Man Locks Himself in His Room for a Year to Become Healthier

Does a year away from literally everyone seem like torture or potentially the best you of your life?

On Longevity, ‘You Don’t Have as Much Control as You Think’

Genetics might control if you live for a long time, but you can certainly make bad decisions like skipping vaccines or riding a motorcyle without a helmet and shorten things up all on your own

I’m sharing some of my fiction writing as a serialized story. Paid subscribers can read the story each week, but free subscribers will be able to follow what’s happening in the story through news reports from the in-universe site “NewsGator”

The Last Four Years Ch. 16: Comet Splits into Four Pieces, New Trajectories Predicted

In The Last Four Years, a comet is four years away from hitting Earth. It’s not enough time to stop it, but long enough to get bored waiting for it. It is a story about what people do with the time they have left. Families trying to stay together, scientists trying to find a way out, and leaders holding civilization together

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• REAL ID rule takes effect, introducing $45 TSA identity verification fee for some travelers - It’s probably just a good idea to go ahead and take your passport with you, even if you’re just flying from Altoona to Sheboygan. Actually, the way things are going, you might just want to carry your passport with you at all times anyway

• Oops, Scientists May Have Severely Miscalculated How Many Humans Are on Earth - Don’t you hate it when you’re counting something and you get distracted and your count is way off?

• Ohio man's stocking stuffer delivers $100,000 lottery prize - Imagine having to top that Christmas gift next year

• AI agents now have their own Reddit-style social network, and it's getting weird fast - I can totally understand why AI bots would need a way to blow off some steam after dealing people all day. I mean, have you met humans?

• Madison Square Garden warns that anyone fighting can be ‘banned for life’ after brawls at event - Doesn’t it kind of go without saying that if you get into a fight in some sort of public place they are probably going to ban you?

• Particle Accelerator Decodes Lost Ancient Greek Star Catalog - I feel like the way things are going this is about as ill advised as opening up ancient tombs

• Exotic lizard found buried under 20 inches of snow by Rhode Island man shoveling driveway - You definitely don’t expect that you’re going to walk out onto your driveway and suddenly find yourself in a scene from Jurassic Park

• Gang of Marauding Wild Turkeys Terrorizes Janesville, WI - You had to think one day the turkeys were going to find out about Thanksgiving and seek revenge

• AI on Australian travel company website sends tourists to nonexistent hot springs - The same thing happened to me when I went to the Alamo to check out the basement

• Man used fake bills to pay for bouquet and sweets, cops say - They were for a stripper. Who says romance is dead?