Category: Weird
Best Bike Accessories (2022): Helmets, Locks, Pumps, Rain Gear, and More
Bicycles are growing only more popular as people look for alternative ways to meet friends, head to work, zip across town to run errands, and…
In My Loneliest Hours, ‘Persona 5’ Reminded Me of Friendship
It’s been six years since Persona 5 burst onto PlayStation consoles in a riot of red, white, and black. It’s a date fixed firmly in…
Sorry, Prey. Black Widows Have Surprisingly Good Memory
Black widows must despise Clint Sergi. While working on his PhD in biology at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Sergi spent his time designing little challenges…
You Need to Update Google Chrome, Windows, and Zoom Right Now
Other issues fixed in October are a heap buffer overflow in WebSQL tracked as CVE-2022-3446 and a use-after-free bug in Permissions API tracked as CVE-2022-3448,…
Cats Rule the Earth Is a Must-Have Tarot Deck for the Feline Friendly
I admiringly refer to myself as a cat lady. I’ve also spent nearly all of my years obsessed with witches in pop culture—Practical Magic and…
The Push to Scale Plant-Based Plastics
If you are wondering what the future of manufacturing looks like, all you need to do is visit the fourth floor of a brick building…
The Spooky Science of How Undead Spores Reanimate
Here’s a spooky conundrum: Is a spore alive or dead? Gürol Süel, a biologist at the University of California, San Diego, wouldn’t blame you if…
Mathieu Flamini Has a Plan to Decarbonize the Chemical Industry
In 2008, the soccer player Mathieu Flamini moved from Arsenal, where he’d spent four years as a tough but classy midfielder, to AC Milan in…
12 Best Subscription Boxes for Kids (2022): All Ages, STEM, Books, and Snacks
Here is a proposition: Rather than delight your kid once or twice a year with a big, expensive present that will eventually get put aside,…
Asus Zenfone 9 Review: Small but Mighty
There’s no shortage of big phones these days. Apple even went so far as to nix a successor to last year’s iPhone 13 Mini and…