https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZK1JpvUW6cc It's either unbearably cute or the prologue to a rabies epidemic. No matter how you see it, this raccoon takes a pass at every cat in the neighborhood, searching… Read the rest of the article: Raccoon leaves his trash-eating pals to hang with the kitties

You won't find Nick Burbridge's music charting on any Top 20 lists and, to the best of my knowledge, he's never toured extensively, by himself or with his band McDermott's… Read the rest of the article: Weekend Tunes: Nick Burbridge – Song of Sisyphus

Agalmatophilia, a sexual attraction to dolls and other human figures, is nothing new: people have been attracted to and humping dolls for as long as there have been locks on… Read the rest of the article: People are getting their blocks off with LEGO porn

A couple of years back, the Most Reverend Patrick J. McGrath, Bishop of the Diocese of San Jose, California, wrote an impassioned missive. In his letter, Bishop McGrath acknowledged the… Read the rest of the article: Duplicitous Catholic Bishop buys $2.3 million home with church funds after pleading for parishioners to help the homeless

Did you know that Canadian music icon Neil Young and American mermaid-patch-eyed-movie-psychopath icon Daryl Hannah have been dating since 2014? If not, you'll raise an eyebrow over the fact that… Read the rest of the article: That time Daryl Hannah and Neil Young got married

The northwestern Mexican state of Guerrero’s ocean side vistas, Mayan and Zapotec heritage and mountainous terrain would make it a postcard-pretty place to be—if it weren’t for all the murder… Read the rest of the article: Médecins Sans Frontières is on the front lines of the Mexican drug war

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xtIrZ1sTrG4 Yeah… maybe hold on to your suitcase when you're riding an escalator. Or, better yet, take an elevator if you can.

I enjoy flying with Air Canada. I did not, however, enjoy the email I received from them this morning warning me they'd been hacked.

Last year in Yemen, cholera ran rampant. In a single week, the United Nations reported 50,000 new cases of the diarrhea and vomit-inducing illness. In 2018, thanks to computer modeling,… Read the rest of the article: Aid workers use computer model to help stop cholera in Yemen dead in its tracks

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CnlbRxBLewU In Indonesian culture, Pacu Jawi, or cow racing, is kind of a big deal. Used by famrers to pass the time after they've harvested their crops and, more recently… Read the rest of the article: Cow racing isn't for the meek

It's getting more difficult with every passing day to keep from being spied upon by nefarious tools interested in getting their hands on your personal information, creeping on what you're… Read the rest of the article: Hackers can listen to smartphone and computer displays to know what content you're consuming

Everything has a cost, especially in the realm of online services. It used to be a pretty common practice for providers of 'free' email services to scan their user's messages… Read the rest of the article: WSJ: Yahoo plans to scan users' messages for data to sell to advertisers

John Oliver's big enough to admit when he's wrong. He's so damn large, in fact, that he sat down behind his gigantic desk just to post this series of retractions… Read the rest of the article: John Oliver sets the record straight

So much of what we know about spaceflight, the moon and beyond can be attributed to mathematician Katherine Johnson. During the United States' race to the stars against the Soviet… Read the rest of the article: NASA legend Katherine Johnson turns 100 years old this week

Around a month ago, Ebola popped back up in the Democratic Republic of Congo, scant days after the World Health Organization had declared that another outbreak of the disease had… Read the rest of the article: Warring militant groups are making the fight against Ebola even more dangerous than it already is

Given a choice of which controller I’d rather use to play games, my response is always Xbox One. I like how beefy it feels run my hands. I bought one… Read the rest of the article: Google to add Xbox One controller compatibility to Android

I’m now the proud owner of a Microsoft Surface Go with 8GB of RAM and a 128GB SSD. It’s by no means a power house (I’ll have a review for… Read the rest of the article: ShutUp10 makes using Windows 10 a whole lot more pleasant

That poop you’ve been holding in until you get home? Stop it: use a restroom as soon you can. The wind you’re not breaking because you’re only on your fourth… Read the rest of the article: British man's colon bursts due to an abundance of poop

The first season of True Detective was a sensation, arguably qualifying as some of the best television of all time. The show's second season? Not so much.

Collecting water from the air is nothing new. Fog nets—typically constructed using a sheet of plastic mesh hung between a pair of poles—are often used in arid areas to capture… Read the rest of the article: New technology sucks water out of thin air