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A meme has been circulating since 2021 trying to disprove the existence of gas planets like Jupiter — but NASA and others disproved the conspiracy.
Off-World

Nitwits Claim Wrongly to Have Disproved the Existence of Jupiter

Nice try, Flat Earthers!

Professors studied fir trees growing near Japan's Fukushima nuclear disaster site. The trees' whorls show growth patterns affected by radiation.
Nuclear Fusion

Nuclear Disaster in Japan Did Something Strange to Trees

Something is up with those trees.

Elon Musk says he took his kids to watch people panic buy toilet paper during the COVID pandemic, revealed during Tesla's Q4 earnings call.
Elon Musk

Elon Musk Says He Took His Children to Watch the Common Folk Hoard Supplies in Panic

He's right, but he shouldn't say it.

Paul Krugman declares the current crypto crisis and tanking currency values to be really similar to the subprime mortgage crisis of the 2000s.
Bitcoin

Nobel Prize Winner Says Crypto Reminds Him of the Disastrous Mortgage Crisis

People are losing way too much money.

A new photo taken by ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter, or the TGO, shows a tree stump-like crater on Mars, providing insight into impacts on the Martian surface.
Mars

Photo of Mars Crater Looks Amazingly Like a Giant Tree Stump

So that's NOT a tree!?

Johnny Knoxville suffered a brain hemorrhage and cognitive decline for three months following a bull hit stunt filming "Jackass Forever."
Neuroscience and Brain

Johnny Knoxville Says He Suffered Brain Damage From Stunt in New “Jackass” Movie

He's lucky to be alive.

OpenSea announced this week that a solid 80 percent of the NFTs minted through its free NFT creation tool are spam or fraud.
Cryptocurrency

NFT Marketplace Admits That 80 Percent of NFTs Are Spam, Scams and Fraud

That's a lot of fraud...

In an interview with Australian website Finder, two Ubisoft VPs tried to explain why gamers should care about NFTs and embrace them as the future of gaming.
NFTs

Gaming Exec Says His Customers Are Idiots For Not Understanding How Great NFTs Are

"It’s really beneficial. But they don’t get it for now."

Crisis Text Line, one of the most popular suicide crisis hotline chat sources, is capitalizing on data collected from people experiencing true trauma and depression.
Health & Medicine

A Suicide Hotline Is Sharing People’s Data With a For Profit Company

Uh — what the actual heck!?

US officials have confirmed that leaked social media photos are indeed the $100 million stealth jet that crashed into the South China Sea.
Future Society

Photo Shows US Navy Crashing $100 Million Jet Into Ocean

Well, that's embarrassing.

In space, Russia, Ukraine, and the US are just shapes on the globe — just ask the astronauts and cosmonauts.
NASA

NASA Astronaut Touts the Benefits of Drinking Russian Pee

"Now that's transcending politics."

Indonesia's government is leaving and moving the country’s capital of Jakarta to the island of Borneo due to sinking, pollution and congestion.
Climate Change

Indonesia Is Switching Capital Cities Because the Old One Is Sinking Into the Ocean

What happens to the people left behind?

The European Space Agency and NASA's Solar Orbiter has flown through the tail of a comet — for the second time.
Science & Energy

NASA Spacecraft Flies Through Tail of Comet

Just as scientists predicted.

DARE, the drug education program started in the 80s, told TMZ this week that Euphoria is glamorizing drugs and wants to collab with HBO on its message.
Future Society

DARE, Which Apparently Still Exists, Is Furious at a TV Show for Dumb Reasons

Wait, DARE still exists?

In an unhinged Twitter tirade on Thursday, Musk argued that "if you scare people enough, they will demand removal of freedom. This is the path to tyranny."
Elon Musk

Elon Musk Goes on Paranoid Rant About Vaccines

"Freedom is being stripped away one piece at a time until it is gone."

This Rhode Island man's story of his terrifying and rare brain mold condition reminds us that disease truly is everywhere.
Neuroscience and Brain

Man Alarmed When Doctors Discover Black Mold Growing on His Brain

"I honestly can’t believe you’re alive."

Facebook-now-known-as-Meta is attempting to sell off its ill-fated cryptocurrency project the Diem Initiative, according to Bloomberg.
Cryptocurrency

Facebook Is Reportedly Trying to Sell Off Its Botched Cryptocurrency

It's an extremely unpopular idea.

Federal investigators are looking into why, exactly, the cops who captured the escaped monkeys chose to shoot them to death.
Health & Medicine

Feds Investigating Why Escaped Lab Monkeys Were Shot to Death

They were just scared little guys!

The former governor of Alaska simply cannot stop going out to restaurants after testing positive for COVID-19. 
Developments

Unvaccinated Sarah Palin Just Won’t Stop Spreading COVID

A City Hall spokesperson urged "any New Yorker who came into contact with Ms. Palin to get tested."

Melania Trump launched an NFT auction that ended with the image going for $80,000 less than the starting bid due to crashing crypto markets.
Cryptocurrency

Melania Trump NFT Completely Bombs During Auction

I don’t really care. Do you?