Sometimes, people get away with things that make us furious. The letter of the law sometimes misses proper justice by a long shot. A good example of this is a recent ruling that allows an ex-priest who impregnated a 16 year old parishioner to continue to teach reading and English to 6th graders in New […] More
Lisa Littman is an Assistant Professor at Brown University School of Public Health. Maybe you’ve heard her name. She published an article in the peer-reviewed journal PLOS ONE entitled Rapid-Onset Gender Dysphoria in Adolescents and Young Adults: A Study of Parental Reports in 2018. Here she coined a term that was seen on conservative, anti-trans blogs and […] More
Pornhub is, as we know, a super successful and popular porn site. In 2017, 28.5 billion people visited it. It garners 50,000 searches per minute. Their viewers watched an average of 10 minutes of footage each visit and they streamed an incredible amount of data last year. We expect acts of charity from other internet giants […] More
A joint study conducted by the University of Western Australia and the University of Zurich, which has been published in The Royal Society B journal, tells us something most women may already know. They studied 103 primate species with a focus on “the presence/absence of female monopolization”. What they found was that male primates with smaller genitalia compensated for their […] More
Netflix has a new compelling and urgent documentary series called “Our Planet”. It’s filled with beautiful visuals, amazing cinematography, and a desperate message that highlights the impact of humans on our surrounding ecosystems. Articles have been circulating that showcase the anxiety people feel while watching the series. It has even undergone criticism for it’s graphic and […] More
By now most of the world has seen the incredible photo revealed April 10th by the Event Horizon Telescope Project and the National Science Foundation. Though the scientific world bubbled with excitement over the first ever image of a black hole, no one could be as excited as the team who worked tirelessly to make […] More
In showbiz, the common phrase is sex sells. But we are in a new era of film that may see the restructuring of our priorities. It seems now that animals sell. With a 2019 lineup of movies that are projected to, or have already performed well in the box office, many of these include a furry star. […] More
Star Trek, Andromeda, and Dr. Who. These wildly successful shows have some intersecting storyboards. Black holes have been the linchpin for many plot lines in film and TV alike. Commonly referred to ‘quantum singularities’, they create the perfect drama-driven episode that we love. All the black holes you have seen up until now have been […] More
Most of us think of the eruption of Mt. Vesuvius in Pompeii as a singular, past-tense event. Like a myth, we can recount the story, the stunning loss of life, and the magnitude of awesome power that the supervolcano in Pompeii showcased as if it could never happen again. But can it? Well, it has. […] More
Felicia was her name, and she was a working animal. No, she wasn’t a service dog. She wasn’t a herding animal. She wasn’t pulling a carriage. She was a ferret and she worked with scientists, helping them make the most fundamental elements of the universe. National Accelerator Laboratory began testing a proton synchrotron particle accelerator […] More
Would you want to know how you will die? Would it help you take measures to prevent that death, or would it just sap your carefree youth in which you live ‘in the moment’ because you feel invincible? If you knew you would die from liver failure you probably wouldn’t chug 4 Lokos in the […] More
There are lots of myths that circulate the internet about semen. There are blogs, articles in men’s magazines, and just good ol’ fashioned gossip telling you how to change the taste or smell of your excretions. There is some truth to this, considering that what your body excretes is of course effected by what you […] More
