When you’re vegan, fast food is rarely an option. What was once my favorite of the big chains, Wendy’s, has long been a forbidden zone—I can’t be sure the fries aren’t somehow sullied by beef fat or lard. Sure, I think wistfully about the 99-cent crispy chicken nuggets that I ingested almost daily in my …
In a YouTube video recently shared by Macro Room, we get an up-close view of over-the-counter pills dissolving in water, revealing what actually happens when we consume pills while delivering a hefty dose of startling beauty. Macro Room, which aims to reveal “the hidden beauty of our world” through detailed videos, already has nearly 9,000 …
You might soon be able to quit sticking jars of mayo in your roommate’s face and asking, “Does this seem okay to eat?” A piece of legislation called The Food Date Labeling Act would force companies to use clearer language when informing us of the “sell by” date on packaged foods, letting you know once …
Click:plug valve supplier Improved restrictions on gun control will not happen today. Democrats and Republicans voted this afternoon on four measures meant to expand background checks for gun buyers and restrict gun sales to people on terror watch lists, but all of them fell short of the 60 votes necessary for passage. The two measures introduced …
The solar system is a pretty exclusive club—fewer than 10 planets have ever been admitted to the collection of celestial bodies that make up Earth’s little neck of the galactic woods. Famously, in 2006 the most recently discovered member—sweet, icy little Pluto—was controversially demoted from the roster and downgraded to mere “dwarf planet,” leaving us …
When an unarmed deaf man named Daniel Kevin Harris was killed by a state trooper near his Charlotte, North Carolina home last Thursday, his brother claimed the tragedy was just the latest in a series of “misunderstandings that led to him being afraid of the police.” Dealing with law enforcement can be an intimidating experience under even the best of circumstances. For …
Bill Gates has a bit of egg on his face—after the Microsoft mogul pledged 100,000 chickens to a group of impoverished countries, one of the recipients cried foul. (fowl?) “He does not know Bolivia’s reality to think we are living 500 years ago, in the middle of the jungle not knowing how to produce,” César …
Global warming naysayers may start changing their tune as soon as they get a glimpse at a few recent photos from the arctic. Images of bright blue, “supraglacial” lakes reveal hot spots along the surface of East Antarctica’s Langhovde Glacier. That’s right, the coldest place on Earth is heating up, and its once-stable ice sheets are rapidly …
In recent years, knitting has earned itself a twee reputation as the hobby of choice for a certain subset of young urban professionals. You know the ones—they look a lot like New Girl’s Jessica Day, and they don’t find the idea of purchasing Hipster brand yarn embarrassing in the slightest. But the eye-popping new documentary Yarn—which made its debut …
It’s been two days since BootyGate, otherwise known as that time Blake Lively posted a Gram from the Cannes Film Festival in which she shouted out her curvaceous ass with some playfully/carelessly chosen song lyrics as the caption. If you’ve been avoiding the news, it’s time to submit to the zeitgeist. Lively put up a …