Feb 17, 2023
🔊 Hearing loss fix 🦉 Zombie birds 🤝🏽 Hacking hangouts
I've thought a lot about ears in my life. For one, I had big, goofy ears as a child (I looked like Alfalfa from The Little Rascals). Then, as a teenager, I s...
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Feb 10, 2023
😮💨 "Lung gel" 🚘 Missing commutes 😃 Feel-good hack
Scientists at North Carolina State have created a powder that, when inhaled, coats the airways with a protective gel that prevents respiratory infections in ...
Feb 03, 2023
🌡️ Body temp trend 👵 Super agers 💊 Medicine hack
98.6°F (37°C) is generally accepted as a "normal" body temperature, but I've always run a bit cooler than than. Turns out, I'm super on-trend...
Jan 27, 2023
🍺 War on booze 😐 Fake faces win 🔥 Oven hack
Before you duck out early for dollar-oysters and a round of IPAs, consider this: Canada just released new health guidelines for alcohol that assert "no amoun...
Jan 13, 2023
🤖 Conscious robots 🚶🏽 Walk or die 🔥 Gas stove ban
Everyone who was freaking out about Bitcoin last year is now freaking out about artificial intelligence (and ChatGPT in particular). It's hard to deny how co...
Jan 06, 2023
💧 Hydrate or else! 🕵️♀️ Idaho killings solved 💰 Immortal billionaires
If your New Year's resolution is to live longer, listen up. If not, listen up anyway so you can sound smart at bingo this weekend. A new research study found...
Dec 11, 2022
❄️ Winter sickness discovery 🏋️ Weight loss $$$ ✍️ Writing hack
Everyone knows you're more likely to get sick during the winter. Yet, why that's the case has largely been a mystery...until now!
Dec 04, 2022
🧠 Teen brain crisis 🤖 Killer robots ☕ Caffeine hack
Obvious statement: the pandemic was stressful for everyone. Less obvious: what did chronic stress over multiple years do to our brains? For teenagers, it lo...
Nov 25, 2022
🥩 "Lab meat" milestone 🤰 Baby brain discovery 👕 Laundry hack
Last Friday, the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) deemed a meat product derived from animal cells - a.k.a. "lab-grown meat" - to be safe for consumption.
Nov 18, 2022
👶 Baby crisis ♿ Paralysis breakthrough ✂️ Nifty nail hack
In 2018, scientists started sounding the alarm on a troubling trend: sperm count (SC) in men was steadily declining. According to a recent study, the decline...
Nov 11, 2022
🕵️♀️ Boss spying 🧠 "Night owl" brains 👨🍳 Grill hack
This Monday, the general counsel for the National Labor Relations Board (Uncle Sam's top worker lawyer) urged regulators to disallow companies' use of produc...
Nov 04, 2022
🏥 "Tridemic" troubles 🍵 Tea discovery 🚦 Elevator hack
Just when you thought things were back to normal, signs of a "tridemic" are emerging. The New York Times reported this week that children's hospitals around ...
Oct 28, 2022
🎮 Game your brain 🚭 Smoking bombshell 🏖️ Eating sand
Remember when you were a kid and your mom told you your brain would melt if you played too much Nintendo? Was that just my mom?
Oct 21, 2022
🏥 Cancer vaccine 🤖 A.I. cheating 📱 Charging hack
The world could be just a few years away from a cancer vaccine, according to BioNTech's husband-and-wife founders. Reminder: These are the folks behind the P...
Oct 14, 2022
😎 Metaverse = meta-worse 🍼 Plastic breast milk 🍹 Chill hack
This week, Meta (Facebook) unveiled its latest virtual reality headset called Meta Quest Pro. It has a beefy $1,500 price tag and a not-beefy battery life o...
Oct 07, 2022
🐦 Elon v. Twitter 🥜 "Healthy" redefined 🎤 Crowd hack
Elon Musk changed his mind about Twitter again, declaring earlier this week he wants to buy the "bird app" for a cool $44 billion (his original offer price).
Sep 23, 2022
⚔️ Tech fight 🐜 Ant world 🍝 Microwave hack
It’s game-on between the US and China, and we aren't talking about the 2024 Olympic trampoline event (should we be?).
Sep 16, 2022
👶🏼 Crybaby cure 🍭 Sweetener scare ✈️ Flight hack
If you're pro crying babies, skip this story (and maybe do some soul searching). If you're ANTI crying babies, listen up - scientists just found the single ...
Sep 09, 2022
🏥 Shocking cancer data 📜 Ancient surgery 🐤 Bird hack
A new, first-of-its-kind global study found that almost half (44.4% to be exact) of all cancer deaths are caused by preventable risk factors.
Sep 02, 2022
🌌 Galaxy gazing 😴 Day-long daydream 🍝 Pasta hack
The universe just got even more heady... On Monday, NASA scientists unveiled a stunning new photo (see above!) taken by the James Webb Telescope of M74, a g...
Aug 12, 2022
🍄 Shrooms soon? 🤦♂️ Bitcoin bungle 👍 Thumb hack
Tripping is apparently fantastic for your mental health. And when I say "tripping" I don't mean catching the 6am Spirit Airlines flight to Vegas. I mean eat...
Aug 05, 2022
🦕 Extinction stinks 🔋 Paper battery 🛑 Sales repellent
A recent climate study reinforced what we largely already knew: Earth is in trouble.
Jul 29, 2022
🧬 23andMurder?! ☠️ Polio's back 🤧 Sneeze hack
That spit sample you sent to 23andMe last week could be used to develop biological weapons against you. At least that's what Colorado congressman and House ...
Jul 22, 2022
🌎 8 billion peeps 🐻 Bear strength 💦 Water hack
Ready to feel small? A recent report from the United Nations projects Earth's population will reach eight billion people by mid-November, and reach a peak o...
