannibal Rats Facing Shortage Of Garbage To Eat

The Astronaut Wives Know Exactly What To Expect

United Kingdom's Prime Minister Aide Says He 'Did Not Consider' Resigning

Watch A Swarm Of Locusts Enter Residential Areas In Jaipur, India

The Connection Between Black English And Memes

Jimmy Cobb, The Pulse Of 'Kind Of Blue,' Dies At 91

Joe Rogan Is The New Mainstream Media

Could Gut Microbes Be Key To Solving Food Allergies?

The Age Of Horror

How The Coronavirus Is Affecting America's Vinyl Record Industry

The Short, Strange Life Of The First Friendly Robot

Eight Ways To Go Out And Stay Safe During The Coronavirus Pandemic

Hackers Release A New Jailbreak That Unlocks Every iPhone

The Forgotten Story Of How 13 Black Men Broke The Navy's Toughest Color Barrier

Am I Wrong To Feel Creeped Out After My Boyfriend's Mom Stole My Bras, And Other Advice Column Questions

Man Comes Up With Ingenious Way To Mow The Lawn Without Doing It Himself

The Bolivian Orchestra Stranded In A German Castle

Could You Improve Your Sleep By Snuggling Up With The Somnox?

For Some Good News: Rhode Island Zoo Welcomes Baby Two-Toed Sloth

What Astronauts Can Teach Us About Mental Health And Isolation

Inside The NSA's Secret Tool For Mapping Your Social Network

What's The More Climate-Conscious Diet: Plant-Based Or Place-Based?

How Hart Island Became New York City's Mass Grave For The Dead Of The Unknown

Agoraphobic People Are Suffering Through Quarantine With Everyone Else

The Wild Shrub At The Root Of The Afghan Meth Epidemic

Comedian Cleverly Recreates The 'Buffy The Vampire Slayer' Intro Using Only Stock Footage

A Fascist Dystopia With Style On The Adriatic

Trump's Favorite TV Network Is Post-Parody

Japanese Futon Sofa Lounger Sit Lounge Sleep Small Sofa Furniture For College Dorm Bedroom Studio Apartment Couches Love Seat

An Incalculable Loss

Reality TV Is No Longer A Form Of Escapism

An Economist Explains What Makes The Optimal Conditions For An Auction

Kyle MacLachlan Impresses David Lynch With A Pratfall During The Filming Of 'Twin Peaks: The Return'

In The Craigslist Free Section, Humanity Eclipses Any Plague

Black Americans Dying Of COVID-19 At Three Times The Rate Of White People

This Is How The School Shutdown Will Affect Children For Many Years

Democrats Suddenly Have A Much Better Chance Of Retaking The Senate In 2020

Text Messages Don't Work For Reminders Over The Long Term

Cosplay Is A Business And It Is Suffering

An Extremely Convenient Audio Guide To Identifying Bird Songs You Can Hear In Your Backyard

How The Pandemic Turned Brené Brown Into America's Therapist

A Feud In Wolf-Kink Erotica Raises A Deep Legal Question

Watch The USS Portland Shoot Down A Drone With A High-Intensity Laser

Study Estimates 24 States Still Have Uncontrolled Coronavirus Spread

Roughly Half The Twitter Accounts Pushing To 'Reopen America' Are Bots, Researchers Found

Printers Are Not Worth Buying, Even During a Pandemic

We Analyzed How Dozens Of Textbooks Discuss Climate Change. Here's What We Found

I'm An Adult Who Is Constantly Mistaken For A 12-Year-Old. This Is What My Life Is Like

The United States Needs To Reach This Number In Order To Reopen Safely

Someone Built An Amphibious Go-Kart Boat And It Looks Pretty Badass

How J.C. Penney Went From A Multi-Billion Dollar Retail Juggernaut To Bankrupt

A Hairstylist Worked While Symptomatic And Exposed 91 People To Coronavirus

Miami's Fight Against Rising Seas

The Presidential Race Florida Is Really Talking About

America's First Connoisseur

In Bristol Bay, Alaska, Locals Fear COVID-19 Will Arrive Along With 12,000 Temporary Salmon Workers

'I Had To Choose Being A Mother': With No Child Care Or Summer Camps, Women Are Being Edged Out Of The Workforce

How Teenage Criminals Hacked The Game 'Habbo Hotel' To Steal Thousands Of Dollars Of Virtual Currency

How To Be Alone When You're Really Bad At It

The World Needs COVID-19 Vaccines. It May Also Be Overestimating Their Power

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YouTuber Attempts To Blow Bubbles With Molten Lava

A Restaurant Ended Its Relationship With World Central Kitchen Over Its Dealings With ICE. It's Complicated

I Wish I'd Realized How Bad My Ex's Drinking Was

Now Is Not The Time To 'Test' Our Friends

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Car Losing Control Flies Across Pool As It Crashes Into Someone's Yard

Here's An Excruciating Demonstration Of Applying For Jobs As A 2020 College Graduate

The Coronavirus Vaccine May Not Work On The Elderly

The Economist Who Predicted The 2008 Crash Thinks We're Headed For A Decade Of Depression

The Need To Make A Living: Inside The Clandestine World Of LA's Underground Haircuts

Comedian Hilariously Mimes Donald Trump's 'Tested Positively Towards Negative' Malapropism

The Absolute Masochists Who Love Drinking Flat Soda

How To Restore A Rusty Knife To Its Former Glory

The Economy Is Tanking. So Why Aren't Home Prices Dropping?

The Week's Best Memes, Ranked

'Preppers Have Gone From Tin Hat-Wearing Loonies To Visionaries'

If You're Going To Destroy A Jeep, Might As Well Do It As Gloriously As This

How A Covert Military Operation Broke The Guinness World Record For Passengers On A Single Flight

How Distortion Works In Music

Reopening Reality Check: Georgia's Jobs Aren't Flooding Back

Why Lying Face-Down Helps Relieve Coronavirus Symptoms

Inside Hollywood's Pricey Plans To Restart Production

Guy Experiences What It's Like To Be In A F-16 While The Pilot Pulls Off Crazy 7G Maneuvers

Here's The Explosive New Trailer For Christopher Nolan's Trippy Movie 'Tenet'

How The SpaceX Crew Dragon Mission Could Shape The Future Of Commercial Space

Is Ben Smith's Column About Ronan Farrow Too Good To Be True?

Will College Campuses Reopen During The Pandemic?

Johnson & Johnson To Stop Selling Talc Baby Powder In US And Canada

The New New York Will Be Better

Please Enjoy This Very Weird Video Of Leonard Nimoy Singing A Ballad About Bilbo Baggins In The 60s

When 'SimCity' Got Serious: The Long, Strange Story Of Maxis Business Simulations And 'SimRefinery'

'How Could The CDC Make That Mistake?'

Guy Experiences What It's Like To Be In A F-16 While The Pilot Pulls Off Crazy 7G Maneuvers

Here's The Last Known Footage Of A Tasmanian Tiger

Georgia O'Keeffe's Art Of Self-Defense

Ken Block Teaches His 13-Year-Old Daughter How To Drift

Inside The Flour Company Supplying America's Sudden Baking Obsession

How Comfortable Is It To Sleep On A Water-Filled Pillow?

The Uncounted Coronavirus Dead

A Century Of Working Out From Home

Talented Musician Plays The 'Super Mario Bros' Theme And Sound Effects Using Only The Violin

Florida, Georgia Scrutinized Over Coronavirus Case Data

The Town That Tested Itself

Alison Roman, Bon Appétit, And The 'Global Pantry' Problem

Researchers Say 'Upside-Down Cosmic Ray Shower' May Be Evidence Of A Parallel Universe

Mount Everest Is Visible From Kathmandu, Nepal For First Time In Living Memory

We Had No Idea You Could Make An Audio Recording Just Using A Cup

Project Poltergeist

Why Can't Every Movie Be As Good As 'The Mask Of Zorro'?

So You Want To Become A Cam Girl During Quarantine?

The Moment Metal-Detecting Divers Discover A Luxury Watch Worth Thousands Of Dollars In The Water

Pour One Out For Caribou Coffee, Whose Drink Sleeves Are Hilariously Inappropriate For The Pandemic

Sears Helped Build A Giant Entertainment Arena. Now, A Suburb Pays Millions To Keep It Running

Revisiting TGI Fridays and The Revolutionary 'Fern' Bars Of Late-1960s New York

Man Is Moved To Tears Reuniting With His Donkey After Quarantine

Scientists Captured A Planet's Birth And It Is Terrifying And Beautiful

Virginia Family Finds Nearly $1 Million In Cash In Middle Of Road

Michigan Governor Orders Thousands To Evacuate After Two Dams Failed, Saying One City Could Be Under 'Nine Feet Of Water'

How To Bake Bread

This Video Of Supporters Clapping For The Serbian President In A Virtual Rally Feels Like A Sci-Fi Nightmare

They Bought A $1 House In Italy, Then COVID-19 Struck

How Does A Virus Spread In Cities? It's A Problem Of Scale

Here's A Newsreel From The 1950s Showing Hairstyles They Thought Would Be Popular In 'The Future'

A Man Shared A Shocking Photo Of What COVID-19 Did To Him After Six Weeks In A Hospital

Safari-Goers Spot A Sneaky Hyena Steal An Impala From A Very Unlucky Python

What's With The Fake AI On Netflix Reality Shows?