- newMan who stole a coworker's identity for 30 years had his victim jailed
Matthew Keirans met William Woods at a hotdog cart in the late 1980s, stole his identity, and lived as him for roughly three decades — pulling a six-figure salary as a hospital IT administrator, getting married (his wife didn't know his real name),…
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- newDoc Copper's nose ring in The Thing was the actor's own idea
Richard Dysart, who played Dr. Copper in John Carpenter's The Thing (1982), showed up on the Antarctic set with a nose ring in his right nostril. Carpenter let it ride, which means a 50-something military camp physician in 1982 Antarctica has a visib…
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- newA quarter of Disney visitors go into debt for the trip
LendingTree surveyed more than 2,000 Americans in 2024 and found that roughly one in four Disney park visitors had borrowed money to pay for the trip, according to the New Yorker. Among parents of young kids, 45 percent went into debt, with an averag…
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- newOpenAI sued after ChatGPT advised drug combos that killed a college student
Sam Nelson was 19, a UC Merced student who discovered ChatGPT as a senior in high school and started using it to troubleshoot problems and do homework. By the time he died of a drug overdose on May 31, 2025, he had shifted to asking the chatbot for g…
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- newRoutine blood tests show 16 markers tied to PTSD across multiple organ systems
A new study from Mass General Brigham, the Broad Trauma Initiative, and Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health found 16 blood biomarkers consistently linked to PTSD — all already on standard clinical lab panels: cholesterol, glucose, liver enzym…
- 11 hours ago 12 May 26, 11:21pm -
- newA major evidence review found Alzheimer's drugs probably don't work — and fraud played a role
A sweeping new evidence review found that today's top Alzheimer's drugs "probably result in little to no difference" in reducing dementia severity or anything else that matters to patients. Journalists found that key papers propping up the dominant…
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- newThis pocket-sized 1TB Samsung SSD is just $270 and ridiculously fast
TL;DR: The Samsung T7 1TB Portable SSD delivers ultra-fast transfer speeds, compact portability, durable design, and wide device compatibility for $269.99.There's a certain kind of pain that only tech people understand: waiting for an old externa…
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- newWhy is Grandpa Pudding Brains so grumpy today?
It would appear that convicted felon and credibly accused of assault by more than two dozen women, Donald Trump, is having a bad day. Not only does he slip up and admit he doesn't care how his war on Iran impacts US citizens, financially or otherwise…
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- newPomiferous: database featuring more than 7,000 apple varieties
Pomiferous is the world's most extensive database of apples, containing information regarding more than 7,000 varieties. They're organized by name, pollination group, harvest period, and other characteristics. Pomiferous is brought to you by two gr…
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- new1920s library sticker told kids to wash their hands before touching
This amazing old sticker was found inside the cover of a book from the Pasadena City Schools Library in the 1920s. The sticker features a delightful little cartoon book with a face, arms, and legs that looks like it could be a character in an avant-g…
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