To score drugs, try a support group for addicts. Teenage pregnancy — not that big of a deal? “Our results reinforce recent research that finds at most modest adverse causal effects of teen births on the mothers’ adult outcomes.” Summary. The Canadian FCC has reprimanded a Toronto-based TV channel for not broadcasting enough Canadian porn. The genes of men who make good cyclists also make them good looking, concludes biologist Erik Postma.

But first, a joke: I was at a bar last weekend, chatting with this woman. She was decent looking. There was a lull in the conversation, so I say to her, “Hey, I’ve got this talent. I can tell when a woman was born after feeling her breasts.” She doesn’t believe me at first, but after a minute or so, she comes around. “Go on, then,” she says to me.

This is a picture of Mike Tyson at age 13. Or at least that’s what the Daily Mail says. I’m skeptical because I sure as hell have never seen a 13 year old that looks like that. Here’s Mike at 14. Still big, but maybe a little more reasonable: By that point, he’d already been boxing for two years. At the age of 12, he was able to bench more than 200 pounds:

You are out in a thunderstorm. You look up, at the rolling thunderheads painting the sky, and wonder, “Why am I here? What’s the point of all of this? What difference can I make in a world of 7 billion?” Your weekly scheduled existential angst is interrupted by a flash. It’s lightning, six-ish bolts. The yellow branches cross and, for a moment, spell out your name. “What are the odds?

The literal answer to the question, “What are quantum computers used for?” is well, nothing, since we can’t build them yet — but maybe you want to know the answer to the question, “What will quantum computers be used for?” That I can answer. There is a lot of magical thinking around quantum computers. That they’re the next big thing in computing, that they’ll replace classical computers, that they’ll be impossibly fast and small.

Pop quiz. Who initiates divorces and break-ups? Men or women? The answer is women. Women are more likely than men to initiate a break-up. First, men are less likely than women to initiate break-ups (Hegelson, 1994; Hill, Rubin, and Peplau, 1976), and noninitiators of a break-up are more likely than initiators to experience distress (Sprecher, Felmlee, Metts, Fehr, & Vanni, 1998). —Handbook of Gender Research in Psychology, Volume 2 (pg.

You take the blue pill, the story ends. You wake up in your bed and believe whatever you want to believe. You take the red pill, you stay in wonderland, and I show you how deep the rabbit hole goes —Morpheus, The Matrix Ted is 23, fictional, and one night stays up late browsing the web. He starts on Wikipedia, finds himself reading the page on the 9⁄11 terrorist attacks, follows the links to conspiracy theorists, and eventually lands on YouTube.

Listening to the internet, you’d think that Fox News is some sort of liberal boogeyman — the lowest of the low that is modern journalism. From the top comment on the Reddit thread, “Republicans of reddit, what’s your opinion on Fox News?” I’m a registered Republican, from the midwest, and a military officer. Obviously it’s the only thing I watch, right? Fox News is an embarrassment. But what about, you know, facts and stuff?

That thing is the most badass of all sea slugs, the nudibranch. The nudibranch is more a family of sea slugs than one species, and the name comes from the Latin nudus, meaning naked, as it has no shell. This slug is not remarkable for its nudity, although “naked sea slugs” would make a good name for a band. No, the remarkable thing about the nudibranch is that it eats jellyfish, digests their stinging cells, and then incorporates those same cells into its body as a defense mechanism.