Myths
We Should All Be Adding MSG to Our Food, According to This Food Scientist
“Hold the MSG,” may become a statement of the past if food scientist Steve Witherly is to be believed.
We Should All Be Adding MSG to Our Food, According to This Food Scientist
“Hold the MSG,” may become a statement of the past if food scientist Steve Witherly is to be believed.
Relax, No One Is Trying to Feed Your Children Ice Cream Laced with Chloroform
The article starts by saying that there are, “recent reports of ice-cream trucks putting Chloroform inside in (sic) the ice-cream in USA,” It goes on to baselessly claim that there have been multiple cases recently of ice cream truck drivers attempting...
Everything You Know About Cooking Rice Is a Lie
Anybody who’s ever graced a kitchen knows that the key to toothsome yet pillowy rice is making sure that you use a two-to-one ratio of water-to-rice. Too bad its also a complete and total falsehood.
'Face Temptation,' a Comic by Cecilia Valagussa
A statue marries a snake and her sister statues are concerned in this beautiful watercolor comic by Italian cartoonist, Ceclia Valagussa.
The 65-Year-Old Tale of Mystery Meat Believed to Come From a Woolly Mammoth
A 65-year-old mystery surrounding the origin of some meat—believed to be the flesh of a mammoth or giant sloth—has once and for all been solved.
The Strangest, Most Spectacular Bridge Collapse (And How We Got It Wrong)
How a textbook example of an engineering failure—and the famous video that captured it—got twisted.
This Santa Claus Browser Plugin Stops Curious Kids from Learning the Truth
Keep Believing in Santa blocks search results and posts revealing the truth about Saint Nick.
Calling Bullshit on the Men Who Think the Pay Gap Is a Myth
It's Equal Pay Day, and women get paid less than men, despite what your lame memes and bad statistics say.
Why the Urban Legend of the Jersey Devil Won't Die
How a rivalry between Benjamin Franklin and another publisher sparked a rumor that's endured for more than 200 years.
Stop X-Raying Your Kid's Halloween Candy
Razorblades in candy are a myth, and taking candy to hospitals is a waste of time and money.
Is This Four-Eared 'Jackalope' Bunny a Nuclear Mutant? We Asked a Park Ranger
The four-earred snowshoe hare has been spotted in a national park in Canada.