‘Swarmageddon’ Terrifies People Who Hate Bugs, Obviously

People who fear bugs will be especially put upon during “Swarmageddon,” and you might never have figured this out if the cicada scribes at the Washington Post, a periodical chronicling the latest developments in entomology, hadn’t taken the time to explain that people who already hate bugs hate the idea of a lot of…

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Raise Your Hand If You Want to See a Kitten Eating a Watermelon

Pancake, a flat-faced, croaky-meow kitten, enjoys nibbling on watermelon slices. It helps him cool off during the hot summer months, and, also, it makes him look way more adorable than he would if he were, say, peeing on a stack of old magazines or disemboweling couch cushions.

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State-of-the-art 19th-century torpedo was discovered by Navy dolphins

In the late 19th century, the Howell torpedo was an incredibly advanced piece of military equipment, a breakthrough device in the United States' quest to achieve naval dominance. But only one surviving Howell torpedo was known to exist—until Navy dolphins nosed up another.

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According to several reports coming out of Philadelphia, a former “hero cop” who was once rewarded for his bravery in the line of duty with a seat next First Lady Michelle Obama during a presidential speech is being held on $60 million bail (apparently one of the highest in Philadelphia history) for allegedly raping two women at gunpoint, among some other pretty terrible things.

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Summer Was the Official Fuck Season for Ancient Egyptians

A sexy new study involving beautifully preserved corpses at an ancient Egyptian cemetery in the Dakhleh Oasis revealed some sexy insight into the sex lives of sex-crazed Egyptians: they enjoyed having procreative, penis + vagina = new person sex in July and August, when the temperatures in the Dakhelh Oasis can soar…

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Booze-Free After-Prom Parties Are Still Boring, Even with Bribes

It’s prom season, and for every parent with a teenager not self-assured enough to take itself out for an Evil Dead/The Big Wedding double-feature at the local cineplex instead of attending a chaperoned night of slow-jam hugging in a school multi-purpose room, that means lots of worrying about what sort of after-prom…

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Some lonely someone in Florida won all the riches ($590.5 million) from the Powerball lottery.

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At long last, after a scandalizing sexcapade, rumors of a protracted separation, more rumors of tenuous intimacy, and even more rumors of more sexcapading, the amorous Hollywood acting entity known as Robsten, Patstew, or even, if you're feeling linguistically limber, K-Pax, has finally and irrevocably fractured, leaving Emma Stone and Andrew Garfield as the most interesting celebrity couple formed by studio publicity people for the sake of promoting a movie franchise. Maybe. For now.

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