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Scientists Finally Figured Out Why Weed Gives You the Munchies

We’ve been joking about it for decades, but there is actual scientific grounding for the munchies , the seemingly bottomless pit of hunger that can open up after getting stoned. According to researchers at the University of Calgary , the phenomenon isn’t just stoner comedy fodder. It’s a real biological response, and the research team used rats to prove it. In a new study conducted in conjunction with researchers at Washington State University, neuroscientist Dr. Matthew Hill and his team exposed rats to cannabis vapor, and for about an hour after getting high, the rats ate like college kids on 4/20. The weed so sparked their appetites that they ate even after a full meal. The rats that weren’t exposed to weed vapor ignored all the extra food. But the high rats ate like they hadn’t eaten in days. The Munchies Are Real, and Scientists Just Learned More About Why  With that observation noted, the researchers then fully expected the rats to gravitate toward t...

Weekly Horoscope: June 21-June 27

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Cancer season opens Sunday, stargazer, and the shift is immediate — from Gemini’s fast-moving mental energy into something slower, more feeling-forward, and harder to rationalize your way out of. The Sun entering Cancer puts emotional honesty at the center of the week, not as a suggestion but as the actual operating system. If there’s a conversation you’ve been circling for a while, Jupiter conjuncting Mercury by Saturday hands you the opening to finally have it. Don’t waste it. Midweek is where things get more complicated. Thursday brings a harder-to-trust-your-own-read quality that makes it a poor time to force a conclusion you haven’t fully arrived at yet — sit with the uncertainty a little longer than feels comfortable. The back half of the week is where the patience pays off. Friday steadies the relational landscape considerably, and Saturday opens communication back up in a way that makes the whole week make sense. How will your sign fare thi...

An Open Letter to the Body I Spent Too Long Hating

Dear Body, You’ve been through hell, and much of it has been my own doing. I’ve berated you for having normal folds and genetic dimples, starved you of joy and freedom, forced you into a tireless routine, then wondered why I was so depleted.  And guess what? It was never enough. You’ve always been labeled “skinny,” and at times you’ve been deemed underweight, especially when battling mental health struggles and autoimmune flares. But I didn’t support you through them. No, instead, I kicked you while you were down. I rejected the idea that you were healthy, because you didn’t look like the women on my TV screen or in the magazines or on my Instagram feed. It’s ironic: Just like you, I overgive, I bend, I break, I burn out, I exhaust myself to the core, just to feel like I’m enough for the people in my life. Craving appreciation and love. In turn, I just end up seething in resentment of my own making, my own habit of self-neglect. You reflect the same ...

Ohio Gives Up On Robot Cop After 10 Months of Failing to Arrest a Single Person

While some may fear that the rise of AI and the sudden advancement of robotics are going to propel us toward a future where RoboCop-like law enforcement patrols our streets, ruling with an iron fist and filling us all with fear of the mechanized state, the truth is that real-life robot cops are still a long way from patrolling the streets of that dystopian future. As reported by WOSU Public Media and The Columbus Dispatch , an Ohio police department’s experiment with a robotic cop ended after less than a year on the job and was a spectacularly miserable failure. The City of Dublin, Ohio, pulled the plug on “DubBot,” an autonomous security robot manufactured by Knightscope, on May 12 after it failed to do… well, anything really. DubBot spent nearly 10 months patrolling the Rock Cress Parking Garage, equipped with 360-degree cameras, two-way emergency communication capabilities, and an emergency call button designed to connect citizens with dispatchers… and it som...

The 6 Most Common Sex Dreams and What They Probably Don’t Mean

You wake up, momentarily confused, a little guilty, and then fully aware of what just happened in your dream. The person involved was not your partner . Or maybe it was someone you can’t even begin to explain. Welcome to a completely normal experience. Sex dreams are one of the most universal human experiences nobody talks about. According to Psychology Today , around 75% of women and 85% of men report having had an erotic dream at least once in their lives, and a 2007 study surveying more than 15,000 people found sexual content in roughly 8% of all dream reports. It’s not just you. Our brains use sex in dreams the way a novelist uses metaphor: to get at something they can’t say directly. Here are the most common scenarios, and what they probably don’t mean. Your Ex The most panic-inducing entry on the list. You had a dream about your ex, and now you’re sitting with the disturbing question of what that says about you. Probably not much. Research...

Daily Horoscope: June 19, 2026

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Friday opens with one of the easier skies of the week — the Sun sextiling the Moon this morning gives the day a cooperative, low-resistance start that most people will feel as a welcome exhale after a heavy few days. Take it, stargazer, because the afternoon gets more interesting. Neptune, squaring the Sun, adds a soft blur to things that usually feel clear-cut — plans get fuzzy, people seem harder to read, and the evening takes on a slightly stranger texture than your average Friday night. That’s not a bad thing. Some of the best nights have a little something unresolved about them. Lean into the feeling and see where it goes. Read your horoscope for the week , and see what the stars have in store for your sign today.  Aries: March 21 – April 19 It’s Friday, nothing’s on fire, and that’s somehow the most unsettling thing you’ve dealt with all week. You function best with something to push against, Aries, and today the sky is jus...

Hip-Hop Producer Tay Keith, Who Worked With Drake and Travis Scott, Dead at 29

Hip-hop producer Tay Keith, who worked with Drake and Travis Scott, is dead. He was 29. According to NBC News affiliate WSMV , Metro Nashville Police confirmed Keith’s death after carrying out a wellness check. Officers found his body inside his Martin Street apartment on the afternoon of Thursday, June 18. At this time, Keith’s cause of death is unclear, but police stated that they do not suspect foul play. Keith was born Brytavious Lakeith Chambers in Memphis, Tennessee, on Sept. 20, 1996. In his teens, he began experimenting with music production. As a young creative, Keith worked with rappers like BlocBoy JB and Blac Youngsta. Tay Keith attended College at Middle Tennessee State University and graduated in 2018 After high school, Tay Keith went to college at Middle Tennessee State University (MTSU). He graduated in 2018 and set off for a career in music production. Keith would go on to work with some high-profile artists like Travis Scott, Drake, Beyonc...