New Reasons to Keep Women (and Everyone Else) Out of the Kitchen
For many, the kitchen has traditionally been a place of great comfort and warm fuzzy feelings, but a new study has found that the kitchen might actually be a dangerous and miserable place—not because of the temptation of that freshly baked cake, but because the oven you use to bake that cake might actually be filling…
Stupid Ideas: Your Whore Pills Are Polluting Our Pristine Waters and You Should Pay for It
Here we were thinking that our addiction to birth control was only dangerous because it allows us to achieve maximum levels of sluttiness and moral decrepitude. But how wrong we were. It turns out our insistence on swallowing hormones for fun month after month is also endangering the environment, and soon it might…
Breathing Car Exhaust Can Calm You Down (But Can Also Kill You)
Walking along a busy street while taking deep breaths might not sound like a healthy thing to do, and it certainly doesn't sound relaxing. But a new study from Tel Aviv University has found that in fact breathing in a little car exhaust—or carbon monoxide, more specifically—in small doses might actually do you some…
Penises Grow On Female Snails' Heads After Chemical Exposure
Scientists have discovered that female snails off an Australian coast are growing penises on their heads after exposure to waters polluted with the chemical TBT. Paging James Franco — or Isabella Rossellini.
Mean Environmentalists: Eat Your Pets
Environmentalists Robert and Brenda Vale say a dog uses as much annual energy as a car, a goldfish uses as much as two cell phones, and cat poop poisons otters' brains. Solution: get a bunny, then eat it. [Yahoo News]
Ocean Not Having A Happy Period As Tampon Applicators Wash Up On Canadian Shores
A "major hydraulic failure" at a sewage treatment plant in Halifax, Nova Scotia has caused authorities to remove four solid waste outflow filters "as they were backing up with what the mayor called 'floatables,'" a.k.a. flushed tampon applicators.

