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The Scary Reason ‘The Nanny’ Started Hiring Actors to Sit in the Studio Audience

Fran Drescher first rose to prominence while starring on the hit CBS sitcom The Nanny , which ran for six seasons between 1993 and 1999. Unfortunately for her, this newfound fame also came with some unwanted attention. Before long, Drescher became the target of a stalker who was harassing her and her family by sending them letters and repeatedly calling them on the phone. The man would reportedly hang around outside Drescher’s house and was even spotted near the CBS compound. Drescher grew increasingly fearful of what the man might do to her, having been the victim of a violent home invasion in the past. She eventually hired a security firm and consulted with the network about how to handle the situation. Because The Nanny was partially filmed in front of a studio audience, Drescher and the folks at CBS had to find a way to prevent the stalker in question from slipping into the crowd. The solution they settled on was to hire extras to sit in the audience.  Fran Drescher’s S...
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Weekly Horoscope: July 5-July 11

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Some weeks hand you a clean path, and some weeks ask you to slow down long enough to actually look at where you’ve been going. This one is firmly in the second category, stargazer — Neptune turns retrograde Tuesday, Venus changes signs midweek, and Saturn keeps its pressure on the Sun all week long. The sky isn’t asking for a breakdown. It’s asking for a more honest read on what’s actually in front of you. There’s movement here too, not just pressure. Whatever gets disrupted in love, in how you communicate, or in how you see yourself is pointing at something that needed a second look anyway. Mercury conjuncting the Sun by Friday opens a window even in the middle of retrograde season — something that’s been hard to say starts coming together. The week has more to offer the people who stay in it instead of checking out early. How will your sign fare this week? Aries: March 21 – April 19 You’ve had a lot of forward moment...
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Your Toxic Family Might Be the Reason You’re Still Single

If you have a toxic family, bringing your partner around can feel like you’re either throwing them to the wolves or sabotaging a healthy connection . Either way, it’s not enjoyable for each party. Thankfully, there are ways to navigate an unhealthy family dynamic without letting it ruin your relationship. How Do Toxic Family Members Impact Your Dating Life? Whether we want them to or not, toxic family members have a way of impacting the most intimate relationships in our lives—especially in dating. Often, this makes individuals want to hide their partner from their family or even skip out on holidays and celebrations.  “Toxic family members can greatly impact holidays and impactful and meaningful events for you personally and for your relationship,” Dr. Brittany Woolford, Licensed Psychologist and Co-founder of Authentic Connections Therapy and Wellness , told VICE. “This can be especially hurtful or frustrating where events that are meant to be joyous and ...
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Ancient Cave Found Packed With Only Female Human Remains Baffles Scientists

Scientists have spent more than a decade trying to explain why dozens of Homo naledi skeletons wound up deep inside South Africa’s Rising Star cave system. Now, according to new research published in Cell and reported by Live Science , research conducted on the bodies has taken a weird turn toward the mysterious. Homo naledi is an extinct species of ancient human first discovered in South Africa’s Rising Star Cave system in 2013. Researchers analyzed the specimens’ ancient proteins preserved in the enamel of 23 fossil teeth from 20 individuals dating between roughly 236,000 and 335,000 years ago. One of the many things they look out for is AMELY, a protein linked to the Y chromosome that’s commonly used to identify biological males. They didn’t find it once. This doesn’t necessarily mean that the cave is an ancient all-female cemetery or that there were no males present. Scientists suspect that it’s possible H. naledi lost the gene at some point, or that...
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How Soon Is ‘Too Soon’? The Dangers of Falling in Love Too Quickly.

We all have that one friend who seems to fall in love every other week, claiming to have found “the one” every time they go on a first date. For a while, I was this person, until I became so jaded that I required a six-month-long slow burn to even admit I had feelings for someone new. But I digress. While at times endearing, the behavioral pattern of falling in love quickly can be quite concerning and even detrimental. Without giving yourself the proper time to get to know someone , you set yourself and the other person up for failure. Wondering whether falling in love quickly is a red flag? In this article, I speak with a psychologist about the potential downfalls of and reasons for falling in love too soon. Is Falling in Love Quickly a Red Flag? When someone falls in love quickly, they often overlook potential incompatibilities and fill in any blanks with their imagination. Rather than allowing themselves to fully get to know the person, they become invested off ...
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Aliens May Not Even Have Bodies, New Theory Says

There is an arrogance to assuming that if conscious, sentient beings exist somewhere else in the universe , they’d probably look a lot like us. According to a new paper by philosophers Eric Schwitzgebel of the University of California, Riverside, and Jeremy Pober of the University of Lisbon, if consciousness exists beyond Earth, it could take forms we can’t even imagine, and it might not even inhabit anything we’d recognize as a body. Their argument, which they lay out in a working paper , centers on an idea called “substrate flexibility.” It means that just because humans have consciousness doesn’t mean all consciousness would be contained in a vessel that looks or functions or is even made up of the same stuff as us. Flesh, blood, neurons, or even carbon-based life — none of that may matter. Consciousness, they theorize, could emerge from entirely different physical materials, just as long as the underlying system contains enough complexity to br...
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All We Care About Is Ass and Violence—This Week On VICE: Members Only

To get past the paywall, sign up for VICE membership . A Digital Only subscription is just $2 a month (or $20 a year, if you prefer), while $70 a year also gets you 4 issues of VICE magazine, delivered straight to your door. (All three kill all the ads on this site.) It is not uncommon that something will make me think of Dizzee Rascal . Anything bumblebee yellow, the word “vexed.” Even telling someone I love them is a struggle without chopping up the “you-ou-ou” at the end. Reading behind the paywall of the VICE: Members Only area this week, I was reminded of the lyric: “All we care about is sex and violence,” a god-tier bar in what is otherwise the most aurally demented song released before the advent of Skrillex . As social media becomes an increasingly bizarre, polarized place, so too does society. Titillated as we are by a rolling broadcast of people crying, screaming, and showing hole, gathering up your mates and hitting the Pizza Hut buffet just isn’t cutting it a...
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