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The government released over 160 declassified UFO files last week after President Trump ordered maximum transparency on alien life and unidentified aerial phenomena. Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard called it a commitment to giving “the American people maximum transparency.” Not everyone was impressed. Dennis Anderson has been investigating UFOs for 63 years. He’s a former member of the Center for UFO Studies and someone who has spent more time thinking about this than most people have been alive. His take on the latest document dump, in his interview with the NY Post , is that it’s essentially a distraction (surprise!). “They’re trying to cover as much as they can and still make it sound like they’re interested in giving you the information when they’re really not,” he said. “It’s all smoke and mirror stuff.” The New UFO Files Are Out, and One Researcher Says the Government Is Playing U...

For about two weeks, Kacy Claassen, 28, was living life as a high school student. She had a fake name, a fake backstory, and a school-issued ID. She thought of almost everything, except making her Facebook profile private. Last month, Claassen walked into Westchester Square Academy in the Bronx and enrolled as Shamara Rashad, a 16-year-old who had just moved to New York from Ohio with her sister. She attended classes, got issued a school ID with her fake name and age, and kept the whole thing going until the school’s principal, Marques Rich, started digging. And it wasn’t long before he found her Facebook page. The profile listed her real date of birth as July 29, 1997, included photos of her holding a baby, and at least one post where she mentioned having a daughter. When Rich confronted her, Claassen held the line, insisting she was Rashad. Then he put a screenshot of her own profile in front of her, and she was forced to come clean. Enrollment Fraud is...

You come home from a first date, and the debrief with your friends goes something like this: “He was nice, but I just didn’t feel a spark.” And that’s usually where the story ends. No second date, no follow-up text, case closed.  That might be exactly the wrong call, according to clinical psychologist Dr. Roxy Zarrabi, writing in Psychology Today . The spark, it turns out, is a terrible metric. Here’s why. Those Butterflies Might Actually Be Anxiety First dates are inherently stressful . Your heart is racing, your stomach is doing things, and your brain is ultra-aware of every awkward pause. Here’s the uncomfortable part: that’s the same physical response as attraction. A phenomenon called misattribution of arousal means the nervous system can’t cleanly separate excitement from anxiety, and research has shown that higher anxiety in the moment can actually amplify how drawn you feel to someone. Those “sparks” might be your stres...

There’s a growing community of circumcised men who want their foreskin back, and the medical world isn’t exactly rolling out the welcome mat. They’re called “restorers,” and their ranks have been getting attention lately, most recently in a New York magazine feature that documented their pursuit of what many describe as feeling whole again. The methods range from surgical grafting to DIY tension devices ordered online. The results, according to the urologists who actually deal with this patient population, are far more complicated than the before-and-after photos suggest. Dr. Laurence Levine, a board-certified urologic surgeon and professor of urology at Rush University Medical Center in Chicago, told the NY Post he performs a fair amount of penile cosmetic surgery but draws the line at foreskin replacement. “It’s just that I haven’t seen a technique that really works,” he said, adding that patient expectations tend to ou...

Something about today feels like a confession waiting to happen. The Moon is in Pisces, sextiling Mercury, which means the things you’ve been carrying around in your chest without the right words are finally finding language. That’s the dominant energy today, stargazer—not action, not ambition, just radical honesty with yourself and the people around you. Pluto is retrograde in Aquarius, doing its slow, relentless work on everything you thought you’d already processed. Neptune in Aries keeps asking what you actually want when nobody else is factored in. The sky today isn’t asking you to do more. It’s asking you to be realer. Those are very different assignments. Read your horoscope for the week , and see what the stars have in store for your sign today.  Aries: March 21 – April 19 You’re not actually angry about the thing you think you’re angry about. You know this. There’s something underneath all that fire tha...

Friendly reminder: It’s time to scramble and grab your mom a last-minute gift again. No, it’s not Christmas or her birthday—unless her birthday happens to fall on Mother’s Day; in which case, lucky you! Anyway, yeah, the day somebody you’ve never met decided you need to give your mother even more attention than she already gets is finally here. We realize Mother’s Day isn’t a holiday designed for everybody’s enjoyment, so as a consolation, here’s a list we put together of some jokes on the subject to help get you through the festivities (or lack thereof).  10. JAY LENO “Don’t forget Mother’s Day. Or as they call it in Beverly Hills, Dad’s Third Wife Day.” 9. COLIN JOST “This Sunday is Mother’s Day, a holiday that Georgia is trying to make mandatory.” 8. BILL MAHER “This Mother’s Day, all Americans must pause and extend a special thanks to the women who maintain our homes, who take care of our kids, and who still make time for sex with dad. I’m talking...