3+ hour, 49+ min ago   (320+ words) According to researchers at Northeastern University, mescaline, the hallucinogenic compound found in cacti that’s long been used in spiritual ceremonies for its ability to send your brain on a hell of a psychedelic journey, has had its effects mapped for…...

3+ hour, 49+ min ago   (359+ words) Welp, it seems all those adults who warned you that if you kept watching TV your brain would turn to mush weren’t exactly right, but, according to a new study out of USC Dornsife, they may have been on to…...

5+ hour, 11+ min ago   (843+ words) Anita LeBrun wanted to drink a glass of pinot grigio with her friends at their retirement home. She was a regular at the facility’s semiweekly happy hours, but she thought it was ridiculous that they were dry. Minnesota law prohibited…...

5+ hour, 11+ min ago   (259+ words) In the early 2000s, emo started to tap into the mainstream. From its humble beginnings in the late 1990s, emo was much more defined by the early 2000s. Bands of the genre didn’t immediately find success, as many genres were fighting to define…...

9+ hour, 27+ min ago   (684+ words) An 83-year-old widow can keep her Honolulu home after reaching a settlement with the city over nearly $600,000 in fines stemming from what she says was an online rental listing error. Sandra May, a retiree, rents an attached apartment on her…...

9+ hour, 54+ min ago   (651+ words) When Bryce Martinez started feeling an aching around his heart, he thought it might be an asthma attack. But at the school nurse’s office, his blood pressure was found to be so high that he was rushed to the emergency…...

15+ hour, 42+ min ago   (460+ words) More than 6.5 million families have signed up for Trump Accounts since the savings initiative for American children officially launched on July 4, according to the Treasury Department. A much smaller number of employers have elected to contribute to these savings accounts…...

18+ hour, 24+ min ago   (658+ words) Magic: The Gathering just posted the best year in its three-decade history, generating $1.72 billion in 2025 revenue — a 59% jump that made the card game Hasbro’s single most important profit engine. Even more strikingly, as noted over the weekend by The Wall…...

18+ hour, 41+ min ago   (781+ words) You likely already know this little ditty. In 2019, Carl Martin, a Danish musician and musicology student, sat down to compose a song and struck what he believed was musical gold. He had crafted a four-note melody that he said “felt…...

19+ hour, 8+ min ago   (523+ words) Carly Simon on Monday shared a lengthy and candid letter regarding the state of her health, which she said led to her recent withdrawal from the public eye. Parkinson’s disease, according to the Mayo Clinic, is a nervous system movement…...