No astronaut has ever stepped foot on Marsbut that doesn’t mean humans haven’t left their mark — literally. Since 1971 when the Soviet Union’s Mars 2 spacecraft crash-landed onto the Red Planet, people have littered the Martian surface with man-made junk, quite a feat from an average of 140 million-miles away. Broken spacecraft debris, parachutes, […]
Finally, some good news—well, for now. Earlier today, the Federal Trade Commission finalized a rule that requires companies like Ticketmaster to tell consumers what they’re paying for. The Junk Fees Rule prohibits “bait-and-switch pricing” that hides total prices for live-event tickets and hotels. For our purposes, this is mainly about Ticketmaster, which owns a monopoly […]
“There’s been a lot of talk that I just was able to do this because of Ozempic,” she said. “But I have to impress upon people out there that this was hard work for me, especially during the pandemic. It’s very hard to say you’ve had enough.” She isn’t opposed to the occasional treat, though. […]
Sometimes you find something on web—a link, an image, or a block of text—that you want to quickly set aside for later. Gladys is a free indie app from developer Paul Tsochantaris that acts as a sort of shelf for things like this. The application, which is available for Mac, iPad, and iPhone, supports adding […]
We may earn a commission from links on this page. When I was little, my mom used some kind of blue tacky material to secure basically everything around our house: My posters got hung with the stuff. Our drawer dividers got stuck in place with it. And although it worked, it left behind a blue […]
Memories are a strange, fickle beast. Like why can’t I remember what I ate for lunch yesterday, but I can tell you every single lyric to Deana Carter’s 1996 hit, “Strawberry Wine” on a whim. We’ve collected an entire gallery of useless information that humans have somehow kept stored in their memory banks. Get ready […]
