“Such a car guy, you don’t even know that’s a gas-powered Corvette.” Pure Optimism It’s no secret that US president Joe Biden is prone to gaffes. But confusing a gas-guzzling Corvette sports car for an electric vehicle has us stumped. “You all know I’m a car guy,” Biden tweeted this week. “Today I visited the… Continue reading Joe Biden Mocked for Tweeting About EVs With Pic of Gas Car
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Inside the Minds of the Short Men Who Get Their Legs Broken to Add 3-6 Inches of Height
Image by Yvonne Betz via YouTube/Futurism Some short men are so insecure about their height that they’re quite literally allowing doctors to break their bones during surgical leg-lengthening procedures. As GQ reports, the excruciating surgery can involve a year of “relentless, ambient” pain during healing — though the orthopedic surgeons who do the leg-lengthening often give… Continue reading Inside the Minds of the Short Men Who Get Their Legs Broken to Add 3-6 Inches of Height
Best LG Sound Bars of 2022
Home theater sound systems with sound bars have succeeded in creating immersive audio that transformed our living rooms into personal cinemas. Suddenly, the nightly news and the big game had the same booming, dramatic sound reproduction as blockbuster action movies. But sound bars aren’t simply a way to recreate a cinema sound experience in the… Continue reading Best LG Sound Bars of 2022
New Plan Suggests Re-Freezing Earth’s Poles by Spraying Chemicals With Huge Military Jets
“Any intentional turning of the global thermostat would be of common interest to all of humanity.” Climate Control A group of scientists propose unleashing huge amounts of microscopic aerosol chemicals from 125 massive military jets over the Earth’s North and South Poles, in a desperate bid to refreeze the melting ice caps, Sky News reports — a… Continue reading New Plan Suggests Re-Freezing Earth’s Poles by Spraying Chemicals With Huge Military Jets
Furious Crypto Miners Making Their Own Ethereum Where They Can Still Destroy the Environment After the Merge
Oh, great. EthereumPoW The Etherum Merge hath befallen! Basically, what’s arguably the world’s most influential crypto project decided to ditch the environmentally harmful proof-of-work model for a greener proof-of-stake system. It’s a much-anticipated experiment — but one group isn’t too thrilled about the change. According to Fortune, a group of cryptocurrency miners — many of… Continue reading Furious Crypto Miners Making Their Own Ethereum Where They Can Still Destroy the Environment After the Merge
The Entire Food Chain Has Started Collapsing, Scientists Warn
Yikes. Tangled Web According to 130,000 years’ worth of data on what mammals have been eating, we’re in the midst of a mass biodiversity crisis. Not great! This revelation was borne of a new study, conducted by an international team of researchers and published in the journal Science, that used machine learning to paint a… Continue reading The Entire Food Chain Has Started Collapsing, Scientists Warn
Urologist Powers Vasectomy With Electric Pickup Truck During Blackout
Image by Christopher Yang via Twitter As if all-electric trucks weren’t hardcore enough. Austin-based urologist Christopher Yang ran a long extension cord from his Rivian R1 T pickup truck to one of his patient’s rooms to literally power a vasectomy procedure during a prolonged Texas power outage, Illinois State University’s public radio station WGLT reported… Continue reading Urologist Powers Vasectomy With Electric Pickup Truck During Blackout
Backbone’s One Controller Unlocks the iPhone’s True Gaming Potential
Let me be blunt: The Backbone One gaming controller is the iPhone accessory I’ve wanted since games started appearing on Apple’s smartphone platform in 2008. It fulfills the promise of turning the iPhone into a credible Nintendo Switch competitor, and distinguishes itself in a field crowded with alternatives from companies like Razer, GameSir, and even… Continue reading Backbone’s One Controller Unlocks the iPhone’s True Gaming Potential
Scientists Have a Hack for Having More Sex in Long-Term Relationships
Image by Getty Images/Futurism Anyone who’s been in a long-term relationship knows that sex and desire can wane over time, even as you feel more emotionally intimate with the other person. According to a new study, though, there’s a relatively easy way to bring the spark back. As spotted by Psychology Today, a recent paper in… Continue reading Scientists Have a Hack for Having More Sex in Long-Term Relationships
Food Delivery Robot Plows Through Crime Scene as Cops Look on in Bemusement
Disrespect your surroundings. Robot Trespasser A Los Angeles food delivery robot threw caution to the wind and forced itself across a police line. A video shared on Twitter shows the four-wheeled delivery bot passing between several photographers before ploughing through yellow police tape into a scene crowded with cops. LAPD officers mostly ignored the trespasser,… Continue reading Food Delivery Robot Plows Through Crime Scene as Cops Look on in Bemusement