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The Controversy Over Tesla Autopilot, Explained

When Code Words Go Wrong In Spy Movies

How The Kennedys Turned A Half-Acre Garden Into A Presidential Power Move

Is 2020 The End Of The Domestic Box Office As We Know It?

Here's Donald Trump Struggling To Vote In Person At His Polling Place Back In 2004

This Is The Only City In America Where Unemployment Is Actually Down

This Is Why Every Star Wars Movie Has The Wrong Title

The Week's Best Memes, Ranked

How I Became The Fake Dean Of A Fake University

Photocopying A Flashlight Leaves Behind An Eye-Popping Pattern

Dozens Of Former 'Ellen Show' Employees Say Executive Producers Engaged In Rampant Sexual Misconduct And Harassment

When The Culture Wars Hit Fort Wayne

Scientists Just Released A DIY Coronavirus Vaccine Under A Creative Commons License

Stay Fit Even When The Weather Is Terrible

Whale Watchers Attract A Whale By Playing A Ditty On Guitar

Concentration Camps And Forced Labor: China's Repression Of The Uighurs, Explained

Are Trees In The Fairway — Fair? This Minnesota Muni Shows How To Do It Right (And Wrong)

Here Are The Seven People Who Have The Power To Switch Off The Internet

Mississippi Teen Who Has Languished In Jail For 17 Months Without An Indictment Is Just 'One Of Thousands'

The Bizarre Plot To Capture A President

One Man's Quest To Infect People With COVID-19 For Science

Someone Did This Dope Cover Of Nirvana's 'Smells Like Teen Spirit' In Classical Latin

How Larry King Got Duped Into Starring In Chinese Propaganda

Why Does 'Indian Matchmaking' Make My Culture Seem So Burdensome?

Here's What A Heavyweight Boxing Match Sounds Like Without Fans

The Mystery Of The Missing Portrait Of Robert Hooke, 17th-Century Scientist Extraordinaire

Portland Navy Vet Reveals What It Was Like Getting Pepper Sprayed By Trump's Secret Police

How To Keep Earth's Germs From Reaching Mars

John Lewis: Together, You Can Redeem The Soul Of Our Nation

This Video Of Baby Ducks Running On Lily Pads Is The Cutest Thing You'll See This Week

Watch NASA Send Its Perseverance Rover On A Mission To Mars

How I Fell In Love With A Fake Football Team — And Learned To Love Myself

Donald Trump Suggests Delay To 2020 US Presidential Election

Can You Predict Which Door This Ball Will Hit?

This Is The City That Dropped The Most Money On Sex Toys In Lockdown

How Police Unions Fight Reform

This Is Footage From A Spy Plane That Flew Above George Floyd Protests In Minneapolis

An American Tragedy: The Colorful Life And Shocking Death Of Ovid Neal III

This Is The High-End Printer We Wish We Had At Home

What Happens When You Shoot A Gun With A Really Bent Barrel

Study Finds Rich People Sleep More

The Mysterious Life Of Birds Who Never Come Down

Kendall Jenner Gives A Tour Inside Her $8.5 Million Beverly Hills Mansion And It Might Make You Feel Extremely Jealous

The CEOs Of Apple, Google, Facebook And Amazon Testified Before Congress And Things Got Awkward

Nearly 50 Years On, A Forbidden Seaside Ghost Town Is About To Re-Open

COVID-19 Leaves Its Impact On The Heart, Raising Fears Of Lasting Damage

Here Is A Fascinating Investigation Into The Abandoned TEKOI Rocket Test Range In Utah

Buddy, First Dog To Test Positive For COVID-19 In The United States, Has Died

How COVID-19 Could Give Kim Jong Un A Doomsday Weapon

The Uncertain Future Of Post-Pandemic Starbucks

The World's Largest Dams Shown To Scale With The World's Tallest Skyscrapers, Visualized

Theoretical Physicists Say 90% Chance Of Societal Collapse Within Several Decades

'Defendant Shall Not Attend Protests': In Portland, Getting Out Of Jail Requires Relinquishing Constitutional Rights

Scientists Strapped Tiny Cameras To Beetles To Get A Bug's-Eye View Of The World

This Woman Perfectly Sums Up What Every Tech Snob Sounds Like On The Internet

'Wokefishing' Is The New Dating App Trend To Beware Of

Motorist Narrowly Avoids Crashing Into Out-Of-Control Hot Air Balloon

The Problem Of The Not-Quite-One Percent

'It Was Like A Kidnapping': Viral Video Shows NYPD Officers Forcing Protester Into Unmarked Van

After Quitting Deadspin In Protest, They're Starting A New Site

Murder, Inc: The Rise And Fall Of New York City's Mafia Hitmen

The Most Searched For Video Games From 2017 To 2020, Visualized

The Origin Story Of Monument Avenue, America's Most Controversial Street

The International Space Station Makes For One Hell Of A Lego Set

This Is What It's Like To Play Tug-Of-War With An Octopus

Socialism's DIY Computer

Is Dining Out Dead?

No Student Should Have To Sit Through A Zoom Lecture

NASA's New Mars Rover Is About To Embark On A Hunt For Ancient Alien Life

'We Are Your Family Now': What It's Like To Lose A Loved One To QAnon

The Political Urgency Of Facial Feminization Surgery

Here's How Passionate Jeep Owners Get About Their SUVs

Why Is Bob Ross Still So Popular?

Walls Are Back

My Midlife Crisis As A Russian Sailor

A Controversial Limb-Lengthening Surgery Is On The Rise Among Men Who Want To Be Taller

Someone Turned Nirvana's 'Come As You Are' Into A Swing Tune, And It's A Delightful Monstrosity

'Ellen DeGeneres Show' Workplace Under Investigation By WarnerMedia

How To Test More People For Coronavirus Without Actually Needing More Tests

This 80-Year-Old Man Found Out How To Do Green Screen On His Computer And Is Having The Time Of His Life

Rite Aid Deployed Facial Recognition Systems In Hundreds Of US Stores

Amazon, Apple, Facebook And Google Prepare For Their 'Big Tobacco Moment'

When Conservative Justices Revolt

How The Custom Ringtone Industry Paved The Way For The App Store — And Then Vanished

We've Always Wanted A 'Street Fighter II' Cabinet, Now's The Time

Only 1950s Kids Will Recognize This Endangered Fish

COVID-19 Cases Appear To Be Slowing At Meat Plants. But Companies Aren't Releasing Test Results

A Guide To A Unique NFL Training Camp

'Step Brothers' And The Peak Summer Of Blockbuster Comedy

The World Putin Made

'He Knew Everything': Fear, Control And Manipulation At Yoga To The People

Tahlequah, The Orca Who Carried Her Dead Calf For 17 Days, Is Pregnant Again

Are Braces A Scam?

Online Abortion Is The Next Frontier Of The COVID Age

Baseball Without Fans Is Best Enjoyed From Afar

Does $600 A Week Make People Shirk? Evidence Is No

Yellowstone's Wolves Are The Most Studied But Misunderstood Good Boys

Tom Hanks And Rita Wilson Are Officially Greek Citizens

This Camera Captures Popcorn Popping At 100,000 Frames Per Second

Inside Randonautica, The App Leading Zoomers To Discover Rainbows, Dead Bodies, And Hidden Treasures

Little Girl Totally Crushes It Playing System Of A Down's 'Toxicity' On Drums

Inside The Quest For Documents That Could Resolve A Cold War Mystery

Did Hearst's Culture Kill Hearst's Biggest Magazine Story?

Here's How It Feels Being The Only Asian Contestant On 'The Bachelorette'

How Trump Could Win Again

John Oliver Talks About The Horrific Practices The Chinese Government Has Inflicted On The Uighurs

We're Publishing Thousands Of Police Discipline Records That New York Kept Secret For Decades

Which TV Beard Is Right For You?

Am I A Jerk For Threatening To Evict My Tenant For Bringing Meat Into Her Apartment, And Other Advice Column Questions

Does Wagyu Still Taste The Same After Being Freeze-Dried?

Thanks To COVID, The Earth's Surface Is Shaking 50 Percent Less

The Banana As We Know It Is Going Extinct. Could Gene Editing Save It?

Using Cut-Off Sleeves As Face Masks Is The Ultimate Dirtbag Tip

Inside Brooklyn's Illegal Firework Underworld

'Ghost Of Tsushima,' Kurosawa And The Political Myth Of The Samurai

From Mining Hellscape To Holiday Paradise

So Much For The Decentralized Internet

California's COVID-19 Dream Has Devolved Into A Nightmare. Now What?

How One Of America's Whitest Cities Became The Center Of B.L.M. Protests

Can You Deep Fry Your Favorite Foods In Pure MSG?

Trump's Talking Health Care Again, With 2020 In Mind

It's Time To Re-Re-Re-Meet The Muppets

What's The Most Expensive Thing You've Ever Bought With Cash?

12 Days With A Trauma Surgeon Treating The Summer COVID-19 Surge

Can Restaurants Survive Shutting Down Again?

Leaving New York City And Moving Home Because Of Coronavirus

'Disabled People Love Clothes Too'

Keanu Reeves And The Makers Of 'Constantine' Reunite After 15 Years

Representation Is Deeper Than Putting Black Icons On Magazine Covers

The Rise Of The Netflix Hit

When Deafness Is Not Considered A Deficit

Three Portraits Of Bruce Lee

This Tiny Power Bank Is Coming With Us Everywhere

When I Left My Faith, I Went To Comic Con

How Harvard's Star Computer-Science Professor Built A Distance-Learning Empire

Shirking From Home

Why Did Drive-In Movie Theaters Lose Their Popularity?

America's Problem With Policing Doesn't Stop At The US Border

It's Time For Architects To Accept Responsibility

The Promised Land

Guys Build A Seemingly Impossible Contraption, A Plane With Circle Wings

The Monster That Everyone Saw And No One Cared To Talk About

Here's Toto's 'Africa' Played On A High-Voltage Tesla Coil

The Poison Of Male Incivility

Guy Paints Himself Painting Himself Over And Over, Dominates Reddit's Front Page

How Porn Saved Me From Hollywood

Someone Transformed An Old Sailboat Into A Pirate Ship Treehouse You Can Live In

The Inside Story Of The 'NBA On NBC' Theme Song

Elephant Takes An Underwater Nap While Using Its Trunk As A Snorkel

Donald Trump's Suburban Horror Show

US Supreme Court Denies Nevada Church's Appeal Of Virus Rule

He's 83, She's 84, And They Model Other People's Forgotten Laundry

Why The Nintendo GameCube Failed

Local TV Stations Across The Country Set To Air Discredited 'Plandemic' Researcher's Conspiracy Theory About Fauci

Elon Musk, Blasting Off In Domestic Bliss

Play Microsoft's Big First-Party Games On PC And Xbox With Game Pass Ultimate

NYC's Glitziest Mall Is Losing a Key Tenant

How To Outrun A Dinosaur

The Best And Worst Of The Biggest Streaming Services

Ranking Every Single Oscar Performance From A Summer Blockbuster Movie

This Is What The Inside Of A CT Scanner Looks Like When It's Spinning At Full Speed

If Swine Flu Happens During COVID-19, Are We Screwed?

How The US Compares With The World's Worst Coronavirus Hot Spots

I Started Using These Six Products After Stealing Them From Girlfriends. Now They're Part Of My Regular Routine

The Origins Of Studying Crap

Here's Every Player On The Yankees And The Nationals Taking A Knee Before The Anthem And Then Standing For It

Three Lawmakers In Charge Of Grilling Apple, Amazon, Google And FB On Antitrust Own Thousands In Stock In Those Companies

Dr. Anthony Fauci Throws Out The First Pitch To Start The MLB Season And It's Just A Bit Outside

Why Election Day 2020 Could Be A Disaster

No Longer In Shadows, Pentagon's UFO Unit Will Make Some Findings Public

The Dangerous And Untold Story Of Paparazzi Work

The Week's Best Memes, Ranked

Show Me How To Say No To This

The Top Trending Musicians By State From 2010 To 2020, Visualized

Large DNA Study Traces Violent History Of American Slavery

Guy Ingeniously Creates A Kite That Can Fly Without Any String

The Imprisoner's Dilemma

Uber Deducts Millions From Drivers' Wages For Airport Tickets They Can't Appeal

How Slow Motion Revolutionized The Way We Watch Movies

Money And Power

If You Pulverize Feathers With A Hydraulic Press Can You Make Them Drop As Fast As A Bowling Ball?

To Be A Parent Right Now Is To Be A Liar

Someone Paid Tribute To Dr. Anthony Fauci With A Parody Of A Song From 'Hamilton'

A Definitive Case Against The Electoral College

The Black Woman's Forgotten Fight Against The Laws That Banned Her Hair

How Sesame Street's Mr. Noodle Teaches Kids, Annoys Grown-Ups

How NASA Built A Self-Driving Car For Its Next Mars Mission

Why Trump Chose Portland

Why Personal Air Conditioners Are No Replacement For The Real Thing

There's Never Been A Better Time To Be A White Collar Criminal

Google Ad Portal Equated 'Black Girls' With Porn

The Statue Of Liberty Gets Struck By Lightning In Dramatic Moment Caught On Camera

Is It Weird To Hire A Groomsman For Your Wedding?

State Department Insiders Ask: What Is Susan Pompeo Really Up To?

I Don't Know How to Explain to You That You Dr. Fauci Did Not Say That

How Apple Store Closures Predicted The Spread Of COVID-19

Was E-Mail A Mistake?

Here's What The Main Lead Character Is Like In Every Teen Movie Or TV Show

How Voter-Fraud Hysteria And Partisan Bickering Ate American Election Oversight

Here's How COVID-19 Has Affected Summer Tourism

How Ben & Jerry's Perfected The Delicate Recipe For Corporate Activism

What Does The Extracted Peanut Butter From Hundreds Of Reese's Cups Taste Like?

Scientists Set To Explore A Deep 'Blue Hole' At The Bottom Of The Ocean

The Deadly Secret Of China's Invisible Armada

Donald Trump Explains A Cognitive Test In The Most Donald Trump Way Possible

The Bizarre Stories Of Everyday Life Within The NBA Bubble

Obama And Biden Troll Trump With Campaign Video

How This Marvel Of Engineering Saved The Netherlands From Catastrophic Flooding

Can You Get COVID Again? It's Very Unlikely, Experts Say

How People Kept Their Food Cold Before Refrigerators Were Invented

Before The Media Treated Roy Den Hollander As A Threat, They Treated Him As A Joke

Guy Surprises His Dog With One Million Dog Biscuits

This Nurse Has Traveled From Hot Spot To Hot Spot During The COVID-19 Pandemic

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A History Of The Cast Of 'Tenet' Trying To Explain 'Tenet'

How Is Flooding Affecting Your Community?

Puppy Enjoys Frank Ocean, Sings Along To 'Self Control'

The Bizarre Fall Of The CEO Of Coach And Kate Spade's Parent Company

Not Much Counter Space? The Instant Vortex Plus Is Worth The Square Footage

Black Doctors Who Care For Others' Kids Make Powerful Four-Minute Plea For People To 'Do Better' For Their Kids

'Disturbing And Demoralizing': DHS Employees Are Worried The Portland Protest Response Is Destroying Their Agency's Reputation

These Mayors Want To Fight COVID-19 And The Recession With One Big Idea: A Guaranteed Income

How To Make Indoor Air Safer

What Happens To America If Trump Gets To Replace Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg

How To Understand COVID-19 Numbers

How One Couple Has Lived For 29 Years On An Island They Built Themselves

Maine Man Saws Neighbor's Garage In Half Amid Boundary Dispute

Do You Live In The US And Want A Small, Affordable Car? Too Bad

The Maldives Is Now Open To All Global Tourists. Here's How They're Doing It

Extremely Ambitious Photographers Recreate Apple's MacOS Big Sur Wallpaper With A Helicopter

Whales Get A Break As Pandemic Creates Quieter Oceans

The World Is Noisy. These Groups Want To Restore The Quiet

Why Iceland Had To Relocate Their Airline To Scotland

Hostage Siege Ends After Ukrainian President Endorses Joaquin Phoenix Film

Guy Calls Cats In Different Languages Until They Respond. Turns Out German Always Works

Why Conspiracy Theorists Think FEMA Is Building Camps To Imprison Americans

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Accosted By GOP Lawmaker Over Remarks: 'That Kind Of Confrontation Hasn't Ever Happened To Me'

Here's What's Going To Get You Canceled In 2020

The Speed Of This Lava River Is Terrifying

USA Gymnastics' Culture Of Abuse Runs Far Deeper Than Larry Nassar

Watch The Cast Of 'Scott Pilgrim Vs. The World' Do A 10-Year-Reunion Table Read

Here's What Zoom Would've Been Like If It Came Out In 1988

They Agreed To Meet Their Mother's Killer. Then Tragedy Struck Again

Corporate Giants Shut Down Trump Texting Program

The New Jersey Shooting Suspect Left A Pro-Trump Paper Trail

The Class Of RBG

This Hospital Cost $52 Million. It Treated 79 Virus Patients

Colleges Are Getting Ready To Blame Their Students

Poop Emoji Slippers Are Legitimately Hilarious

Guy Sets His Hand On Fire, Tests To See If That Will Pop A Water Balloon

The World According To Creed Bratton

Consider The Roadkill

The Activist Who Spent The Rest Of Her Life Living With Side Effects Of Tear Gas

Steve Carell's Bizarrely Unfunny Return To Comedy

The Inside Story Of How A Sleep Tracker Became The Hottest Device Of The Pandemic

Woman Does Uncanny Impression Of Celebrities Accusing Each Other Of Stealing Their Stuff

COVID-19 Vaccine Trials From The University Of Oxford And Wuhan Both Show Early Positive Results

Jealous Dog Snaps At Owner Whenever She Kisses Her Boyfriend

Benefit From Dolby Atmos And DTS:X With This Affordable Soundbar Sytem

An Ex-'Times' Reporter. An Ohio Wedding Provider. COVID Contrarians Go Viral

Watch Ducks Demolish A Bowl Of Peas In A Matter Of Seconds

Ikea Imagines Home Life Post-COVID-19, And It's Wild

The Whiners Who Earn $200,000 And Complain They're Broke

Patients Kept On Asking This Doctor Whether Face Masks Would Lower Their Oxygen Intake, So He Put On Six Masks To Demonstrate It Doesn't

50 Days Of Protest In Portland. A Violent Police Response. This Is How We Got Here

John Oliver Explains How To Spot A Coronavirus Conspiracy Theory To Fight Misinformation

How Long Does COVID-19 Immunity Last?

A Gunman Dressed As A Delivery Driver Killed The Son Of A Federal Judge After She Was Assigned A Case Related To Jeffrey Epstein

The Stranded Babies Of The Coronavirus Disaster

For Aspiring Performers, The NBA Is The Best Place To Be A Mascot

How Can I Convince My Coworker It's Actually Totally Fine For Me To Flirt With Our 18-Year-Old Intern, And Other Advice Column Questions

The Deck Is Not Rigged: Poker And The Limits Of AI

What If We All Just Got Really Into Stargazing?

Fox Attacks The Washington Post — In The Best Way Possible

Baneposting Is Proof That Not Even Christopher Nolan Can Control How Audiences React To A Movie

What Comes After Zoom Fatigue?

A Foolproof Guide To Safe Sexting

The 'Invention' Of The Flat Iron Steak

Why Does Sugar Always Push Light To The Right?