When you hear something is chock-full of antioxidants, the mental conclusion is often: Thatâs itâthatâs the elixir of life, I have to eat a lot of that. But why do we all assume that loading up on anti-oxidants will somehow be the key to infinite youth?
As you may have heard, California is recovering after a rash of deadly wildfires that forced a state of emergency in Los Angeles County last month and killed dozens up north. But with tragedy comes hoaxes. And though a jaw-dropping image of men golfing near an inferno in Washington last month was real, claims that theâŚ
If you agitate cream enough, you will make whipped cream. Continue agitating it and skim off the liquid, and you will make butter. Put that in your coffee, and you have now wasted a lot of energy to put cream into your coffee.
You might have seen claims around the internet today that Chadwick Boseman would be getting a slightly updated new costume in the Black Panther solo film. However, the images floating around are not from a Marvel Movieâtheyâre the subtle, but fun, work of a toy customizer.
NASA did not just rewrite the zodiac chart. But hereâs why so many people are convinced that the agency didâand the real story behind the rumor.
With Episode VIII a year and a half away, leaks and spoilers are all weâre going to hear about for awhile. Naturally, that leads to a lot of fake nonsense floating around the internet in an attempt to capture the avid attention of Star Wars fans jonesing for an info fix. Case in point: the supposed subtitle of theâŚ
The internet was all abuzz today over newly-declassified tape of Apollo 10 astronauts catching a broadcast of alien music on the Moon. Except the tape was not classified, not alien, and not music. Settle in and take a listen for yourself.
Hey, did you know that you can revive a spoiled wine by just dropping a penny into your glass? Well, at least according to the internet. The truth, though, is much more complicated.
The companies that market so-called ânaturalâ sexual health supplements make a lot of promises, especially when theyâre pitching more frequent and harder erections. But do the herbs they put in those pills actually, yâknow... work?
For fifteen days in November, the Earth will be blanketed in darkness during an astronomical blackout like nothing youâve seen before! Except it wonât, because what the fuck is an âastronomical blackoutâ? Isnât the universe cool enough without making shit up?
There are many possible explanations for hauntings, not least that humans are highly suggestible creatures, especially when we want to believe. But some ghost sightings might actually be the result of sounds â sound waves that vibrate just below our range of hearing, dubbed the âfear frequency.â
Thereâs a rumor flying around the internet about a Hawaiian mushroom whose scent gives women orgasms. Iâm sorry to disappoint, but thereâs absolutely no credible evidence to support that claim.
Et tu, BBC? That absolutely gorgeous footage of the eruption in the BBC documentary Patagonia: Earthâs Secret Paradise isnât real: itâs a composite blending eruptions from two nearby volcanoes filmed four years apart. I donât know if Iâll ever trust again.
Sometimes it feels like half of the internet is just fake photos. Whether itâs Elvis cutting Johnny Cashâs hair (FAKE), Hillary Clinton posing next to someone in an âIâm With Stupidâ t-shirt (FAKE) or John Lennon on a skateboard (FAKE FAKE FAKE), weâre breaking down the latest fakes swirling around the internet.
More experiments on the much-overhyped EMDrive continue to prove absolutely nothing except that itâs easy to create ambiguous results if youâre sufficiently sloppy with your experimental design.
Last year, a paper published in Science made waves with the stunning claim that the human nose can detect a whopping one trillion different odors. But if you feel like your nose canât detect a trillion smells, you may be on to something. Itâs possible that none of us can.
One of the many pieces of popular lore attributed to Shakespeare (and there are a lot) is that he invented up to 1,700 of the words we use today. But can he really claim all of those words, or is something else going on here?
The candiru became the most famous catfish in the world in 1997, when an icthyologist read a medical report about a man who had to have this toothpick-shaped fish removed from his urethra. The truth of the claim has always been in dispute, but people have feared peeing in the Amazon river ever since.
