Trauma surgeons tell what it is really like to try to repair such devastating injuries. “Bones are exploded, soft tissue is absolutely destroyed,” one said.

Plastic containers remain wet while glass tends to dry. The reason lies in two physical processes.

Many things that we see in movies and TV shows strain credulity. And why wouldn’t they? After all, one of the main benefits of Hollywood is that it can take artistic licenses with its stories to make them more exciting. It provides an alternative full of intrigue, murder, and sex which is far removed from […]
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Twitchy regular Jenna Jameson shared this meme with her followers on tonight’s Oscars that hits Hollywood hypocrisy square in the teeth.
It says, “Tonight the Hollywood elite will take time out from raping each other to lecture you about gun control while their armed security details stand close by backstage.”

I’ll just leave this here… pic.twitter.com/b7LARfHiFP
— Jenna Jameson (@jennajameson) March 4, 2018

Ouch…

Who needs the Oscars ceremony when you’ve got red carpet drama? Actress Taraji P. Henson dished it out and then some when she got to Ryan Seacrest, who’s been accused of sexual misconduct by his former stylist:

Holy shit Taraji just put a curse on Ryan Seacrest pic.twitter.com/GSknn3NozF
— Sara Jean Hughes (@sarajeanhughes) March 5, 2018

Ouch! We felt that one from here!

if looks could kill https://t…

So, this just happened at Sen. Claire McCaskill’s Oscars party:

I’m rooting for 3 Billboards and coming to the party as Sheriff Willoughby. ##Oscars2018 pic.twitter.com/EGUZxNuDCq
— Claire McCaskill (@clairecmc) March 4, 2018

Apparently it’s a thing for her family:

Missouri Senator at annual #Oscars family party. Costumes required. https://t.co/sqnD5KhcIy
— Craig Caplan (@CraigCaplan) March 4, 2018

But is this really the looks she wants? The movie didn’t exactly paint Missouri in the best light:

Did you … see the movie? https://t…

Liberals are responding to the hilarious hashtag we told you about earlier, #TriggerALiberalIn4Words, with one of their own: #TriggerAConservativeIn2Words.
Now, most of the responses are really stupid, but this one from actor Macaulay Culkin is pretty funny:

Macaulay Cuckin#TriggerAConservativeIn2Words
— Macaulay Culkin (@IncredibleCulk) March 4, 2018

Chet Cannon agrees:

This is actually quite funny https://t…

Extreme sports are extremely scary. Millions of people around the world live their daily lives without engaging in extreme sports, which either puts them on the right side of Darwinian evolution or demonstrates that they are simply too scared to push themselves to the limits of their nerve and endurance. For those of us who […]
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Dr. Wilson was a deft, busy neurosurgeon in San Francisco but still found time to establish a leading center for the study of tumors.

Everyone has heard of mermaids, but they aren’t the only aquatic humanoid creature around. For centuries, legends from around the world have told of other watery beasts that resemble human beings. Indeed, such stories seem to have been a common thread across various cultures. These ten creatures aren’t cute enough to end up as the […]
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17 healthy volunteers were paid to help prove a method of testing vaccines for schistosomiasis, which can be lethal, but some researchers are conflicted about the trial.

If you don’t know Brandon Morse, you need to head over to Twitchy sister site RedState (after you finish reading our posts) and dig into his back catalog. And like many conservatives over the past 48 hours, Morse isn’t too thrilled with President Trump right now.
As Twitchy reported Wednesday, Trump held a bipartisan session about school safety and seemed very receptive to Rep. Marsha Blackburn’s concerns about violence in movies and video games…

There are many ways to die. Getting stuck and slowly dying of thirst, starvation, or suffocation might be the worst of them. Even the people who manage to survive often end up traumatized. Going through such events frequently results in claustrophobia, which is among the most common phobias. Accidents, where the victims could not be […]
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As one of the world’s most recognizable brands, Harry Potter has spawned books, movies, plays, games, and theme parks. With the movies grossing $7.2 billion at the box office and the books bringing in an even bigger $7.7 billion in sales, J.K. Rowling quickly became the richest Brit in the world, overtaking the likes of […]
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Last week, human dumpster fire Jim Hoft posted a completely unfounded conspiracy theory on his site, Gateway Pundit, that Douglas High School students like David Hogg were “crisis actors” in the latest gun control campaign.
But according to an analysis by research group New Media Frontier, it wasn’t Hoft’s fellow Alt-Right tools who are responsible for the viral spread of his conspiracy theory:

Fascinating new media story here: how Chelsea Clinton was far more responsible for spreading the Parkland shooting conspiracy theory about “crisis actors” than any crazy on the right: https://t…

He successfully conducted research into fatal cardiac disorders, including a rare genetic malfunction called long QT syndrome.

It’s a little too late for this to be a scorching hot take on the Parkland, Fla., school shooting, but Slate has finally come through with a psychological explanation of why conservatives are “so obsessed with guns.”

Why are conservatives so obsessed with guns anyway? Here’s a psychological explanation: https://t.co/CfM2Gqncq2 pic.twitter.com/3HevAvnTbs
— Slate (@Slate) March 1, 2018

We don’t expect anyone to click over to Slate for the explanation, so here’s a short summary: conservatives have less empathy, dislike change, don’t do nuance, see human nature as bad, are more moralistic … in short, that’s why they cling to their guns and religion…

If you spend time on Twitchy, you likely spend time on Twitter (or wisely let us do the dirty work for you). In any case, you’ve probably come across members of The Resistance who refuse to use President Trump’s name.
Cher, for example, mostly resorts to a toilet emoji, while others just use slurs. Remember when Bernice King passed around a Facebook post advising people to NEVER use the name Trump, saying “45” would do?
Well, it looks like Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School shooting survivor and media favorite Cameron Kasky has followed suit, refusing to spell out the name Rubio in his tweets:

I haven’t had enough time to read R*bi*’s little proposals, but you guys know we don’t have to settle for less, right?
Dirty blood money politicians like him want to throw us 2 pennies and make us thank them on our knees as if they just paid off our mortgage…

We’ve heard all of many strange disappearances of people from planes and ships. But sometimes, whole planes and ships disappear in mysterious ways as well. Sometimes, they’re found in just days, but others are never found at all. When you’re finally embarking on that long-awaited and much-needed vacation, you might wish you never had to […]
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The idea of being buried alive has frightened humankind for thousands of years and, as Edgar Allan Poe well knew, fell right into the realm of nightmares. While the idea plagued our distant ancestors, it also terrified our more recent Victorian predecessors who formed societies to prevent being buried alive. As these societies began to […]
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By now, everyone in America knows who David Hogg is, and the Parkland shooting survivor has been keeping up his Twitter advocacy as much as his cable television presence. Here’s Monday’s latest offering:

Sell FedEx stock! If they wanna stick with NRA we'll stick with @usps or @UPS
— David Hogg (@davidhogg111) February 26, 2018

It’s hard to believe, but there were plenty of other students at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School that day — around 3,000 — but it’s pretty clear that the mainstream media has picked its “stars” and is sticking with them…

Although the infection rate is in decline, many have been hospitalized and there will be more deaths before this severe flu season finally ends.

One of the worst parts of adulthood is noticing all the death and destruction around us. When we need some comfort, we can always turn to the precious memories of childhood to brighten our day. However, even those can be tainted by the problems of the real world. The only thing worse than realizing your […]
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Like the declarations that “Elvis Presley Is Alive,” the claims that Adolf Hitler didn’t die in Berlin have continued since the announcement of his apparent death. There are many reasons for this beyond just random sightings and suspicious claims. For example, most of us have heard and dismissed the claims of body doubles and mismatched […]
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The more often people worked nights, the more likely they were to have Type 2 diabetes.

The United States government has a department responsible for making sure its citizens don’t eat foods that may be dangerous. Whether this is due to an ingredient or how the dish is made, the Food and Drug Administration and the Consumer Products Safety Commission have decided that some stuff, no matter how delicious it may […]
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There are certain islands that have been “discovered” and added to maps before being found to be nonexistent. Yet, their discoverers often claim to have sighted them, and some even said they landed on them. Expeditions sent to the supposed locations of these islands often ended up finding the open ocean and nothing else, although […]
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Typically biologists have assumed that fat cells lead sedentary lives, but in fruit flies they seem to be highly mobile, performing vital functions in emergencies.

The hope was that they would naturally eat the right amount, and that fewer would be overweight, but a study didn’t support that.

One of the lies spread soon after the Parkland, Fla., school shooting was that President Trump had reversed an Obama-era ban preventing the “severely mentally ill” from purchasing firearms. That said, we’re learning there were plenty of signs that shooter Nikolas Cruz was a danger to others and should not have been armed.
The Washington Post’s Aaron Blake on Monday posted the results of a Suffolk poll showing that 76 percent of respondents agree that anyone who has been treated for mental illness should be banned from owning a firearm…