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In case you haven't heard of Med Beds -- well, first off, I'm jealous of you, because you clearly aren't cursed with knowledge of what the QAnon right is getting up to nowadays. Let me curse you: it's the latest buzzword to come out of the MAGA cult ...

Preston Byrne, the US attorney who has been merrily trolling UK regulators on behalf of 4chan, has co-authored a draft bill, the UK Free Speech Act, with the Adam Smith Institute, according to The Rage. The bill would codify First Amendment-style ...

Researchers at the Weizmann Institute of Science in Israel have modified tobacco plants to yield five psychedelic compounds at once: bufotenin and 5-MeO-DMT (from Colorado River toad secretions), DMT (a tryptamine found across plant species), and ...

On a recent podcast, Marc Andreessen, whose firm Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) manages tens of billions in VC assets, said he engages in "zero" introspection -- calling it a Freudian invention with no pedigree before 1910 that serious people should skip ...

Apple removed "Anything" from the App Store last Thursday, the third vibe coding app pulled in March after Replit and Vibecode were blocked earlier in the month. Vibe coding apps let non-programmers generate working software using AI models -- Claude ...

Standard nitrile and latex lab gloves shed hydrocarbons called stearates -- particles added by manufacturers to keep gloves from sticking to molds -- that look nearly identical to polyethylene microplastics under electron microscopes and fool ...

Twelve hours after the US and Israel began bombing Iran on February 28, 2026, a shortwave radio signal started broadcasting in Persian -- a man's voice, counting random numbers, followed by the word "tavajjoh" (attention) repeated three times. The ...

If you happen to find yourself walking down the street in Colombia, you might catch a glimpse of a man riding a giant praying mantis bicycle, if you're lucky. Enrique Velez invented a bicycle that walks as you pedal it, and it resembles a large,

This art piece by Adrien Miller combines sculpture and light. Upon first glance you may think you're looking at a digital effect, but this is all made by hand -- this open-mouthed wall sculpture is really breathing out rainbows. The electrifying ...

Robert Morris, the Gateway Church founding pastor convinced last year of raping a 12-year-old girl, is out of jail after six months. Morris pleaded guilty to five felony counts of lewd or indecent acts with a child, and the short sentence was part of ...