The word “weird” didn’t always mean strange. In Old English, descended from a mix of Germanic and Norse concepts, it meant something closer to “destiny” or “becoming” or even “fate.” Once upon a time, ...

Nick Shirley really wants the world to know that he’s never had sex. The YouTuber who moved from “prank” videos to the more lucrative world of creating MAGA disinformation apparently believes that ...

On Christmas Eve Day, we were joined on MidPoint by that inimitable Florida Man and raconteur, Craig Pittman, Florida Phoenix environmental columnist and author of Oh, Florida and Welcome to Florida.

GDP for Q3 may be ancient history as far as econ data goes, but markets didn't seem to think so in the hour following this morning's release. GDP was much stronger than expected and bonds traded it ...

Rudnik was just 9 months old when he was left at a livestock auction. Frantic and mistrusting, he was nearly sold to a kill buyer—until a well-known horse rescue stepped in. Originally registered as ...

For more than seven years, scientists at the University of Michigan have explored the strange quantum oscillations of the Kondo insulator ytterbium boride (YbB 12). In 2018, the team discovered that ...

It would be fair to say that something is a little awry with Black Ops 7. The game, which launched on Friday, has been review-bombed just about everywhere, with talk of refunds based on its use of AI, ...

Joy Williams’s West is a liminal space, untethered, grasslands floating among craggy mountains, biker bars and seedy motels and ghosts baked by harsh sunlight. The 12 stories in her hypnotic ...