Why the Underdog Rarely Wins: The Brutal Economics of Risk
You die in a video game, you just hit respawn. Maybe you lose some experience points or a bit of gold, but thirty …
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Why Whales Don't Die of Cancer (And What It Means for You)
Common sense tells you that if you play a dangerous game long enough, you will eventually lose. Logic dictates that a …
Why You Keep Rooting for the Monster in the Pool
You’ve seen the ending of Scarface. Tony Montana is face down in a fountain, floating in a mess of blood and cocaine, …
Why You Literally Can't Whistle on a Ship (And the Real Tea on Calling Her 'She')
Imagine being stuck in a metal tube the size of a school bus with 80 other dudes for months on end. Now imagine one of …
Why You Should Never Watch the Director’s Cut of Donnie Darko
There is a specific kind of teenage angst that feels like a fever dream, and for the early 2000s, that dream had a giant …
Why You Turn Into a Genius (Or an Idiot) The Second You Get Mad
We’ve all been there. You’re in the middle of a heated debate about something totally trivial, like whose turn it was to …
13 'Stupid' Ways People Accidentally Got Filthy Rich
I have this specific memory of sitting in my bedroom as a tween in the early 90s, staring at a 14.4 baud modem, …
13 Brutal Types of Pain That No One Prepares You For
We often treat pain like a linear scale—a simple 1 to 10 where a stubbed toe is a two and a broken leg is a six. But if …
9 'Awesome' Superpowers That Are Secretly Terrible For Your Health
We’ve all been there, stuck in traffic or standing in a line that isn’t moving, daydreaming about how much easier …
The Dead Eyes Behind the Smile: Why You Should Never Trust the 'Nice' Ones
You know that feeling? The hair standing up on the back of your neck when someone walks into the room? It’s not anxiety, …