You can take a trunk full of random junk to the recycling center, and the guy will give you $2.65.  So, it's hard to understand why it's worth it to risk jail time . . . for random scrap metal. Here's the latest:  People in Los Angles are stealing FIRE HYDRANTS . . . apparently, to sell for scrap. One neighborhood has had FOUR hydrants stolen recently . . . leaving them without a single operating hydrant in case of a fire.  Other areas are also dealing with similar fire thefts . . . so I guess it's a trend. A [...]

Do you deal with your fear of flying by downing two or three of those mini-bottles and passing out?  You might be risking more than a headache.  A study in Germany found falling asleep after drinking on a plane could KILL you. Airplanes are pressurized, so it's like being 8,000 feet up where air pressure and oxygen levels are a lot lower.  And that affects our body in different ways. They studied the effects by having 48 adults sleep for four hours in a pressurized chamber.  Once with no alcohol, and once after they had two drinks. In the lower air [...]

A remote Brazilian tribe deep in the Amazon rainforest was recently able to access the internet for the FIRST TIME EVER . . . thanks to the satellite Starlink service. So are the people in the tribe spending hours every night researching philosophy and medicine?  No . . . of course not.  They're internet-obsessed zombies just like YOUR kids. And . . . like any parents . . . tribe leaders say they almost immediately had to institute time limits, or NOTHING would get done.  One elder said, "In the village, if you don't hunt, fish, and plant, you don't eat." [...]

Do you live with someone who casually critiques your dietary choices?  Like, "Cheez-Its again, huh?"  Well, now they've got reinforcements on the way in the form of A.I.   Researchers in Canada are working on a new A.I. that can identify different foods . . . so it can watch what you eat and SHAME you for it.   It's not ready for primetime yet.  Right now, it can just calculate how much food is on your spoon or plate with about 95% accuracy.  It can't identify exactly what you're eating yet, but they're confident it'll get there.   Once that [...]

The Loch Ness Monster is in the news after the largest hunt EVER happened this weekend.  So, did they find anything? People from all over the world traveled to Scotland for it, and teams of volunteers spread out across the lake.  The idea was to have as many eyes as possible watching every inch all at once. And what they ended up finding was . . . nothing.  Zero Nessie sightings, probably because the Loch Ness Monster doesn't exist. Evidence has always been anecdotal.  And the guy who took the famous black-and-white photo from 1934 eventually admitted that it was a hoax.  He attached [...]

How much you wanna bet these things still end up with one wonky wheel? Instacart has been testing A.I.-powered shopping carts that might change the way we shop.  They do a lot more than just hold groceries. There's a touchscreen to keep track of your shopping list . . . a scale to weigh vegetables . . . and a scanner that automatically tracks what you're buying and adds it all up. Once you're done, you don't need to scan everything at the register.  It just tells the cashier your total, or you can pay on the cart itself. It's not [...]

Amazon has a service for Prime members called "In-Garage Delivery," where they'll open your garage door, and put your package inside, for $1.99.  And they'll do it even if your house is BURNING DOWN. A family in Massachusetts was away from home over Memorial Day weekend, when they got a call that their house was on fire.  By the time they got back, a big chunk of the house was in ruins. They were having some work done on the house, and the fire was started by combustible materials that the workers left in a trash can by the garage.  There's [...]