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It’s never good when a bunch of junk spills into the ocean and washes onto shore. It ultimately means that we humans have failed at some point along the way, contributing to the degradation of our home planet with some toxic junk we carelessly tossed about. But, occasionally, the blow of that existential dread is softened when the thing that washes ashore is cute and whimsical. According to an article from Houston Public Media , Texas beaches are getting periodic waves of what locals have started calling “sea pigs,” plastic piggy banks that have been washing ashore by the dozens along the Gulf Coast. Photo: Jace Tunnell / Harte Research Institute Some of these things look fresh from the factory. Bright pink, blue, and yellow piggy banks, some still sealed with the little plastic tab over the coin slot, are showing up tangled in thick mats of sargassum seaweed . One person surveying 13 miles of Texas coastline documented 14 piggy banks in a single trip and says he’s person...

Today, the sky is making it harder than usual to look the other way, and most people are going to feel exactly why. The Moon is busy—sextiling the Sun, squaring Venus, and moving into Aries by tonight—keeping emotions close to the surface and the day moving fast. Mars and Eris, conjunct in Aries, are turning up the heat on anything you’ve been sitting on, stargazer, while Jupiter trining the Moon offers a rare moment of genuine warmth in the middle of all that urgency. This is a day that wants something from you. The ones who show up for it are going to walk away feeling it. Read your horoscope for the week , and see what the stars have in store for your sign today.  Aries: March 21 – April 19 Mars has been in your sign so long it practically pays rent. You know what it wants from you. Eris joining the conjunction just amplifies your instinct to blow past anything that’s been holding you back. That rebellious streak you’ve been sitting on, A...

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...