Author: admin

‘We have to mock the site’s insanity’: comedian Tim Heidecker on the allure of becoming Infowars’ new boss‘We have to mock the site’s insanity’: comedian Tim Heidecker on the allure of becoming Infowars’ new boss

As the Onion waits for a court to approve its takeover, creative director Heidecker previews his ambitious plan to parody the site – already sending Jones into a fury If you’ve tuned in to Infowars over the years, you might have heard a very angry man screaming about the 2020 ...

The moment I knew: ‘We didn’t speak the same language but somehow we understood each other’The moment I knew: ‘We didn’t speak the same language but somehow we understood each other’

When Federica met Oskar, she thought their Google translate-powered romance would be brief, but soon they were planning their future restaurant together Find more stories from the moment I knew series In 2013 I moved from Milan to work as a pastry chef in Marano Vicentino, a tiny town in ...

‘The happiest time of life is as you get older’: can positive thinking help you age better?‘The happiest time of life is as you get older’: can positive thinking help you age better?

More trips around the sun does not mean inevitable decline, new research suggests – and having a optimistic outlook can even bring improvements By most standards, Prof Velandai Srikanth is at the peak of his career. He is the director of the National Centre for Healthy Ageing; his decades of ...

This Personality Trait Makes Dreams More Bizarre, Scientists DiscoverThis Personality Trait Makes Dreams More Bizarre, Scientists Discover

Welcome back to the Abstract! These are the stories this week that dared to dream, slinked through the city, mourned their mothers, and visited ancient graveyards. First, scientists studied thousands of dream reports and discovered that world events—like the COVID-19 pandemic—can manifest in our vespertine visions. Then: the science of ...

‘We feel angry – and we have reason to be’: Brazil’s resurgent punk scene is a howl of outrage at injustice‘We feel angry – and we have reason to be’: Brazil’s resurgent punk scene is a howl of outrage at injustice

Thriving punk culture seen as response to frustrations at unemployment, urban violence, police brutality and deprivation As black-clad police combatants charged into the hillside favela and opened fire, a black-clad punk scurried out of the community in the opposite direction, his hands trembling from fright. “Holy shit! All those guns! ...