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GIF Illustration: Jim Cooke/Gizmodo There are some things we can all agree on. For instance: the fact that shit smells bad. There are some contrarians out there—fetishists, middle school class clowns, etc.—but for the most part this issue transcends the usual divisions. Dogs, on the other hand… Well, it’s hard to tell where they stand.…

Image: Gloria Cabada-Leman/Flickr The battle for children’s taste buds is old news now, but I’ll recap it for you. Kids like sugar. Companies know this. They put sugar in everything, even supposedly healthy breakfast cereals. They put games and cartoons on the boxes. Now we’re left with lots of obese kids, some of whom have…

FBI Director Forced to Fact-Check Trump's Twitter Bullshit in Real-Time Imagine if your Twitter account was so trash that federal investigators were called before Congress … Read more The implication, of course, is that a future attempt by Russia to meddle with America’s elections could not only undermine citizens’ faith in the vote-counting process, but…

Image: NASA Jupiter has just delivered the news we desperately need right now. In addition to being the biggest, oldest planet in the solar system, it turns out Jupe has been hiding two moons from us all these years. Recently, a group of astronomers spotted the pair of wayward satellites, bringing the number of Jupiter’s…

GIF GIF It’s been a bumpy ride, but it’s finally over. Today, Verizon announced the completion of its Yahoo acquisition at roughly $4.5 billion, giving us all the gift of a fancy new subsidiary named Oath and officially ending former Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer’s tenure. Tucked away in the very last paragraph of Verizon’s announcement…

Image: Youtube Screenshot I hate that I have to do this. But here goes. Aside from bringing us vape tricks and vape cloud championships, e-cigarettes were supposed to be a good thing. You know, they weren’t supposed to kill us as much as real cigarettes. Not-so-fast, says a new study. You might be screwed either…

The Nintendo Switch is the perfect console for taking your games on the road, but if you want to connect it to a hotel TV for big screen gaming while traveling, you’ll need to make room for its clunky dock in your suitcase. It’s arguably the worst-designed part of the Switch, but third-party companies like…

HELLLLOOOOOOOO!!!! (Image: Junji Morokuma, Allen Discovery Center at Tufts University) While space can destroy us in myriad ways, it’s never been credited with making anything more adorable. That’s all changed now thanks to an experiment in which researchers at Tufts University sent flatworms to the International Space Station (ISS). Microgravity seems to have impacted the…

BERLIN – The number of Brits that the German nationality was, in 2016 more than 360 percent higher than a year earlier. It goes according to the German federal statistics agency Destatis to 2865 people. That has, according to the organization, with the upcoming British departure from the EU. In total it acquired last year,…

PYONGYANG – Former basketball star Dennis Rodman is back in North Korea to visit dictator Kim Jong-un, with whom he spent some years friends. “I’m just trying to open the door”, he told journalists at the airport of Beijing. Rodman is traveling with the knowledge of the American government to the country, but doing that…