Where the F-Word Comes From

Where the F-Word Comes From

In its various incarnations, the F-word can be a noun, verb, adjective, and even an infix. The Crescent wrench of the English language, the F-bomb has been adding emphasis, vulgarity and spice to our conversations for longer than anyone can remember.

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Guy Builds a Bomb Just With Stuff You Can Buy After Airport Security

Just in case you were still being fooled into thinking that the TSA is good for, well, anything, follow along with You Tube contributor Terminal Cornucopia as he constructs a home-made "FRAGGuccino" from stuff you can buy from airport terminal kiosks—you know the ones you can enter after passing through security.

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Burned Teen Grows New Face Parts on Her Chest (Warning: Graphic)

Burned Teen Grows New Face Parts on Her Chest (Warning: Graphic)

Holy crap. A 17-year-old girl in China’s Fujian Province has just received a new face from skin that was grown on her very own chest. Oh, the marvels of modern medicine. Advanced warning that while this story is ultimately uplifting, the images below are pretty gross.

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Norway Is Overrun With Plastic-Covered Corpses That Refuse to Rot

Norway Is Overrun With Plastic-Covered Corpses That Refuse to Rot

Norway’s got a major corpse problem that isn’t going away anytime soon. Literally—they won’t rot. What’s the culprit behind this profusion of bodies that refuse to take their place in the circle of life? The same thing that’s also working to keep your sandwich fresh: plastic wrap.

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Best 404 Error Ever Makes Man Temporary Trillionaire

Best 404 Error Ever Makes Man Temporary Trillionaire

For a few brief, shining hours, one fated East Texas man become the world’s very first trillionaire. And he owes it all to what may be the greatest 404 error to ever grace god’s green Earth.

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Unluckiest Trip Ever: Flight 666 to HEL on Friday the 13th

Unluckiest Trip Ever: Flight 666 to HEL on Friday the 13th

Think you’ve been on some bad flights? At least they weren’t Flight 666 to HEL, departing Friday the 13th. It’s a very real trip, and it’s actually pretty crowded.

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Northrop Grumman: Flight of the Triton

Wow. Just wow. You can almost hear the corporate execs at the screening of this, Northrop Grumman’s official music video for the MQ-4C Triton Unmanned Aircraft System’s first flight, thinking to themselves, "This is the coolest thing ever. Just look at all those thumbs up, the kids are just going to go nuts for this." To be fair, there are a lot of thumbs up in this video, could probably use some more high-fives though. [UAS Vision]

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The Secret to Weight Loss Might Be Poop Transplants From Skinny People

The Secret to Weight Loss Might Be Poop Transplants From Skinny People

As unlikely as it might seem, fecal transplants are actually turning out to be the stuff dreams are made of. And apparently, this magical poop procedure still has plenty to give. After some successful rounds of experimenting, scientists now believe that one possible answer to the rampant obesity problem could very well be lying in thin people’s feces.

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These Disgusting Red Worms Have Been Found in Tap Water

These Disgusting Red Worms Have Been Found in Tap Water

Never drink water again. Or never drink water for as long as humanly possible. Or fine, drink water but make sure you watch out for these disgusting little red worms that have somehow dug their way through inside a water filtering system in Oklahoma. Those red worms—ranging from half an inch to an inch long—were found in the tap water of a small town. Yikes.

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Hospital Fined for Putting Poop Germs in Patients’ Brains on Purpose

Hospital Fined for Putting Poop Germs in Patients' Brains on Purpose

There’s a reason surgeons wear masks and gloves. The last thing you want is to get crap in someone’s body. That is, unless you are one of the two UC Davis Medical Center neurosurgeons who very purposely introduced their patents’ brains to poop bacteria. It was a real shit-for-brains way of trying to help.

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