China bans ‘erotic’ banana-eating live streams
Chinese live-streaming services have banned people filming themselves eating bananas in a “seductive” fashion. New regulations mean that live-streaming sites must monitor all their output round-the-clock to ensure nothing untoward is going on, keeping
Biotech firm creates fake rhino horn to reduce poaching
A San Francisco biotech startup has managed to 3D print fake rhino horns that carry the same genetic fingerprint as the actual horn. It plans to flood Chinese market with these cheap horns to
93% of the Great Barrier Reef is now damaged by coral bleaching
A new survey has confirmed pretty much every environmentalist’s worst fears, revealing that 93 percent of Australia’s Great Barrier Reef has already been damaged by coral bleaching. We just have to stop there for
Charlie Sheen Once Bought 2,600+ Outfield Seats At An Angels’ Game Because He Wanted To Catch A Home Run Ball
Charlie Sheen has been making a bit of news this week with outlandish comments on TV and radio appearances, but his bizarre behavior is nothing new. In 1996, Sports Illustrated included a blurb in
‘Chewy 123’: FBI’s most-wanted cybercriminal used cat’s name as password
Once the FBI’s most-wanted cybercriminal, Jeremy Hammond is serving one of the longest sentences a US hacker has received – 10 years, the maximum allowed under his plea agreement. But to this day, he’s
The Story of One Whale Who Tried to Bridge the Linguistic Divide Between Animals and Humans
While captive in a Navy program, a beluga whale named Noc began to mimic human speech. What was behind his attempt to talk to us? Millions of years before we humans came along, the
Flashback 1996: Man sues Pepsi for not giving him a Harrier Jet
As you get ready to take in Super Bowl ads, let this 1996 “CBS Evening News” story serve as a reminder to not believe every spot you see – especially if it involves winning
Two Girls, a Golden Balloon, and Fate
Chance is a strange thing. Over the course of history, truly astonishing things have happened – the man who won the lottery twice in one day, or the woman who was struck by lightning
The Necessity of Stress
The Biosphere 2 project was created as a research tool for scientists to study Earth’s living systems, and it allowed scientists to play with farming and innovation in a way that didn’t harm the
René Descartes Biography
Philosopher and mathematician René Descartes is regarded as the father of modern philosophy for defining a starting point for existence, “I think; therefore I am.” Synopsis René Descartes was born on March 31, 1596,