How Vladimir Putin Came to Power (And How He Has Held on to it for So Long)
When Boris Yeltsin resigned as president of the Russian Federation, it was expected, but sudden. He resigned so his Prime Minister, Vladimir Putin could become president on January 1, 2000 – the sta...
23 Juni 202550min
Does Any Government Have a Plan if Aliens Invade the Earth?
Thanks to Hollywood, as well as words written on the mangled inked corpses of the leafy fellow occupants of our little planet we’ve successfully subjugated, there are a number of common ideas about ho...
18 Juni 202548min
An Ultra Deep Dive Into How to Get the Best Possible Sleep According to Science and Why It's Literally Killing You When You Don't
We don’t mean to alarm you, but it turns out, despite how much we all fight it like a toddler who’s just been told it’s bedtime, sleeping is a basic, and critical human need. All animals known to man...
16 Juni 202553min
What was it Really Like to Be a Lighthouse Keeper?
For anyone sitting in gridlocked traffic on the way to a soul crushing job surrounded by other humans nattering on all day about their TPS reports as you truly internalize the pointlessness of everyth...
11 Juni 202540min
The Mysterious Death of Yuri Gagarin
On a snowy, blustery morning in March 1968, a two-man MiG-15 UTI jet took off from Chkalov air force base outside Moscow on a routine training flight. Barely ten minutes later, the aircraft’s pilot ra...
9 Juni 202554min
How Government Works, When Does the U.S. Government Debt Become Unsustainable, And Much More
We live in, shall we say, politically divisive times… which, contrary to some’s belief, is no different than really any other point since humans started humaning. From Ancient Rome to relatively more ...
6 Juni 20251h 24min
What's So Special About McDonald's Fries?
Ah, McDonald’s French Fries. According to a poll we recently ran here, 48% of about 42,000 of you prefer this restaurant’s slender tan starch sticks to all the other restaurant tuber cutting offerings...
4 Juni 202540min
What's It Actually Like to Be an Amish Person?
As humans continue to rapidly accelerate to replacing ourselves with robot overlords or otherwise see if we can’t make Wall-E into a prophetic mocumentary, one group of homosapiens refuses to go qui...
3 Juni 202556min
