Go ahead and dump an entire bottle of Tabasco sauce on your lunch today. Sure, it might make for a few painful bathroom trips, but you’ve got to think about the bigger picture. A new study from the Harvard School of Public Health found that people who eat spicy foods live longer. They studied data…… MORE
The most controversial TV episodes of all time
The website Cafemom.com has put together a list of the 20 Most Controversial TV Episodes. They don’t seem to be in any particular order, so we’ll just toss out some of our favorites: “The Mindy Project”, “I Slipped” (2014): Broadcast TV’s first backdoor love scene. It wasn’t just controversial for the type of sex depicted,…… MORE
The real reason you’re frigid in the office
You know how women at your office are always wearing sweaters or wrapped in blankets when it’s 90 degrees out? There’s actually a legitimate reason. A new study out of the Netherlands just figured out why women are always cold at the office. It turns out that most buildings are still being heated and cooled…… MORE
The real hangover cure is finally here
If the solution to hangovers has been staring us in the face all these years, I’m going to be so irritated. Some scientists in Australia say they’ve finally figured out the best hangover cure. It’s an Asian pear. They found people who ate a pear or drank pear juice before they got hammered had very…… MORE
The new ‘Ghostbusters’ cast swings by a children’s hospital
” The new female Ghostbusters visited sick kids at Tufts Medical Center in Boston on Saturday, in costume. In case you’ve somehow missed the 10,000 memos, the new team is Melissa McCarthy, Kristen Wiig, Kate McKinnon, and Leslie Jones. A rep for the hospital says: “They were a true delight to have today. They were…… MORE
Bad things happen to good robots
Two weeks ago, researchers from Ryerson University in Toronto started an experiment to see if a robot could hitchhike across America. They called it ‘hitchBOT,’ and put it by the side of the road in Boston with a sign saying “San Francisco or Bust!” Obviously they hoped different people would take interest, and gradually drive…… MORE
How to get a higher GPA this year
Breaking news: Nerdy teenagers get better grades. An economics professor at the University of Southern California analyzed more than 20,000 students to see if there was a correlation between their grades and their social lives. And he found one very clear result: Kids who aren’t popular with the opposite sex have GPAs that are an…… MORE
Pyschotic scammers
If you’re going to scam someone out of a few grand, why not target confused senior citizens like most con artists? It seems crazy to rip off the most psychotic and dangerous terrorist organization in the world. Three young women in Chechnya, Russia just managed to swindle $3,300 out of ISIS. Chechnya is mostly Muslim,…… MORE
An app that enables creepiness
Back in the day, when you broke up with someone but didn’t want to get rid of every trace of them, you put all of the photos and love letters and strands of hair you’d collected in a shoebox, then you buried it deep in your closet. But today, most of your relationship mementos are…… MORE
Guy knocks out a robber, then proposes
Nicholas Anderson of Hickory, North Carolina took his girlfriend to a restaurant on Monday, and planned on proposing to her there. But just before he could ask her to marry him, a guy busted in to rob the place. So Nicholas quickly shifted gears. He jumped up, grabbed the guy, put him in a choke…… MORE
