Far too many home cooks are more obsessed with hardware than they are about software. What good is a $700 knife if your ingredients are sub-par? Half the battle of making your meals taste good has to do with how you flavor everything from skinless chicken breasts to chopped dinosaur kale. I’m willing to bet… Continue reading 5 Secret Ingredients That Will Seriously Improve Your Cooking Game
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Man Who Accidentally Got Paid 330x His Salary Quits, Disappears
Can you blame him? Peace Out A guy in Chile really hit the jackpot this week when his employer accidentally paid him 330 times his salary on accident. An Insider report yesterday said authorities haven’t released the man’s name, but that he’s been “uncontactable” and has basically disappeared. Meat factory CIAL Alimentos paid the man… Continue reading Man Who Accidentally Got Paid 330x His Salary Quits, Disappears
Lawyers and Doctors Struggle to Figure Out Who’s Actually Dead
Image by Getty / Futurism The legal definition of death is ever-evolving. Yesterday’s Daily Beast report detailed just how hard it is to legally define death, which before 1959 was defined simply as the heart and lungs ceasing to function. But after French physicians discovered “coma dépassé,” which means “beyond a coma,” legal clarification was… Continue reading Lawyers and Doctors Struggle to Figure Out Who’s Actually Dead
Unfortunate Snake Causes Power Outage for 10,000 Homes
“Rest in peace, snake.” RIP How many snakes does it take to slither into a substation and short the circuits? Nearly 10,000 households in Japan found out the answer on Wednesday when a single snake found its way into the Tohoku Electric Power station and caused an outage that lasted an hour. The snake connected… Continue reading Unfortunate Snake Causes Power Outage for 10,000 Homes
Elon Musk Takes Flabbergastingly Awkwardly Picture With the Pope
What is that pose? Papal Pose Never has a photo looked as awkward as the one Tesla CEO Elon Musk and his children just took with the Pope. The billionaire tweeted the group pic yesterday — breaking a prolonged absence from the site — which shows four of his kids standing next to Pope Francis… Continue reading Elon Musk Takes Flabbergastingly Awkwardly Picture With the Pope
FBI Offers Huge Reward for “Cryptoqueen” Accused of Stealing $4 Billion
She might have gotten plastic surgery as a disguise. On the Run The second-most wanted person in the US right now is a Ponzi scheme legend known as the Cryptoqueen. The FBI added Ruja Ignatova’s name to its ten most-wanted list on Thursday and said she’s probably traveling with armed guards and may have even… Continue reading FBI Offers Huge Reward for “Cryptoqueen” Accused of Stealing $4 Billion
Robots Now Delivering VR Porn Headsets to the Terminally Lonely
“The idea to use the robots changed everything.” Special Delivery What happens in VR in Vegas, amirite? Forget strap ons — a porn outfit called VR Bangers is helping customers strap into a brand new porn experience in Sin City. For the curious and/or terminally lonely, the adult entertainment outfit says it’s delivering smut-enabled VR… Continue reading Robots Now Delivering VR Porn Headsets to the Terminally Lonely
North Korea Claims It Only Got COVID Because South Korea Sent Over “Tainted Balloons”
Image by Getty Images/Futurism North Korea has finally decided to give its residents the true story behind COVID-19 — or at least a fairy tale version that dictator Kim Jong Un decided would most advantageous for his brutal regime. State run newspaper Pyongyang Times made the bizarre claim earlier today that tainted balloons, sent from… Continue reading North Korea Claims It Only Got COVID Because South Korea Sent Over “Tainted Balloons”
Disturbing Discovery Finds That Space Does Something Bad to Astronauts’ Bones
Image by Getty An alarming new study has found that spending months in space can result in the equivalent of two decades worth of bone loss for astronauts. The study, published in Scientific Reports, details how researchers at Canada’s University of Calgary made their troubling discovery — and explains a potential fix for an issue that… Continue reading Disturbing Discovery Finds That Space Does Something Bad to Astronauts’ Bones
New York State Buys Robots for Lonely Elders
That’s… a little bit grim. Robo Buddy More than 800 new robot buddies are headed to their new homes as companions for New York’s senior citizens. Smithsonian Magazine reported last week that the bots, called ElliQ, and were designed to assist people 65 and older who live alone. Much like Siri and Alexa, ElliQ can answer… Continue reading New York State Buys Robots for Lonely Elders