When scientists injected RNA from the brain cells of trained snails to untrained snails, the animals behaved as if they remembered the trained snails’ experiences.

The F.D.A. says the shortage of the lifesaving device is ‘short-term,’ but patients say it has been hard to find for months.

We mentioned this tweet by journalist Sulome Anderson yesterday in a post about the media’s biased coverage of the violence in Gaza, but it really deserves the spotlight:

Imagine the desperation it takes to walk into live gunfire from the Middle East's most powerful fighting force, armed with nothing more than rocks & the occasional Molotov or grenade. Try to conceive of the circumstances that could drive so many human beings to such an act…

With the royal wedding of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle approaching, it is useful to look back through the history of royal weddings to see what we can expect. Certainly, there will be bunting, cakes, and flag waving. If they are lucky, the worst thing that will happen will be minor royalty turning up in […]
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Ancient Egypt has fascinated the imagination since we first cleaned the sands away from the Great Sphinx. For the past two centuries, it has been an obsession for archaeologists and historians. It is a land whose mysteries we have spent years slowly unraveling. Even after all this time, though, there is still a great deal […]
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“Six feet under” is sometimes the best place for an archaeologist. However, combing through the right ancient grave dredges up more than just somebody’s remains. It often sheds light on our ancestors and their way of life. Unusual burials and those abandoned where they died also bring historic questions to the living—sometimes mysterious, often heartbreaking. […]
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A robotic sound clip saying either “Yanny” or “Laurel” is baffling the internet, not unlike the 2015 picture of a dress that was either black and blue or white and gold.

Broadly, part of Vice Media, calls itself “a website and digital video channel devoted to representing the multiplicity of women’s experiences. Through original reporting and documentary film, we provide a sustained focus on the issues that matter most to women.” Evidently, “representing the multiplicity of women’s experiences” involves feting female terrorists:

Ahed Tamimi is the young, defiant voice of a Palestinian generation https://t…

Why send someone get-well wishes when you could act like a jerk? That seems to be Stephen King’s thought process. Upon learning that Melania Trump was being treated for a kidney condition, King tweeted this:

Not to be snarky, but Melania can probably use a week’s rest from Blabbermouth Don. Sounds heavenly to me.
— Stephen King (@StephenKing) May 14, 2018

Not to be snarky? What was the point of that tweet, if it was not to be snarky?

Blame this on something supernatural…

In 2016, the University of Duisburg-Essen reported that more than 40 percent of the 263 heterosexual men who were surveyed could see themselves having a sex with a robot. Before sex toys got to the point where robots were a possibility, however, people had to settle for blow-up dolls and other rudimentary sex dolls. Many […]
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