The 23-year-old Brazilian snowboarder, Claudia de Albuquerque Celada, had been in Aspen, Colorado, for three months on an exchange program. One evening in February 2024, she opened a can of spoiled soup for a quick meal and ate just a spoonful. It tasted fine. But within hours, her body began shutting down from what would...
Getting a splinter feels like being personally attacked by a piece of wood with a vendetta. One moment you’re minding your own business, and the next you’re betrayed by nature’s tiniest sword. The good news is that knowing how to remove splinters means you don’t have to suffer through the indignity any longer than necessary....
Students gathered in Pasadena on October 1, 2025, expecting to hear the legendary anthropologist speak about protecting the environment and what young people could do to change the world, but Jane Goodall had died that morning in her sleep at 91 in Los Angeles, and the cause of death was natural. Months before her death,...
Your brain might be your most underappreciated sex organ in your body. While most conversations about self-pleasure focus on physical touch, researchers have discovered something about the connection between mind and body during arousal that changes how we understand sexual response. You can experience genuine physical pleasure without touching yourself at all, through techniques like...
We’ve got discipline backwards. We imagine controlled people gritting their teeth through endless temptations, their knuckles white from the strain of saying no to that forbidden pizza slice. Sometimes we imagine them powered by superhuman willpower, fighting desires from dawn to dusk. But here’s what research actually shows. People with high self-control rarely feel like...
We’ve all met someone whose stories never quite add up. The details shift. Your memory doesn’t match theirs. Something feels wrong before you can name why. Research on pathological lying shows that between 8 and 13% of people identify themselves as pathological liars. That’s roughly 1 in 10 people you meet. Learning to recognize the...
On the day of the accident, Six-year-old Wongel Estifanos spent Labor Day weekend in 2021 with her uncle’s family at the amusement park, Glenwood Caverns Adventure Park in Colorado. The mountaintop park called itself the only theme park in the country at that elevation. Wongel boarded the Haunted Mine Drop with her uncle, his wife, two of his...
Arnold Abbott spent 23 years feeding homeless people every Wednesday at Fort Lauderdale, in a South Florida park. On November 2, 2014, at age 90, the city would arrest him for it. Abbott later told reporters that an officer said, “Drop that plate right now,” as if he were holding a weapon. The World War...
You know that moment when your partner is in the mood and you’re mentally reviewing your grocery list, feeling about as romantic as yesterday’s leftovers? The mismatch between male and female sexual desire plays out everywhere, but the real reasons aren’t what most people think. Men and women want sex differently, and these differences reach...
Fall weather sends snakes searching for warm places to spend winter, making keeping them out of your home essential when they find your house perfect for shelter. Wildlife expert Caroline Seitz has worked with reptiles for over 30 years through her company Reptiles Alive LLC. She explains that these cold-blooded animals naturally head toward the...
A father and two 9-year-old children died in a Tesla fire after a crash on September 19 in western Germany. Rescuers tried desperately to pull them out but couldn’t open the car’s electronic doors. The deaths have put Tesla’s electronic doors under scrutiny as regulators and families ask whether the design failure puts lives at...
The internet lost its mind when Donald Trump and Elon Musk appeared together at Charlie Kirk’s memorial service. After months of bitter feuding, the two men sat side by side at State Farm Stadium in Glendale, Arizona, shaking hands like old friends. Social media users grabbed their popcorn and watched the drama unfold in real...
