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Screenshots of People Begging for Netflix Logins Are Very Entertaining

This whole phenomenon of people borrowing each other’s passwords for Netflix, Amazon Prime, HBO GO, etc. is pretty crazy. It’s like a tangled web of networks and relationships that weaves through your friends, family, former boyfriends and girlfriends – and maybe even complete strangers. And when people lose that privilege, they just come crawling back,...

DNA Evidence from Viking Gravesite Proves Decorated Warrior Buried There Was a Woman

Vikings were known for trading and waging battles on the seas and across Europe in the medieval time period. They were fearsome warriors, and they likely even sailed to the North American continent hundreds of years before any other Europeans. Now, a new examination of a well-documented gravesite has researchers rethinking the role gender played...

Here’s the Case for Putting Your Kids to Bed Super Early

Everyone has a natural sleep pattern, even babies. Some of us are night owls, others thrive in the early hours of the morning, but one thing is true across the board – we need solid, consecutive hours of sleep in order to perform our best. And since many people find themselves on a forced 9-5...

Can You Make a Living As a YouTube Star?

Side hustles are all the rage, from driving for Uber or opening an Etsy, to blogging and becoming a YouTube sensation. If there is any way to make fast cash (and potentially leave your day job), it seems like this is the year to do it. But is it actually possible? Not just one-in-a-million, pie-in-the-sky?...

Violent Crime Drops When the Pollen Count Goes Up

If you want to feel safer in your community, it turns out you can just wait until allergy season and then go about your business worry-free. Because, much in the same way you feel like crap when allergies attack, it turns out criminals are less likely to go about their regular day when they’re not...

Man’s Weird Reaction to Antibiotics Has His Guts Brewing Alcohol

A week into his course of cephalexin, a common antibiotic prescribed to ward off infection in an injured thumb, a man checked into the emergency room with some strange symptoms. They included memory loss, brain fog, and episodes of depression, along with personality changes and uncharacteristic aggression. https://www.instagram.com/p/Bzneji-niXW/ Doctors were unable to get to the...

Research Says Kittens Bond to Their Owners Similarly to How Kids Bond With Parents

In the 1960s, developmental psychologist Mary Ainsworth led a groundbreaking study into how babies bond with their caregivers. In an experiment called the Strange Situation, she would have a mother leave her baby alone for a short time in an unfamiliar room with toys. Most of the babies would cry at mom’s absence, but were...

16 Basic Etiquette Rules That Get Broken Way Too Often (According to Reddit)

There’s the fancy kind of etiquette that one only needs to know at restaurants that lay out too many forks and royal weddings and the like, and then there’s every day stuff. Stuff like not getting on an elevator until everyone gets off that people should know, but pretend not to when it suits them....

People Are Now Decorating Their Christmas Trees With Sunflowers

Ah, Christmas. (I know, I know, it’s not even Halloween yet. The internet moves fast.) Every year, the holiday brings the same dependable traditions back: presents, stockings, sparkly lights, and Christmas trees. Now, you can add sunflowers to that list. Yes, people are actually adding sunflowers to their Christmas trees. It’s the latest holiday trend!...

Bizarre Crayfish Species of All Females Who Clone Themselves by the Hundreds

The marbled crayfish looks like a regular crayfish. They live in fresh waterways, rivers and streams like regular crayfish. But they are so much more creepy. The Procambarus virginalis is a crayfish with an ominous ability. First, they are all female. Also, they clone themselves. German biologist Frank Lyco was the first to notice something amiss about...

Hospital Turns Its Roof into a Garden to Feed Thousands

When Boston Medical Center personnel realized how many of their patients weren’t sure where their next meals were coming from, they decided to be a part of the solution. In 2016, they turned the hospital’s 2,658 square-foot roof into a garden of 25 crops. Patients, referred by the medical center’s Preventative Food Pantry which opened...

You Can Now Build a ‘Gingerbread’ House out of Oreo Cookie

Gingerbread who? It’s a time-honored winter tradition to make holiday-themed houses out of cookies and frosting. Now there’s a brand new type of cookie house that is, frankly, making gingerbread houses look very boring in comparison. The Oreo Holiday Chocolate Cookie House is here, folks, and it comes in a ready-to-use kit. The Oreo Holiday Chocolate...

Antibiotic Resistance in Germs Has Doubled in the Past 20 Years

There are so many things to worry about these days, but if you’re a germophobe (like my husband) or someone obsessed with the idea that we’re all going to die in a pandemic (like me), then you’ve probably spent at least some time wondering what’s going to happen when antibiotics stop being widely effective. I...

10 Code Words Airline Pilots Say, and What They Really Mean

Flying is a mysterious event…for the regular passenger anyway. We may look completely at ease with our neck pillows snugged in place and our Kindles fired up, but everyone knows we’re one small incident away from panic. I always feel my sense of hearing is heightened. I can hear conversations around me, someone’s video game three...