- newIn 1964, a Dutch librarian drilled a hole in his own skull to get permanently high
According to Bart Huges, the Dutch librarian attended medical school in Amsterdam "but was refused a degree due to his advocacy of marijuana use." In 1964 he published a scroll arguing that trepanation — drilling a hole in the skull — "could be u…
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- newFor 1,000 years people have seen strange lights on the Moon
According to the science of transient lunar phenomena, observers have reported brief lights, colors, and hazes on the Moon for at least a thousand years, and astronomers still cannot fully explain them. The British astronomer Patrick Moore coined the…
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- newIn 1987 Kowloon Walled City packed 33,000 people into six and a half acres
By 1987, Kowloon Walled City held an estimated 33,000 residents on 2.6 hectares — "approximately 1.2 million inhabitants per square kilometer (3 million per square mile)," according to Wikipedia, making it one of the most densely populated places o…
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- newA volcano froze crops worldwide in 1453
According to the record of the 1452/1453 mystery eruption, a volcano erupted somewhere on Earth powerful enough to inject about 11 megatons of sulfur into the stratosphere — "roughly one-third that of the 1815 eruption of Mount Tambora" — and no…
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- newMike Ehrmantraut gets his moment in the newest Saul4Democracy PSA
Another week, another Saul4Democracy video. For the uninitiated, this is a web series run by Better Call Saul co-creator Peter Gould, featuring actors Bob Odenkirk and Jonathan Banks back in their iconic characters. Rather than a continuation of BCS…
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- newLEGO horror trailer Yellow looks ready for A24
If you've ever stepped on a LEGO piece, you already know they have the ability to strike fear into anyone's heart. Despite this, though, their potential for horror has never been properly explored… until now.Animator George Coley's fan trailer for…
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- newThe mountain where climbers stop short of the summit on purpose
Most mountain documentaries build toward the summit. This one builds toward the last few meters climbers refuse to touch, out of respect for Mount Kangchenjunga, the third-tallest peak on Earth.This video follows the southwest Yalung Face route from…
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- newTeens discover their robot taxi is a narc
A Waymo in San Mateo reportedly ratted out two teenagers for drinking and shooting Orbeez from the back seat, proving the driverless future still has a hall monitor.Nobody is defending underage drinking or shooting projectiles from a moving car. The…
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- newICE buys the cages, private prison company keeps the keys
CoreCivic just sold two of California's largest immigrant detention centers to the federal government for $1.5 billion, then apparently got hired to keep running the place.CalMatters reports that CoreCivic sold the Otay Mesa Detention Center in San…
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- newTradd Moore's first creator-owned comic is coming from Oni Press
Tradd Moore is one of those cartoonists whose pages, filled with riotous color and ridiculously-cool eyeball kicks, can genuinely drop your jaw. In Silver Surfer: Black it's cosmic psychedelia. In Doctor Strange: Fall Sunrise it's fever-dream magic.…
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