A Feb 2015 paper published by North Carolina State and Cornell biologists finds seminal fluid to be way more than just a medium for sperm. It helps create an important "post-copulatory" environment… Read the rest of the article: Seminal fluid praised in study

A group of design students from a Swedish university published an insightful academic paper last year spoofing all the baby health trackers now pitched to parents. The trackers measure things like… Read the rest of the article: The dystopian future of quantified babies

I've been coveting the world’s best manual treadmill, the EcoMill ($7,000). But until I have a spare seven grand, I have to run with conventional electric mills. Most use a lot… Read the rest of the article: The beauty of an energy-free treadmill

Police blotter sites aggregate only the saddest reports of meth-addled America. A better way to consume local police news: unedited dispatch logs. Dogs are lost, then found a few hours later.… Read the rest of the article: Small-town 911 calls can be weird, fascinating and heart-warming

Sports fans visiting huge coliseums are fairly accustomed to having their YouTube videos of the game removed. Expensive sports tickets typically contain prohibitions against shooting vids in the venue (and that’s a debate… Read the rest of the article: Don’t video your friends running — it’s intellectual property theft

RULES OF THE GAME: Fun for the whole family, “Firework or Sex Toy” consists of shouting out EITHER a product from a major fireworks company OR a product from major… Read the rest of the article: Firework or Sex Toy – The Boing Boing Game

So many times I'm reading a Victorian plot that revolves around some gentry fop handing a scullery boy a sum of 100 half-whatevers. And I’m left wondering: is that a staggeringly large… Read the rest of the article: Read Dickens with the prices adjusted for inflation

Pedal Genie is a Netflix-like service for guitar pedals. It's great. But my first experience was offputting. A strange generic metal box arrived in the mail with a lot of… Read the rest of the article: Pedal Genie stomp box

I still, secretly, have my daughter’s long-neglected Taylor Swift records on my phone. What’s better than singing those keening harmonies? Singing them wrong, on purpose. Great crowdsourced parodies to all her… Read the rest of the article: Taylor Swift karaoke album pairs well with parody lyrics

Her gates-of-hell texting is a marvel to behold.