Much of the International Space Station is available to rent — The Pay Transparency Movement is gaining momentum, leading millions of workers to wonder what their time is worth. Most pay transparency seekers have down-to-earth jobs. But what if your 9–5 involves soaring around the earth at 17,000 MPH on a spacecraft like the International Space Station (ISS)? …

Truth Social may finally be relevant — When former American president Donald Trump was booted off Twitter and Facebook for allegedly inciting the January 6th insurrection, he vowed to return on a platform of his own creation. The platform that resulted, Truth Social, launched on Presidents Day this year and was plagued by issues ranging from server…

A story almost too strange to be true — According to a statement from the California Lottery, a Los Angeles, California won a $10 million scratcher jackpot in the strangest way possible. LaQuedra Edwards was at a Vons supermarket in Tarzana in Los Angeles County, and had just loaded $40 into a lottery ticket vending machine. She was planning…

It was dignified but must have felt magical — The year was 1967, and the vast majority of television was recorded and broadcast in black and white. Most Americans had a black and white television set in their homes. Some even had two sets. The monopoly of black and white TV was about to disappear forever, though. …

The horrific consequences of disrupting a nuclear site — In 1986, a major disaster resulted in an explosion at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in Ukraine (then part of the Soviet Union) that killed 30 people and dosed the area around the plant with deadly radiation. …

The research raises ethical concerns — According to reporting from National Geographic, scientists are working on contagious vaccines that can jump from vaccinated people to unvaccinated ones, or between vaccinated and unvaccinated animals. The idea is that instead of a vaccine staying in one person’s body, the vaccine itself would infect them in such a way…

Can you capture a whole field of study in one sentence or less? — Technical and artistic professions are hard! People spend years of their lives — and hundreds of thousands of dollars — learning their chosen profession in great detail. But after all that study and specialization, can you summarize a profession in a single phrase or quote? Perhaps something that’s often repeated…

There are few drawbacks to this sugar substitute — It seems like every day there’s a new sweetener vying for space on our pantry shelves and making the rounds online. Stevia! Monk fruit extract! Agave nectar! Many of the new sweeteners promise magical properties — they’re all-natural, calorie-free, sustainable, or check off some other essential health food box. …